Williston bond vote on new water system planned
Williston residents vote Tuesday on a 372000 bond for a town water system funded by a 359000 HUD grant and a 211000 state grant with a 500 hookup charge. Proponents cite lower fire insurance and better water quality aiding development. Williston will buy water from South Burlington. Edward S. French 84 longtime railroad and business leader dies in Springfield Hospital after short illness.
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New England
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Portland
Maine
Jones and Lamson Machine Co
National Life Insurance Co
Montpelier
First National Bank
Boston
Federal Reserve Bank
H. P. Hood and Sons
Rock of Ages Corp
Barre
Blood drives raise 914 pints to aid regional hospitals
Burlington and surrounding towns report strong participation in nine Red Cross blood drawings. 195 pints were donated in Manchester New Hampshire, 189 pints at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and 165 pints in Newport Vermont, totaling 914 pints with 776 distributed to 62 Vermont and New Hampshire hospitals and facilities.
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N.H
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Newport
Three held on Barre taxi robbery charges in Vermont
A young man and two teenagers, including a 19 year old Maurine Tompkins, were remanded to Orange County Jail in Barre on $10 000 bail each after arrests in White River Junction. Authorities say the trio targeted Barre taxi driver Francis Blodgett, 55, Saturday night in Williamstown.
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Orange County
James Kelley II
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White River Junction
Francis Blodgett
Williamstown
Brattleboro Wins HUD Grant for 10 Low Rent Homes
The Housing and Urban Development Department in Washington announced a grant under a federal housing program to Brattleboro to lease 10 low rent homes using a financial assistance contract.
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Washington
Drownings in Troy Area Rise to Three This Weekend
In Green Island a fireman Edward J. Foster, 45, father of ten, drowned at Northville Lake while aiding a child. Joseph P. Rodgers, 13, was pulled from the Buttermilk Falls pool near Poestenkill. Ronald W. Telders, 20, of Montclair, Calif., is believed drowned in the Mohawk River near Fonda, as Dean Foy, 18, faces drug possession charges and bail.
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Joseph P. Rodgers
Griswold Heights
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Fonda
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Down in Berkshire Killed in Fall off Cliff
Curt Wilton a 27 year old West Stockbridge father of three died Sunday morning after apparently slipping from a 50 foot cliff in the High Bridge area off East Mountain Road Dr George T Mullen Northern Berkshire medical examiner ruled the death a fractured neck Police said Wilton and his brother Wayne were fishing in the area before 8 am and Wayne searched for him after he failed to return He leaves a wife a daughter two sons his parents and three brothers.
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Hoff Urges Recapture of American Ideals in Kennedy Memorial
Gov Philip Hoff addressing about 300 mourners at a State House memorial for Sen Robert F Kennedy urged Americans to reclaim traditions and ideals amid national grief. He warned the nation faces denial of core values and condemned materialism as a cancer in society while calling for collective recognition and action.
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Middlebury Awards Five Honorary Degrees
Middlebury College awarded five honorary degrees at its 168th commencement in Memorial Field House, honoring Alfred C. Edwards, Dr. Charles J. Lyon, Prof. Milton Babbitt, Andrew Wyeth, and Egbert C. Hadley. Nearly 285 seniors received BA degrees with nine earning MA and four MS degrees. Edwards, former Holt, Rinehart and Winston executive, Lyon, a Dartmouth botanist, Babbitt, Princeton music professor, Wyeth, artist, and Hadley, retired Remington Arms engineer and longtime Middlebury trustee, were cited for distinguished careers and service.
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Princeton University
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Two Inmates Absent From Waterbury State Hospital
State Police seek two Waterbury State Hospital escapees, William Toomey of Boston and Gary Monahan of Burlington, after they vanished Friday. Toomey, 30, was convicted of attempted armed kidnapping and holdup in 1965. They reportedly accessed ground level by a linen closet attic trap door after removing a dumbwaiter rope.
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Gary Monahan
Burlington
Toomey
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Caron
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