Shaftsbury Historical Society Museum Opens This Weekend
The Shaftsbury Historical Society will open its fourth annual museum season this Saturday at the Baptist Meeting House on Route 7 Center Shaftsbury. The exhibit features a Shaftsbury one room schoolhouse and historic houses curated by Ranney Galusha, with access Saturdays and Sundays 2 to 4 pm June through September.
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Shaftsbury
Center Shaftsbury
Whipple Grist Mill
Gerhardt Gerlach
Mary Walker
Ranney Galusha
Herbert Congdon
University of Vermont Bailey
Ferns Displayed in Dorset Museum Heritage Exhibit
Dorset shows a fern display from Mrs. Emily H. Terry’s collection in the historic museum on Church Street. Items include maidenhair, oak and cinnamon ferns plus rarities from the valley. The exhibit notes ferns’ ancient origins and uses from fiddleheads to medicine. Also listed are garden club awards and local events for June, with museum hosts and a Fourth of July band rehearsal.
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Dorset
North America
D. C. Eaton
Eugene Bond
Nero
Dorset Museum
Earl Holmes
Russell Weston
Silver heirloom set sold for 25 cents at flea market
Bayonne New Jersey Tuesday Mrs Rita Farmer seeks return of an eight piece family heirloom silver set that disappeared when her six year old daughter sold it at a neighborhood odds and ends sale for 25 cents. She offered a reward and declined to name a price while noting the pieces hold sentimental value.
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Bayonne
N.J
UPI
Rita Farmer
Veterans Home Legion to Erect Vermont Monument
A 1972 bicentennial committee formed by the American Legion and Auxiliary plans a granite monument at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington honoring 42 Vermont Medal of Honor recipients. Designed by LaCross Memorials, landscaping and lighting are planned if funds permit, with dedication hoped for June or July 1976.additional notices include hospital guest and Eastern Star invitations and Sunderland selectmen meeting rescheduled to June 17.
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Montpelier
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Roy Sweet
Windsor
Ray Greenwood
Vermont
Vermont Veterans Home
Bennington
Armed Services of the
United States
Congress
Department of Vermont
LaCross Memorials Inc
Barre
Dorset School Board Meeting Notice
The Dorset school board will meet at 12 noon Monday June 16 at the superintendent's office in Manchester Center.
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Dorset
Manchester Center
Medal of Honor Recipients Named from Army Air Force and Navy
A compiled list of Medal of Honor recipients in the Army Air Force and Navy Marine Corps includes Norman Bates George Benedict Frank Butterfield Samuel Churchill Andrew Davidson and others with hometowns such as Middlebury Burlington and Montpelier. The notice invites contact to Sweet or Mrs Green wood in Berlin Street Montpelier 05602 if any relatives or living recipients are identified.
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Army Air Force
Norman Bates
George G. Benedict
Frank G. Butterfield
Samuel J. Churchill
Andrew Davidson
Middlebury
George E. David
Burlington
Henry W. Downs
James Drury
Chester
Charles G. Gould
Windham
Lewis A. Grant
Lester G. Hack
Salisbury
Gardner C. Hawkins
Woodstock
William W. Henry
Waterbury
Edward A. Holton
Squire E. Howard
Townshend
Erastus
Theodore S. Peck
Samuel E. Pingree
Hartford
William Y.W. Ripley
Rutland
Augustus Robbins
Jackson Sargent
Stowe
Alexander Scott
Winooski
Julian A. Scott
William Sperry
Stephen Thomas
Montpelier
William Tilton
Amasa S. Tracy
William Wells
Daniel Wheeler
Eri
Grange Notes Highlight Skit Winners And Youth Work
At Taconic Grange South Shaftsbury June 10 Mt Equinox won the skit contest with Bennington second. Ju dges included Phyllis Mason Ida Matteson and Mary Beebe. North Bennington trustees announce crackdown on mini bike riding in parks and sidewalks with potential police action. Open house June 21 marks 50th anniversary of Margaret and George Bierwirth. Pomona reports youth drives and donations to Junior Good Will Youth Camp and local schools. Mt Equinox and Battenkill youth projects, card party benefits, and plans for August meetings and bicentennial program noted.
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Taconic Grange
South Shaftsbury
Viola Wilcox
Mt. Equinox
Bennington
Phyllis Mason
Washington Pomona No. 8
Ida Matteson
Mt. Anthony
Mary Beebe
Wilcox
North Bennington
Fred Welling
Puddin’ Hill
Little League Field
New Norshaft Lions Park
Welling Field
Wellington
Welling
Peru
Bromley Mountain
Margaret
George Bierwirth
Gayle Paustian
Doris Wright
Pomona
Ohio
Washington Pomona
Battenkill
Taconic
Bennington Grange
Ann Sullivan Deaf Fund
Austine School
Equinox
Ann Sullivan
State Maple
Grange Center
Durham
N.H
Green Mt. Granger
Warren Clough
Camp Ondawa
Kermit Richardson
Barre
Buckley
Arlington
Belle Decker
Flora
Abbie Baker
Vermont Senators Split Over New Hampshire Senate Fight
Vermont senators differ on how to resolve New Hampshire's deadlocked race between Democrat John Durkin and Republican Louis Wyman. Senator Stafford backs a return to voters per Weicker plan. Senator Leahy favors Senate resolution, with a willingness to back a new election if needed. Next Tuesday's vote on the plan looms.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
U.S
New Hampshire
John Durkin
Louis Wyman
Robert T. Stafford
R-Vt
Stafford
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
Patrick J. Leahy
D-Vt
Senate
Leahy
Weicker
Vermont Housing Authority to start 12 unit Vergennes project
The Vermont Housing Authority will begin work on a 12 unit moderate income housing project in Vergennes with construction expected to start July 1. It also accepted an agreement with New England Non-profit Housing Development Corp for leasing 19 completed units in Newport as part of a federally financed 28 115 unit program across five Vermont communities.
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Montpelier
VPI
Vermont Housing Authority
Vergennes
Housing Authority
New England Non-profit Housing Development Corp
Concord
N.H
Newport
Vermont
CPS chief gets strong show of support amid child death inquiry
Thomas A. Duane, executive director of Children's Protective Services, won solid backing from state and county boards after criticism over the Walter Gerwaski III case in Pittsfield. The agency warns social workers to always verify suspected abuse with a child observation. A North Adams bear sighting prompts police response at Mohawk Forest Apartments as residents report a bear in several back yards.
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Troy
Rensselaer County
William A.R. Harkness
Harkness
Eugene Eaton
Eaton
Attorney General’s Office
Eugene Sherman
Pittsfield
Thomas A. Duane
Children’s Protective Services
Duane
Walter Gerwaski III
CPS
State Welfare Department
North Adams
Mohawk Forest
John M. Gaspardi
William E. Day
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John Millington
Carl Jolivette
Anson Hawkins
Leonard Black
A. Ranney Galusha
Helen
Catherine Carrigan
Wm. Castle
Theresa Wood
Marion Smith
Roy Whitman
Robert Mattison
Merritt Hewitt
Roberta Haynes
Fred Naef
Bruce Brodie
Anna
Irene Vaughn
Fred Stacy
Carnel Vaughn
Jack Clawson
Walter
Bliss Hulet
Maurice Douglass
Irving Fineman
Buck
Arlington Garden Club
John L. Hugsrud
Helene Thompson
Society
Whitman
Thurston Hulet
Shaftsbury Garden Club
North Shire
Manchester
Crowley Cheese Factory
Grand Union
Thomas R. Dibble
Veterans’ Home
Legion To
Ted Senecal Sr
Albany, N.Y. Medical Center Hospital
Q—Tucker
Order of the Eastern Star
Donna Norton
Mt. Mansfield Union High School
Jericho
Clarence Button
South Royalton High School
South Royalton
Anna S. Carracciola
Sunderland
Gerald Raftery
Clyde A. Dunlap
Sunderland Selectmen
Selectmen
Joan Colgan
State OF
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American For Auxiliary
Grange
North St
Sears
Savings & Loan Association
St. Joseph College
Southern Vermont College
Bennington, Verm
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Chittenden
New York
Bruce E. Baker
Rensselaer County Health Department
Baker
Gerald A. Harley
William E. Sinnott
Hoosick Falls
Phil
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