Pownal honors its school children at closing assembly
Pamela Blakeman reports on Pownal Elementary School’s closing assembly. Students from first through sixth received perfect attendance, citizenship, effort, achievement, and music awards. The school softball team won all six games, earning MVP honors for Jamie Lipscomb and Hank Tenney presented a trophy. A May district spelling bee awarded Fred Farnum first place, with Lisa Jelley and Susan Peckham also honored before dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pamela Blakeman
Pownal
Amy Burger
Jamie Jelley
Cindy Mason
Dale Lampman
Anne Houran
John Houran
Kelli Paradise
Billy Dorman
Mike Gardner
Jamie Lipscomb
Jody Clark
Richard Dorman
Susan Peckham
Paul
Jimmy Winchester
Lori Jelley
Patti Terleckey
Ken Roberts
Marcia Lewis
Lynn Baker
Michelle Bratcher
Billy Bull
Glen Burdick
Amy Pratt
Patti Wilcox
Paula Bisson
Terri Harrington
Rene Gagnon
John Winchester
Fred Farnum
Wendy Burdick
Michael Kelly
Marie Mason
Sheila Bisson
Betty Bourn
Todd Lipscomb
Tracy Boudreau
Paul Hewson
Billy Whitman
Joelle Brookner
Daniel Burdick
Todd Smith
Holly Tardy
John Martel
Kelli McAuliffe
Carey LaBonte
Tawnee Sweet
Billy Betit
Lori Farnum
Louis Baker
Bobby Pudvar
Wendy Tifft
Patty Dicranian
Lydia Wittern
Jimmy Poore
Tammy Haas
Robert Revette
Shaun Kelley
Tracy Chenaille
Jerry Darling
Cindy Harwood
Steven Woodcock
Malynda Jelley
William Whitman
Jamie Bushee
Billy Parks
Cory Dawson
Cindy Garrison
Elaine Palmer
Billy Cota
April Haley
Susan Brown
George Whitman
Robbie Gibb
Flynn Mattison
Lisa Harwood
Tammy Maslanka
Gayle Rogers
Curtis Wilson
Steven Frost
Safety Patrol
Kim Kelly
Sue Peckham
Julie Barber
Sue Potter
Marge Becker
Laurie Freeman
Cory Lawson
Paul Des Meules
Scott Thompson
Lisa Thurston
Lisa Jelley
Scott Tifft
Dick Bisson
Nicky Gates
Chris Cook
Danny Thomas
Michelle Des Meules
Norman Hurley
Laura Cota
Mike Gates
Hank Tenney
Bennington Recreational Center
Mabel James
Mt Equinox Grange Notes Bright youth emphasis at meeting
Mt Equinox Grange met at 7 30 pm with youth candidates for first and second degree. June 4 balloting on two new members. Granger of the Year chosen Florence Bull Dorothy Mercia Veda Stone. Kitchen materials discussed. Brenda Kelly and Stephanie Gould to state Grange youth camp in Sunderland. Vi ila Wilcox Marion Thompson and Austin Rumney attended Rupert Grange church service and Merck Foundation picnic. Sharon Haynes helped with fifth degree in Rupert. National Grange newsletter read. sewing contest results announced. posters and senior citizen exhibit day noted. Needlework contest open to non Grangers. rules from Florence Bull Arlington. A five dollar donation sent to Vermont Association for the Blind for mobile screening unit. Marion Thompson’s husband Howard in Rutland Hospital. Henry Ritchie recuperating at home after Putnam Memorial Hospital stay.
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Mt. Equinox
Florence Bull
Dorothy Mercia
Veda Stone
Brenda Kelly
Stephanie Gould
State Grange
Sunderland
Viola Wilcox
Marion Thompson
Austin Rumney
Grange
Rupert
Merck Foundation
Sharon Haynes
Pauline Hill
National Grange
Home Economics Committee
Arlington
Vermont Association For the Blind
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Dorset to receive Bicentennial Flag and Certificate
Dorset will host the Bicentennial Flag and Certificate ceremony on the town green early in July marking Dorset as a designated focal point for national Bicentennial celebrations in 1975 1976 and 1977. The bicentennial committee has published a history outline from Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys to marble quarrying and later local politicians in a pamphlet designed by Mr and Mrs Robert E Deeley.
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Dorset
Vermont
Ethan Allen
Green Mountain Boys
Fort Ticonderoga
Northeast Fiddlers to Play Outdoor Kent Museum Concert
The Northeast Fiddlers will perform an outdoor concert at the mill pond site near Kent Museum in Calais Vermont on Sunday June 30 at 1 30 p.m. The free event features traditional Vermont tunes with a weather permitting outdoor setting and Kent Museum operations hours from 1 00 to 5 00 p.m.
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Northeast Fiddlers
Kent Museum
Mill Pond
Calais
Vermont
Kents’ Corners
Louis Andrews Kent
Audubon names regional representative for Northeast
Richard C. Rhindress a water quality expert and former head of a local Audubon chapter has been named Northeast Regional Representative of the National Audubon Society. The region covers New York and the six New England states. The appointment takes effect this month with plans to base in the Albany area. Rhindress, a native New Englander, previously lived in Harrisburg where he worked as a geologist for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources and led the Appalachian Audubon Society. He succeeds J Stanley Quickmire Jr of Harwinton Conn who led Northeast representation since 1967 and will head a new program of International ecology workshops.
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Richard C. Rhindress
New
Audubon Society
New York
New England
Rhindress
Albany
N.Y
Harrisburg
Penn
Sylvania Department of Environmental Resources
Audubon
Appalachian Audubon Society
J. Stanley Quickmire, Jr
Harwinton
Conn
National Audubon
Northeast
Hoosick Falls Hosts Ham and Strawberry Shortcake Supper
Edith Beaumont and Mrs Samuel E Shaw with daughter Laurie returned to 30 River Street after a Myrtle Beach vacation. Hoosick Baptist Church hosts annual Ham and Strawberry Shortcake supper Thursday evening in the church hall with servings from 5 30 p m, open to the public.
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Samuel E. Shaw
Laurie
SUNY
Oneonta
River Street
Myrtle Beach
South Carolina
Hoosick Baptist Church
Stored heat eyed to trim Vermont power costs at Stratton project
Public Service Board chief Richard DeGrasse and Stratton Trust back stored electrical heat to reduce peak demand that drives higher rates. A $440,000 NSF grant backs load management study with Dartmouth, Vermont, CVPS, and UVM. 10 German storage units to be tested in Rutland area.
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Brattleboro
Vermont
Public Service Board
Richard DeGrasse
DeGrasse
Stratton Trust
Stratton Mountain
DeGrasse and Stratton
National Science Foundation
PSB
Dartmouth College
University of Vermont
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Europe
United States
Hamburg
Germany
CVPS
Rutland
Antique festival at Van Alen house in Kinderhook
The Columbia County Historical Society hosts its second Antiques Festival on June 22 at the Van Alen homestead grounds Route 9 H near Kinderhook. About 100 dealers from the region will display antiques, with early craft demonstrations and guided tours of the 1737 brick Dutch farmhouse, a national historic landmark undergoing mid 18th century restoration.
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The
Columbia County Historical Society
van Alen
Kinderhook
N.Y
New England
New York
J. Ross Pigott
Mildred D. Spargo
Old Bennington
Lucas van Alen
Holland
Hudson Valley
Historical Society
Kinderhook Village
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Robert E. Deeley
Arlington, Vt
Hoosick Falls
Edith Beaumont
Hanson
Walbridge
van Alen House
Washington Irving
Katrina van Tassel
Sleepy Hollow
Jesse Merwin
van Alen Land
Ichabod Crane
Savings & Loan Association
Main Street
Supermark
Mammoth Mart
Ober
Berkshire Plaza
North Adams
North Adams, Mass
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