Downtown renewal work starts on Bennington Pennysaver building
A downtown renewal project began with the Pennysaver building facade removal. Plans call for a cleaned wall or repainting, a new sign, cornice, and a canvas awning. The 1870 Italian Renaissance Revival structure, once Bennington County Courthouse, is by an unknown designer.
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Bennington
Pennysaver
William Burbank
Pioneer Surface Cleaning
South Hadley
Mass
Burbank
Scape Unlimited
Springfield
George E. Hadwen
Hadwen
Burgess Brothers of
David Aldrich
Catamount Bank
Propane
Clyde Burgess Jr
Curriculum clash at Bennington school board session
Mt Anthony Union High Principal Clarence Pelkie posed what do you want for education in Bennington at a Monday curriculum committee meeting. The question remained unanswered as attendees proposing curriculum restructuring stormed out in dismay.
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Bennington
Mt. Anthony Union
Knapp
Inside Local Highlights From MAU Class Of 1976 Campaign News
TheInside Local outlines where MAU Class of 1976 graduates will go next with Burgess-Jeffords campaign talk on page 3. Tom Braden questions Congress as representative of constituents. Shaftsbury library board pleads for a school librarian in a letter on page 4. Page op questions religious issue in the presidential campaign on page 5. Entertainment covers last Saturday’s jazz at the beerfest and Shaftsbury bandstand debate in Londonderry band vote for a school addition. Pages 8 9. General asks if people see doctors too often on page 10. Sports notes include Miss Shea fifth in state pentathlon and Connors downs. Ashe serious in Wimbledon early rounds. John Randolph on the late Atlantic salmon on pages 12 13.
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Mau
Burgess-Jeffords
District Court News
Tom Braden
Shaftsbury Library Board
Shannon
the Times
Shaftsbury
Londonderry
Hoosick Falls
Miss Shea
Connors Downs
Ashe
John Randolph
Skinner labels Salmon unwitting ally of oil firms
Vermont Democratic Senate hopeful Scott Skinner charged Gov. Thomas Salmon with being an unwitting ally of large oil companies over energy policy. Skinner criticized Salmon as misinformed, ignorant of political ramification, and aligned with oil interests on deregulation, synthetic fuels, and nuclear power while favoring conservation. He defended no new federal gun laws, favored local action, and supported gradual Panama Canal disengagement.
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Salman
Skinner
Energy and the Environment
Tom Salmon
Salmon
Oil Company
Congress
Salmon’s
United States
Panama Canal Zone
Burns criticizes Hackel as negative Democrat candidate
Lt. Gov. Brian Burns, a Democrat, said in Montpelier that Stella Hackel runs the most negative campaign in the gubernatorial race. He questioned her Democrat credentials, urged clearer welfare positions, and called Snelling’s no new taxes pledge irresponsible. Burns named Madeleine Kunin campaign chair.
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Burns
Leahy opposes Vermont military flight ban
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont says he is totally opposed to any ban on military flights over Vermont. He notes Vermont’s defense role, cites past crashes at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, and mentions two nonfatal accidents including a Feb. 3, 1975 collision near Londonderry and a June 7 crash near New Haven.
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Plattsburgh
N.Y
UPI
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
Vermont
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
Leahy
Senate Armed Services Committee
Londonderry
New Haven
Inflation accelerates as cost of living rises in May
The Labor Department reports a 0.6 percent rise in the May cost of living, pushing the annual inflation rate to 7.2 percent. Food and gasoline drove the increase, while mortgage rates fell for the first time since October, and real spendable earnings rose 1.2 percent.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Ford
Italy faces crisis in government after elections
In Rome the Christian Democrats pledged to keep the Communist Party out of government and pursue reforms, as record Communist gains over 7 percent threaten the nation’s political future. Benigno Zaccagnini urged staying faithful to promises while coalition options shrink. The CD, Communists, and Socialists held meetings to plan negotiations. CD victory relies on center parties, but a CD-led coalition appears unlikely.
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Rome
UPI
Christian Democrats
Italy
Christian Democratic Party
Benigno Zaccagnini
The
Il Popolo
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
West
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Bennington County
Aldrich
Murray
Curriculum Committee
Lawrence E. Harrington
Harrington
Scott Skinner
U.S
Winhall
Windham County
Garland
Hackel
Madeleine Kunin
Burlington
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