Weston Playhouse finds acoustics excellent for season debut
Weston Vermont opens its 31st summer season with Any Wednesday as the acoustical test confirms lark clear sound to the balcony. The 280 seat venue operates under Weston Community Club Inc. with plans for a full program through early September.
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Weston
New Weston Playhouse
Muriel Resnik
Friends of the Theatre
Weston Playhouse
Weston Community Club, Inc
Vermont
New Playhouse
Raymond Austin
Lincoln Center
New York City
Austin
Weston Community Club
Harlan F. Grant
Boston Conservatory
Seidman and Son
George Washington
Water Project Start Date Set for Bolles Brook System
July 10 marks official construction start for Bolles Brook water system with a 200 day completion window. Bennington residents expect service from Bickford Hollow water shortly after year’s start. Morse Co leads work, handling intake chamber and chlorine facility at 38 000 dollars while Petricca Construction handles the 280 000 dollar pipeline from Woodford and Preload Co builds the 84 000 dollar concrete reservoir at Bickford Hollow.
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Bolles Brook
William H. Morse Co
Morse
Petricca Construction Co
Pittsfield
Mass
Woodford
Burgess Road
Preload Co
Garden City
N.J
Bickford Hollow
YMCA appoints Hiram G. Savage to Speakers Bureau
Herbert H. Leonard announced the selection of Hiram G. Savage as chairman of the Speakers Bureau for the YMCA Center campaign. Savage, a Vermont resident and former executive director of the Greater Bennington Association, will organize volunteers to spread the project message regionwide. He attended Dartmouth, serves on multiple local boards, and lives in Bennington with wife Ruth and three daughters.
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Herbert H. Leonard
Hiram G. Savage
Savage
Vermont
New Ymca
Greater Bennington Association
Dartmouth College
Second Congregational Church
Bennington
Vermont Tech graduates stay in state for highway work
Ten of twenty one Vermont Technical College graduates join the Vermont Department of Highways. Five started in the construction division last week, two more chose the department the same day, three reported June 19, and two on military leave will return in November. The second WTC class graduates are praised for skilled training and drawn by state and private sector offers. Names of those employed include John Bullard, Allen Johnson, William Flanders, Barre Lusier, Tony Costino, Terry Riggs, Robert Rippner, Thomas Simeon, with Harry Starkey Jr. and Donald Hale due in November.
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Montpelier
Vermont Technical College
Vermont Department of Highways
Reginald H. Arnold
Arnold
WTC
Northeast
Johnson
Barre Lussier
Benson
Tony Cosertino
Rutland
Terry A. Riggs
Burlington
Robert Rippner
East Randolph
Thomas Simeon
Putney
Harry S. Starkey Jr
Brattleboro
Donald Hale
Hyde Park
Department
Vermont's New ETV Studio Showcased for October On-Air Debut
Vermont educational television planners previewed the Fort Ethan Allen studio as Eastern Educational Network officials toured Burlington en route to Stowe. The $820,000 matching funds program aims to launch Vermont ETV with $800,000 in equipment testing and $300,000 in federal grants already received for classroom and home programming.
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ETV
Vermont
Educational Television Network
UVM
Fort Ethan Allen
Eastern Educational Network
Burlington
Vermont Educational Television
University of Vermont
Stowe
EEN Board of Trustees
Vermont Network
H. Odell Skinner
Sean Raymond V. Phillips
Head Start Teachers Train At Bennington College
More than 40 Head Start teachers from Bennington and Rutland Counties train this week at Bennington College under Marion C Downes with assistance from Audrey Mach. Four classes started in Bennington serve as demonstration centers. After a 40 hour program, teachers will join 17 Head Start programs planned to begin across Southwestern Vermont next week. Sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity.
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Bennington
Rutland
Bennington College
Marion C. Downes
Audrey Mach
Southwestern
Vermont
The
Office of Economic Opportunity
Hoff Daley Attend Bennington County Sheriff Picnic
Gov Phillip Hoff and Lt Gov John Daley will join deputy sheriffs at the first Bennington County Sheriff Department Clam Bake at Barber's Pond in Pownal. The event, open to the public at $5 per family, benefits new department equipment with noon start and activities including cake jousting and egg throwing.
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Phillip H. Hoff
John Daley
Bennington County
Funeral for Mrs Ethel Shuffleton in East Arlington
Mrs Ethel Shuffleton widow of Robert Shuffleton died at home in Arlington Tuesday after fifty years residency. Funeral held Thursday at Federated Church East Arlington with Rev Granville Greenwold officiating. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Bearers named William Bahan Chester Young Harry Hayden Joseph Baker. Relatives came from Massachusetts Brandon and local area. services preceded by calling hours at Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home.
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East Arlington
Ethel Shuffleton
Robert Shuffleton
Federated Church
Granville Greenwold
Routh Grout
Shuffleton
Arlington
William Bahan
Chester Young
Harry Hayden
Joseph Baker
Brandon
Massachusetts
Evergreen Cemetery
Mr. Greenwold
Hanson-Walbridge
Enterprise Society of the Federated Church
YMCA Tennis Clinic For Bennington Youths Opens
The Bennington YMCA runs a seven session tennis clinic for boys and girls 10 and older at Bennington College courts starting Tuesday at 9 am. Participants split into three levels with drills on grips and strokes, plus a post clinic tournament. Fees are 8 dollars for boys to eighth grade and 2 dollars for girls, with equipment lists and radio updates on WBTN. Loomis Dana leads with YMCA staff.
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Bennington College
Bennington Ymca
WBTN
YMCA
Loomis Dana
Summer’s Biggest Swindle: Quick Sales of Siding
Burlington reports warn homeowners about door to door siding pitches. Faith Prior of the University of Vermont notes siding scams commonly involve contractors starting a job then abandoning it and selling the contract to a finance company.
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Burlington
Faith Prior
Extension
University of Vermont
Police Report Details Pownal Car Crash and Fire
A Green Mountain Park employee Harry Prophet was treated and released after a one car crash on Barber's Pond Road in Pownal. Passenger Prophet and driver Alfred Clines, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif., were involved as the westbound car left the road and crashed down an embankment. A second fire in Pownal involved Arthur Pitman’s 1961 Oldsmobile near the Massachusetts line on U.S. 7, extinguished by state troopers with the fire department responding to the scene. The report notes no published damage totals.
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Green Mountain Park
Harry Prophet
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Pownal
Barber’s Pond
Alfred E. Clines
Santa Monica
Calif
Northams, Mass
Arthur Pitman
U.S. 7
Massachusetts Line
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Monickers
Albany
N.Y
New York State
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Maplecrest
Mapleview
Maplewood
Mapleton
Maple Point
Maple Springs
Haynes & Kane, Inc
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First National Stores
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H. Greenberg & Son, Inc
AM ST. Dial
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Morse & Butler, Inc
Building Contractors
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Dunham’s
Furniture Incorporated
Hoff, Daley
Morse C&b
Morse C & B
Shaftsbury Road
Prophet
J.H. Winslow
Esso
J.H. Winslow Plumbing & Heating Supply CO
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Hodgson
Griffin Electric Co., Inc
Terry Tyler
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Thurlow Sales
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