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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
Vermont towns face inequities from assessing property at 95 percent of sale price. Bennington listers urge a town wide reappraisal to update Grand List, a costly step voters resist. Leaders must plan budgeted costs and push action at the floor meeting to ensure fair tax burdens.
Vermont officials warn 20,000 rural homes must install septic tanks by September to comply with new water pollution rules. Costs cited range from 150 to 700 dollars, with advocates urging state or federal subsidies to help rural homeowners, many elderly, cover the expense.
Letters to the Banner defend a Dorset school bond plan of about 56 000 with interest about 13 750 over 10 years arguing the current building is inadequate and that a public kindergarten will be in Dorset next year. Readers are urged to vote yes on June 29 and defend board efforts.
A reminiscence of a brook four miles from town once full of life and small creatures. The writer recalls watching frogs, crawfish, dragonflies, minnows, sunfish, turtles, and birds, while enjoying simple summer days. Now the road is widened to four lanes and the brook runs through a polluted, trash-filled pipe with likely only bacteria left.
The piece argues Brezhnev seeks detente to secure the eastern front while pressuring Western Europe through oil politics. It links Warsaw Pact consolidation, West Berlin leverage, and access to Persian Gulf oil as key to Soviet strategy, suggesting broader global scope beyond central Europe.
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