Campbell Reflects on Bennington Growth and Leadership
Campbell emphasizes a unifying town role and actions behind the scenes. He criticizes excess spending while backing water system upgrades, police training, and a lean budget. He praises Town Manager Lamb and calls for steady, long term governance to merge Bennington into a cohesive small city.
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Campbell
Bennington
Wis
YMCA
Parks and Recreation Commission
Jess
Brooklyn
Doortalker
Benningtinian
Edward R. Lamb
Lamb
Bennington voter Fred Baker presents tax cut pledge
Fred Baker campaigns on lowering taxes and better dollar value. He urges revenue sharing for tax relief, prioritizes basketball and sewer projects, praises police and recreation efforts but criticizes overfunding. He questions full time government roles and favors public-spirited appointment processes.
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Brooklyn
Bennington
Edward R Lamb
Baker
Fred Baker
Land Tax Plan Tweaked By State Legislators
Land use taxation provisions added at the request of Rep. Peter Giuliani of Montpelier, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. The plan says regional and local development plans receive due consideration and that the state plan won t prevent landowners from selling property. The amendment aims to speed passage, temper local planning opposition, and reassure critics that private land rights remain unaffected.
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Peter Giuliani
Montpelier
House
Ways and Means
Giuliani
Local firm bids low for Bennington arts center project
North Bennington based Grin Granger Construction Co. submitted the low bid of 4.674 million dollars for a 120000 square foot Bennington College Arts Center near Cricket Hill. Second bidder was MacMillan Co. at 4.766 million. Completion slated for late summer or fall, with total project cost around 8.15 million including gallery, kiln building, and arts center. Funding combines college capital fund, a 4.7 million HEW loan and subsidy, and Vermont bonds.
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North Bennington
Bennington College Arts Center
Timothy Smith
Robertson Ward Jr
Granger Construction Co
MacMillan Co
Keene, NH
Cricket Hill
College Drive
Asdan
Thomas Parker
Parker
New England
New York
Federal Health, Education and Welfare Department
Vermont Education Building Facility Authority
Bennington selectman hopefuls clash at town meeting
About 30 residents heard six candidates debate for selectman with two minute outlines each. Incumbents Campbell and Sheridan defended growth limits and a sinking fund for sewer plans while rivals Baker and Warren urged leaner town government. Corcoran and Stone pushed tax relief and revenue sharing, all favoring Super 7 transport and tax reductions as Lamb and officials explained the budget line by line.
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Jan Slusmon
Bennington
Peétown
Selectman
Edward B. Lamb
League of Women Voters
Robert J.M. Matteson
Selectmen
J. Duncan Campbell
Campbell
Fred H. Baker Jr
Baker
Asiak
Paul Sheridan
Sheridan
Dorothy Warren
Timothy Corcoran
Corcoran
John Stone
Manchester
Edward R. Lamb
J.C. Jerome
Norton Barber Lamb
Act 250 compliance stalls Pownal trailer expansion hearing
Bennington District Environmental Commission tackles the Roy plan to expand Royal Pine Villas from 38 to 79 units under Act 250. disputes over site counts and legality, with concerns about septic systems and effluent, court orders, and possible impact on water supplies. Hearing adjourned to March 4 for site inspection and concluding testimony.
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Marcie Roy
Pownal
Royal Pine Villas
Route 7
Roy
Daniel Cadiz
Bennington
Cadiz
William ©. Sennett
Arthur Menut
Menut
Sennett
Correll
John Bushee
Ferdinand Bongartz
Manchester
Commission
Charles Palmer
State Environmental Agency
Jewett Brook
Palmer
Cadz
Diamond
Sue Burton Tenner
Royal Pines Villas
Vermont tax system blamed by economics professor
Plainfield economist Lee Webb accuses Vermont’s tax system of swindling middle and lower income residents as big business and the wealthy allegedly dominate the state legislature and governor’s chair. He calls for strong welfare and AFDC reforms amid Nixon welfare changes proposed to curb overpayments and ineligible benefits.
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AFDC
Althogh
Nixon
POWs and Viet Nam Ceasefire Strains Show New Tension
The United States halted troop withdrawals and mine clearing at Haiphong amid renewed disputes over prisoner releases. Radio Hanoi said four Joint Military Commission members were killed in a South Vietnamese ambush as talks in Paris aimed to secure peace encountered fresh impasses. Nixon pressed North Vietnam to maintain progress while critics warned of delays in prisoner releases and harbor sweeps resuming. Meanwhile Vermont tax critic Webb argued state tax loopholes benefit big business and wealthy individuals, calling for transparency ahead of property tax relief debates.
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United States
Vietnam
Haiphong
Radio Hanoi
Joint Military Commission
Nixon
Hogers
Paris
U.S
Laos
Communist Pathet Leo
Vermont Senate confirms Jackson and Leo OBrien
Vermont Senate approves two Gov. Salmon nominees on split votes. Schuyler Jackson is Environmental Conservation Agency Secretary after a 16 to 4 vote with Republican opposition. Leo OBrien is named state agriculture commissioner, succeeding Edward Eurich who served as Salmon's chief legislative liaison.
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Montpelier
Vermont Senate
Thomas Salmon
Environmental Conservation Agency
Schuyler Jackson
Environmental Board
Westphal
Lampilly County
Andrew Orze
Robert Bloomer
Rutland County
Herbert Ogden
Windsor County
Gerald Morse
Caledonia County
John Boylett
Senate
Leo O'Brien
O'Brien
Salmon
Edward Eurich
Autos collide at Kelly Stand near Shaftesbury and Arlington
State Police report two separate crashes Wednesday. At 7 40 p m on Route 87 in Shaftesbury Alen Semet 40 of Pompton Lake New Jersey escaped injury after his foreign sedan swerved left the road crossed both lanes and struck a See een cat aud involved causing extensive damage. Earlier at 11 50 a m at the entrance to Kelly Stand Road East Arlington Jonathan Abts 20 Sunderland collided with Claudia Christman 25 East Arlington causing moderate damage to both vehicles with no injuries.
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Shaftesbury
Alen Semet
Pompton Lake
N.J
Semet
Kelly Stand Road
East Arlington
Jonathan Abts
Sunderland
South Road
Claudia Christman
Three New Jersey teens plead not guilty in Bennington petit larceny case
District Court in Bennington heard pleas of not guilty from Richard Kennedy 18 of Peapack and Theresa Janko 16 and Susan Alfiera 17 of Somerville to charges tied to taking a coffee maker ashtray and bottles from the Bamstead Motel in Manchester on February 11. They were released in their own recognizance without bail.
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Bennington
John P. Morrissey
New Jersey
Richard Kennedy
Peapack
Theresa Janko
Susan Alfiera
Somerville
Bamstead
Manchester
Hospital Notes Admits Several Patients in February
Admission list includes Oliver Tift Dorset Leonard Pekley Manchester Depot. Discharges include Jacqueline Murphy Mrs Catherine White and son Shaftsbury Mrs Diane Harrington and son Bennington. Births recorded for Mr and Mrs Kenneth Lady Wilmington their three sons and Mr and Mrs Frank Baker 100 Valentine St their son and Mr and Mrs James Kirk patrick 412 Gage St their daughter Feb 13.
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Oliver Tift
Dorset
Leonard Pekley
Manchester
Jacqueline Murphy
Catherine White
Shaftsbury
Diane Harrington
Bennington
Kenneth Lady
Wilmington
Frank Baker
Valentine St., & Son
James Kirkpatrick
Gage St. & Daughter
Ruling on 180-day Vermont vote law expected today
U.S. District Judge Albert Coffrin could rule that Vermont’s 180 day residency to vote in municipal elections is unconstitutional. A prior panel struck down the 96 day durational requirement for state and federal ballots. Coffrin will hear cases against Putney and Marshfield challenges, with a town meeting vote for the Dyers unlikely on timing.
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Burlington
UPI
U.S. District Court
Albert W. Coffrin
Vermont
Be Cofffin
Coffin
Putney
Paul
Susan Dyer
Mirra Bank
Marshfield
Vel Coffin
Town Board of Civil Authority
Coffrin
Vermont Legal Aid
Dyer
Dyers
Salmon warns governors of Vermont commuter woes
Gov. Thomas P. Salmon warned a national governors conference that Vermont faces an alarming predicament as big city workers establish families there and commute weekends. He urged a national land use policy to balance private rights with public interest and protect air, land, and water while managing growth.
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Washington
UPI
Thomas P. Salmon
Vermont
Nationneies
Salmon
New York
Boston
Hartford
America
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Bennington Briefs
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TOPS
United Press International
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Webb
State Tax Department
National Life Insurance Co
Pairbanks- Morse
St. Johnsbury
Springfield
Windsor
Lee Webb
Plainfield
Jackson
Leo O’brien
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U. S
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