Woodford Voters Endorse Budgets and Raises in Quiet Meeting
Woodford residents approved a $42,824 school budget for next year and raised treasurer clerk Aileen O’Neill’s pay from 3000 to 6500 annually. A proposed $100 donation to the Bennington County Humane Society drew mild opposition. The SVSU budget and Supt. Sleeman’s 7 percent raise were debated, with some calling for restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodford
Bennington County Humane Society
Aileen O’neill
William E. Lauzon
U.S. Forest Service
Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union
George A. Sleeman
Sleeman
Avis Hurley
Anthony
Humphreyes
SVSU
Hurley
Supt. Sleeman
Winhall fire interrupts Vermont town meeting on budget items
Fire alarms during a Manchester area town meeting forced evacuation from the elementary school gym. Officials clarified the blaze was in Winhall, not Manchester, with an A-frame house on Snowflake Road damaged and residents safe. Town actions included budgets for cemeteries, rescue, rural fire, health, and a Woodford energy coordinator, totaling 23 565 dollars. Balloting would finalize town officers with a cemetery commissioner race among Jesse Bugbee Albert ONeill and Charles Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Selectman
Douglas Schner
Winhall
Snowflake Road
Thomas Smith
Smith
Ferdinand Bongartz
Woodford Hollow
Silver
Woodford
Vermont
Bennington
Lauzon
Forest Service
Burgess Road
Jesse Bugbee
Albert O’neill
Charles Martin
Regents propose five week winter school shutdown in Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls residents pack a meeting of the Hoosick Falls Concerned Parents Association to oppose a New York Regents plan to close all public schools for five weeks next winter. The plan would run Sept 1 to June 30 with a Dec 24 to Jan 29 break, eliminating spring and winter vacations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Eisenmenger
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
New York State Board of Regents
Concerned Parents Association
Hoosick Falls Central School
Kasmer J. Stempek
HFCS
Arlington Town Meeting reviews unpaid taxes and debts
Town Meeting in Arlington closed in under ten minutes after a brief school session. The town reports 37,993.53 in uncollected taxes as of Jan 1 and total 1976 borrowing of 270,000, with one 130,000 loan repaid and the 140,000 loan due in 1977. Town officials warned of potential tax sales starting next month as discussions on budgets and debt kept to a minimum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judson Brown
Arlington
Manchester
Henry
Breunich
Pownal Town Meeting approves partial raise in hourly wages
Pownal voters kept full time workers at $3 an hour with the town treasurer and selectmen paid $500 yearly. A close ballot set $3 for most workers, $3.50 approved for some after a proposed $4 raise was rejected. The town budget grew to $176,981 with roads and school funding adjusted. A long meeting honored retiring officials and noted limits on future spending and revenue sharing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
Helen Renner
Bernard Bisson
Vincent Pizzano
Supt
George Sieeman
Breunich
Selectmen
Tom Whalen
Norman Mattison
Robert Lindsey
Elizabeth Tynan
Arlington
Terrance J. Riley
Ernest Mattison Sr
Archie Hess
Jane Gardner
Arnold Wilcox
Sunderland school budget amended at Town Meeting
Sunderland parents amended the 18 month school budget to add 6280 for a full time secretary clerk and two part time teaching posts to support admin procedures and more art and physical education. The town budget passed and the photocopier item was rejected after debate. Both budgets switch to a fiscal year, July 1977 for the school and a year later for the town. Jane Gardner addressed Montpelier issues before sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunderland
Gerk
Jane Gardner
Montpelier
Dorset floor meeting robbed of debate by Australian ballot
Dorset town meeting yielded little drama as the budget discussion moved to Australian ballot. Voters debated but did not alter the 1977 budget of 193,757 while noting school and town items and a failed industrial arts program funding. Firefighters were summoned to Bromley Mountain during the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorset
Marchen Skinner Dorset
Sydney Meacham
Charles Erdman
Theodore Earle
Burr and Burton
Calvin Skinner
Terry Tyler
Tyler
Manchester
Bromley Mountain
Edith Snare
Planning Commission
Gerald Cutler
Hudson Carpenter
Chester Andrews
Also Mentioned on This Page
Humane Society
Antoinette Button
Parents Association
Gladys Love
William C. Waterhouse
Junior High Guidance
Waterhouse
Arlington Town Meeting
Spencer Farrington
By Pamela Blakeman
Board of Selectmen
A. Coleman Mason
Mason
Michael Laurence
Chester Phillips
Irving Jones
Aluminum
Main St
Finast
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Greenberg
Emhart
Allendale
H. Greenberg
Bennington and
North Adams
Frigidaire
3 Furniture Co
Stavens & Frost, Inc
East Dorset
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