Woodford adopts budget amid town meeting notes
Woodford residents approve a $20,515 general fund and $6,400 highway fund, with modest raises for town workers and support for local services. The meeting also covers cemetery, humane society, fire department, landfill, and regional council dues, plus investment reporting and school finances. The town, largely National Forest land, reports $227,834.33 in savings and $12,553.99 earned in 1975.
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Woodford
Bennington
Vermont League of Cities and Towns
Bennington County
National Forest
Aileen O’neil
Switzerland
Avis Hurley
Pownal Community Notes Include Den Meeting and Events
Pownal Cub Scout Den 2 meets at 7 30 tonight at Mrs Diane Zangari s home. The final East Pownal Volunteer Fire Department and Fire Auxiliary card party awarded prizes to Gary and Ralph Bishop, Jean Lillie, Maude Rogers, and others. A well baby clinic is planned Friday March 5 from 9 to 11 a m at the Pownal Recreational Community Center with immunizations screenings tests and no appointment needed. The Pownal Parent Teacher Group will meet Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the Pownal Elementary School teacher s room to nominate and elect officers.
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Diane Zangari
East Pownal
Gary Bishop
Ralph Bishop
Jean Lillie
Maude Rogers
Betty Betit
Liza Mattison
Lucy Duval
Ralph Lillie
Pownal Recreational Community Center
Pam Intres
Lucille Moffitt
Pownal
Dorset town meeting approves budgets and Australian ballot items
Dorset voters last night approved the town and school budgets with the Dorset-A budget hike raising the constable budget from 2500 to 3500 and an overall 1976 budget estimated at 182661.00. Several motions failed including reducing the town manager salary and car allowance. Discussion covered reappraisal, fiscal year changes, and school tax timing with two installment options approved. The lengthy meeting ended amid disputes over Australian ballot use and voter participation.
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Dorset
Scott Casey
Casey
Vermont
Wilmington
Hartland
Sisters and Selectmen
Selectmen
Jack Stannard
Stannard
G.W. Seymour
Seymour
Robert Sheridan
Sheridan
Special Fiscal Committee
Terry Tyler
Grodsky
Tyler
New Books at McCullough Library North Bennington
McCullough Library lists new adult and juvenile titles including World Almanac 1976 The Night Is Dark and I Am Far From Home The Lusitania Disaster The Dead Father and more. Sports items note Arlington readers discussed in the New York Times travel page with Battenkill Barn Sale mentioned by host Charlie Robertson.
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McCullough Library
North Bennington
Severn
Almanac
Galenpaul
Delury
Consumers Report
Hme
Kozol
Abigail
John — Butterfield
Franklin Lopez & Herbert
Bailey & Ryan
Ty Cobb — McCallum
Games People
Berne
Blair
Nowhere
Anderson
Grey King Cooper
Arlington
N.Y
Vermont
Sunderland Budget Approval Dims Opposition After Board Presentation
Sunderland boards explain a 224 856 school budget at last night's meeting. Directors detailed legal obligations to a Supervisory union, low per pupil costs, and modest teacher salaries. Budget passed with one dissent as plans to explore alternate heating arise. Town budget items mostly approved. $50 from Revenue Sharing set for Arlington Little League.
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Sunderland
Arlington Little League
Burlington Officials Confront Unification Church Fundraising
Burlington leaders criticized the Unification Church for how it raises funds at a Monday meeting urged by John Wells. Mayor Gordon Paquette voiced surprise at church followers from Barrytown, New York, raising money in town. Wells defended the fundraisers as legal while Rep. Jane Gardner urged bans, calling for action to protect families, though church leaders say measures would be unconstitutional.
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Burlington
UPI
Unification Church
John Wells
Gordon Paquette
Barrytown
N.Y
Paquette
Wells
Jane Gardner
Arlington
Public Service Board Sued By VPIRG Over Evacuation Plans
VPIRG charges PSB failed to act within 30 days on petition filed 150 days ago seeking evacuation plans to be included with utility bills for residents within 40 miles of the Vermont Yankee plant in Vernon. A March 9 hearing in Washington County Superior Court is set on the suit. Herman Bluestein, VPIRG director, alleges legal violation.
College bill transfer risks accrediting CCD Vermont
Burlington UPI report notes CCV president Peter Smith warns that moving control of the Community College of Vermont from the state system to the University of Vermont could strip the college of its accreditation. The bill, under legislative review, would shift non campus CCV authority to UVM, with a Board of Trustees meeting slated tonight here for discussion.
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Burlington
UPI
Community College of Vermont
University of Vermont
Peter Smith
State Colleges System
UVM
State Colleges’ Board of Trustees
Vermont Senator abandons governor bid to seek re election
MONTPELIER UPI Sen Robert OBrian D Orange County appears to have shelved plans to run for governor. He said Monday he has all but given up the idea and will likely seek re election to the state senate instead.
Heglund Named VT ACLU Executive Director
Lynn Heglund, Goddard College graduate and longtime ACLU staffer since 1974, is appointed executive director of the Vermont chapter. She focuses on women's rights and criminal justice and succeeds David Harrison, who resigned last year to head the Washington state ACLU.
City housing panel weighs transfer in elderly project
In Lansingburgh New York the city housing commissioners learned one principal builder, Jay Raddock of Raddock Organization Ltd Freeport, may back out of a 60 unit elderly project and a transfer of rights to Kinglan Construction of Freeport is being considered at a special Wednesday meeting.Meanwhile Uncle Sam Mall Corp will pay off the larger of two liens on property owned as it proceeds with plans north of Broadway and Third Street though the liens held by Caldwell Development Corp and John W Cowper Co could pose a hurdle.
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Troy
Lansingburgh
Jay Raddock
Raddock Organization Ltd
Freeport
Kinglan Construction
Uncle Sam Mall Corp
City Urban Renewal Agency
Broadway
Third Street
Bennett J. DelleBovi
Caldwell Development Corp
Williamsville
John W. Cowper Co
Tonawanda
Berkshire Pittsfield jobless rate rises amid sluggish recovery
State Division of Employment Security data show Pittsfield North Adams area unemployment at 12.0 in January, up from 11.5 in December, while national unemployment fell to 7.8 and state rate edged up to 11.9. Analyst Bruce J. Searleman warns of no recovery in sight for Pittsfield.
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Pittsfield
State Division of Employment Security
Berkshire County
Labor Department
Pittsfield-North Adams
Bruce J. Searleman
Snow expected as March brings normal flakes in Berkshire
Pittsfield reports 13 inches of snow as forecaster George J. Bulgarelli predicted a normal March snowfall with temperatures near 30.7F. He notes February 1954 had the warmest average daily temperature at 29.4F while February 1955 held second place for cold starts.
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Pittsfield
Berkshires
George J. Bulgarelli
Bulgarelli
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William Lauzon
Lauzon
Woodford Hollow
Mt. Anthony
Benning Wentworth
Pamela Blakeman
Sydney Meachem
Louis Grodsky
Dorset Taxpayer Association
Craig Wheaton Smith
Meachem
Cropleyville
Willard J. Walsh
Doug Meyers Road
Cropseyville
Old Guard
City of New York
Commodore
New York City
Col. Walsh
New York Guard
Co. I, 172Nd Infantry
Bennington Co
Vermont National Guard
World — Lipsyte
Memoirs Williams
Mercer
Spirits Lovesey
Powledge
H. H. Greene
Main
Lee’s
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
The
Bennington Banner
Main Street
United Counseling Service
PSB
VPIRG
ACLU
New York
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