Sandgate Town Meeting Highlights and Clerk Change
Sandgate held its all day Town Meeting from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with wide participation and shifts in local leadership. The board selected Gene Kennedy for a three year term after the chair declined. Kendy Trachte defeated Chris Clevinger for town clerk and Anne Kreffer was replaced with a new clerk at a $3.07 per hour rate.
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Sandgate
Sandgate Town Hall
Board of Selectmen
Douglas Tschorn
William Lemberg
William Henry
Gene Kennedy
Kendy Trachte
Chris Clevinger
Ms. Clevinger
Harry Skidmore
Selectman
Tschorn
Clevinger
Anne Kreffer
Nancy Tschorn
Baker
Timothy Corcoran
Bennington
Corcoran
Dr. Baker
Bennington Town
Vermont
GOP
Norton Barber
James Colvin
Colvin
Barber
Molly Stark
Paul Sheridan
Lorraine Eastman
Mary Hodeck
Edward Keough
Dorothy Warren
North Bennington
Fred Pabst dies at 78 founder of Bromley ski area
Fred Pabst , founder of Bromley Mountain in Vermont and a pioneer in American skiing, died at 78 in Manchester after building a lasting legacy. He opened Bromley in 1938, introduced the J bar lift, helped create slope side nurseries and grooming concepts, and installed a major snowmaking system in the 1960s. A memorial on the slopes is planned at Bromley.
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Fred Pabst
Bromley
Peru
Manchester
Pabst
Vermont
National Ski Hall of Fame
Pabst Brewing Family
University of Wisconsin
Harvard Business School
Milwaukee
Ste. Saveur
Canada
Laurentians
American Midwest
New Hampshire
Chicago
New York
Boston
Bromley Mountain
Towns ban nukes in Vermont vote shocks utilities
In Vermont, more than 30 towns endorsed ordinances banning atomic plants and the storage and transport of radioactive wastes, while several delayed action and Castleton rejected adding a transportation ban. VPIRG leader calls it a milestone in local anti nuclear sentiment, though some doubt enforceability.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Castleton
Windham County
Vermont Yankee
Vernon
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
VPIRG
Weston halts plan clash over Mt Holly Farm project
Weston residents urged the Planning Commission to stop its opposition to the Mt Holly Farm tourist attraction near Mt Holly. The motion, raised by a resident, asks the commission to follow public wishes and is being reviewed by attorney Edward Kiel. The panel has long opposed the project and its prior Wildlife Wonderland venture, with neighbor William Marshall Lee also noted.
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Maggie C. Bucholt
Weston
Weston Planning Commission
Mt. Holly Farm
Mt. Holly
Planning Commission
Edward Kiel
Springfield
Wildlife Wonderland
William Marshall Lee Weston
Court rules Social Security discriminates against widowers
The Supreme Court ruled that widowers face sex discrimination in Social Security pension eligibility, potentially aiding about 220,000 men in 1977. Justice Brennan’s opinion voids the old notion that a wife’s support is required for a widower’s benefits, while Justice Stevens notes the bias affects surviving male spouses.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Department of Health, Educgation and Welfare
William Brennan
Brennan
John Paul Stevens
Warren Burger
William H. Rehnquist
Potter Stewart
Harry Blackmun
Rehnquist
New hatchery proposal eyed in Lake Champlain area
On the inside Local and state: New hatchery proposed in Lake Champlain area, ACLU questions nuke security measures, school costs boost Searsburg budget Page 3. Page op: Rob Woolmington, on a snowshoeing trek, finds some live snow, Rep. Jeffords joins new push for concerted voice on solar power-Page 5.
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Lake Champlain
ACLU
Searsburg
Rob Woolmington
Rep
Jeffords
Solar Power
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By John Leaning
Dudley M. Baker
Board of Selectman
U.S
Ski Writers’ Association
Thomas P. Salmon
Dr. Spock
Bluestein
Thomas Hurcomb
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
John Page
New England
Tufts
Oldcastle
SVC
MAU
BBS
Mt. Abraham
St. Mary’s
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