Shaftsbury approves zoning while reappraisal defeated
In Shaftsbury a new zoning ordinance passed 337 to 267 while the townwide reappraisal failed 335 to 256. Incumbent Selectman Roy Whitman won 372 to 236. Voters approved funds for health service, fire department, fire district, and a five year tax exemption for Hale Mountain Fish and Game Club, plus a World Day of Prayer program. Several incumbents were re elected and local offices decided.
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Shaftsbury
Roy Whitman
John Billow
Shaftsbury Health Service
Fire Department
Hale Mountain Fish and Game Club
Tom Hall
Bernard McCarthy
Cathleen Harwood
Clinton McDonald
Leo Harrington
Wesley Bump
Win Beebe
Kelton B. Miller
Robert Klein
Alfred Wade
Lorenzo Sanborn
Pownal Names Administrative Office For Mabel James
The Pownal School Board approved naming the administrative offices of the Pownal Elementary School after the late Mabel James. A five-member board resolution also creates an annual The Mabel James Award for Outstanding Citizenship and Service to be given each June, with the winner selecting a library book in her memory. A memorial fund is established. Bernard Bisson is treasurer.
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Pownal
Mabel James
Carolyn Peckham
Bernard Bisson
Oil slick fuels jet missing with five aboard
A new oil slick in Lake Champlain near Charlotte raises questions about the fate of a private jet missing since January 27 with five aboard. Investigators will sample the oil from the ice to determine if it is aircraft fuel. The plane, owned by Cousins Properties of Atlanta, disappeared after takeoff from Burlington International Airport. a vast search ended when the lake froze.
Supreme Court extends Vermont sludge case response
The U S Supreme Court granted a 30 day extension for New York State and IPC to file responses to Vermont's pollution suit over Lake Champlain. New York sought 60 extra days. Vermont urged none. Vermont wants removal of a 300 acre sludge bed. NY seeks additional studies citing ecological risk. Vermont to reply in April before the court decides to hear the case.
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Washington, D.C
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
New York State
International Paper Co
IPC
Vermont
Lake Champlain
New York
James Jeffords
Ticonderoga
N.Y
Brandon Teen Killed Walking Along Country Road
Edward A. Johnson aged 18 of Brandon was struck and killed Monday night by a car while walking along a country road in his hometown.
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Brandon
UPI
Edward A. Johnson
Ice cream cone hold up at Iacocca Brothers Grocery
A gunman entered 727 5th Ave New York Tuesday night ordered an ice cream cone then showed a pistol demanding wallets. Clerk Michael Iacocca handed over about 165 dollars as the youth, about 17, fled the store. In Schenectady, police absent for shift amid ongoing contract dispute as fire chief kept a state of emergency.
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Troy
Iacocca Brothers
5Th Ave
Michael Iacocca
Iacocca
Schenectady
Milton C. Kling
Public Employment Relations Board
Berkshire and Hampshire incidents span illegal burning break in and barn fire
In North Adams officials are warned for a second time about illegal burning with 19 violations since January and a hearing could force stop orders. In Great Barrington Butternut ski area logs a Sunday night burglary stealing over $2,000 cash through a roof entry bypassing an alarm and siren. In Middlefield a large wooden dairy barn housing 65 Holsteins burned down, cattle fatalities unclear, house protected, cause unknown.
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North Adams
Joseph R. Bianco
Stephen F. Joyce
Berkshire Air Pollution Control District
Joyce
Great Barrington
Butternuthe
Channing B. Murdock
Murdock
Middlefield
Skyline Trail
Arthur Arcouette
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White Creek
Eleanor Niles
White Creek Baptist Church
Ladies of the Baptist and
Methodist Churches
W.S.C.S
Jermain United Methodist Church
Robert Niles
Dewey McCart
Maurice Perry
Bay State High Court
Leyden
Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Leyden School Committee
New School
Pownal Elementary
United States
Paul V. Rutledge
Neil V. Sullivan
Sullivan
U.S
Supreme Court
Homemaker
Wringmaster
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Italy
Main Street
Bennington
Main St
Adams, Mass
Davis
Natural Resources Committee
Travel Agency
Rutland
Northeast Travel Organization Inc
Burlington
Colchester
George Bessette
Bessette
Waterbury
Vermont State Hospital
Sen. Aiken
Troy Grocery
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