Dorset Voters Reject Police, Back Kindergarten Plan
Dorset residents voted 269 against to 167 for the police department measure and approved a kindergarten program. They also rejected North Dorset's George Conners and re elected incumbent Calvin Skinner for a third term. The police article cited a $10,000 appropriation for a full time officer and cruiser, while Dorset will run with two part time constables Harold Beebe and Nathaniel Tyler amid crime concerns. School directors budgeted $16,275 for a 21 student class with one instructor.
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Dorset
North Dorset
George Conners
Calvin Skinner
Police Department
Harold Beebe
Nathaniel Tyler
Tyler
Manchester
Landgrove votes down reappraisal and landfill plan
Landgrove voters rejected a proposed sanitary landfill appropriation and hiring state appraisers to review Grand List records, while approving a town budget of 10,086 dollars with a 75 cent tax rate on town roads. A non contest election re elected Moderator Samuel R. Ogden and elected local officials including Duncan Odgen Sheilah Odgen Paul Miner Jeanne S Harris and others. The meeting authorized road commissioners forest land purchase and speed limit sign increases. The treasurer was empowered to clarify delinquent tax penalties. A school bond vote may be held later. Portland
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Landgrove
Samuel R. Ogden
Duncan Odgen
Sheilah Odgen
Paul Miner
Jeanne S
Woodford votes for professional reappraisal and budgets
Woodford voters authorize a professional reappraisal firm with an $8,000 cap. A school budgeting change to a fiscal year is rejected but will become mandatory next Town Meeting. Budgets pass for elementary ($31,230), town ($15,158), and highway maintenance ($2,427.90). Town officials including Moderator Lawrence are re elected and an after Town Meeting dinner is revived. In Paris, Francis Mephi, 48, is sentenced to three months hard labor after burglary to quell his drinking urges, per a judge’s advice.
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Woodford
Lawrence
Aileen O'Neil
Philip Barbeau
Gary R. Button
Patricia M. Dwyer
Harold Warner
Winifred Frantz
James B. Gibney
Rosalie M. Wright
Millie Harrington
Jesse A. Bugbee
Paris
UPI
Francis Mepht
Mephi
People's Party lays out five plank platform for village election
In Hoosick Falls New York the People's Party released the final two items of a five plank program for the March 16 village elections. They say they inherited a financial mess and pledged to repave badly deteriorated streets and widen roadways by removing some sidewalks where not heavily used. They also plan to remove a dwelling in the fourth ward and project openness and integrity at village board meetings.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
People’s Party
Mechanic Street
Fourth Ward
Rensselaer County
Bennington Troy District Executive W.S.C.S. meeting notes
Eleanor Niles and Mrs Howard Robinson attended the Bennington Troy District Executive W S C S meeting in Johnsonville Saturday. James Perry left Saturday for Fort Dix New Jersey en route to Germany.
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Howard Robinson
Bennington-Troy
W.S.C.S
Johnsonville
O— Sp
James Perry
Fort Dix
N.J
Germany
Lawmakers Propose 3-Year Marriage Licenses
Annapolis reports two women lawmakers introduced a bill to require marriage licenses that expire after three years. Couples could select a traditional lifetime license or a three year marriage contract, cancellable by either party at the end of the term.
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Annapolis
UPI
Reappraisal in Manchester Defeated in Voting Results
In Manchester a $30,000 outside reappraisal appropriation failed 189 to 625 while a $10,000 town garage reserve fund passed 405 to 401. Selectman Clyde Bryant Jr. was reelected over Howard Dufresne, and Sister S. John T. Steele won her race. The reappraisal measure was added by petition. a new garage building is planned with a total cost near $40,000. Other town appropriations passed. Arlington defeated a land purchase for a sewage plant 182 to 389 and a Red Mill Dam restoration measure 137 to 436, while the school budget won 357,589 with 14 votes.
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Manchester
Clyde Bryant Jr
Howard Dufresne
S. John T. Steele
Thomas Farley
Jay Hawthorne
Bryant
Manchester Nursing and Welfare Association
Factory Point
Fire Equipment Reserve Fund
Arlington
Red Mill
Wilmington voters approve police funds and trim school budget
At a town meeting Wilmington residents cut 31500 from the 1971 72 school budget, limiting teacher salaries and social security, while approving a 25650 increase for the police department to hire a second full time officer. A tax exemption for Haynes Brothers was also granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Hancock
Wilmington
Robert Grinold
Dover
Haynes Brothers, Inc
Stratton village hearing postponed in Vermont
A hearing on a bill to incorporate Stratton Mountain Village was postponed at the request of Stratton voters. Rep. Royal Cutts and Rep. Timothy O Connor co signers said residents fear added costs and want to attend. The plan would form a 900 acre village spanning Stratton and Winhall with owner assessments for services.
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Stratton
Stratton Mountain
Montpelier
Royal B. Cutts
Townshend
Timothy J. O'Connor
Brattleboro
Stratton Town
Mountain
Stratton Mountain Corp
O’connors
Bat Tenhill Grange Meeting and Pony League Notice
The regular Bat tenhill Grange meeting opens to the public tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Arlington with movies and slides of a local caribou hunt. Arlington area parents with boys joining Pony League are urged to meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Legion rooms. Gym recreation programs for men and women at Arlington High School are terminated on Wednesdays and Thursdays due to other commitments.
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Battenhill Grange
Arlington
Pony League
Legion Rooms
Arlington High School
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Skinner
Conners
Selectmen
Board of Selectmen
Byron Bowen
John P. Stannard
Bowen
Stannard
Theodore Earle
Elisabeth Gilbert
Nathaniel Tyler III
Audrey Palmer
Sydney Meachem
Helen O'Donovan
Margaret Harrington
Malcolm Cooper
Richard Pivirotto
Barbara Smith
Leon Edgerton
Vogue & Vanity
Vacque and
Vaniby
Hotel Putnam
Bennington, VI
Colonial Shopping Ctr
Williamstown
Mass
White Creek
Eleanor Niles
Abraham Madkour
Ferdinand Bongartz
Clifford B. Harwood
Clara May Hemenway
Harold Wisell
Paul Todtschinder
Ramon Carrano
J. Bennett Beattie
Homer Ellis
Phillip Squires
Dana Thompson
Eugene Gaiotti
Betty Kamber
Harvey Brophy
Robert Lindsey
Henry Raymore
Orrin Griffis
Roland Cormier
Ann Halbur
Don Brown
Jesse Harrington
Gerald James
Alan Knapp
Clark Condon
Thomas P. Whalen
Emmet Smith
Terrance J. Riley
John Elwell
Alan Mattison
Leon Budro
Donald Kendall
Prosper Duchesne
John Moore
O.R. Baker
John Whalen
Helene Thompson
David Jannicky
Grinold
Ralph Howe
Wilmington-Dover
Stratton ‘Village
Einc Sankari
Ashburnham, Mass
Sunderland
Sandgate
Ty. Greenberg
Sok
Main ST
Bennington
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