Town Meeting Prep Focus Ahead of Bennington Balloting
Bennington girds for a major town election with a floor meeting at 8 p.m. tonight at Bennington Elementary School and ballots to be cast from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow at two polling sites. Nine articles include town reports, officer compensation, highway aid and tax levels, general fund rate, tax bill timing, tax payment date, and the starting time of future floor meetings.
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Bennington
North Bennington
McCullough
Vermont
Ben
Nington
Town Officials Urge Adoption of Master Plan
Town officials urge voters to adopt the master plan for Bennington with the vote not binding zoning or building rules. Adoption would enable future state and federal aid for sewer and water extensions and housing projects, while the plan sets guidelines for future improvements.
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Bennington
Housing Authority
Norton Barber
Bijur
Park Street
Kocher Drive
Hamilton Shields
LBJ Proposes $15.6 Billion Health Push to Congress
President Johnson unveils a wide ranging health program aimed at universal coverage with major provisions including Medicare and Medicaid drug cost standards, birth control aid, and substantial increases for maternal and child health, child health services, health manpower, and regional programs.
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Ramey Air Force Base
P.R
Congress
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph Califano
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Johnson
Peru Audit Reveals Missing $1880 From Check Book
Town auditors in Peru report an unaccounted sum of 1880 dollars found during the annual books review. The town report notes a check entry to William Dailey gravel dated 66 with no supporting invoice. Further explanation appears in the late town report.
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Peru
William Dailey
Shirley L. Holton
Washington
Henry Parker
Attorney General’s Office
Montpelier
Shirley Holton
Lyle
James L. Oakes
Controversial Gift Canceled By Bishop Sheen
In Rochester New York the Roman Catholic diocese withdrew a controversial plan by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen to donate St. Bridget's Church and school to the federal government for housing aid. The parish priest announced the church would be returned to the parish, ending a heated dispute sparked by the initial donation proposal.
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Rochester
N.Y
UPN
Fulton J. Sheen
Francis H. Vogt
St. Bridget’s
Sheen
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Flying phone incident disrupts Bennington hotel scene
Police continue probe into a pre dawn assault in Bennington where three young men, guests at Hotel Putnam, ripped a wall phone from a lobby and hurled it through a storefront window. The device later appeared damaged on the YMCA fund drive office floor at 349 Main Street in the Putnam House.
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Bennington Village
Putnam
Ymca Fund Drive
Main St
Putnam House
Town Meeting Time Opens Across Bennington County
Bennington County town meetings begin tonight with 7:30 start for nine towns and 8 p.m. for Bennington and Stamford. Contests surface in Shaftsbury and Manchester while Arlington vies over kindergarten and school director races. Dorset eyes budget growth and a future meeting split as voters weigh road, school, and municipal budgets ahead of Tuesday balloting.
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Bennington County
Bennington
Stamford
Manchester
Shaftsbury
Arlington
Pownal
Sunderland
Woodford
Readsboro
Rupert
Dorset
Winhall
Sandgate
Searsburg
Sandgrove
Peru
Selectman
Pauline Knapp
Roy Whitman
Ruby van Santvoord
Eleanor Owen
Ann Halbur
Betty Benedict
Barney
Irma Zentz
Audrey Palmer
John Slade
Stanley Blow
Board of Selectmen
Cole Hall
Knapp-Whitman
William Maitland
Alfred Wade
Elizabeth King
Clinton McDonald
Barry Patton
Patricia O’brien
Pownal Center
Pownal Town
James A. Sinclitho
A. Coleman Mason
John L. Mason
PTG
William Jacobson
William Cameron
Marcel Langlais
Arlingtonians
Arlington Memorial High School
Earl LaBatt
Elizabeth Benedict
William Sohn
Elizabeth Owen
Kenneth Clayton
Gregory Cullinan
Orange Baker
Town House School
Antoinette Mattison
Eleanor Raiery
Oakley K. Porter
Lois Barney
Inside Columnist Notes Folk Song Appeal
On the Inside columnist Gerald Raftery remarks on the enduring appeal of folk songs. Other items note the School Board head resigning in Pownal and a skimobile derby drawing 600 spectators in Shaftsbury.
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Gerald Raftery
Pownal
Shaftsbury
Sandgate To Vote in New Town Hall
Sandgate voters gather at 10 a.m. in their new town hall for a fresh town meeting. The 180 year old building burned a year ago after an overheated stove sparked a fire that destroyed the old hall. Volunteers funded and built a shell, finished by community effort, with a state seal replica saved from the blaze mounted over the doorway.
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Sandgate
America
Teer
Patricia Morrison
William Skidmore
Lothar Wuerslin
John Lundquist
Fred Lemberg Jr
William Tefft Schwarz
Millard Smith
William Lemberg
New Town Hall
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J. Duncan Campbell
Fred H. Baker Jr
Arthur D. Taggler
Louis Sausville
Baker
Bennington Taxpayers’ Protective Association
Taylor
Democrats
BTPA
United Bennington Party
Richard van Santvoord
Walter Danisch
Gerald Cornell
Ind
Cornell
Richard Sleeman
Shields
Sleeman
Taxpayers’ Association
Ralph McCabe
Richard Ralph
Joyce Gavin
Charles Vail
Olof Bard
Vail
Bard
Town Meeting
Patrick Lynden Nugent
President Johnson
San Juan
UPI
LBJ
Partnership For Health
Bishop Sheen
Ruperts
Schoolhouse Hall
Paul Griswold
Lynn Rudd
Charles H. Farrell
West Arlington
Farrell
Trachte
Betty Trachte
Mark Christianson
Lemberg
Harry Skidmore
William Henry
Ralph Tudor
Abby Christianson
Mark
Volun
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