Wooden nickels and barn dances for bicentennial
Arlington committees discuss fundraising ideas for the bicentennial including wooden nickels or quarters as membership tokens and sales to summer visitors. They also plan a movable barn for exhibits and dances, survey neighborhoods for loaned structures, and an essay contest at Arlington Memorial High School with prizes.
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Arlington
Amy Stroffoleno
Sandgate
Sunderland
Stroffoleno
Green Mountain Girls
Holly Gunther
Arlington Memorial High School
Ruth W. Stearns
Arlington Area
Manchester Civil Defense report outlines local readiness actions
The Manchester On-Site Assistance Report was presented to Town Manager Oakley Porter by Dorsey Holsinger of the state Civil Defense office. The letter from Vermont Civil Defense and the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency outlines aims to improve readiness, with recommendations including creating an explicit Civil Defense agency, semi annual meetings, plan development by service heads, updated water and radiological monitoring, training, and shelter improvements.
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Manchester
Oakley Porter
Dorsey Holsinger
State Civil Defense Office
Richard C. Holmes
Vermont Civil Defense
Allan R. Zenowitz
Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
Maynard
Mass
Holsinger
Civil Defense
Porter
Civil Defense Agency
Montpelier
UPI
House
Vermont Senate
Vermont
Council
Human Services Agency
Governor
Committee On Children and Youth
Course for hospital food service chiefs in Vermont
A nine week spring course for hospital and institutional food service supervisors starts March 19 in Waterbury and March 20 in Rutland. Sessions run Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9 30 to 3 at Vermont State Hospital Waterbury and Rutland Hospital, totaling 90 hours with lectures films field trips and labs. Topics include hospital and dietary organization ethics nutrition sanitation supervision and basic management principles. Sponsored by Vermont Department of Education Vocational Education Division Vermont Dietetic Association and Vermont Department of Health. Instructors are Mrs Paul Dumont Moscow northern area and Mrs Julius Whitney Weybridge southern area. Arrangements by Bernice Oliver with Dr George W Brooks and Mrs Helen Templeton aiding locations.
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Vermont Hospital
Institutional Food Service
Rutland
Vermont Department of Education
Vermont Dietetic Association
Vermont Department of Health
Paul Dumont
Moscow
Julius Whitney
Weybridge
American Dietetics Association
Bernice Oliver
Health Department
George W. Brooks
Vermont State Hospital
Helen Templeton
Rutland Hospital
Williamstown Theatre to use Clark facility
Williamstown Theatre Festival will stage its Sunday night events in the Clark Art Institute’s new 317 seat auditorium in Williamstown Massachusetts. Clark director George Heard Hamilton and theatre artistic director Nikos Psacharopoulos announced the agreement detailing pre curtain receptions and ticket options. Specific dates for the Sunday performances will be announced soon. The theater is negotiating with New York Pro Musica for medieval and Elizabethan programs and may present Langella and Nye reading Zelda excerpts and other notable works.
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Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown Theatre Festival
George Heard Hamilton
Clark Art Institute
Nikos Psacharopoulos
Williamstown Theatre
New York Pro Musica
Frank Langella
Carrie Nye
Zelda
Alexander Scourby
Walt Whitman
Nikos Kazantzakis
Mildred Dunnock
Collette
Dylan Thomas
Gunter Grass
Vermont Supreme Court Swears In New Associate Justice
Judge Robert Larrow was sworn in as the fourth associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, winning a narrow election over Chief Superior Judge William Hill. The ceremony in Montpelier drew legislators including Speaker Walter Kennedy, who nominated him, as well as legal professionals.
Corley resigns from Vermont state education board
State education board member Robert Corley of Wolcott has resigned. The governor’s office received his letter last week. Corley’s six year term would have expired February 28, 1975.
Vermont Senator Aiken to address legislature
UPI reports Senator Aiken 81 will address a joint Vermont Legislature assembly next Tuesday. The longtime dean plans to retire this year after 33 years in Washington.
NY ski areas seek state loans to avert bailout
About 20 New York ski areas face financial trouble due to light snow, gas shortages, and higher prices at state runs. NYSSAOA lobbyists say Whiteface Gore and Belleayre charge $8 lift tickets vs $10-12 at private resorts, urging low interest loans despite rising revenues overall.
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Albany
New York State
State
The
Nyssaoa
David Vanderzee
Whiteface
Gore
Belayre
Legal clash over college's suspension power in Berkshire
Attorney Cecil D. Driver obtained a temporary restraining order against North Adams State College for Edward J. Lima after Lima was suspended following a Feb 26 arrest for marijuana. Lima alleges a warrantless room search and denial of counsel. the college held a hearing after suspension, calling it peer review. The case continues March 19 as Lima pleads innocent.
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North Adams
Cecil D. Driver
Western Massachusetts Legal Services
North Adams State College
Edward J. Lima
Gloucester
Lima
George A. Jarck
Pittsfield Snowfall So Far Beats Past Low Record
Berkshires see 46.7 inches so far this winter, vs 65.9 a year ago and a normal 78 inches. If four more inches fall, the season will top 50.7 inches, keeping the 1950 51 record intact. Firefighters fought 17 grass fires Monday, with five near Crosby Junior High and two near Taconic High, all blamed on children playing with matches.
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Pittsfield
Berkshires
Crosby Junior High School
Taconic High School
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