Increased demand for railroad ties boosts area sawmills
In Sheffield Massachusetts Korranco Timbers stacks railroad ties for Route 7 and plans to raise output by about 30 percent after starting a production expansion last September. Nearby in Stamford Vermont Robert Potvin reports his mill began producing ties then. The USRA forecasts 5.1 million new ties yearly to modernize ConRail track, a demand surge amid housing slump.
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Robert Potvin
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Maine
Berkshire County
Kormanik
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Arlington Area Seeks Youth Camp Participants
Arlington invites boys aged 12 to 15 from Arlington Sunderland and Sandgate to apply for a Conservation Camp this summer contacting Gilbert Wilcox for details and forms. Arlington residents donated 732.50 to the Heart Fund per Terry Hosley and volunteers promoted heart attack and stroke awareness during American Heart Month across town.
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Sandgate
Gilbert Wilcox
Heart Fund
Terry Hosley
Hosley
Humanities council funds twelve Vermont groups
The Vermont Council on the Humanities awarded matching grants totaling 37,540 dollars to twelve Vermont organizations to fund public policy discussions with scholars. Grants supported elderly life autonomy talks in six regions, Windham College seminars on death and policy, a Vermont Academy symposium on school accountability, a Middlebury College conference on farming futures, and a year long Burlington adult education program at Church Street Center among others.
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Vermont Council On the Humanities and Public Issues
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Donald Barr
New York
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Middlebury
Addison County
Church Street Center For
Church Street Center
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West Village
West Brattleboro
Duxbury
Gordon Lewis
Department of Sociology
Warren
Dorothy Tod
UVM
Brenda Owre
Victor R. Swenson
Main Street
Kelton Miller
The
Bennington Banner
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Robert S. Babcock
Virginia P. Clark
Arline Pat Hunt
Morgan
Remington Rose
Hon
Sterry Waterman
Johnsbury
Marshall Eddy
Bennington County Horse Show Plans Highlighted by BRSU
The Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union received federal funding for 1975 under NDEA ESEA and Right-To-Read programs. An annual meeting is set at Dorset Elementary School with the 1975 show scheduled for May 25 at Bald Mountain Farm Arlington. Forty four classes feature Morgans, antique carriage events, Cavalcade Americana, and an open combination. Prize lists and judges are named with entries open to all breeds.
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Dorset
Bald Mountain Farm
Route 7
Arlington
AVM
Morgan Horse Farm
Morgan Park
Wallace Dennis
Durham
N.H
Franklin Frantz
Burgess Road
Bennington
Vermont construction outlook dark before fall boost
Vermont’s recession damaged construction sector faces a bleak summer as about half the local workforce remains jobless. Officials expect some improvement by fall if federal highway funds are released, while environmental lawsuits and manpower programs shape the pace of projects and jobs. Two weekend crashes raise Vermont toll for the year, with fatalities and injuries reported in Route 242 and a snowstorm incident in Essex Junction.
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Bennington
Westfield
UPI
Vermont
Francine Jaques
Quebec
Francois Brulotte
Sherbrooke
Burlington
Medical Center
John Moone
Montgomery
Essex Junction
Bernard DeVoid 22
South Burlington
Tax fears fade as Albany GOP counters Carey budget
Albany Republicans say Gov Carey’s proposed tax increases are largely unnecessary and will not be approved before the April 1 fiscal year start. A GOP report claims the current tax base can fund the coming year with no new taxes and suggests further budget cuts to balance the books. In Guilderland, Rep Samuel Stratton attacks liberal freshmen in the House for caucus tactics, criticizing secret sessions and arguing for more transparency.
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Albany
State
Senate
Republican
Carey
GOP
Stratton
Berkshire GOP signals Lincoln era ethics in critics of modern woes
Congressmen Silvio Conte delivered the keynote at Berkshire County Republican Association’s tenth recognition night in Pittsfield. Conte urged Republicans to return to Lincoln’s 1856 principle that government should do for the people what they cannot do for themselves and faulted Democratic congresses for current misfortunes. He urged the GOP to stop broadening the base and focus on action to bring government back to the people.
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Conte
Berkshire County Republican Association
Abraham Lincoln
GOP
Marian Fathers weigh closing Eden Hill minor seminary
A study committee of the Marian Fathers Provincial Chapter recommends closing the Eden Hill minor seminary, with a phased shutdown over about two years as current students finish their studies. The order, founded in Poland 300 years ago, has two U.S. provinces and roughly 500 priests and brothers worldwide.
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