Questions on Development Bill to the Banner Editor
Readers in Brattleboro examine H 417 Environmental Control Bill, asking who issues permits first whether local zoning boards health departments or the District Environmental Commission. They seek clarity on maps, technical assistance budgets, commission composition and staff. A second letter from George D Aiken defends delays in the Roaring Branch flood control project due to local easement issues and confirms coordination with district engineers.
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Arthur Jones
Natural Resources Committee
Windham Regional Planning and Development Legislation Committee
Regional Planning Commission
District Environmental Commission
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Planning Commission
Health Department
WAPDC
Montpelier
Norton Barber
Roaring Branch
Bennington
Washington
Army Corps of Engineers
Higgins
Board of Selectmen
Col. Barnett
Protests Chicago Trial Editorial Sparks Newspaper Debate
E. J. Ellenwood argues The Banner’s February 19 editorial on Chicago’s seven conspirators trial is a scathing take on the verdict and judge, while Tribune and Los Angeles Times editorials praise justice and warn against discrediting the system. The piece contrasts Cleveland Plain Dealer views and notes Hoffman’s federal role and acclaim in Congress.
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Agnew
Banner
Chicago
Los Angeles Times
New York
Washington
Hoffman
Northwestern University Law School
Criminal Law
Criminology
Circuit Court of Appeals
Congress
Kunstler
Ohio
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Seale
the Tribune
Russia
Pulitzer
Hearst
In Defense of the Lowly Crow Letter urges Vermont protection for crows
A reader asks the Vermont Fish and Game commissioner to protect crows in addition to kingfishers. He praises crows for carrion cleanup, insect control, and nest protection, cites farming memories, and argues crows reduce road hazards and pests. He recalls past abundance and seeks legislative action to preserve the crow. Dr. Peleg A. Matteson of Shaftsbury signs the letter.
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Vermont Fish and Game Commissioner
Vermont
Shaftsbury
Vermont letters urge senators oppose Carswell vote
In a Vermont background letter Melissa Ambros urges Sens Aiken and Prouty to oppose Judge Carswell's Supreme Court appointment. She decries his mediocre record and racist acts, cites a whites only clause in a real estate contract, and asks Gov. Davis to press the senators to place national good above party loyalty.
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Rutland Herald
Sens. Aiken
Prouty
Carswell
Supreme Court
Vermont
Sens. Aiken and Prouty
Students Voice Pollution Concerns at Mt Anthony Junior High
Seventh grade social studies class at Mt Anthony Junior High writes about air water and trash pollution urging factories to curb emissions and citizens to reduce trash burning and car exhaust. The letter, signed by many students and their teacher, calls for public awareness and individual responsibility to address a pollution crisis.
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Mt. Anthony Junior High School
Raymond
Allen
Gary Cameron
Karen Andrews
Sandra Hazelton
Chris Jacobs
Mike Moore
Scott Smith
Richard Dufresne
Dorothy Kimball
Celeste Sausville
Sharon Freeman
Debbie Lucier
Norm Wilson
Joe Buck
Sam Hulbert
Sherrie Jones
Nick Gauthier
Dawn Grusendorf
Judy Bashaw
Bernard Monghan
Donna Hawks
Charles Webster
Vermont Power Firm Seeks Higher Short-Term Debt
Green Mountain Power Corp of Burlington asked the Public Service Board to raise its short-term debt to 10 million dollars from seven point five million. Leaders testified the 2.5 million increase funds Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp investments as the Vernon plant nears completion.
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Montpelier
API
Green Mountain Power Corp
Burlington
Public Service Board
Glen McKibben
John Sturzenberger
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Green Mountain
Vernon
Vermont Yankee
Vermont AG urges rewrite of subdivision permit rules
The attorney general's office urged amending environmental control legislation to strike three permit grounds. Assistant Attorney General John Hansen told the Senate Natural Resources Committee that districts should not deny subdivision permits based on the development's impact on schools highways or local services. The House bill currently lists ten preconditions for authorization to start or expand a subdivision.
State Prison Workshop May Contract With Private Firms
Windsor State Prison workshop may contract with private persons and firms after a legal opinion by Corrections Commissioner Lawrence Bershad clarifies a state law ambivalence. The ruling notes authority to contract for the manufacture of motor vehicle registration plates and road signs, with no current plan to engage non government entities. A second item reports the House Appropriations Committee backing a $3.7 million whey processing plant in East Georgia by Foremost Foods to treat 80 percent of Vermont’s industrial pollution from cheese byproducts.
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Montpelier
UPI
Franklin County
House Appropriations Committee
Georgia
Foremost Foods of
San Francisco
Shelburne businessman dies in suspected accidental shooting
Police say Leroy E. Wensel, 47, was found by his wife in the basement of their home after a gun he was cleaning discharged. The .45 caliber slug struck him in the chest. Wensel, described by Police Chief George Elwood as a sportsman and gun collector, died Tuesday.
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Shelburne
UPI
Leroy E. Wensel
Wensel
George Elwood
Weasel
Albany approves small claim arbitration and Thruway speed rise
In Albany the Senate approved a three year trial for compulsory arbitration of automobile accident claims of 3000 dollars or less, sending the measure to the Assembly. The same body also backed raising the Thruway speed limit from 65 to 70 mph on the 550 mile route, a proposal previously defeated, amid safety concerns from the Thruway Authority and State Police.
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Albany
Senate
Assembly
Thruway Authority
SUNY Dialogue Ends Classes at Albany State University
Albany State University will close Thursday and Friday to hold a campus dialogue addressing student and faculty differences sparked by a disruption last Friday over a faculty member’s working status.
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Albany
Albany State University
Berkshire lawmakers clash over proposed statue at Mt Greylock
Adams representative Anthony P. McBride and Pittsfield’s William I. Kitterman denounce a proposed 16 foot statue intended to replace the Mt Greylock War Memorial Tower. Sculptor Leonard Baskin says criticism targets only a preliminary sketch. Department officials priced the work at $20,000 and showed a grieving woman in a modernist photo. The reps call the plan an edifice of questionable artistic validity and a debacle of highest magnitude.
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Adams
Anthony P. McBride
William I. Kitterman
Pittsfield
Mt. Greylock War Memorial
Leonard Baskin
Department of Natural Resources
Bear season length to be cut debated in Pittsfield
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game to hold a public hearing April 7 at 8 p.m. at the Pittsfield Boys Club to hear arguments for and against shortening the bear hunting season. The hearing follows a statewide petition led by Mrs. Edwin H. Clark II of Williamstown, claiming about 3,000 signatures.
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Pittsfield
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game
IVE wins Sprague workers bargaining rights in North Adams
North Adams IVE Local 200 re elected as bargaining agent for Sprague Electric Co. 1 960 production and maintenance workers with 1 194 votes to 418 for Independent Condenser Workers Union No 2 President Walter D Wood says the vote validates three years of IVE representation Wood previously led ICW before affiliating with IVE Pittsfield Sewer Commission seeks steps for river clean up to class C by 1975 enabling boating wildlife fishing public water supply and irrigation use below Holmes Road plant
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North Adams
Pittsfield
Sewer Commission
State Division of Water Pollution Control
Housatonic
Holmes Road
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