Windham College Nearing Closure Amid Slowing Enrollment
Windham College faces a financial crisis as fixed costs and a shrinking student body threaten operations. President Harrison Symmes outlined three outreach aims to cut the deficit and stabilize funding, including recruitment, self maintenance in dorms, and addressing attrition. The college cannot secure a $500,000 short term loan and has mortgaged about half of its 200 acres to cover payroll while negotiating up to $1.5 million in loans. Enrollment stands at about 550 total, roughly 492 full time equivalents, far below the 1970s levels.
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Putney
Windham College
Harrison Symmes
John Watt
Symmes
Watt
Vermont
Windham
Vermont National Bank
Walter Hendricks
Marlboro
Mark Hopkins College
Hendricks
Eugene C. Winslow
State Department
U.S
Jordan
Winslow
Edward Durrell Stone
Pownal calendar lists church and youth group activities
Our Lady of Lourdes Church offers first to eighth grade religious education in Pownal Elementary School Saturday from 10 to 11 15 a m. Solomon Wright Library opens Saturday 10 a m to noon. Girl Scout troops 489 and 391 meet Saturday. Boy Scout troop 347 meets 1 30 p m at the Pownal Elementary School. Alcoholics Anonymous gathers Saturday 8 p m at the Community Chest. Methodist Youth Fellowship meets Sunday 5 to 7 p m at the church. Bicentennial Committee to meet Monday 7 30 p m at the town office. Senior Citizens held corned beef and cabbage dinner Wednesday. Rose Mattison led the event with Caroline Haas and Connie Harrington noted. Dance tonight 8 to 11 at the Pownal Recreational Community Center with Berkshire Guitar Combo. admission 1 25 and refreshments.
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Our Lady of Lourdes
Pownal
Caroline Haas
Connie Harrington
Rose Mattison
Berkshire Guitar Combo
Pownal Center seeks town aid after funding defeat
The Pownal Community Center plans a petition drive to obtain funds after a town meeting vote denied a 4000 dollar request. Officials explain Revenue Sharing money was the source and that taxes would not rise. Nearby groups like Bennington Opportunity Council also faced funding loss.
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Pam Blakeman
Pownal
Center
Roxanna Coulter
Lucille Moffitt
Pamela Intres
Joanne Prouty
Richard Zampini
Suzanne Caraman
Selectmen
Bennington
Who
Arlington History Society Meet March 21 Speaker on Vermont History
Arlington Historical Society schedules a 2 p.m. March 21 program at the Community House Route 7 with Jane Gardner district representative for Arlington Sunderland and Sandgate discussing The Political History of Vermont, tied to the 1976 bicentennial theme History for a Bicentennial Year. Following the talk will be a Q and A period. members and friends are welcome.
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Arlington Historical Society
Jane Gardner
Arlington
Sunderland
Sandgate
Vermont
Mary deBrun
Vincent G. Hyland
Gerald Raftery
David J. Bort
Julie Mehringer
Oak-Mitsui Inc. formed in Hoosick Falls to run Oak Material Group
Corrections say Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co of Japan had sales totaling 800 million dollars last year not 800000 as reported in Thursdays Banner about Oak-Mitsui Inc. The Searsburg town meeting set for Monday March 22 at 7 p.m. is a school meeting.
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Japan
Oak-Mitsui Inc
Oak Materials Group
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Searsburg
Vermont Senate effectively preserves constitution until 1981
The Vermont Senate killed two proposed constitutional amendments tabled a third and sent another back to committee. If both chambers do not approve before adjournment the amendments cannot be proposed again until 1979 nor ratified before 1981. A run-off amendment was sent to the Judiciary Committee and a four year term measure passed but failed to reach the two thirds needed for House passage.
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House
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Vermont Lottery Bill Faces Senate Approval Hurdles
Legislation to establish a state lottery appears headed for a quiet death in the Senate Appropriations Committee after clearing the House last year. Appropriations Chairman John Boylan says the bill needs substantial work before floor consideration as lawmakers edge toward adjournment. Vermont remains the only New England state without a sweepstakes. Consultants estimate first year net between 2 million and 3 million dollars. Boylan adds the budget can be balanced without a lottery.
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Montpelier
UPI
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Appropriations
John Boylan
Essex-Orleans
Vermont
New England
Boylan
Stratton consultant enters race for Vermont treasurer
Andres Llana, a Stratton consultant, announced his candidacy for Vermont state treasurer as a Democrat. He joins Emory Hebard, soon to resign his House seat to seek the treasurer post vacated by Stella Hackel who pursues the governorship.
Woman pleads innocent in Windsor County murder case
Cheryl Marie Gillen, 21, of Hartland pleaded innocent in Windsor County Superior Court to first degree murder in the shotgun slaying of her husband Dean Gillen, 24, at their mobile home. She was released without bail to her father and probation officials, ordered to stay in Windsor County and report twice weekly pending trial.
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Woodstock
UPI
Cheryl Marie Gillen
Hartland
Windsor County Superior Court
Dean
Train derails in Catskill injures no one. streams power lines down
A 57 car freight train from Weehawken to Selkirk derailed five cars on a Catskill trestle near Main Street. Three flatbeds with tractors and two empty cars fell 100 feet into a creek, narrowly missing a home and cutting power and phone lines. An hour earlier in Kingston a collision occurred at a crossing, involving the train and another car whose driver fled. the car was hit by 30 more freight cars after getting stuck. A second item reports a Troy family of six left homeless by a two alarm house fire at 7 Prospect Ave causing about 70,000 in damage. firemen faced delays amid parked cars and snow.
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Catskill
Weehawken
N.J
Selkirk
Main Street
Kingston
Troy
Prospect Ave
Ronald Dawson
Dawson
William E. Phoenix
Phoenix
Berkshire Pittsfield Boy Struck Car Hood. Driver Charged
A 15 year old Berkshire boy John Quallen was struck Wednesday night along Cheshire Road and carried about 100 feet on the hood of a Volkswagen driven by Donald Spring 44 of Pittsfield. Spring charged with driving to endanger and DUI arraigned and case continued to March 27.
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Pittsfield
John Quallen
Berkshire Medical Center
Cheshire Road
Donald Spring
Spring
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