Star Spangled Girl benefit set at St Joseph College Old Bennington
A touring Oldcastle Players benefit performance of Neil Simon's Star Spangled Girl funds the McCullough Mansion Association. Norrine Phillips stars as the Star Spangled Girl with Paul Falzone and Eric Peterson as the writers. Tickets sold fast with early patronage at local banks and shops. Touring Aid grant from Vermont Council on the Arts supports the show.
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Evelyn Peterson
First Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Bennington
Neil Simon
McCullough Mansion
St. Joseph College
Old Bennington
Oldcastle Players
Vermont
San Francisco
Nell Simon
Norrine Philips
Me‘Cullough Manalon Association
Peg Worthington
Joy Bushman
Muriel Hice
Art Rogerson
Muriel Rice
Art Trogerson
Powers Market
North Bennington
Main Street
Peterson
First Vermont Bank
McCulough Mansion Association
Vermont Council On the Arts
Oldcastle
Joseph Warik
Eric Peterson
Patt Fatsano
Tatents
Nei Sizien
McCullough Mansion Association
Manchester Day Care and School Board Meeting Notes
Attendance at the DCC is down due to chicken pox with parents seeking backup care volunteers. The Manchester School Board will hold a special meeting March 35 at 7 p.m. at Manchester Elementary School. Volunteers are needed for DCC cleaning, and families discuss supplies, budget news, and local community help.
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Manchester School Board
Manchester
Manchester board opens hurry of posts for volunteers
Town selectmen solicited applicants for recreation committee planning commission and zoning board openings. Incumbents James W. Gall and Charles Skiptunas will return to the recreation panel as two of three three year posts. One year remains for Donald Powers who resigned. Other seats attract George Heaslip Jr Eugene LaTuga Doris Perry and James Kinsey for various posts while no bids came for fence viewer free warden civil defense chairman or pound keeper.
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Manchester
Recreation Committee
Town Planning Commission
Zoning Aid
Harry Atkinson
Lois Barney
James, Horrigan
James Kinsey
James W. Gall
Charles Skiptunas
Donald Powers
Powers
James B. Campbell Lil
Homer Ellis
George Heaslip Jr
Eugene LaTuga
Doris Perry
Heaslip
Mark Breen
Joseph Ridolphi
Mollie Beattie
Edwin Treat
Hoosick Falls Board Grants Nine Tenure Posts
Hoosick Falls NY the Board of education tonight granted tenure to nine teachers in their third probationary year effective September the teachers include Mary Lou Davendanis grade three Margaret Farrara grade four Linda Harrington grade one Priscilla Munroe grade three Margaret Abelacker grade five Lawrie Young grade five Margaret Frazier homemaking Larry Hager eighth grade math and Janet Scudder elementary girls physical education In other business the board approved Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club use of the school auditorium next summer for three musical productions The director Calvin Pedersen will supervise the premises when no custodian The shows include The Fantasticks Guys and Dolls and I Do I Do The board also rejected a request to take individual student pictures opting to keep class pictures on schedule
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Board of Ecationals
Mary Lou Davendanis
Margaret Farrara
Linda Harrington
Priscilla Munroe
Margaret Abelacker
Lawrie Young
Margaret Frazier
Larry Hager
Janet Scudder
William Anitrick
Shaftsbury News Highlights Alumni Cruise And Bus Bid Debate
Mr and Mrs John Dell and daughters Pauline and Dina of Shaftsbury and New Land Conn depart New York aboard the Leonardo da Vinci for a nine day cruise visiting Spain Algeria Portugal the Azores and Italy where they will stay a month with friends and relatives. The school board buys two buses from Delarey Salon and Service for 1250 with trade in, and awards a chassis contract to Forward Boly Equipment for 11000 total. Girls varsity athletes seek jackets like the boys for league championships. Board plans meetings with coaches and principal to finalize plans and recommendations. Work begins on restoring television antenna on property donated by John Calhoun for better school and community transmission, due May 1.
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John Dell
Anna
Pauline
Dina
Shaftsbury
New Land
Conn
New York
Spain
Algeria
Portugal
Azores
Italy
Aken
Delarey Salon
Willian Waterhouse
Palley
Supt. Leonard
John Calhoun
Cloning Myth Prompts Hudson Valley Conference on Life
A 1872 New York Times Magazine piece warned cloning could produce genetic copies of Mozart or Hitler. Hudson Valley Community College hosts an April conference titled The Edge of Life with Dr. James F. Danielli discussing Synthetic Cells and the Future of Man. Open to the public with a $5 registration.
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N.Y
New York Times
Hudson Valley Community College
Holiday Inn
Menands
Grant Foundation
State University of New York
James F. Danielli
Daniell
Danielli
State University of New York At Buffalo
Center
University of Buffalo
University of Sussex England
Lennon University
Cambridge University
Royal Society
England
Ciba Foundation
Dantelli
Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley TC
Mary Herl
John McCoshen
Tray College
Manchester to stage meat boycott meeting
Manchester committee plans a Monday March 28 gathering at Mrs. Nancy Hersom’s home to discuss a meat counter boycott in Manchester amid nationwide protests against high supermarket prices. Organizers aim to pressure Washington for action, with similar drives under way in Albany and across the country.
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Manchester
Manchester Committee For Citizen Involvement
Albany
N.Y
Washington
Gary Ameden
Nancy Hersom
Manchester Village
Williamstown Promenaders Hold 20th Birthday Dance
Williamstown Promenaders celebrate their 20th Birthday Dance at Mt. Greylock Regional High School tonight from 7 to 11 with four area callers Earl Turner Gil Porter Bob Bourassa and Jim Townsend Live broadcast on WMNE North Adams Mass and interviews with dancers Special corsages abundant spring flowers birthday badges travel banners prize tables and other activities invite graduates from the county and nearby areas to attend this four caller event
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Williamstown
Mass
Mt. Greylock Regional High School
Earl Turner
Gil Porter
Bob Bourassa
Jim Townsend
WMNE
North Adams
Maas
Vermont air board rejects two demolition variance requests
The Vermont Air Quality Board denied Robert Davis of Davis Demolition permission to burn demolition material at the old Fairbanks Morse site in St Johnsbury due to proximity to populated areas and a junior high school and offered alternatives like burial or burning in remote areas. Swanton Lime Works withdrawal resulted in a dismissed variance petition with no hearing.
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Swanton Lime Works
Swanton
Moser
Vermont professor calls marijuana use harmless in Senate hearing
Assistant Prof. Michiel J. Dunn told the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee that strict penalties for marijuana use are indefensible given current evidence, arguing they criminalize users. The panel weighs a hard drug bill by Sen. Madeline Harwood aiming to curb possession with intent to sell marijuana.
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Warlington
UPI
University of Vermont
Michiel J. Dunn
State Senate
Judiciary Committee
Madeline Harwood
Bennington County
Jarwood
Dunn
Health planner fired in Vermont over health care issue
MONTPELIER UPI Compreh ensive Health Planning Director Jan Westervelt has been fired effective April 16 by Burnen Services Secretary Davis Westervelt said dismissal tied to health care becoming a key political issue in the state Davis notified him March 16 that he had one month before leaving state government service.
Kingsley Leads Rensselaer County Democratic Slate For D A
In a surprise move the Rensselaer County Democrats nominated 35 year old Nassau lawyer John P. Kingsley for district attorney and picked Edward W. Fattison of Landlake for county executive, appliance dealer George W. Regan for county clerk, plus 1% candidates for 20 county legislature seats. Kingsley will face incumbent GOP D A Con G Cholakis amid a prior struggle to find an opponent. McDonough blasts press coverage as a supposed anti Democratic witch hunt amid nepotism stories involving relatives of three county legislators.
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Troy
Rensselaer
John P. Kingsley
Edward W. Fattison
Landlake
George W. Regan
Kingsley
Nassau
D.A
G. Cholakis
Cholakis
Rensselaer County
Edward I. McDonough
Albany Times-Union
McDonough
Hoowever
Hair length rule upheld by Boston court for vocational students
In Berkshire a Boston District Court upheld a half length hair code at Mc Gann Vocational High School in North Adams. Judge Frank J. Murray ruled hair policies serve student job placement interests and may be enforced by vocational schools.
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North Adams
Boston
Frank J. Murray
McGann Vocational High School
Max Bishop
Bishop
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