Growth of Supervisory Union Budget Sees Expansion
The Bennington South Supervisory Union approved an 81,000 dollar budget for 1966 67 reflecting expanding responsibilities. The board plans a merged district with Great er Bennington Rural and Mt Anthony, adds staff including an assistant superintendent and a business manager, purchases IBM equipment, and reorganizes finances for a separate accounting system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington South Supervisory Union
Supervisory Union
Bennington
Mt. Anthony
Greater
Bennington South Supervisory Board
Howard F. Kelley
George A. Sleeman
Gov King To Speak At Dinner And Ski Area Report
Gov King is slated to speak at a dinner. Stratton Mountain reports 11 to 14 inch base with a granular surface and mild 39 degree misty spring conditions. Kathleen Meagher of Cambridge, a Trinity College senior, will graduate in May with a BA and pursue further Shakespeare study. VFW Post 1332 hosts a dance Saturday 8 to 12 with George O’Brien and his Country Squires. Pinewood Derby set for Sunday 3 p.m. at Sacred Heart Cub Pack 345 hall. Channel features Schenectady artist George Weinheimer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratton Mountain
Kathleen Meagher
Cambridge
Matthew Meagher
Argyle
N.Y
Central School
Trinity College
Burlington
University of Bridge
VFW
George O’brien
Country Squires
Cub Pack No
Sacred Heart Parish
Weinheimer
WMHT
WRGB
Channel 17
Nott Terrace
Schenectady
Rescue Squad Lines President Bennington Rescue Squad
Charle mont Massachusetts train wreck and chlorine scare prompted Bennington Rescue Squad to detail alert procedures. Captain Bill Sears led setup with 15 on alert. thanks extended to local funeral homes and rival squads for support. Training emphasized injury recognition and new eye contamination kit. Thomson's Mill donation welcomed. Ed Austin added for training. Essex Junction Civil Defense officials visited regarding a potential new squad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlemont
Mass
Bennington
Bill Sears
Bill
Ed Mahar
Mahar and Son Funeral Home
Dean Hanson
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Hoosick Falls
Manchester
Thomson’s Mill
Ed Austin
von Sitas
Basesett
Essex Junction
Hospital Notes March 23 1966 Bennington news
Admissions include Bertha Snow of Bennington Melissa Davis of Woodford Elizabeth Sharkey of Hoosick Master James Decker Hoosick Falls. Discharges Stephen Steller Frederick Steller Michael Waite Deborah Harwood Joseph King Barbara Knights Adolph Fischer. Births Donald Greene Shaftsbury David Jones North Bennington Richard Dan forth Hoosick Falls Nelson Brownell Petersburg. Next squad meeting Thursday 7:30 p.m. at Safford Street squad rooms. prospective members urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha S. Snow
Bennington
Melissa M. Davis
Woodford
Elizabeth Sharkey
Hoosick
James E. Decker
Hoosick Falls
Stephen P. Steller
Frederick E. Steller
North Petersburg
Michael K. Waite
Arlington
Deborah A. Harwood
Joseph W. King
Barbara E
Knights and Son
Adolph H. Fischer
Williamstown
Mass
Donald Greene
Shaftsbury
David Jones
North Bennington
Richard Danforth
Nelson Brownell
Petersburg
Safford Street
Retreat reservations made for Passionist House event
Ninety reservations are already booked for the men's annual retreat scheduled April 1 to 3 at the Passionist Fathers Retreat House in West Springfield Massachusetts announced by area chairman Robert J. Roy. The retreat is private with no outside communication and emphasizes rest, recollection, and peace in family and community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Passionist Fathers
West Springfield
Mass
Robert J. Roy
Theodore Lausville
Leo Nash
Bennington Catholic High School
Search continues for burglar Edward Jesse Smith
No new leads on Edward Jesse Smith who walked out of the Bennington County Courthouse Monday and vanished. State police in Shaftsbury report no information. Sheriff Maloney traveled to Waterbury. Smith had pleaded not guilty to attempted breaking and entering and was remanded for lack of a $2,000 bail. He escaped while alone in the upstairs courtroom during a consult with his attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Jesse Smith
Bennington County
State Police
Shaftsbury
John Maloney
Waterbury
Smith
Symposium draws student composers and faculty from multiple schools
Brant and Schonbeck from Bennington College joined more than 100 participants at the 1965 66 Symposium for Student Composers hosted by the SUNY Buffalo Music Department. The event featured attendees from Princeton New England Conservatory Bennington College University of Pennsylvania Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto Mannes School Eastman and SUNY Buffalo. Gov John W King of New Hampshire the first Democrat elected governor in 40 years spoke at a Democratic fund raising dinner April 23 at Mt Anthony Country Club with Mrs Nesbith Fienberg chairing the county committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
State University of New York At Buffalo
Princeton
New England Conservatory
Bennington College
University of Pennsylvania
Royal Conservatory of Music
University of Toronto
Mannes School of Music
Eastman School of Music
Henry Brant
Gunnar Schonbeck
Bennington
John W. King
New Hampshire
Nesbith Fienberg
Democratic Committee
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Manchester
King
Harvard College
Columbia University
New York City
House
Philip H. Hoff
John Daley
Carmel Babcock
Albany Man Injured In Accident In Petersburg
Fran cis J. Bruso, 44, of 52 Odell St., Albany, will be arraigned on drunken driving charges after a one car crash on N Y 346 near Petersburg. He remains in fair condition at Putnam Memorial Hospital with facial lacerations and possible rib fractures. Police say his car left the road, hit a tree stump and overturned. Bruso was arrested and to appear before Justice Arthur Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
C. E. Smith
Ww. S. Hadfield
Bruso
Arthur Smith
Petersburg
Hoff Urges Revitalization of State Local Planning
Vermont Governor Philip Hoff urged a revival of state and local planning at a Cornell University conference. He faulted planners reliance on outside consultants and warned federal agencies increasingly insist on education and citizen involvement as integral to national and local development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
N.Y
UPI
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont
Hoff
Cornell University
Vermonters and Massachusetts residents listed in Who’s Who in America
Twenty three Vermonters appear for the first time in the 34th edition of Who’s Who in America published by Marquis Who’s Who Inc. Ben Belitt and Stanley Edgar Hyman of Bennington College, Jules Olitski and Anthony Caro on its art and sculpture faculties, Shaftsbury resident Kenneth Clifton Noland, and Lawrence K. Miller of Pittsfield Massachusetts are named along with other figures. The edition's total listings reach 62,000, up about 4,000 from last year and seven times the 1899 count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington College
Shaftsbury
England
Kenneth Clifton Noland
Massachusetts
Lawrence K. Miller
Pittsfield
The
Banner
Meeting Set On Low Cost Power Plan
Vermont electric cooperatives and municipal light officials meet today and Friday to outline details of a plan to import hydro Quebec power through a private non profit corporation named the Vermont New England Power Exchange. The Vermont Public Service Board will hold an April 5 hearing on VNEPE’s application for public good certification to begin operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
UPI
Vermont Electric Cooperatives
Municipal Light Companies
Vermont-New England Power Exchange
VNEPE
hydro-Quebec
Vermont Public Service Board
Funeral for Mrs Susan O Marah at Mahar & Son Funeral Home
The funeral of Mrs Susan O Marah who died Monday night at a local nursing home was held Wednesday morning at Mahar & Son Funeral Home and Sacred Heart Church with a Requiem High Mass led by Rev Lawrence McAuliffe. Entombment was in Park Lawn Chapel and burial will occur later in the cemetery. Relatives and friends attended from Athol Springfield Mass and Hoosick Falls. The piece also mentions Vermont planning on natural beauty pollution abatement forestry recreation and development with planners addressing zoning laws and the need for universities to better train planning personnel for active political participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan O’marah
Mahar & Son Fneral
Sacred Heart Church
Lawrence McAuliffe
C.S.C
McAuliffe
Park Lawn Chapel
Athol
Springfield
Mass
Hoosick Falls
Vermont
Hoff
Olive D. Herrick
R.N
Francis L. Herrick
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Fairview Street
James
Elizabeth (Rasborough) Draffin
Grenfell
Saskatchwan
Canada
Ottawa
New York City
Bennington
Herricks
Lakeville
Conn
Herrick
Bennington County Nurses Association
Bennington County Medical Society
Medical Society
Plain Dirt Gardeners
Ann Herrick
Salt Lake City
Utah
Bertha Draffin
Old First Church
Old Bennington
Hanson Walbridge
Bennington District Votes On Release Time Policy
The Bennington Graded School District board rejects formal release time for religious or other groups. Catholic students may attend an optional one day retreat at a parochial school, but no district approval is given. The board also approves publishing the 1965 66 annual report and outlines merger plans for the two districts into Bennington School District Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Bennington High School
Stock Averages Report for March 24, 1966
Dow Jones Bache Albany noon figures show 30 Industrials at 927.33 down 1.67, 20 Railroads at 252.13 down .15, 15 Utilities at 142.03 down .03, composite at 331.24 down .39. Totals traded 3,580,000 shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow-Jones —Bache& Co
Albany
Two-Car Accident Reported in Bennington Village
Bennington Village Police investigate a morning two car crash at Park and Gage Streets amid limited details. A second incident occurred near Putnam Square when Marianna Nash opened a Main Street door into traffic, struck by a car driven by Catherine J. Yarosz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Village
Park and
Gage Streets
Main Street
Marianna Nash
McKinley St
Main
Putnam Square
Catherine J. Yarosz
Gage St
Obituary: Joseph A. Bouchard 81 of Northampton
Joseph A. Bouchard 81 of Northampton died Sunday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital after a career as an Northampton Hospital attendant. He was born in Canada and had lived in Northampton 19 years. Survived by wife Adrienne Galvagni of Hoosick Falls and six other daughters Irma Martin Agawam Elsie Waters Hadley Anita Fontaine Willimansett Lucia Danglieko Amherst Henrietta Galvagni Northampton three sons Almasse Reni and Francis Bouchard Northampton, and a brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northampton
Mass
Joseph A. Bouchard
Adrienne Galvagni
Hoosick Falls
Cooley Dickinson
Canada
Northampton Hospital
Galvagni
Irma Martin
Agawam
Elsie Waters
Hadley
Anita Fontaine
Willimansett
Licia Danglieko
Amherst
Henrietta Galvagni
Almasse
Reni
Francis Bouchard
Bennington Lions drop Tri-State Music Festival this year
At the Mt Anthony Country Club meeting Bennington Lions omit the Tri State Music Festival due to space limits, plan to sponsor it again in 1967, and discuss an upcoming June auction. Sam Jones of the Boston Celtics will headline Curly Williams Sports Night. Funeral notices include Olive D Herrick RN and a Mass at Old First Church Old Bennington with burial at St Marys Northampton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony
Bennington Lions Club
Curly Williams
Sam Jones
Boston Celtics
Manchester
Avalanche Motor Lodge
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IBM
Main St
Myron
Red) Woodward
Woodward
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Supt
Kelley
Richard Sleeman
George Sleeman
Atty
Eugene V. Clark
Ronald R. Knapp
Franklin Frantz
Bennington Briefs
Gov
Gov. King
Port Shakespeare Festival
Cambridge Central School
George Weinheimer
Dana Thompson
Theodore Bremer
West Road
Bremer
Hydra
Alphard
Ann M. Kuhn
Edward Kuhn
Fillmore Street
Castleton State College
Lorraine Vivaldi
Altar Rosary Society
St. Francis de Sales
North Bennington Baptist Church
Bennington Club
Griffin Electric
Hoover
Brant
Schonbeck
Ramsey
Britain
Rome
Henry VIII
Bennington School District Inc
Prudential Committee
Harte Theatre
Richard Burton
Christasoph Bouchard
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Market Corner
Safford and Gage Street
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