Our Town opens at Dorset Playhouse for BBS fund
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town opens Thursday May 6 at the Dorset Playhouse in a three performance run presented by Burr & Burton Seminary Drama Department and the Dorset Players. Profit supports BBS gym building fund. Edwin Lefevre will present the check to BBS chair Doug Shaw after the Saturday show. Tickets are 3 dollars adults 1 50 children. Reservations 867 5777.
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Janet Newkirk
Dorset
Doug Shaw
BBS
Peter Schoffstall
Dorset Players
Harold Pinter
Public meeting tackles teen drinking in Hoosick Falls
More than 100 residents gathered at Hoosick Falls Central School to discuss youth alcohol abuse. The panel included Scott Hicks of TARP, Sheriff Eaton, Undersheriff Nowik, and Police Chief Chapones. Participants urged reporting sellers, supporting age verification, and forming a community program to educate parents and youths.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Scott Hicks
Teenage Alcoholic Abuse Rehabilitation Program
TARP
Alcoholism Center
Rensselaer County
Hicks
William Chapones
Chapones
Eaton
Troy
Town Clerk notices and dog licensing in Vermont
Manchester town offices close May 10 for annual Town Clerks and Treasurers meeting and May 31 for Memorial Day. Vermont requires dog licenses by May 15, with penalties after April 2. Licenses: male and spayed $3, female $9. new dogs $2 and $6. Four month olds must be licensed.
Vermont Man Receives Life Term for Murder Plot
Gerald Max Ryan, 33, of Fletcher, was sentenced to life in prison by Judge John Morrissey in Windsor County Superior Court after a jury convicted him of counseling and inciting his former girlfriend Bonnie Lee King to kill Lawrence Juaie Jr. with a shotgun in a Fairfield grocery store parking lot in October 1974. King, testifying for the state, is serving a second degree murder sentence. Ryan must report to the St Johnsbury Correctional Center to begin the term next Monday.
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Woodstock
UPI
Gerald Max Ryan
Fletcher
John Morrissey
Windsor County Superior Court
Ryan
Bonnie Lee King
Lawrence Juaie Jr
Fairfield
Morrissey
King
St. Johnsbury
Patterson to leave UVM post for Maine Medical Center
Wayne Patterson executive vice president of the University of Vermont will resign effective Aug. 1 to take a similar role at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Patterson became acting UVM president after Edward Andrews resigned at term end in 1975. Andrews left to lead Maine Medical Center and tapped Patterson as his aide. Patterson calls the move an unusual personal opportunity. UVM President Lattie F. Door praised Patterson’s service.
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UVM
Lattie F. Door
Patterson
University
Ex judge charged with assaulting Burlington officer in Vermont
Ex probate judge J William O Brien 50 formerly of Winooski pleaded not guilty in Vermont District Court Burlington to assaulting South Burlington Patrolman Douglas Bouvier. He was released on his own recognizance as the case advances to the jury list with no trial date set.
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Burlington
Chittenden County
Vermont District Court
South Burlington
J. William O’brien
Douglas W. Bouvier
O’brien
Bank robbers haul massive Vermont loot in Merchants National Bank heist
Officials tally a weekend robbery in South Burlington as one of Vermont's largest. Two men allegedly stormed Merchants National Bank on White Street Friday night, held employees at gunpoint, and escaped with about $46,000 in cash and $30,000 in travelers checks.
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South Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Merchants National Bank
White Street
Albany ethics task force proposes state ethics commission
The Senate Democratic Task Force on Legislative Ethics urged creation of an ethics commission to supervise lawmakers and legislative staff. It proposed banning outside state business as well as paid practice before state agencies by legislators and staff.
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Albany
Senate
Democratic Task Force On
Legislative Ethics
Court rules on waiving counsel in absence of lawyer
The New York Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a defendant who has a retained lawyer cannot waive his right to counsel when the lawyer is not present. The decision overturned Henry C. Hobson’s third degree robbery conviction. Hobson, jailed in Suffolk County on other charges, was identified in a lineup by a Central Islip deli owner for a robbery seven months prior.
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Albany
UPI
Court of Appeals
Henry C. Hobson
Hobson
Suffolk County
Islip Delicatessen
Population decline continues in Pittsfield as births drop
Pittsfield census shows 55,369 residents, down 452 from a year earlier and over 3,000 from the 1963 peak. Supervisor Helen Stodulski notes birth rates drive the decline while the canine count rises by 346 to 5,371. A Warlocks member pleaded guilty to threatening two men with pistols in a related case, receiving a two year suspended sentence.
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Pittsfield
Helen Stodulski
Warlocks Motorcycle Club
Patrick Dowling
Warlocks Gang
Seymour Street
William Zeitler Jr
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Our Town
BBS Building Fund
The
Altar and Rosary Society of the Church of the Immaculate Conception
North Petersburg
Mary A. Doyle
Sheila Childs
Harvey
Hedda Gabler
Mary
Thornton Wilder
Richard A. Gladstone
New England
Rosasco’'S Travel Agency, Inc
Berkshire Plaza
North Adams
Mass
Bennington
Hedstrom
Dutane
Elm ST
Purina
Hanover
Kraft
Pepperidge Farm
Morton
School Street
Ken Baker
Eugene Eaton
Benedict Nowik
Nowik
New York
Robert Springer
Baker
James Houghton
Boston
Tom Fesko
Rensselacr Unty Division
James Garrett
County Alcohol and Highway Safety Program
Rolf Sternberg
Manchester
Craig
William Craig
House
Richard Snelling
Shelburne
Brian Burns
Stella Hackel
Robert O’brien
Orange County
Ethics Commission
Down In
Berkshire
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