New Woodford Idea for 340 Lots and 100-Unit Cluster
Great Northern Corp plans a major New Woodford development near Little Pond with 340 one acre lots and a 100 unit cluster housing project. Four season vacation homes priced from 20000, English influenced architecture, and a $100000 civic center were discussed with selectmen and the town Planning Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodford
Great Northern Corp
Selectmen
Little Pond
Great Northern
Corporation
Eidelweiss
Madison
N.H
Robbins
Bennington Board Ratifies Plan for Public Meeting
Bennington School District approves the May 21 public meeting at Bennington Elementary School at 7 30 p m to review items and allow questions before the regular meeting. David Schreiber outlines a revised summer music program with enrollment plans and budget adjustments. Louis Perrotta remains uneasy about private program funding but considers private lessons as a goal for all students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Bennington
David Schreiber
Mt. Anthony
Schreiber
Perrotta
Schre
Vermont leaders clash over lieutenant governor role
In Montpelier Gov. Deane Davis and Lt. Gov. Thomas Hayes diverge on Hayes’s status. Davis backs a full time post with pay, while Hayes seeks ongoing full time duties and has left his law firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Hayes
Middlebury
State House
UVM Plans ROTC Study Committee Amid Campus Debate
University of Vermont President Lyman Rowell will appoint an ad hoc panel to study ROTC status, examining academic credit, program continuance, and ROTC scholarships after petitions for and against ROTC and a April peaceful student demonstration. A student referendum on ROTC was discussed as a possibility for next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
UPI
University of Vermont
UVM
Reserve Officer Training Corps
State School
Lyman S. Rowell
Rowell
Democrats Call Meeting Monday To Find Nominee for Selectman
Bennington Democrats call a 7:30 p.m. Monday meeting at Knights of Columbus Hall to nominate a Democrat to fill the vacant selectman seat left by Gerald Cornell’s resignation. The move contrasts with Republican calls for a special election to avoid stalemate and choose a board member until the March 1970 town election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Virginia N
Max’’ Perrotta
Gerald A. Cornell
Cornell
Perrotta
Democratic Committee
Knights of Columbus
Publican
John H. Williams II
Williams
Richard van Santvoord
J. Duncan Campbell
Higgins
Campbell
Boxtops to Perform Friday Night in Bennington
The Boxtops, led by Alex Chilton and with Gary Talley and Rick Allen, perform at Mount Anthony Union High School's Walker-Morgan Memorial Auditorium as the third Mayfest event on Friday May 9 at 8 15 p m Tickets cost 5 and are available at MAUHS Bennington Bookshop Evans News Powers North Bennington Market and the Bennington College Co op In other news a United Airlines baggage handler Robert Wilson was wounded when a suitcase he set down discharged a .22 caliber pistol inside the bag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Cunningham
Gary Talley
Tom Boggs
Rick Allen
Walker - Morgan Memorial
Mount Anthony Union High School
MAUHS
Bennington Bookshop
Evans News
Powers
North Bennington
Bennington College Co-op
Los Angeles
UPI
Robert Wilson
Wilson
United Airlines
No Violation in River Moving Says Water Resources Dept. Aide
A Water Resources Department spokesman said on Wednesday that W H Morse Construction Co had not violated state rules in altering the Walloomsac River west of Harmon Road. Watershed administrator Daniel P Healey noted Morse was told to file forms and a properly contoured plan before any further work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Resources Dept
Water Resources Department
W.H. Morse Construction Co
Walloomsac
Harmon Road
Daniel P. Healey
Partment
William Morse
Clyde Burgess
Halvor Halvorsen
Healey
Morse
Gerald E. Watson
Austin Hill Road
Hearing Called To Consider End to Hen Pheasant Season
The Vermont Fish and Game Board will hold an informal hearing at 7:30 p.m. May 15 in the Bennington Armory on an order abolishing the shooting of hen pheasants. The Shaftsbury Fish and Game Club petitioned for the change, citing a depleted pheasant population and urging season curtailment to aid recovery. John J. Murphy, president of the Shaftsbury club, requested the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont Fish & Game Board
Bennington
Fish and Game Board
Shaftsbury Fish and Game Club
Shaftsbury Sportsmen
John J. Murphy
Fish & Game Board
Shaftsbury
Edward F. Kehoe
Montpelier
UCS annual meeting speaker announced for May 15
The United Counseling Service plans its annual dinner meeting at Mount Anthony Union High School on May 15 at 7 p.m. Rev. Thomas Steffen announced the event with Dr. James Toolan as main speaker on UCS past present and future. Tickets cost 2.25 and may be bought from UCS officers or by calling 442-5429.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Steffen
United Counseling Service
Mount Anthony Union High School
William Abernethy
Thomas Bailey
Dudley Baker
Catherine Corcoran
S. Whitney Dickey
William Gilbert
Robert Harrington
David Jannicky
John Kennedy Jr
Walter LaGrange
Harvey Carter
Robert Martin
Andrew Mattison
Don B. Otis
Vincent Pizzano
John Rothrock
Charles Salem
Peter Schoffstall
William Towne
John Whalen
Marshall Witten
Jesse Corum
U.C.S. Office
Frances Crozier
MAUHS
UCS
James Toolan
National Institute of Mental Health
Church Society Mom-Daughter Dinner at St Francis de Sales
The Altar Rosary Society held its annual Mother-Daughter banquet in the former BCHS cafeteria drawing about 100 members and guests for a roast beef dinner. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis B. Flanagan gave Benediction and spoke, with entertainment by Holy Cross novitiate seminarians and guest soloist Mrs. Theresa Simmons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altar Rosary Society
St. Francis de Sales
BCHS
Blessed
Francis B. Flanagan
Seminarians of the Holy Cross
Theresa Simmons
Msgr. Flanagan
Richard Thompson
Roderick Lavallee
William Marie
Mary Elizabeth
Judith
Fidelis
Hospital Notes May 7 1969 Admissions and Discharges
Hospital notes list admissions Stella Hamilton Shaftsbury Matthew Murdock Jacksonville and discharges Nancy Cushing Wilbur Long Bennington Denise Allen Wilmington Cindy Compney Manchester Depot Harold Johnson East Wallingford Robert Brock Fast Dorset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Cushing
Wilbur Long
Bennington
Denise Allen
Wilmington
Cindy Compney
Manchester Depot
Harold Johnson
East Wallingford
Robert Brock
Fast Dorset
Movie Timetable 2001 A Space Odyssey at Harte Theatre
Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star in Stanley Kubrick vision of a future where humans lose control to machines. Special effects cited as best. Also showing Buona Sera Mrs Campbell at Manchester Cinema with Gina Lollobrigida Shelley Winters and Phil Silvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keir Dullea
Gary Lockwood
Stanley Kubrick
Harte Theatre
Williamstown
Buona Sera
Mrs. Campbell
Gina Lollobrigida
Shelley Winters
Phil Silvers
Manchester
Bennington Briefs Roundup Of Local Club And Civic Events
Local clubs announce meetings and social events with officer nominations and elections. Highlights include the Senior Citizens Club gathering at 7:30 p.m. Monday, World War I Barracks 1955 activities at VFW rooms, a Farm Bureau spring dinner May 14 at First Baptist Church, and YMCA bridge winners. Also listed are the Mount Anthony district civil authority revision of voter checklists, a May 14 St Andrew CDA banquet, and several reunion and rummage sale notices. A Hoosick Falls man was found dead at home in an apparent self inflicted death. authorities investigated and the body was moved to Robson Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Anthony Country Club
Msgr
Flanagan
Michael Dodd
Columban Fathers
Father Dodd
Bayside
N.Y
Korea
Bennington County
Hoosick Falls
John Listen Hahn
Eldred Ave
Joseph Smith
Frank Demick
BCI
Hugh Cox
Robert Higgins
Petersburg
Robson Funeral Home
Funerals for LaCroix Gibney and Brown Reach Closures
Requiem High Masses were held for Gordius LaCroix and former Bennington fire chief John E. Gibney. Veterans and local officials joined family in burial at Park Lawn Cemetery. Separate notice mentions World War II veteran Clarence L. Brown of Bennington with services Saturday at Hanson Walbridge Funeral Home and burial in Grandview Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordius LaCroix
Elm St
Leo Slattery
Roland LaCroix
Henry Bourgeois
C.S.C
Park Lawn Cemetery
Bourgeois
Sylvester James
Francis Patten
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1332
LaCroix
Paul Deveno
Nam
Arnold Knapp
Ralph Coyne
George Hohman
John Behan
Bennington Village
Patrick Devenow
Charles White
Bennington
Sawyer
Henry Mallory
Msgr
Flanagan
Main Street
Putnam Square
Henry White
Troy
Schenectady
Amityville
N.Y
South Hadley
Mass
New Hampshire
Rutland
Wallingford
Clarence L. Brown
Vermont
Edmond C
Ethel (Remington) Brown
Brown
Edmond
Mildred White
Roger E. White
Howard White
Bowling Green
Ohio
Hanson- Walbridge
H. Glenn Payne
First Baptist Church
Grandview Cemetery
North Bennington
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New Woodford
By Ton Button
Edward Rice
State Health Department
Melvin Robbins
England
Hagar Hill
Mrs. Robbins
James Sidell
Harold Fosher
Merrill Mendell
Hayes, Davis
Richard Sleeman
Cooperative Project For Curriculum Development
CPCD
Cora B. Whitney
Bendi
BSD
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Cora B
Ben-Mont
Woodbridge
Bennington Museum
Exeter Corp
Safford and Gage Sts
Norton Barber
Barber
Joseph E. Higgins
Bill Haley and the
Comets
South
Nashville
Elvis Presley
Tennessee
Chuck’ Berry
Memphis
Alex Chilton
Dr. Toolan
Church Society
Stella Hamilton
Matthew Murdock
Jacksonville
Bennington Briefs
Senior Citizens Club
Nedra Hager
VFW Rooms
North Street
Jane
Albert Edmundson
Phyllis
Albert Schaad
Patti
Burt Rockwood
Claire
John Lyons
Bennington High School
Jane Latif
Gage Street
Board of Civil Authority of
Mt. Anthony Union High School District 14
Main St
Bennington Welcome Wagon Club
Admiral Color
Electronic Service Center
Dial
John E. Gibney
Short St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Dexter Shultz
Francis Connelly
Edward St. John
Putnam Hose Co
Bennington Fire Department
Pute
Pownal
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