Nearings in Maine keep to garden life and ideals
The Ninety two year old Scott Nearing and Helen Nearing live at Forest Farm Maine pursuing simple subsistence farming. They have not used a doctor in decades and continue teaching by example about self sufficiency while facing a potential nuclear plant nearby and a land dispute with Central Maine Power Company. Visitors flock to learn compost building walling and growing vegetables and the couple maintain a meticulous garden log.
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Roy Reed
N.Y
Harborside
Maine
Forest Farm
Helen
Scott Nearing
Nearing
Vermont
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Scott
Mrs. Nearing
Eliot
Sue Coleman
Nearings
Penobscot Bay
Central Maine Power Company
Pownal community events and preschool services announced
Pownal Scout Troop 347 meets tonight at 7 at the scout hut in Pownal Center. Choir rehearsal at Pownal Baptist Church at 6 30. Prayer meeting at 7 30 at the church. Kindergarten registration on Wednesday and Friday at 8 30. School office contact 823 7333 for appointments. Transportation by Joyce Held at 823 7389. Immunizations and exams offered at registration with vision hearing speech dental screening. Babysitting service starts Monday May 21 at Pownal Preschool with Sue Caramon and Cathy Clayborn noon to 4 pm weekdays for ages 3 to 10 at 50 cents first child, 25 cents additional. Call 823 7839. Play group planned for summer. registration week of June 9. Mothers’ spring festival planned for early June. Recreational Center meeting May 21 at 7 pm. Burr and Burton Seminary Practical Arts Fair Thursday 3 to 8 pm with exhibits in industrial arts home economics forestry mechanics and co op. Refreshments in Home Management House. friends and parents invited.
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Joyce
Pownal
Munity Center
Manchester
Burr and Burton Seminary
United Methodist Women Meet in Poultney May 29
The Troy Conference UMW holds a spring meeting at Green Mountain College Poultney starting 9 a.m. with registration and a 9 30 a.m. celebration. Dr Nelle Morton speaks on Moving Toward Full Personhood with a $3 fee and May 15 reservation deadline.
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United Methodist Women In the
Troy
Green Mountain College
Poultney
Nelle Morton
Drew University Theological School
United States
National Council of Churches
UMW
Vermont LWV Convention to Meet May 21 22 at Bardwell Hotel
Rutland will host the Vermont League of Women Voters state convention on May 21 and 22 at the Bardwell Hotel. Guest speaker John A S McGlennon, EPA New England regional administrator, will address air water pollution control solid wastes management and other EPA programs after the May 21 dinner. He will be introduced by Martin Johnson secretary of the Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation.
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Rutland
League of Women Voters of Vermont
Bardwell Hotel
John A. S. McGlennon
New England
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
McGlennon
Martin Johnson
Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Vermont Names Leddy to Lead Alcohol and Drug Programs
MONTPELIER UPI James Leddy 32 of South Burlington son of the late U.S. District Judge Bernard Leddy was named director of Vermont alcohol and drug programs. He will earn about 15000 and report to Human Services Secretary Thomas Davis to coordinate treatment and prevention efforts amid duplication concerns raised by legislators. Previously a priest and now planner for the Governors Commission on the Administration of Justice. Vermont Student Assistance Corp.: maximum grants cut by 150 due to rising applicants. public school grants 1150 private in-state 1300. Funding concerns cited as costs rise and economy tight. Rich towns may sue over Miller formula. Colvin says strategy session held and funds being raised. Poorer towns could argue distribution based on grand list is unfair.
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John Boylan
Essex-Orleans
Davis
Leddy
Governor’s Commission On the Administration of Justice
Student Assistance Corp
Vermont
Montpelier
UPI
Edwin Colvin
Shaftsbury
Miller
Vermont names energy advisor to head national task force
Forrest Orr of Vermont becomes chair of a task force on national energy conservation policy working with the Federal Energy Administration. Orr has led Vermont energy programs since 1973 and helped craft a state plan to cut oil dependence via alternative energy and conservation. The IRS expects over 16 million in tax rebates to Vermonters with about 35 000 checks mailed last week averaging above 100 dollars. all checks to be mailed by June 15.
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Burlington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Doctors May Break Away To Open Own Clinic In New York
In New York, doctors at St Marys Hospital pediatric clinic weigh establishing a private practice after head nurse Marcie Peters resigned amid claims of pressure. Administrators cite a voluntary resignation. Peters seeks her job back. A county water quality report also urges immediate lake protection and stricter waterfront setbacks as development pressures rise.
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Troy
St. Mary’s Hospital
Marcie Peters
Peters
Record flights set Berkshire soaring state marks by Scace
Richard C. Scace of Richmond, Berkshire Sailflight Club, set two state records for soaring with a seven hour 315 mile North Adams to Jay Peak round trip in a Libelle glider. Flight launched by Berkshire Sailflight tow, flyover mostly at 7 000 to 10 000 feet under clear conditions.
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North Adams
Richard C. Scace
Richmond
Berkshire Sailflight Club
Jay Peak
Vermont
Berkshire Sailflight
Scace
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University of Pennsylvania
Helen and
The
Pownals
Scout Troop
Pownal Center
Pownal Baptist Church
Sue Caramon
Cathy Clayborn
UMW Spring Meeting
Haynes & Kane, Inc
Colonial Shop
Bennington
League of Women Voters
Orr
New York
Rensselaer County Water Quality Commission
Thomas E. Simkins
County Environmental Management Council
Down In
Berkshire
Joseph R. Bianco
Bianco
Department of Corporations and Taxations
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