May Yankee Magazine features dolls and local highlights
West Arlington and Sandgate residents appear in a Vermont doll hospital feature. Mrs. Ernest Doehrer convalesces at Riverside after surgery in Bennington. The Baner notes readers respond to Grace and Gus Wadsworth’s Simple Chefs column while Ed Reynolds sails a 58 foot boat from Florida to Virginia with crew shifts and an autopilot. West Arlington 4 H meets at Grange Hall with May events including cattle judging, rummage sale for Iowa Exchange, a Tupperware party, a June exhibit, and a Camp Ondawa trip with a July 7 13 4 H Camp and $30 fee.
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Yankee Magazine
Robert Maar
Cornwall, Conn
Doll Hospital
Vermont
Ernest Doehrer
West Arlington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Jan
Grange Hall
Bennington County
Shirley Matteson
School Street
Arlington
Shadowbrook Farm
Glen Crofut
Tom
Seth King
Gerry Hess
Arlington Community House
Iowa Exchange Group
Matteson
Arlington Variety Store
Debbie Matteson
Joe Stroffoleno
Theresa
Margaret Grover
Camp Ondawa
Sunderland
Ondawa
Charles Farrell
Falls Canoe Race Set For Memorial Day In Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls announces the second annual Canoe Race sponsored by the Youth Advisory Council. The event starts at 2 p.m. Memorial Day from the Pownal Tannery now at the New York Vermont state line to clear traffic. May 26 is the return deadline for applications, which also cover the first annual jousting contest starting at noon Memorial Day. Entrants may join both events, trophies are on order, and council members meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at 50 Church St. to finalize plans.
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Hoosick Falls
Church St
Robin Hood recruits Richard Nixon in Missoula tale
Richard A. Nixon of Seeley Lake Montana joined the Army on Wednesday with recruiter Robin Hood at his side. Nixon joked about his name while Hood, an 18 year Army veteran from Upstate New York, noted his 16 year old son also named Robin and his mother’s humor.
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Missoula
Mont
UPI
Richard Nixon
Robin Hood
Sherwood Forest
Richard A. Nixon
Seeley Lake
Army
Nixon
Hood
Upstate New York
Robin
Pomona Grange hosts fifth degree on Mt Equinox line up
Ethan Allen Pomona Grange met Mt Equinox Grange on May 14 with the fifth degree in full form honoring Brenda Kelly Edith Kelly Marion Crawford Carolin Harrington Miss Moffitt of Mt Equinox Terry Sullivan of Battenhill and Cindy Senecal of Taconic. Leroy Barrows state officers honored guests and youth officials attended. Agriculture queen contest winner Miss Senecal with runners up Miss Moffitt and Miss Kelly. Upcoming May 18 card party May 20 fifth degree May 21 Washington Pomona at Pawlet May 25 Mt Anthony Grange Hall Rupert June 2 church service Rupert Methodist with Kermit Richardson speaker. Agriculture queen contest June 8 Randolph Center Grange youth camp June 23-29 4-H Camp Ondawa Sunderland.
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Ethan Allen
Pomona Grange
Mt. Equinox Grange
Brenda Kelly
Edith Kelly
Marion Crawford
Carolin Harrington
Moffitt
Terry Sullivan
Battenhill
Cindy Senecal
Taconic
Leroy Barrows
Pomona
Barrows
Perkinsville
Clarence Haynes
National Youth Fund
Educational Aid Fund
Ray Brayer
Rupert
Equinox
Washington Pomona
Pawlet
Mt. Anthony Grange Hall
Washington
Rupert Methodist Church
Kermit Richardson
Bradford
Merk Foundation
Randolph Center
Grange
Ondawa
Sunderland
Pownal Community Events This Week
Religious education classes meet Saturday 9 a.m. at Pownal Elementary School. Alcoholics Anonymous gathers 8 p.m. Saturday at Pownal Recreation Community Center. Lions Club auction prep Thursday 6 30 p.m. at North Pownal firehouse to be held May 23. Well baby conference Friday May 25 1 p.m. at Second Congregational Church Bennington. Infants and children through age five from Pownal may attend. For daily Banner delivery in North and South Pownal contact Dean Dixon at 823 5025.
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Pownal
Alcoholics Anonymous
Pownal Recreation Community Center
Second Congregational Church
Hillside Street
Bennington
Banner
Dean Dixon
Williams names inn building Cyrus M. Dodd House
Williams College renames the former Williams Inn building the Cyrus M. Dodd House in honor of Professor Dodd who built the 1880 private house central to the Inn. The six house complex will provide coed housing for 117 students plus a faculty member, with Dodd House housing 55 residents.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Williams Inn
Cyrus M. Dodd
Professor Dodd
Dodd House
Treadway Inns Corp
Field Park
Parsons
Goodrich
Sewall
Mark Hopkins
Inn
Greylock
Hopkins
Mary Hubbell
Dodd Annex
Dodd
North Bennington graduates and Buckley to receive honors
North Bennington native William E. Dailey III will earn a bachelor’s degree in management at St. Bonaventure University this Sunday. Author William F Buckley Jr will receive an honorary doctorate during the commencement. The St John’s Parish CYO will hold a car wash Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. in the church lot on Houghton Street.
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William E. Dailey III
William E. Dailey
Bank Street
North Bensington
St. Bonaventure University
William F. Buckley Jr
CYO
St. John’s Parish
North Bennington
Houghton Street
North Village teachers gain about 7.5 percent raise
North Bennington Elementary School concluded budget talks for next year with eight teachers receiving a roughly 7.5 percent pay hike. Starting pay rises from 6900 to 7200, while seven others reach step 12 at about 11500. Final closed-session negotiation followed a brief open meeting.
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North Bennington
Hoosick Falls Club Postpones Auction to June 16
The Hoosick Falls Booster Club rescheduled its auction due to wet rink conditions. Members will canvass the village for salable items this Saturday while the Kiwanis Club hosts a public chicken barbecue on May 21.
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Hoosick Falls
Arlington volunteers named for 1974 Cancer Crusade drive
Veronica C Kelly announces Crusade workers Roberta Keough Kay Sinay Peggy Cullinan Barbara Weakley William Sheldon Mrs Thomas Gaylord Mary Hen ning Edward Doyle Alden Lane Julie Mears Margaret Whalen Coralie Benedict Ruth Wyman Shelia Blair Mrs John Bentley Valerie Oakland Sandra Corey Marilyn King Barbara Molloy Dottie Immen Donella Holton Arlington goal is 680 dollars Sixty percent of funds stay in Vermont for state programs and public education patient service Forty percent goes to the national research program If you have not been contacted by a worker in your area notify them
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Veronica C. Kelly
School Street
Arlington
American Cancer Society
Roberta Keough
Kay Sinay
Peggy Cullinan
Barbara Weakley
William Sheldon
Thomas Gaylord
Mary Henning
Edward Doyle
Alden Lane
Julie Mears
Margaret Whalen
Coralie Benedict
Ruth Wyman
Shelia Blair
John Bentley
Valerie Oakland
Vermont
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Elliott
Arlington Memorial High School
Paradise
High School For
Sandgate
Kay Weeks
Doehrer
Riverside
Grace
Gus Wadsworth
Arlington Road
Ed Reynolds
Sandgate Road
West
Florida
Norfolk
Atlantic
Reynolds
Ethan Allen Grange
Teson
Anthony Grange
H.greenberg
Dial
Vermont Water Board
Pamela Blakeman
Super Duper
Williams Names Inn
North Village
Edith Beaumont
David A. Berlant
Brandi
Holmes
Elva Gigel
George S. McKearin Insurance Company
Paradise Restaurant
Schenectady
Travelers Insurance Company
E. R. Geraghty Jr
McKearin’s
Boy Scout Troop 64
Iroquois District
Wakpominee
Adamsville
Pioneer District
David Downey
Richard A. Severson
Robert Frazier
Downey
Scott Bettit
Christopher Smith
Larry Bump
Patrick Griffin
Thomas Griffin
Christopher Reinfort
Thomas Lewandowski
Norman Bettit
Robert Kellogg
State Education Department
Philip Viereck
George Sleeman
Sleeman
Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Act
VOSHA
Cherbonneau
Helene Thompson
Sandra Corey
Marilyn King
Barbara Molloy
Dottie Immen
Donella Holton
Vermont College
Montpelier
Joyce Smith
Karin Militzer
Kathy Thompson
Princess Crawford
Arlington American Legion Auxiliary
South ST
Free Partine Armory
Savings & Loan Association
Main Street
Javery
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H
South Street
YMCA
Billings Fairlee Lake
Ely
Canada
Yukon
Camp
Billings
White River Jct
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