Soldiers' Home park opens to public this weekend
Col Edward Giles says park facilities at the Soldiers Home will be open this weekend before Memorial Day. Events include 1-40 Club meeting June 6 at Ruth Hoy’s home with Andrea Olitsky and Isabelle Peacock serving. Mt Anthony High School sophomore dance Monday 8 to 11 pm at the Bend auditorium with Crosswords providing music. Pre Memorial Mass at Sacred Heart Church 8:30. Joe's Taxi new owner Orvil Peterson Sr. hours 6 am to 1 am phone numbers listed. Iron Kettle Weekend Special roast turkey dinner $2.25 cocktails.
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Soldiers’ Home
Edward Giles
Ruth Hoy
Sycamore Lane
Shaftsbury
Andrea Olitsky
Isabelle Peacock
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Bendi
Nursing Home Owner Speaks To Rotarians
Crescent Manor owner David Alexander told Bennington Rotarians that nursing home care will expand as 1980 projects a 20 percent rise in Americans over 65. He plans to add units, noting private homes now largely serve convalescent care and Medicare works well despite medical opposition.
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Bennington
Rotary Club
David Alexander
Crescent Manor
Alexander
Weather storms hit crops delaying harvest and raising prices
Boston report warns a freak storm will push vegetable costs higher through summer as native crops suffer damage or delays. Massachusetts and Vermont crops including potatoes, corn, apples, and cranberries face delays and losses, while strawberries and other produce may be scarcer and more expensive. officials expect some replanting and late harvests but a good cranberry crop is expected.
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Boston
UPS
Nathaniel Tilden
Tilden
Massachusetts
Plymouth County
George G Connelly to Retire From Williams College
George G Connelly, 65, longtime Williams College faculty member and columnist, will retire from the Williams public speaking professorship and pre law advising role effective June 30. A native of Elmira New York he taught at Williams since 1946 and plans to return to Annapolis next fall to teach at Anne Arundel Community College.
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George G. Connelly
Williams College
Elmira
N.Y
Connelly
Williams
South
University of Georgia
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Maryland
Anne Arundel Community College
Berkshire Eagle
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Cornell University
New Pattern Urged For Job Training
Gerald Leighbody of the State University of New York at Buffalo urged Bennington area high school teachers to broaden vocational education beyond a single occupation. He called for a family of jobs approach and longer preparation time to choose a career, and recommended eliminating the separation of vocational and nonvocational education.
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Bennington Area
Gerald Leighbody
State University of New York At Buffalo
Leighbody
Cooperative Project
Molly Stark
Cora B. Whitney
Buckler
Bennington
Cooperative Project For
Two union school directors face election in Vermont
Marian C. Taylor of Bennington and Barton L. Jenks of Shaftsbury face re election terms expiring this year. Taylor plans to seek re election at Bennington School District’s June meeting while Jenks, unsure, may run at Shaftsbury Town School District’s June 27 meeting. Health concerns given if he does not run. Jenks has long chaired the finance committee and Taylor, a current chair, was recently seated by Gov Hoff on the seven member state Board of Education.
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North Bennington
Prospect School
State Board of Education
New England
Manchester
Richard A. Gibboney
Vermont
Walker Agnew
U.S. Office of Education
Marian C. Taylor
Bennington
Barton L. Jenks
Shaftsbury
Taylor
Jenks
Shaftsbury Town
Philip H. Hoff
Riverton Garden Club Feuds Over Coffin Shaped Planter
The Riverton Garden Club upset by public reaction to a large rectangular redwood planter placed at Central Park entrance. The coffin shaped box has been dubbed The Jolly Green Giant's Grave by locals.
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Riverton
Wyo
UPI
Ancient Ophiuchus lore as healer and giant figure
Astronomy notes describe how ancient observers saw a giant grasping a serpent in Ophiuchus. Rasalhague sits on the giant's forehead while the face turns toward the reader. Some equate Ophiuchus with Aesculapius, the physician god of healing. This supports the constellation's long-standing prominence.
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Rasalhague
Ophiuchus
Aesculapius
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