Winners and losers in the lottery money game
A satirical take on lottery wealth from 1977 argues money brings misfortune to big winners. Sociologist H Roy Kaplan reports winners face family strife privacy loss and boredom. Therapy groups in New Jersey reflect on why winning feels like losing as envy and guilt persist.
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Letters on Waterbury move plan and health dept closure
The author questions governing bodies plans for the Waterbury move and the Health Department. They argue the relocation would burden families with longer trips, noting 150 workers would travel at least 60 miles round trip. The letter urges reconsideration and cites alternative nearby facilities in Montpelier.
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Montpelier
Protest on Waterbury pools and travel costs for workers
A Colchester reader, Helen Tierney, voices strong opposition to plans affecting Waterbury pools and state employee relocation. She warns of higher commuting costs, longer driving times, winter hazards, increased absenteeism, and negative impacts on Burlington merchants and local tax money. Tierney urges residents to lobby senators and representatives to stop the changes.
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Vermont Symphony Orchestra Returns This Saturday Nov 5
Come hear the Vermont Symphony Orchestra again as the community is invited to a repeat performance this Saturday November fifth. Letters to the editor are welcome with signature and address. shorter letters are preferred to celebrate the entertainment value of the symphony.
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Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Vermont Symphony
TV and the daily grind shows TV's crime debate and work life
A Miami murder trial questions whether television violence shapes behavior. The piece argues viewers copy heroes or the real world, finding TV hopeful images of workers clash with generally dour daily life and suggesting daily grind may shape us more than TV.
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Miami
Halloween Party prize winners and local notes from Arlington
November 1 1937 at Mt Anthony Country Club Mr and Mrs Fred Welling win best couples costume as organ grinder and monkey. Learned scientists laugh at quintuplets antics. A chicken pie supper by Eastern Star at Masonic Temple Tickets 50 cents. November 1 1952 Arlington Memorial High School plans one day deer season exemption for students. Principal John Burnett announces. From briefs: campaign note for John B Harte. Also notes on local homes, mild Halloween, and town history items.
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Allen Defoe
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Arlington Memorial High School
John Burnett
Bernie Hart
Montpelier
John B. Harte
Remedial courses spark Timken college debate
In a Brattleboro Reformer piece, the Timkens recount a college letter offering Laura remedial reading and writing classes at 250 each, then adding an arithmetic course. They question why such skills weren’t taught earlier, noting Laura can read and write only in concept.
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Timken
PTA
Carlton
Readers weigh yeses on crisis topic and poetry finds
Dennington notes some prefer yes over no as previous week. A new book features Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones. Awake and Aware includes Robert Frost Country with a Burlington quotation and a Vermont landscapes picture book arrives.
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Frost
Bookshop displays Eye Book by Dr Ben Esterman
The Eye Book by Dr Ben Esterman is on view at a bookshop and praised by The Banner last week. The easy to read guide covers eye care topics including glaucoma cataracts myopia a home eye test chart living with one eye eye focusing and wearing contact lenses. Jéhan Kimball a former librarian and teacher has BA English and MLS.
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