Four Fleas to Open Winter Sports Shop in Manchester
Manchester plans a new winter season shop named Four Fleas at Vermont Route 11 30. Owner Larry Barker also runs Village Shop in Kennebunkport, Maine, opening Nov. 26 in a building beside Manchester Woodcraft near the Five Flys club. Barker, a Manchester resident and Virginia Beach native, will operate the store only during winter.
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Manchester
Manchester Woodcraft
Five Flys
Larry Barker
Kennebunkport
Maine
Barker
Virginia Beach
Bazaar events and open houses across town
Community activities include a two day bazaar at the Methodist Church with prep at the church on Wednesday and Thursday at 7 30 p m and a Friday Saturday sale in the social room. Open house nights at Center and Oak Hill Schools run 7 to 8 and 7 to 7 45 with a business session at 8.
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James Quinn
George Daley
Pownal
Center
Oak Hill
North Pownal School
Center School
Manchester School Board Hears Teacher Salary Change Request
Manchester officials recognized the Taconic Teachers Association as Manchester teachers’ bargaining agent and heard a bold salary policy appeal. The group seeks starting pay at 5000 with 12 yearly steps to 10000 while granting leeway on raises for special cases. A special board meeting is set for November 22 to discuss direct negotiations.
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Manchester School Board
Manchester
The
Taconic Teachers’ Association
Brown
Birth of Patricia Day highlights West Arlington items
A daughter, Patricia Marie, was born Nov 1 to Mr and Mrs John Day of North Bennington. Mrs Day is Joyce Woodard of West Arlington. Junior NRA members met at the gravel pit in West Arlington to shoot targets and complete rifle safety tests with leaders Arnold Wilcox and James Edgerton. Over 40 local boys were taught NRA safety in a program co sponsored by the West Arlington Home Demonstration Club and the Arlington Fish and Game Club. The Arlington school board discussed student instrument rental, school pictures policy, Lutheran church group use of showers for a ski pilgrimage, and facility rental rates for Burr and Burton Seminary and other groups. Expenditures included $71 for a year of lower floor window glass insurance. Principal Shanks sought a Thermo Fax copying machine for projectors at $379 with 50 percent federal matching funds. Board members present were Dr. Clifford B. Harwood, Ralph F. Fleming, Eugene V. Kayatta, Principal Shanks and Superintendent Neil E. Cross.
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Patricia Marie
John Day
North Bennington
Day
Joyce Woodard
West Arlington
Little John Day Jr
Sandgate
N.R.A
Clifford McKee
Arnold Wilcox
James
Bud) Edgerton
Arlington Fish and Game Club
Union Elementary School progress in Londonderry plan
Dr Raymond Harris and architect visited the Vermont site of the first union elementary school serving Londonderry Landgrove and Weston. Concrete footings to be poured by December 1 with laminated wood arches and curtain walls to support winter construction. New staffing may require split duties and dual skills with a tentative 1966-67 salary level set $200 above state minimum, awaiting local approvals.
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Londonderry
Raymond Harris
Landgrove
Union District No. 20
Charles Leach Jr
Weston
Vt. 11
Harris
Connecticut Valley Construction Co
Springfield
Vermont
Dibble
County Farm Bureau Backs Regional Planning Push
Rupert Mrs. Donald Laurie hosted Bennington County Farm Bureau trustees Monday evening. More than 25 people attended a covered dish buffet as the bureau approved a motion supporting regional planning for Bennington County. Thirty citizenship kits were donated for local elementary school libraries. The annual Christmas party will be at Merritt Hewitt home in North Bennington.
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Rupert
Donald Laurie
Bennington County Farm Bureau
County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Bennington County
Merritt Hewitt
North Bennington
Dorset Nursing Project Approved Amid Bennington College Survey Delays
The Bennington Rutland Opportunity Council approved an $8,546 federal grant for a Dorset community nursing project as part of a broader poverty program. The council also endorsed Head Start funding and a Program Development Extension grant, while remaining frustrated by delays in a Bennington College poverty survey that could shape future bi-county projects.
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Dorset Nursing
Bennington College
Manchester
Beneington - Rutland Opportunity Council
Federal Office of Economic Opportunity
Dorset
Nelle Williams
Public Assistance
New York
Washington
John
Coombs
Pittsford
Council
Solomon Goldeberg
Rutland
Ruteland County Council
Rutland N.E
Rutland City
Addison-Rutland
Wallingford
Office of Economic Opportunity
Bennington
Phyllis Martin
Leonard Rowe
Miss Martin
Dorset Civic Board Set Meeting for November Eighth
Dorset town notices show the Board of Civil Authority meeting scheduled for November 18 at 8 p.m. in the town manager’s office to review the General Election checklist. Other items include Nov. 21 Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association at the town hall and a Methodist Church budget session for 1966, plus a turkey supper and bazaar at the church Saturday.
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Cambridge Area
Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association
Town Hall
Washington County
Methodist Church
George Cronk
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Albany Medical Center
Commission On Steward Ship and Finance
Gerald Aiken
Mary McClellan Hospital
East Arlington Sunderland Luncheon Talk at Bailey Hall
The Enterprise Society of Federated Church hosts a covered dish luncheon on November 17 at 1 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Hostesses are Mrs. Angelo Carbonti, Mrs. Warwick Todd, and Mrs. Arthur Vaughn. Miss Gladys Lodge of Dorset, state Christian Social Action chairman, will speak on Waterbury State Hospital and suggest ways the society can help the hospital. Mrs. Richard Bentley of Sunderland visits Windsor with her daughter and Fred Bressette. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chambers return from New York trip. Harry Thompson sent to North Adams for eye surgery after a steel fragment was removed from his eye.
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Enterprise Society of Federated Church
Bailey Hall
Angelo Carbonti
Warwick Todd
Arthur Vaughn
Gladys Lodge
Dorset
Christian Social Action
Waterbury State Hospital
Miss Lodge
Richard Bentley
Sunderland
Windsor
Fred Bressette
Thomas Chambers
New York
Harry Thompson
North Adams
Edmund Beagle
Thompson
NBHS Seniors Take Top Honors In Annual One Act Play Contest
NORTH BENNINGTON The NBHS senior class captured top honors in the school one act play contest. Awards went to junior David Barton for best actor and senior Alison Nowak for best actress with additional commendations for Linda Kenyon and Brian Pierce. The senior play The Sandbox was directed by Marion Tifft and Millicent Cross, with cast including Barton, Nowak, Danforth, Stratton, Plue, Farnham, and lighting by Gary Briggs.
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NBHS
North Bennington
David Barton
Alison Nowak
Juni Fors
Linda Kenyon
Brian Pierce
Edward Albee
NEHS
Marion Tifft
Millicent Cross
Miss Nowak
Byron Danforth
Don Stratton
Joe Plue
Kathy Farnham
Gary Briggs
Anne Martin
Bernard Leamy
Frances Woodcock
Sally Barney
Barton
Pierce
Miss Kenyon
Arla Crosier
Robert Nowak
Danl Riley
Donna Peckham
Wayne Hedding
Brenda Peacock
Donald Payton
Laura Pratt
Bruce Knapp
Linda Kelley
Wanda Harwood
Roberta Tobin
Russell Barber
Ruth VanOrman
John Briggs
David Wickenden
Sandy Myers
Pam Thompson
Pat Riley
Payton
Donald Stratton
North Bennington Library closes for Veterans Day events
The McCullough Library in North Bennington will close Thursday for Veterans Day but holds a Wednesday story hour at 10 30. The Young Readers Club contributed to Children’s Book Week with posters decorations tea and dishes. St John’s Sodality and Congregational groups plan rummage sales puppet making and memorial hospital ward support with meeting notices and item collections.
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McCullough
Cathryn Miles
Patti Corcoran
Judy Crane
Margaret Hurley
Patti Hyland
Sandra Knapp
Lori LaVigne
Robert Lerner
Kathy Luce
Elizabeth McCue
Barbara Russ
Patty White
St. John’s Sodality
Congregational Women’s Fellowship
George Randall
Shaftsbury
Putnam Memorial Hospital
the Sodality of St. John the Baptist Church
Library Hall
Arlington School Band Cake Walk and Prelude Concert
The Arlington School Band hosts its third annual cake walk at the high school gym Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. A short concert precedes the walk, with no admission fee. Red Mt Chapter No 41 CBS holds a covered dish supper at 8 30 p.m. Wednesday, members bring a dish, dessert provided, business meeting at 8 p.m.
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Arlington
Red
CBS
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Edmond LaBonte
Joseph Tornabone
Vincent Pizzano
Anna Thompson
Harold Weyers
North Pownal Firehouse
Republican Women’s Unit
G. Murray Campbell
Harold Harwood
Robert Treat
Israel Congregation Synagogue
Manchester Depot
Gordon Gerrish
United Counseling Service
Edward Foster
Middletown Springs
Church Women of Zion
Liturgical Commission
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National Education Associations
Taconic Association
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Burton Brown
Sir Winston Churchill
Manchester Playhouse
Donald R. Shanks
Shanks
Betty Trachie
Stamford
Burr and Burton Seminary
Burr and Burton
Briggs Insurance Agency
Clifford B. Harwood
Ralph F. Fleming
Eugene V. Kayatta
Neil E. Cross
Union Elementary
Allnencains
Maytag
Economy Auto Stores, Inc
Main St
Fienberg
First National Stores
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Rabbi Goldberg
Joseph LoPicscolo
LoPiccolo
Gloria Gil
John Riddle
Edward Blowstein
Paul Bresnahan
Father Bresnahan
Charles Lack
George Sleeman
Hayden Nichols
Jeanenette Sherman
Thomas Chesley
Marcen Skinner
Board of Civil Authority
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Tom Ketcham
Bronxville
N.Y
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Niagara
Robert Sheridans
Rochester
Fayette Dunns
John Hubbard
Dartmouth College
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Tupper Lake
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William Gilbert
Belmont
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Sandy Bartlett
South Cambridge
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Elizabeth Dwyer
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