Contractors invited to view Cole Hall plans
Selectmen invited contractors to review Cole Hall renovation floor plans and vault specifications at the town clerk’s office with bids due by 5 p.m. on December 10. Drainage tube under a proposed road into the Corey development requires state highway approval.
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Cole Hall
Shaftsbury
Corey
Greenwich Street
Ken Corey
State Highway Department
Dan Higgins
State Shelter
RADEF
Office of Civil Defense
Higgins
Grange Notes Read by Mrs Hewitt and Show Highlights
Mrs Mabel Hewitt reads Grange Notes and discusses the Lawrence Welk show featuring Guy and Rola as a singing couple. A lecturer leads a game with the men as winners while detailing the cost of raising a child. Carleton Philpott presents Panama Canal and orange growing pictures. N Clifford Cottrell, legislative chair, delivers the fourth installment on legislative matters.
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Mabel Hewitt
Lawrence Welk
Guy and
Rola
Panama Canal
Carleton Philpott
N. Clifford Cottrell
Legislative Committee
Mounted Posse to perform at Shadowbrook drill show
The Bennington County Mounted Posse drill team will perform Sunday, November 21 at the Shadowbrook Stables indoor ring on Northwest Hill, Pownal. Show starts 8:30 a.m. with noon drill during lunch. Drillmaster Mrs. Anne Brown and Posse Commander John Nielsen, both of Pownal, lead the team. Shadowbrook’s all day show includes children and adult divisions for ponies and horses with events in equitation, hunters, jumpers and pleasure horses.
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Pownal
Bennington County Mounted Posse
Shadowbrook Stables
Northwest Hill
Anne Brown
Posse
John Nielsen
Shadowbrook
Bennington Mounted Posse
Iron Kettle
Shaftsbury
Pollution risks threaten Cromwell ponds near town dump
In Cromwell Connecticut Bo Waldie 33 a outdoorsman recalls four ponds on his father s land and warns three are being polluted by toxins seeping from a nearby town dump. He notes the loss of childhood recreation and fears for his children while recounting his father s alarm over development and the town dump s encroachment.
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Cromwell
Conn
UPI
Bo Waldie
Waldie
Dorset landslides and a town in transition observed
A Dorset Historical Society program recounts four landslides on Dorset Hollow with slides and flood channels, led by Dr. Elizabeth F. Gilbert, plus a Dorset industries overview and election of officers. Local issues center on a contested dump near I-91 with pollution, a 1976 closure promise, DEP actions, and ongoing lease disputes.
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Dorset
Dorset Hollow
Elizabeth F
Copper craft guild party at Mrs. Kelley home
The Shaftsbury Firemen's Auxiliary will hold a copper craft guild party at the home of Mrs. William Kelley on Wednesday November 17 at 7 30. All auxiliary members are asked to come or send in orders. Anyone wishing to come or order may call any member or call 442 9630. Orders will be filled for Christmas.
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Shaftsbury
William Kelley
Recount in Vermont races set to resolve key contests
A Friday recount will determine whether incumbent Rep. Harry Ashe or challenger George McCarthy wins in Orange Washington District 1 5. McCarthy challenges Williamstown ballot counting. Montpelier District 3 recount also sought as Keve appears to have defeated Healey. Washington County officials expect timing later this week. In Stowe two fires prompt arson probe at a town house and a ski shop. In Winooski Rev. Raymond Giroux says he will resign if Gov elect Snelling asks.
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Montpelier
UPI
Orange- Washington
Harry Ashe
R-Williamstown
George McCarthy
Ashe
McCarthy
Williamstown
Barre
Barre Town
Kirtland Keve
D-Montpelier
Thelma Healey
STOWE
UPS
Winooski
Raymond Giroux
State Parole Board
Richard Snelling
Giroux
Snelling
Thomas Salmon
Vermont Health Officials Shake Up as Leader Resigns
Burlington Deputy Health Commissioner Lisa Barrett will resign December 3 to enter private law practice. She cited changes in administration and anticipated difficulty protecting progressive programs. In St. Albans a 23-year-old man named Michael Fitzgerald was found dead in a parked car. an autopsy was ordered. In Montpelier several groups plan to form a nonprofit to contest federal health planning funds control, arguing non government hands should manage health planning to avoid politics.
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Burlington
UPI
Lisa Barrett
Montpelier
Health Planning Council
Vermont
James Gray
Rutland
Health Care Foundation Inc
Gray
Rosenbaum to stay as New York GOP chair through 1978
Albany reports Richard Rosenbaum will remain as Republican Party chairman through the 1978 elections despite losses in the state. He will not run for governor in 1978. In Mechanicville officials react to the Old Champlain Canal being added to the National Register of Historic Places, noting it was previously used as a garbage dump and pondering cleanup steps.
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Higgins
Selectmen
Sanford Buxbaum
Albany
Richard Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum
Nelson Rockefeller
Mechanicville
Berkshire Bank Robbery Suspect Car Recovered in Lenox
Police traced the getaway vehicle from the Lenox National Bank robbery on Pittsfeld Road to the Lenox Holiday Inn rear area. The car stolen Nov 4 from West Springfield Sheraton Inn carried mismatched Massachusetts plates and an unfired .32 caliber bullet in the back seat. About $22,000 was taken minutes before 6 p.m. Friday. In Adams a 50-strong protest against a Greylock Glen casino by Voices, not Vices for Adams ended in a claimed success. James Haddad of Red Carpet Restaurant dismissed protesters as do-gooders, calling them drunk on Saturday and churchgoing on Sunday.
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Lenox
Lenox National Bank
Pittsfield Road
Lenox Holiday Inn
West Springfield
Sheraton Inn
Ohio
Massachusetts
Adams
Greylock Glen
Frederick D. Moran
James Haddad
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Ralph Warner
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United Church of Dorset
Oberlin College
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Addis Ababa
St. John’s College
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First Selectman
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Pownal Center
Rose Mattison
Women’s Fellowship
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