Backcountry Buck Shot From Bathroom Window by Selectman Baker
Arlington selectman Orange Baker shot his first deer in 24 years from his bathroom window late Monday afternoon. The 300 Savage was used to take a buck, witnessed by his wife Mary Baker, who watched from another window as neighbor John Mears heard the shot. Baker said he’d clean the gun and wait another 24 years.
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Arlington
Orange Baker
Baker
Mary Henning
U.S. 7
Selectman Baker
Arlington Selectman
Ringheiser
Tree Planting This Weekend in Manchester
Manchester residents along unnamed streets off Mountain View Terrace met selectmen to review a survey map for adding these streets to the town road system. Eleven homes are involved. frontage land may be taken and turnarounds established. Also, silver maples will be planted along town roads this weekend by Boy Scout Troop 33 with help from Selectmen I. Stanford Zecher and Ferdinand Bongartz, using town tree replacement funds.
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Manchester
Mountain View Terrace
Boy Scout Troop 33
Selectmen I
Stanford Zecher
Ferdinand Bongartz
Hoosick Falls Scouts Honored for Good Deeds
Hoosick Falls youths William and James Thurber received certificates of merit at the 47th Annual Scouters Recognition Banquet in Glens Falls. They earned the honor for lifesaving actions during a house fire on August 28, 1965, guiding their family to safety with neighbor assistance. The event honored Troop 67 members and included testimony from neighbors, a fire chief, and fellow scouts.
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St. Mary’s Great Hall
Glens Falls
Stephen Davis
Iroquois District Advancement
National Honor Court
Boy Scouts of America
Richard Severson
Hoosick Falls
Severson
James
William
John
Benedict Nowik
Ernest Malo
Walter B. Hoffman
Thurber
James Sennett
Joseph Berlant
Iroquois
Carlton Philpott
Hoosick
Manchester Town and Country Fashions Opens at Mall Preview
Town Clerk Clara May Heme enway notes no deer hunting license statistics yet but expects higher totals this year. She says nearly every man in Connecticut hunts deer in Vermont, with seven of eight nonresident licenses issued to Connecticut hunters.
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Clara May Hemeenway
Connecticut
Vermont
Shaftsbury Fire Company Drill Meeting Canceled
Shaftsbury Fire Company members are reminded that there will be no drill meeting this month.
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Shaftsbury Fire Company
Deer hunter Nesbitt joins family weekend in Norwich
White Creek resident Thomas D. Nesbitt of Norwich University spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Gordon Nesbitt and was a successful deer hunter last Saturday, shooting his first deer a spikehorn. White Creek Grange will meet Friday at Jermain Hall at 8 p.m. Glenn Ruggles was a lucky deer hunter Saturday. Mrs Donald Niles is a patient at the Putnam Memorial Hospital where she underwent surgery last Friday.
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Thomas D. Nesbitt
Norwich University
Gordon Nesbitt
White Creek Grange
Jermain Hall
Glenn Ruggles
Donald Niles
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Pownal Center School Students Plan Planetarium Trip
The Grade 6 science class from Pownal Center School will visit the Williams town Planetarium Friday. They depart at 1 p.m. with Principal George H. Daley and Mrs. Martha Rudd. A new ice skating rink, funded by the Pownal Parent-Teacher Group, nears completion at the Center School for youth across The Pownals, not operating during school hours, with lights for evening use and a future schedule.
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Pownal Center
Williamstown
George H. Daley
Martha Rudd
Pownal
Pownals
Arlington Teens Named to 4-H Congress in Chicago
Donolyn Hagelberg of Arlington Brenda Chamberlain of West Brattleboro and William Coombs of Jacksonville are among 17 4-H members chosen to attend the 4-H Congress in Chicago. They depart Nov 26 and return Dec 2 staying at the Conrad Hilton. Hagelberg is Vermont’s leadership delegate and has led local youth initiatives including library fines replaced by a conscience box. She is AMHS class of 1966 valedictorian and now attends the University of Massachusetts majoring in foods and nutrition. Chamberlain, health delegate, is a nursing student and former Future Nurse of the Year. Coombs, son of Robert and, has built additions to his home and sugarhouse.
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Arlington
Vermont
Donolyn Hagelberg
Brenda Chamberlain
West Brattleboro
William Coombs
Jacksonville
Chicago
Conrad Hilton
Richard Hagelberg
Donolyn
Bennington County
Hagelberg
AMHS
National Honor Society
FHA
University of Massachusetts
Cotting
New England
Girls State
UVM
Betty Crocker Homemakers
DAR
Edmunds
West Arlington
Camp Ondawa
Washington, D.C
Thomas Chamberlain
Thompson School of Nursing
Brenda
Gynecologist Instructs Hoosick Rescue Squad Session Three
Dr William Flood a Bennington gynecologist and Putnam Memorial Hospital staffer will lead Hoosick Falls Rescue Squad training session three on November 20 at 730 PM in squad rooms. The program covers maternity cases disaster care wounds first aid kits and emergency procedures with sessions overlapping upcoming weeks and a February finish.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
William Flood
Bennington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad, Inc
Flood
Robert Hebert
Walter Hoffman Sr
Royal Howard
Richard Severson
Rummage Sale Planned by Congregational Church Group
The Women’s Fellowship of the Congregational Church in North Bennington plans a rummage sale Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the church social rooms. Sale chairman Mrs Sanford Buxbaum said a wide variety of useful articles will be available. Donations should be brought to the church by Friday afternoon for sorting. For pickup, call Mrs Buxbaum at 22618.
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Women’s Fellowship of
The
Congregational Church
Sanford Buxbaum
Buxbaum
Rescue Squad Member Vanishes Into Eight Foot Well
Hoosick Falls New York Nov 13 ambulance crew responded to a Walloomsac home fall call. Miss Shirley Howard vanished into an eight foot well as the team arrived. The well was dry, she escaped major injury, under care for a shoulder strain. Squad president Richard Severson urged residents to warn crews of hazards before house calls.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick
Miss Howard
Richard Fabricius
Richard A. Severson
Bank Names Homer Ellis-Director
At Factory Point National Bank the board elected Homer B. Ellis Jr. to fill the vacancy caused by Walter R. Hard’s death. Ellis, a Brattleboro native and Middlebury and Stonier School graduate, has held multiple banking roles and serves as Manchester Rotary vice president and Chamber of Commerce treasurer. He lives on West Road with wife Margaret and children Joan, Keith, and Laura.
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Manchester
Factory Point National Bank
Homer B. Ellis Jr
Walter R. Hard
Ellis
Christian W. Schafer
Earle E. Storrs
Brattleboro
Brattleboro Trust Company
Vermont Peoples National Bank
Gramatan National Bank
Bronxville
N.Y
Fairfield County Trust Company
Ridgefield
Cape Cod guests collect greens for hospital sale
Mrs. Henry Maloney and Mrs. William Cummings of Cape Cod Massachusetts stayed with Mrs. James Hoe last week. They joined field and wood excursions to gather pine cones dried flowers and seeds to be used in arrangements to be sold for the benefit of Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.
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Henry Maloney
William Cummings
Cape Cod
Mass
James Hoe
Cape Cod Hospital
Hyannis
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Barricini
Frost
Kroehler
Haynes & Kane, Inc
Main St
Dial
Bennington, Vt
Boston
Mass. Turnpike
the Friendly Hotel
Billy Sullivan
Walter J. Carney
Jaycees
Burr and Burton Seminary
Linda Eaton
Susan Miller
Astin Eckhoff
Mary Mattison
Christine Tardy
Jaycee
William and
James Thurber
William E. Thurber
Abbott St
Chet Ringheiser
P.O. Box
Town and Country Fashions
Wilmington
Ralph Wood Jr
Medberryville
Deerfield
Campbell
Shaftsbury
Eleanor Niles
Vera Langlais
Peace Corps
Robert Coombs
North Bennington
Elizabeth Dwyer
Bank
Homer Ellis
Winhall
John C. Slade
First National Stores
North Bennington Road
Finast
United States Brewers Association, Inc
Stanley L. MacPherson
Montpelier
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