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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1976
Page
9
Local craftspeople and cooks may consign items for a holiday market at the Park McCullough House Big House sale on Saturday from 1 to 5 pm. Wreaths fruitcakes cookies toys decorations and gift shop items will be offered. Contact 442-2747 this week to arrange participation.
The Connecticut River Watershed Council announces The Connecticut River and Its Valley A Portrait of the Natural and Cultural Features, an illustrated map of New England's largest river valley. CRWC chairman Carl Eger Jr. emphasizes its educational value for those who live work and recreate in the valley.
Emilio Marchegiani celebrated his 80th birthday November 7 at the Greylock Community Club in North Adams Massachusetts. Hosted by family including wife Mildred son Frederic and several relatives with 80 guests from Readsboro South Readsboro Pownal Manchester Jacksonville Shelburne Falls and Mattapan. A buffet lunch, a birthday cake, and music by Bud Willette’s band accompanied gift giving and well wishes.
Mrs J Henry Wheeler returns home to recuperate after hospital stay with daughter Nancy Hathaway in Hoosick Falls. Visitors include Bennington residents John O Hare and Alice Garden. Nov 14 gatherings feature Jim Hoag family guests from Melrose and Troy. Several relatives and friends from SUNY Cornell, Texas trip, and Mechanicville are noted with date lines.
The Pownal United Methodist Church choir meets for a 7:30 rehearsal at the church. Also tonight the Pownal Center Fire Department holds a 7:30 work night at its firehouse. A swine flu clinic runs Friday 9 am to 12 noon and 1 to 4 pm at the Recreational Community Center for adults 18 plus. under 18 requires a doctor’s written request. The Liaison Committee convenes at 7:30 tonight at Green Mountain Park Race Track. A well baby nurses clinic is at the Recreational Community Center 9 to 11 am.
Vermont Legal Aid leads a suit on behalf of about 10,000 aged blind and disabled residents whose supplemental Social Security checks were delayed by a computer fault. The complaint seeks authority and funds for immediate payments to those affected. The government argues current payments satisfy the claim, but Legal Aid warns the issue could recur.
Outgoing Vermont Democratic Chairman Caroline Adler expresses optimism for the party's future after losses in the governor's race and congressional seats. The party retained attorney general and lieutenant governor offices, won secretary of state, and for the first time took control of the Vermont House. Adler steps down in January and cites changed times and future credibility.
Officials reroute Vermont Route 100 around the Duxbury elementary school to avoid two curves and a blind intersection the project includes moving a barn and aims to reduce pedestrian accidents. The three quarter mile bypass should be finished by next August.
A six member federal jury was to decide if Ryegate Vermont is liable for damages in the 1973 drowning of Kenneth Bubis 23 of Philadelphia. Bubis died after diving from a raft anchored at the municipal beach and his suit seeks 250000 claiming the town failed to maintain the raft properly.
Police in Northeastern Vermont are investigating possible links between two Wednesday night robberies. At West Charleston Corner Store two armed men in ski masks grabbed about 85 dollars. Earlier two men took 125 dollars from a cash register at Gerry's Midway Market in Newport while a clerk was not looking.
New York State Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist, hired seven years ago, faces opposition from a majority of the State Board of Regents who consider him too powerful and too liberal on busing and desegregation. Regents meet in New York City with firing discussions not yet raised in formal sessions.
A fire at a Dove Street apartment house in Albany hospitalized six people this morning. The blaze, traced to a furnace repair completed less than a day earlier, injured one firefighter and five tenants including a former Utica mayor.
Attorney confirms Gerhard Schmid and wife Lillian signed a purchase agreement for the Gateways Inn at 71 Walker Street in Lenox Berkshire. Schmid, a top U.S. chef, represented the nation in the 14th international culinary competition in Frankfurt Germany and now serves as executive chef at the Plaza Club Worcester. He was selected to head luncheon service for Queen Elizabeth II at Boston City Hall on July 10.
The Richmond School Committee voted to end the 15 year practice of sending seventh grade students to Crosby Junior High in Pittsfield. Rising tuition costs and empty classrooms in local schools were cited as reasons for keeping students in Richmond.
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