Area Unemployment Rate Holds At 1.8 For October
Insured unemployment in the Bennington area averaged 1.8 percent in October, same as the state rate. New initial claims totaled 167, down from September’s 220, with apparel, service and private households, and non electrical machinery the top sources. Weekly volume averaged 125, and benefit exhaustion for the year reached 64. The Vermont law allows up to 26 weekly payments per benefit year, and local service covers Bennington County with weekly itinerant visits in Arlington and Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Frank H. Mudgett
Department of Employment Security
Vermont
Bennington County
Arlington
Manchester
Avery Paintings Offer Lesson in Creative Seeing at Bennington
A Bennington College exhibition showcases Milton Avery's 1953 to 1963 canvases. Ten large vases, on loan from the Avery collection, reveal a shifting balance between outline and color, with later works like Two Poets and Pink Meadow displaying bold blocks and restrained brushwork. The show runs weekdays 1 to 4 pm through December 15, highlighting Avery as a pivotal colorist who expanded visual perception and remains relevant.
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Bennington College
Milton Avery
Stephanie Noland
Avery
Bennington
Prison Jaycee Chapter Formed By Vermont Jaycees
Windsor State Prison inmates win a Last Chance Jaycees chapter after a successful Windsor Prison Farm effort. Vermont Jaycee leaders including Raymond Hueter and Jim Antell plan Charter Night Banquet on January 25, 1968 with Bennington nurses invited to schoolhouse meeting.
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Vermont
Jaycees
Windsor
Raymond Hueter
Jay
Cee Organization
Jim Antell
Durwood Ellis
Aldo Nicholi
Jaycee
Raymond Huether
John French
Green Mountain Jaycee
Richard Furnan
Windsor Area
Bruce Pomeroy
Mount Anthony Jaycees
Tom Donahue
Tom Sullivan
Marvin Sutton
West German Secretary Aims Atlantic Swim Next Summer
Almut Brandt 44, a West German secretary, announced plans to swim the Atlantic from Brest to Newfoundland next summer. She would cover about 31 miles daily, sleeping on an accompanying boat, with an estimated 72 days to complete the voyage.
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Delmenhorst
Germany
UPI
Almut Brandt
Atlantic Ocean
Brest
France
Newfoundland
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Haynes
Kane, Inc
Main ST
The
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Aristmas
Cameras Records Music Tape Recorders
First National Stores
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Tokyo
UPD
U.S
Enterprise
Long Beach
Poets
Art Review
Patricia Ryan
Bennington Red Cross
United States
Rachel Kinney
Helen Gibney
Natalie Seale
Call
Natalie Wolfe
Carters
Atlantic Swim
Young Shoe
Seventeen
Glamour
Aony
Main
ST. Bennington
Ea Stores, Inc
Bennington, VT
Frost's Pharmacy
North St. Bennington, Vf
Christian Science
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Hillside St. — Bennington
Phelps Dodge
Phelps Dodge Aluminum
Pfister Tube Division
North Adams
Williamstown
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