Early Vermont program aids Readboro students with learning problems
Readsboro and Stamford schools host Vermont’s five year into a ten year initiative called essential early education. Katie O’Brian and Katy Adams lead outreach to preschoolers, pairing families and teachers with plans to improve learning. A $1000 mini grant funds a lending library of toys books and games for community use.
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Readsboro
Stamford
Katie O’brian
Katy Adams
Adams
Bennington-Troy youth rally and community meeting report
Community members gathered for a Bennington-Troy district youth rally at Bennington United Methodist Church on Sunday with about 40 attending a prior pot luck supper. The Jermain Hall Association elected officers and welcomed Lilah Whitman and Maurice Perry to the board, praised Roy and Lilah Whitman, and discussed spring exterior painting plans. Christina Stevens spoke on the Battle of Bennington celebration, while Airman John F X Lynch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynch of Manchester, was selected for technical training at Chanute AFB after completing Lackland AFB basic training and earning credits toward an AAS.
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Chad
Mary Beth Cook
Billy, Shawn
Andrea Skafelstad
Jane Perry
Duane
Mary Robinson
Bennington-Troy
Bennington United Methodist Church
Mary Cook
Marilyn Robinson
Jermain Hall Association
Maurice Andrew
Donald
Association
Christina Stevens
Hoosick Falls
Bennington
John F.X. Lynch
Robert C. Lynch
Manchester
Chanute Afb
Air Force
Lackland Afb
Tex
Air Force Mission Organization and Customs
Community College of the
Airman
Lynch
Eastchester
N.Y
North Adams rink schedule and Grange notices in one week
Zygamond Nash of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating Rink on South Church Street lists public skating times for Nov 20 to 26 with holiday closures and zone events. Also reports a turkey card party at Pleasant Valley Grange with prizes, upcoming junior grange meeting, Christmas program plans, and notes about Christmas cards.
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North Adams
Mass
Zygamond Nash
South Church Street
Cheshire
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey Association
Glenn Bennet
N. Berkshire
Buxton
Pleasant Valley Grange
David Hamilton
Heather Trinkle
Vera Mae Trinkle
Amy Montgomery
Burton Welling
Stanley Jukrovany
Pat Kennedy
Rodney Brownell
Pleasant Valley Junior Grange
Pomona Grange
Shushan
Vermont leaders clash over Rutland sewage approval dispute
Vermont Housing Commissioner John Simson was asked by Gov. Snelling to meet Rutland City and Rutland Town officials to ease a dispute over state approval of a sewage treatment system for the Rutland Town Mall. Snelling said the state followed proper procedures and cannot intervene in inter-city quarrels. Rep. James Jeffords said Congress weighs a new dairy disease insurance program modeled on crop insurance to cover brucellosis losses.
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Vermont
Windham College Given 19 Months to Meet Standards
A New England association committee asked Windham College to prove it can maintain financial stability and retain accreditation by June 1979. Windham was placed on probation last February and faced possible loss of accreditation next month. the extension provides 19 additional months to comply after money problems last year led to a shortened spring term.
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Putney
UPI
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Windham College
Windham
Vermont grants fund regional development program
Three Vermont regional development groups receive thirty one thousand dollars in matching state grants to establish offices and boost industrial growth. Gov. Snelling calls the program a keystone of his administration. Northwest Development Association gets sixteen thousand, Addison County Development Association three thousand, and Association to Boost Lamoille County Enterprises twelve thousand. Dartmouth Medical School to collaborate with Brattleboro Retreat on psychiatry programs. A new Anna Marsh Professor of Psychiatry post will be created, with Dr. William Beach Jr. named as the Retreat director and holder of the professorship. The Anna Marsh will established the Retreat in 1834.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
Richard Snelling
Northwest Development Association
Addison County Development Association
Lamoille County Enterprises
Anna Marsh
Green Island Bridge to be rebuilt by 1983 in compromise
A DOT Coast Guard accord aims for a 1983 completion with a larger bridge than the collapsed Hudson span. Design will take 12 to 15 months and construction is planned over three summers, with wider water clearance as a concession. In Tamarac, Tamarac High School Principal Herbert Ford acknowledges potential student demonstrations in support of 35 contractless teachers, to be managed orderly if held.
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Troy
State Department of Transportation
U.S. Coast Guard
Green Island
Hudson
Coast Guard
DOT
Donald Geoffrey
Brunswick
Herbert Ford
Tamarac High School
Ford
Tamarac
Berkshire youth given suspended sentence in fatal crash
Edward L. Goldsmith of Sheffield, 17, received a one year suspended sentence on vehicular homicide and related charges after a July 7 auto crash in Berkshire. He was placed on two years probation with terms to be set by a district probation officer following his September conviction and plea of not guilty. Meanwhile at Williams College, a swimming pool rescue by a PE instructor and trainer saved football player John Maier from drowning after he lost consciousness during a class and was revived with CPR and mouth to mouth. he returned to class the next day.
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Williamstown
Williams College
John B. Muir
John Maier
Maier
Fayetteville
N.Y
Susan H. Hamblin
Hamblin
Gary Guerin
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Oskyr
Oskar
Nichols
Main Street
Bennington, Vermont
Fishman’s
Bankamerisaro
Prees
Prestone
Prestone II
Cristy
T Ladies
Turners & More
Mattel
Edonn
Donny & Marie
Guitar
SWAT
Eleanor Niles
Ation
South Cambridge
New York
Green Island Bridge
Down In
Berkshire
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