Aerosol valve maker embraces new fluorocarbon ruling
Summit Packaging Systems executive vice president Robert Coerver welcomed the ruling, noting finality and a shift to feasible alternatives with no environmental harm. He said fluoro carbons are used in some products like hair sprays and deodorants, with his firm ready for changes after two years of valve alterations. Summit, with 166 employees, supplies valves to Gillette, Procter and Gamble, and Johnson's Wax, and has seen 10 to 15 percent growth this year though unit sales fell 23 percent in three years amid rising consumer awareness.
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Robert Coerver
Summit Packaging Systems, Inc
Coerver
Summit
Gillette
Procter and Gamble
Johnson’s Wax
Philosophical don to speak at Williams College
Oxford philosopher Anthony Quinton will lecture at Williams College in Griffin Hall on Thursday December 2 at 8 p.m. The talk Conservatism as a Theory The Continuity of an English Tradition is open to the public. Sponsored by the Williams Lecture Committee and Philosophy Department. Arlington High School Scholarship Fund directors meet at the high school Tuesday at 7 p.m. Arlington Variety Store announces Thanksgiving hours 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Oxford University
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New School For Social Research
Williams College
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New College
Stanford
Swarthmore
New York Review of Books
England
T.S. Eliot
BBC Radio
Faber
Williams Lecture Committee
Williams Department of Philosophy
Arlington Memorial High School
Arlington
Shaftsbury dump closed on Thanksgiving. open Friday
The Shaftsbury dump will be closed on Thanksgiving day and will instead operate Friday November 26 from 12 30 to 5 p m local time providing a daytime window for residents to dispose of waste.
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Shaftsbury
Festive Open House at Park McCullough House Dec 11
The Christmas Open House at Park-McCullough House December 11 from 2 to 5 p.m. features The Wind Company with Sage City Symphony members and a four to five madrigal group. Staff, Penny Hawkins, and Petie Palmer lead music and carols in a traditional, welcoming holiday program with decorations and refreshments.
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Park-McCullough
Sage City Symphony
Christine Graham
John Gardner
Rhine van der Linde
Arnold Tobler
Charles Thompson
Pownal
Park- McCullough House
Petie Palmer
Penny Hawkins
Randall
Judy Krum
Debbie Fischer
Carol
David Newall
Carol Miller
John Nyquist
Helga Lundy
Choral Society
Viking Mars mission talk at RPI in December
Project Viking scientist Dr. George D. Sands will present Viking mission aims and preliminary results at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Communications Center Room 308 on Wednesday December 1. The free lecture, sponsored by the RPI AIAA student branch and local section, covers soft landing of two automated labs and life-search experiments. Parking available. program open to public. Also, North Bennington thrift shop final sale Friday and Saturday with 10 am to 4 pm hours.
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N.Y
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
RPI
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIAA
15Th Street
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Viking
Mars
Armory
North
Bennington
Pownal Preschool Christmas Bazaar Saturday December 4
The Pownal Preschool hosts a Christmas Bazaar at Pownal Elementary School from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring a rummage sale bake sale and handicrafts with Santa Claus. Donations and a pickup service available by calling the preschool or local numbers provided.
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Santa Claus
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Bette Tolle
Barre Names NYC Sergeant Alfred Barberi as Police Chief
Barre City Council chose Alfred Barberi a 22 year NYPD veteran to become police chief. Barberi will retire Feb 1 to take a 15000 dollar a year Barre post succeeding Floyd Chandler who retired earlier this year. Some officers protested hiring from outside the force. John Kasper Burlington faces habitual offender sentencing in Addison County after a Winooski grocery hold up and prior felonies. Prosecution seeks 50 years to life.
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Middlebury
UPI
John Kasper
Burlington
Kasper
Winooski
Addison County Superior Court
Knife attack leaves John MacIver in critical condition
John MacIver, 21, remained in critical condition with knife wounds after two men entered his Rutland apartment and stabbed him in the throat Friday night. Police assigned a fulltime investigator and alerted authorities across New England as they hunted the assailants. Rutland teachers ratified a new contract ending a six month dispute and averting a potential Vermont teachers strike. The pact sets a base salary of 8025 dollars a year with step raises and benefits for coaches and staff.
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LT. Johnsbury
UPI
John MacIver
MacIver
New England
Rutland
Vermont
Rutland Education Association
Union
Federal plan outlined for new emergency livestock feed
Rep James Jeffords says the Agriculture Department and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration will unveil a replacement for the ending disaster livestock feed program. The initiative targets farmers hit by floods droughts and other natural disasters with low cost feed support.
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Washington, D.C
UPI
James Jeffords
Jeffords
U.S. Agriculture Department
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
Court orders insurer to pay life policy on heroin death
New York Court of Appeals upholds lower rulings, says Continental Insurance must cover a $50,000 life policy for Douglas Miller who died in 1972 from a heroin overdose at his parents home. The court ruled the death was an accident since he took the drug without intent to die.
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Albany
UPI
New York Court of Appeals
New York City
Continental Insurance Co
Douglas Miller
Continental Insurance
Miller
Cohoes Mastodon returns to Cohoes after state loan
Mayor Ronald Canestrari announced a long term loan from the New York State Education Department to bring back the Cohoes Mastodon. The prehistoric mastodon, rebuilt from bones found in Cohoes in 1866, had spent 50 years on display at the Albany state museum before the move.
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Cohoes
New York
Berkshire Power Theft Linked to Rising Rates Mystery
In North Adams Berkshire electricity theft is rare but suspected to correlate with higher power prices. Massachusetts Power Co. officials received an unsigned note claiming “For service not paid for. Guilty conscience” along with ten one hundred dollar bills. They said only three theft incidents occurred recently and refused to detail methods, warning some practices are dangerous and could cause fatalities.
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North Adams
New England Power Co
Berkshires
Massachusetts Power Co
Paul Hartrey
Trio of bears slain in western Massachusetts hunt
Three female bears were killed last week in a Berkshire Franklin county area within a ten mile radius during the six day season limited to four western counties and Worcester. The archery deer season also closed Saturday as officials report statewide midweek totals of 34 bucks and 12 does with a final count expected to top last year’s 113.
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Pittsfield
Western
Worcester County
Berkshire-Franklin County
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