Stockbridge firms back plant rebuild after town meeting
The White River Valley Herald reports Stockbridge citizens and Eagle Square Manufacturing Company reached a cooperative plan to rebuild the Stanley Tools subsidiary plant destroyed by fire. The town will spend up to 5000 to prepare a new mill site and drill a well while the company maintains 1300 annual property tax for ten years. Army Pvt. James B. Shields completed helicopter maintenance training at Fort Rucker Alabama after graduating Burr and Burton Seminary and attending the University of Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Square Co
Stockbridge Way
White River
Stockbridge- Pittsfield
Eagle Square Company
Stockbridge
Army
James B. Shields
F., D. Giddings
East Dorset
Aviation Center
Fort Rucker
Ala
Shields
John M. Shields
Pittsfield
Maine
Fort Dix
N.J
Burr and Burton Seminary
Manchester
University of Vermont
Burlington
F .D. Giddings Plumbing and Heating
Manchester Center
Hoosick Falls Lions Announce October Auction
The Hoosick Falls Town Lions Club plans an October 19 auction with donations sought. Contact William Sigalos at 686-9500 for pickup. John Keough chairs the sale to aid community endeavors. Frank Buswell announces upcoming committee appointments for Boys and Girls Work, Civic Improvement, Attendance, Constitution, Finance, Membership, Program and Entertainment, Eye Glass Collection, Parade Float, Inter-Club, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Lions Club
William Sigalos
John Keough
Frank Buswell
Michael Mahoney
William Rourke
Harry Highfield
Robert Hall
George Scott
Paul LaPorte
Leo Albowicz
Edward Baker
George Dougherty
George Holbrook
Joseph Buckley
Donald Smith
Ben Harrison
William G. Burns
Donald Bogardus
Donald Bradley
Howard O’brien
Tiny Sargood
John Lipolace
Robert Mihuta
Hoosick
Union Carbide
North Bennington Notes and Upcoming Community Events
North Bennington residents are invited to a car wash Saturday from 10 to 4 at Moriarty's Filling Station to raise money for the senior Girl Scout uniform fund. World-Wide Communion Sunday services are planned at 11 a.m. at the Congregational Church. A youth communion service is set for 6 30 p.m. in Shaftsbury with transportation arranged from 6 15 p.m. Some local news includes Linda Briggs returning to second grade on crutches after a car incident. The Nadeau family moved to Alton Virginia with new owners the Dunklees. Catherine Corcoran NEHS principal attended a regional conference in Portsmouth New Hampshire discussing Education for 1980.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moriarty’s
Bank Square
North Bennington
United Church of Christ
Linda Briggs
Linda
Virgil Nadeau
Sage St
Alton
Nadeau
Alan Dunklee
Bennington
Dunklee
Prospect Mt
Woodford
Catherine Corcoran
NEHS
Wentworth-by-the-Sea
Portsmouth
N.H
New England
Corcoran
Red Carpet Supper At Readsboro Church Fair
Readsboro First Baptist Church invites travelers to a Saturday fair from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Main Street featuring jams jellies crafts plants and vegetables with a teen staffed snack bar and pony rides by Willard Christensen. A ham supper at 5 p.m. and 6 30 p.m. will fund the church red carpet renovation with proceeds going to the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Readsboro
First Baptist Church
Main Street
Willard Christensen
Wendell Morse
Whitingham
Boy Scout Law Used To Guide Youth Development
NORTH BENNINGTON The Green Mountain Council annual fund campaign begins Sunday as readers are reminded of how Scout Law guides parent and community involvement. The piece notes trustworthiness, loyalty, helpfulness, kindness, obedience, thrift, bravery, cleanliness and reverence as tools for shaping disciplined, considerate youth through Scouting and volunteer leaders. It argues Scouts offer constructive outlets beyond delinquency and urges support for the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Green Mountain Council
Boy Scouts of America
America
Cub Scout
Young America
North Village School PTA Meets Tuesday
North Bennington parents and friends are invited to the first North Village School PTA meeting next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the school gym. A pie auction will raise funds for the PTA treasury, and the program titled Where Did We Get Our School? offers informative, novel presentations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
PTA
Association
Shaftsbury
NBHS
Wesleyan Class Meeting Set for Friday Evening
The Wesleyan Class will meet Friday October 11 at 8 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Beals Sr. in a local church community gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesleyan
Harry W. Beals Sr
Arlington Eleonor Albee Grand Variety Store Opens
Fred and Adeline Naes celebrate the grand opening of their new variety store in Arlington. The business, acquired from Mrs. Wilbur Corey, has operated five years in the mercantile trade and will continue its opening festivities tomorrow and Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Adeline Naes
Wilbur Corey
Community notices from Wilmington and surrounding towns
Local church meetings and club events announced for October including Boy Scout solicitors gathering at Baptist Church Vestry 2 p.m. to 4 30 p.m. on Saturday Mothers Club birthday party Monday at 8 p.m. at the Baptist Vestry Home Demonstration Autumn Tour planned for Friday morning Village trustees meet Monday 8 p.m. at Town Offices. Birth announcements at Middleton Hospital Guilford and Londonderry Vermont announce Alan Sherwood Pardee. A surprise shower honored Mrs Reginald Martin with cradle gifts. Episcopal service Sunday 8 p.m. at Grange Hall officiated by Rev Donald Webster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Church
J. Reginald Martin
Mothers’ Club
Reginald Martin
Baptist Ladies Aid
Evening Guild
Bertha Boyd
Marie Taylor
Thelma Boyd
Helen Worden
Barbara Look
Phyllis Dunn
Mrs. Martin
Sunday in New York at Dorset Playhouse revue review
Norman Krasna’s Sunday in New York opened at Dorset Playhouse by Caravan Theater under Patricia Carmichael to run tonight and weekend shows. Lynette Mettey leads as the puzzled virgin with Barry Dunleavey, Tony Aylward, Judith Booth, and Fred Carmichael delivering light, breezy performances in this theatrical snapshot of postwar romance and city life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Norman Krasna
Dorset Playhouse
Caravan Theater
Patricia Carmichael
Adam Taylor
Barry Dunleavey
Eileen Taylor
Lynette Mettey
Patriciozzo
Judith Booth
Mike Mitchell
Tony Aylward
Russell Wilson
Fred Carmichael
Dorset
England
France
Bali
Mr. Kresna
Margaret Mead
Samoa
Foster
Local visits and events in Hoosick and Greenwich area
Mrs. Harrison J. Philpott and Mrs. Charles E. Breer visited Mrs. Albert Sabin in Boyntonville on Saturday. The Crusaders Class of the Baptist Church held its annual dinner and meeting at Valerie's Restaurant in Greenwich on Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Madison and daughter Lois of Buffalo visited Mrs. Madison's sister Mrs. Anson R. Norcutt Sunday at the home of Mrs. Harry C. Bratt. Millard Foland and son Larry, Mrs. Ethel Foland, and others from Jonesville and Grafton were Sunday dinner guests at the Rifenburg home. The Hoosick Grange will sponsor a dance Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison J. Philpott
Charles E. Breer
Albert Sabin
Boyntonville
Crusaders
The
Baptist Church
Valerie
Greenwich
Harmon Madison
Lois
Buffalo
Madison
Anson R. Norcutt
Harry C. Bratt
Millard Foland
Larry
Ethel Foland
Jonesville
Eugene Hammond
Horace
Helen Crandall
Grafton
George Rifenburg
Hoosick Grange
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jabled
Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls Little Theatre
Peg Fleming
Little Theater
Karen Andre
Ron Badgeley
Eagle Square
Harte Theatre
Dor Day
Garner Ross HA
Astm
Arlene Francis
SUN
Hope Ebbel
STADE
Amazons of
Rome
Louie Jordan
Sylvia
SYMS
Iking Kong
Godzilla
Sworth Hoosick
Eelore
AOA
Herbert Lom
Hot Rod Girl
Lori Nelson
Chuck Connors
Edith Beaumont
Elizabeth Dwyer
Cludes
Gilbert Sprague
Donald King
John Birch, Sr
Richard Phelps
Llewellyn Sprague
Forrest Hicks
Papa
North Village School
Aned and
Thurs
FBI
Pownall Vera Langiais
Arlington
Eleanor Albee
Wilmington
Dover
Denise Allen
Middleton Hospital
Middle
Conn
Alan Sherwood
Martha (Crafts
Sherwood Pardee
Guilford, Conn
Londonderry
Grange Hall
Donald Webster
Drysdale’s Free Parking
Vermont Art Center
Vermont
New York State
Nature
William Gilbert
Ada M. Breer
Main St. Bennington
Wes Ree
Hotel Putnam Se
Colonial Shopping Ctr
Williamstown
Mass
Robert Greene
MOBIL
Robert
County St
Dial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!