Zoning board delays nursing home permit decision
Bennington's Village Zoning Board of Adjustment postponed for two weeks a ruling on a 100 bed nursing home proposed by Bruce J. Levinsky of Pittsfield VI. The panel asked for detailed water sewer and access plans and whether the town would accept an entrance road. Residents voiced concerns about traffic and services, while designer Charles E. Dewey III and landowner Dewey reported on the site between Putnam and Dewey streets.
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Bennington
Virginia N
Max” Perotta
Bruce J. Levinsky
Pittsfield
Putnam and
Dewey Streets
Levinsky
Charles E. Dewey III
Bennington Land Records
Dewey
Weeks Street
John Racicot
Putnam St
Thomas D. Cook Jr
Weeks St
Cook
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Racicot
David J. Alexander
Crescent Manor
Crescent Boulevard
Alexander
Burlington
Rutland
Putnam Street
Dewey Street
Perrotta
Zoning Board
Putnam Hospital
Bennington taxes debate widens as sisters urge reappraisal
At an appraisal hearing only four people attended, including Town Manager Edward R. Lamb, prompting Frank J. Hogan to declare shock at low turnout. Cheshire Massachusetts assessors cited 100 percent valuation, while Vermont uses 50 percent, and plans for a third public hearing and a 10 percent tax jump for unreassessed houses were discussed.
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Edward R. Lamb
Bennington Sisters
Bennington
Frank J. Hogan
Cheshire
Hogan
Henry Callan
North Adams
Mass
Hoff Prouty clash on defense spending in Rutland forum
UPI reports Vermont senatorial hopefuls Hoff and Prouty clashed over defense spending at a Rutland candidate forum. Hoff claimed 70 percent of federal resources go to defense. Prouty called that figure erroneous and said about 37 percent is for defense. They had sparred earlier at Mt. St. Joseph Academy debate over the sales tax.
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Winhall
Henry Edgerton
Stevens
Southern Vermont Conservation Society
Vermont
Jamaica
Rutland
UPI
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Prouty
Congress
Mt. St. Joseph Academy
Deane C. Davis
Leo O'Brien
Davis
O’brien
Elks wind up Silver Towers camp drive
Vermont State Elks wrap up annual drive to raise funds for Silver Towers Camp for Retarded Children. Top prize is a Hawaii trip for two, to be sent via local lodges with a October 12 deadline to Howard Rudd, treasurer, Bennington. Winners revealed October 17 at Springfield lodge.
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Vermont State Elks
Silver Towers Camp
Hawaii
Elks Lodge
Vermont
Silver Towers
Howard Rudd
BPOE
Washington Ave
Bennington
State Lodge
Springfield Lodge
Developers plead for Mad River dam permit
In Montpelier UPI report Fletcher Joslin counsel for Hemco Co. asks the Water Resources Board to base its ruling on facts rather than public opinion regarding the stalled application to construct a dam on the Mad River in Waitsfield and filed proposed findings of fact Thursday.
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Montpelier
UPI
Waitsfield
Water Resources Board
Mad River
Fletcher Joslin
Hemco Co
Joslin
Vermont
Mad River Valley Association
Jonathan Brownell
Brownell
Garden Club Auction Set In Old Bennington
Members of the Bennington Garden Club finish month long prep today for a benefit auction at Old First Church Barn in Old Bennington near the monument. The sale uses paintings willed by the late Mrs. Robert M. Parmelee to support the club’s land projects.
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Bennington Garden Club
Old First Church
Old Bennington
Robert M. Parmelee
Garden Club
Bennington Community Notices Pulse Through Week
On Monday Columbus Day the food stamp office on BenMont Avenue closes. A panel on house plants for Plain DIRT Gardeners meets Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Pat Jesseman’s home, part of a horticulture study leading to a June show. Ducking through events: a dance at VFW Hall Saturday 9 to 1 with Moe Harrington, a public card party tonight at 8, and a children's wear sale Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. plus numerous charity activities, crafts, and senior center programs.
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BenMont Avenue
Pat Jesseman
Plain Dirt
VFW Hall
Moe Harrington
Country Drifters
Senior Citizens Center
David Morris
Prospect St
Oakley Frost
Clinical Congress of American Collegr Et Sesgrene Ie Sonne
Moose Hall
Women of the Moose
Hospital Notes and Local Obituaries Highlight October 8, 1970
Admissions include Augustine O’Brien Manchester Miss Melissa Bisson Hoosick Falls Truman Powers Whitingham Rev Clement G Belcher Arlington Mrs Ethel Bourn North Pownal Mrs Martha Bowen Arlington Francis P Connelly Mrs Hilda Barber Bennington Discharges include Miss Dorothy Knapp Stanley Goodhue Mrs Jennie Ordway Bennington Master Scott Richmond North Bennington W Averell Brown Old Bennington Mrs Marion Greene Mrs Bertha Rhodes Pownal Births to Kenneth Hitchock East Dorset and Milton Waibel Manchester Depot on Oct 8 The article also covers a waterway development controversy at a ski resort dam plan with state regulation context and a detailed obituary for Harvey N Pease of Stephentown with service details and survivors.
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Augustine O’brien
Manchester
Melissa Bisson
Hoosick Falls
Truman Powers
Whitingham
Clement G. Belcher
Arlington
Ethel Bourn
North Pownal
Martha Bowen
Francis P. Connelly
Hilda Barber
Bennington
Dorothy Knapp
Stanley Goodhue
Jennie Ordway
Scott Richmond
North Bennington
W. Averell Brown
Old Bennington
Hanover Woman Dies in Crash on U S 5
UPI reports Mrs Gertrude Riegel 74 of Hanover N H was killed in a single car crash on U S 5 when the car she rode in went off a left curve and struck a concrete wall. Her husband Robert E Riegel 72 was hospitalized in fair condition at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover.
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Norwich
UPI
Gertrude Riegel
Hanover
N.H
Riegel
U.S. 5
Mary Hitchcock Hospital
Robert E. Riegel
Prouty proposes programs to meet nursing shortage
Senator Winston Prouty urged new and expanded nursing programs at a Vermont meeting. He called for work-study plans for licensed practical nurses aiming to become registered, and for the Nurse Talent Search to recruit both PNs and RNs. He noted about 300,000 inactive nurses and a projected national shortage of 240,000 by 1980, urging training expansion and reducing nonnursing duties to free nurses for patient care.
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Burlington
Winston Prouty
Practical Nurse Association of Vermont
Prouty
Senate Health Subcommittee
Coburn Fund For Nursing Education Created At Putnam Hospital
Putnam Memorial Hospital announces the Phyllis Coburn Education Fund to aid postgraduate nursing education and nursing student training. Dr. Richard Fabricius and Dr. James Toolan lead the effort. over $1,000 has been raised with a $5,000 goal for an endowment funded by donations.
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Richard Fabricius
The
Putnam Memorial Hospital
James M. Toolan
Phyllis Coburn
Hospital
Ee Board
Wetland Dynamics in New England lecture at Bennington College
Dr. William A. Niering, director of the Connecticut Arboretum and Connecticut College botany professor, will speak on wetland dynamics in New England at 8 p.m. Sunday Oct 11 as the fifth Noyes Lecture in Ecology. He has long studied habitat dynamics and conservation.
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Bennington College
William A. Niering
Noyes
Niering
Connecticut Arboretum
Connecticut College
Pennsylvania State University
Rutgers
New England
Pocono Mountains
Pennsylvania
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Newshire
New Hampshire
Salmon
Bennington Industries
Tom Salmon
Tansitor Electronics Inc
Robert Bradt
Leo O’brien
Windsor
the Paradise
Jeffords
Bennington Brush Co
Daniel Cadiz
Cadiz
Harold Gordon
Bernard Ryan
Edward Keough
Paul Clermont
Old Bennington, Vermont
Robert Herron
Austerlitz
New York
Sisters
Catherine G. Cooper
Everett Martin
Don O’bryan
Court St. Andrew
Catholic Daughters of America
K of C
Massachusetts
Bay State
Sheriff's Posse
Bennington County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse
Robert Cash
Pownal
C. H. van Steemburg
Stamford
Elks
Silver Towers Camp Drive
Bennington Briefs
YMCA
Gage Street
Arthur J. Dewey
Monument Road
Cochairman
Walter A. Lapham
Loyal Nash
Fairview Street
Helen Thomas
Elm Street
Caroline Darlington
Monument Avenue
Edward J. Cumpston
Waldo Holden
Frederick Welling
Hall Cushman
Wilbur C. Rice
Charles Tilgner III
Dudley Baker
Harvey N. Pease
Stephentown
N.Y
Arthur
Salamanca
Charles and
Effie (Pitts) Pease
Walter Adams
Averill Park
Taconic Valley Grange
Royal Arch Masons
New Lebanon
Mabel A. Weaver
Robert W. Pease
Arthur L. Pease
Hall & Higgins Funeral
Stanley Fry
Coburn Fund For Nursing
Arizona
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Wesleyan University
McGraw Hill
Zenith
Eamel Comer
Kenneth A. Beauchemin
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