Arlington community notices and skating schedule update
Arlington announces rummage sale preparations at Bailey Hall with a guest speaker for the Garden Club and a full week of public skating sessions at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating Rink in North Adams. The calendar lists club meetings, hockey games, fundraisers, and a terrarium or cactus garden theme picnic following the guest talk.
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Livingston Rice
Battenhill Crafts
Manchester
Arlington Garden Club
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
North Adams
Donald Kendall
Firehouse
East Arlington
Community House
Arlington Chorale
Windham to host former Drama Review editor Richard Schotter
Windham College will host ex Drama Review editor Richard Schotter on Oct 18 as part of the Thursday Evening Lecture Series. He will speak on A Possible Theater: Ideas for the 70s, after earning a PhD at Columbia and spending 1967-68 as a Fulbright in England researching Shaw productions.
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Putney
Richard Schotter
The
Drama Review
Windham College
Schotter
Columbia University
Eric Bentley
England
George Bernard Shaw
American Place Theater
County Cub Scout leaders meetings in Bennington County
Two activities scheduled this week for Cub Scout leaders. On Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the Burr and Burton Cafeteria Manchester the October Round table features Genius themed games and demonstrations of Genius kits plus a discussion on Cub Scout projects. Saturday Oct 20 Bailey Hall East Arlington 1 to 4 p m hosts the annual Cub Leaders College detailing pack leadership den operation program planning and Webelos Den operation. Over 300 boys participate in Bennington County Scouting with Green Mountain Council offering leader training.
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Manchester
Bennington County
Burr and Burton
Bailey Hall
East Arlington
Pownal Fire and Library Schedule Announced
The Solomon Wright Library in Pownal opens Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9. The Pownal Fire Protective Association and North Pownal Volunteer Fire Department both meet tonight at 7 at their respective firehouses. East Pownal Fire Auxiliary holds its first meeting of the year at Pownal Elementary School. Snowmobilers in Pownal are invited to join.
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Solomon Wright
Pownal
North Pownal
East Pownal
Simon's Rock alumni rate their education
GREAT BARRINGTON Mass Simon s Rock the first college in the country to enroll students after Grade 10 in a four year program of college studies has been evaluated by its own former students Results of a questionnaire sent to all alumni were released today by Dr Nancy Goldberger director of evaluation at the college Almost 80 per cent rated it from good to excellent A former student who transferred to Princeton said they offer the same math course in the freshman year as at Simon s Rock A graduate at Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies found the early college program stimulating while later years were repetitive and boring A Penn graduate called the early college a jump ahead from the lag in high school and first years of usual college The college has started a pilot BA program enabling some entering students to receive a BA degree four years after completing the tenth grade
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Great Barrington
Mass
Simon’s Rock
Nancy Goldberger
Goldberger
Princeton
Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Massachusetts Board of High Education
Berkshire Symphony Opens Season with Four Concerts
Berkshire Symphony announces its 1973 1974 season under Julius Heggs with concerts on Oct 26 Nov 30 Mar 8 and May 3 in Chapin Hall Williams College. Highlights include Barrows Sinfonia Concertante with English horn trumpet and contrabass and guest guitarist Oscar Ghiglia on Mar 8 plus the May 3 guest pianist winner of the 1973 Van Cliburn Competition. The ensemble totals about 80 players drawn from Williams College New York Vermont Connecticut and local amateurs and professionals.
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William Town
Mass
Julius Heggs
Berkshire Symphony
Schumann
Manfred
Penderecki
Ravel
Robert Barrow
Franck
Sprague Electric Company
William College
Williams College
New York
Vermont
Connecticut
Chapin Hall
Richard Donati
Colonial Village
Williamstown
Vermont Hospital Auxiliary Council officers elected at Stratton
Mrs. Max Hittle of Montpelier was elected president of the Vermont Hospital Auxiliary Council at Stratton during the VHAC annual meeting with the Vermont Hospital Association attended by 48 members from 15 Vermont hospitals. New officers include president elect Mrs. John Houpis Brattleboro secretary Mrs. Robert Noonan Fanny Allen treasurer Mrs. William Mantel Grace Cottage and three regional chairs.
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John McKinley
WHAC
Garnett Harvey
Thomas Dowd
Robert Noonan
John Houpis
Max Hittle
Robert Rogers
William Mantel
Stratton
Montpelier
Vermont Hospital Auxiliary Council
Vermont Hospital Association
VHAC
Middlebury
McKinley
Brattleboro
Fanny Allen
Grace Cottage
Kerbs
Western
North Country
Eastern
Springfield
Southern
Putnam Memorial Hospital
William F. Castle Sr
Charles Gould
Edward Worthington
Bernard Cohen
Conrad Hoffman
Katherine Brubaker
Charles Thompson
Ogden Knapp
Landowners oppose Vermont land use plan protests
In Lyndonville the Landowners Steering Committee signals opposition to a proposed land-use plan linked to Act 250. Committee spokesman Gerald Farrington accuses the Salmon administration of sneaking the plan past citizens and the legislature despite governor assurances that all will be heard. Meanwhile, Vermont groups push environmental safeguards and status updates on negotiations, hearings, and hunting incidents across the state.
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Lyndonville
UPI
Vermont
Gerald Farrington
Salmon Administration
State Environmental Board
Farrington
New York Town Attorney to reveal charges against police chief
Schodack Town Attorney Donald Walsh is set to file public papers today detailing charges against Police Chief Frank Vasquez, dismissed by the town board for alleged incompetency and misconduct. Vasquez calls the move a personal vendetta as he seeks a public hearing demanded by him.
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Schodack
Donald Walsh
Frank Vasquez
Walsh
Albany I-90 project nears finish to Boston link
Six miles of I-90 remain between Albany and the Berkshire Extension of the New York Thruway to complete the high speed expressway to Boston. Four miles opened last week and the rest is due by 1975 if the $3.5 million transportation bond issue is approved in November. Construction began in 1967 to provide a toll-free direct route from downtown Albany to Boston, bypassing part of the Thruway.
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Albany
Berkshire
Boston
Dagger Seized in Berkshire District Court Incident
In Pittsfield Berkshire a 16 inch blade in a cane sheath was taken by police from 17 year old Bruce K Way after a disturbance Thursday night. Police had earlier seized the same weapon from 17 year old Mark Elworthy who caused a similar disturbance and later returned it to Elworthy before he sold it to Way.
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Pittsfield
Bruce K. Way
Mark Elworthy
Elworthy
Way
Hare Krishna Devotees Visit Pittsfield For Three Days
Two shaved-headed monks of the Hare Krishna movement spoke in Pittsfield last week as part of their western Massachusetts apostolate. They handed out literature, solicited donations along North Street, and chanted Hare Krishna Hare Rama. Students showed interest and many bought Elevation to Krishna Consciousness. The visitors praised Berkshire hospitality and said locals were in the mode of goodness.
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Pittsfield
Divine Grace
Prabhupada
Massachusetts
North Street
Berkshires
Rape Trial In Berkshire County For West Stockbridge Incident
William Kie, 20, faces rape and assault with a dangerous weapon charges in Berkshire County Superior Court. The trial, the second of six linked to an April 30 1972 incident, centers on a knife threat and a sexual assault of a 23 year old Washington woman outside the Country Squire Restaurant and at a West Stockbridge house.
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West Stockbridge
Berkshire County Superior Court
William Kie
Warlocks
Kie
Washington
Country Squire
Chesire
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North Berkshire
Bennington Catamounts
Berkshire Spurs
MAYAA
Watervilet Generals
Taconic Park Gully Cats
Valatie Blues
Ladies of Federated Church
Battenhill Grange
Grange Hall
West Arlington
St. Margaret Mary’s Hall
Enterprise Society
Battenkill Grange
Windham
Garden Club of
Philip Benedict
Division of
Vermont Department of Agriculture
Queens College of
City University of New York
Windham College Science
Bennington
Main Street
Equal Housing Lender
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Finast
Route
Cub Scout Leaders Meetings
Green Mountain Council
Boy Scouts of America
Pamela Blakeman
Grant City
Monument Plaza
Bennington, VT
Hospital Auxiliary Council
Agency of Human Services
Fienberg
Main ST
Berkshire Optical
Beej Optical
Weber
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Operators Union
Bryant Grinder Co
Jones and Lamson
Alexander MacCormack
Burlington
Plainfield
Medical Center Hospital
Kevin Copeland
Derek
Kevin
Berlin
Bow Hunter
Stannard
John DiDomenico
Woodbridge
Conn
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