Army Corps backs Passamaquoddy tidal power study
The U S Army Corps of Engineers approves a life cycle feasibility study of generating electricity from Passamaquoddy Bay tides on the Maine Canada border. Col. John P Chandler says the three to four year research will cover marketing, transmission, social and environmental impacts and design options.
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Army Corps
Passamaquoddy
Augusta
Maine
Corps
Chandler
U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
Passamaquoddy Bay
Cook Inlet
Alaska
Corps of Engineers
Federal Power Commission
New Fiction Titles at Bennington Free Library
A list of new fiction and reference books arriving at Bennington Free Library includes Rickman Branston Brautigan Coover Darcy Farmer Ferrars Fowles Gibbon Hill Holt Ottum Stewart Van Slyke and other authors. The collection features classic novels, biographies and literary histories, alongside works on religion, science and social topics from publishers and university presses.
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Rickman
Branston
Brautigan
Babylon
Coover
Rosenbergs
Darcy
Cressida
Farmer
Tarzan
Ferrars
Fowles
Daniel Martin
Gibbon
Hill
Holt
Ottum
The
Tuesday Blade
Stewart
van Slyke
Bennington area unemployment rate drops to 3.2 percent
Uninsured jobless rate in the Bennington area for September averaged 3.2 percent, per Terrance A. Perkins of the Department of Employment Security. The rate is below the state 3.4 percent, down from 3.6 percent in August 1977 and 4.6 percent in September 1976, with 1,417 unemployed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Terrance A. Perkins
Department of Employment Security
Union Carbide Corp
Bennington County
Four plus two days sale by 4-H Jeans and Jodhpurs club
The 4-H Jeans and Jodhpurs Horse Club will hold a tag and food sale on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, at the New England Graphics residence opposite Paper Mill Bridge on Route 67A from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Items include ski equipment, skates, a pool, books, patterns, pocketbooks, golf clubs, shoes, boots and baby goods with low prices and daily additions plus Sunday markdowns and giveaways.
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4-H Jeans and
Jodhpurs Horse Club
New England Graphics
Paper Mill Bridge
Route 67A
Land Use Restrictions Through History and Real Estate Figures
The article traces land use controls from private, humorous historic limits such as blue hats or polka dot roofs to public zoning begun by the 1848 subdivision limits and reinforced by Supreme Court rulings in 1926. It highlights public welfare aims and includes broker Mrs. Hoisington, past president of the Southwestern Vermont Board of Realtors and dean of the Tri-State Real Estate Institute, licensed in Vermont and New York.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Doctors finish main block of Legionnaires outbreak study
A CDC team from Atlanta completed the main block of its investigation into the Vermont Legionnaires disease outbreak and departed Burlington’s Medical Center Hospital. The state Health Department, led by Dorothy Griffith, will lead further inquiries as two more cases were confirmed in Chittenden County, raising Vermont totals to 20 cases and 12 deaths since August.
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Burlington
UPI
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Medical Center Hospital
State Health Department
Chittenden County
Dorothy Griffith
Vermont
Investigation on deaths linked to outbreak continues in Vermont
The probe described the cases as highly probable with one confirmed in Bennington County and others confirmed at the hospital or in Chittenden County where the hospital is located. CDC doctors arrived Sept. 23 to assess the outbreak and departed Thursday. State Epidemiologist Dr. Richard Vogt said the investigation remains intensive and specialists will likely be sent to Burlington periodically.
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Bennington County
Chittenden County
CDC
Griffith
Richard Vogt
Burlington
Marksman Wins Top Awards at Police Combat Championships
Trooper Craig Wood attended the National Police Combat Championships in Jackson Mississippi, a National Rifle Association event for police membership. In the expert division he earned two first place trophies a fifth and seventh place across six matches, placing first overall in aggregate scoring among 900 officers from 40 states. Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Francis E. Lynch offers congratulations.
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Craig Wood
Jackson
Miss
National Rifle Association
Wood
Vermont
Francis E. Lynch
Bennington to Hold Wheel Deal Soap Box Derby on Elm Street
Recreation notes announce the Wheel Deal Soap Box Derby set for Saturday November 5 with a 10 am start on upper Elm Street. Open to male and female racers in three age groups 8-11 12-15 and Masters 16 up. Inspection required for safety and a rules booklet is available at the Rec Center on Gage Street and local schools. Contact the Center at 442-5446.
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Bennington
Upper Elm Street
Rec
Gage Street
United States
Married Priest Emery Priest Jr Weds Yun Yong Ye
Private Emery S. Priest Jr. of Camp Hovey Korea marries Yun Yong Ye of Tong Du Chon Korea in a Korean ceremony on March 16 and a second ceremony September 6 at the American Embassy in Seoul. They plan to return to the United States and Salem in January 1978. Priest is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery S. Priest Sr. and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ennis of East Arlington.
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Salem
N.Y
Emery S. Priest Sr
Emery S. Priest Jr
United States Army
Camp Hovey
Korea
Yun Yong Ye
Tong du Chon
Seoul
United States
Priest
Woodford Lake
James A. Ennis
East Arlington
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Michelle Madison
Laura Despres
Shereen Thayer
Ferrisburg
Gail Thompson
Thompson
Addison
Bennington Free Library
General Barrett
Bath
Con
Belanger
Bowie
Catholic Theological Society of America
Carter
Cerf
Bennet Cerf
Clark
Connelly
Robert E. Lee
Cooke
Davidson
Dreher
Sarnoff
Ehrlich
Erasmus
Foster
Graham
Herriot
Lake Champlain
Hodgson
Holden
Holland
Montagu of
Berlieu
Oakley
Orton
First Vermont Bank
Otto
4-H
Sale
College Station, Tex
By Kathy Hoisington
Legionnaires
Marksman
Fairdale Farms Milk
Madkour
Main ST
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the Department
Bennington Ford
Memorial Park
Middlebury Union High School
Middlebury
Mark Haynes
Shaftsbury
Bill Beddie
Erik Vigsnes
Tim Goodhue
Jim Henry
John Myers
Leon
Tatro
Leon O. Tatro
Tyson
Robert Tatro
North Bennington
Springfield Hospital
Ludlow
Pleasantview Cemetery
Mr. Tatro
Mendon
Frank
Veda
Webster) Tatro
Kenneth
Bethel
Gordon
Westfield
Mass
Hazel Parris
Manchester, N.H
Florence Savage
Hoosick Falls
ST. Mary’s Academy
Parsons Ave
High St
Fienberg
Yong Ye
Geng Acs
Toggery
Playtex
Nichols
Main Street
Ennington
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