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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1977
Page
9
Rebecca 3 and Robert 5 have endured four hospitalizations for lead poisoning with tests still positive. Massachusetts inspectors push for home defense under a 1971 law while provider shortages and political infighting threaten the program.
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project with Normandeau Associates will analyze lake trout and sediment cores from the Allagash Waterway to determine mercury sources. Earlier work found brook and lake fish exceeding 0.5 ppm mercury limits, prompting deeper investigation into deposition patterns and historical levels.
Sunderland Junior Girl Scout Troop 477 with patrol leaders Heidi Hunt and Margaret Clark plus assistants Vicky Moffitt and Katie Langlois spent Oct. 20 on an all day hike to Rocky Lane. They learned firebuilding and knots, held a scavenger hunt, performed a nature skit, and enjoyed hot cocoa with bag lunches.
Vermont Yankee begins tripling its spent fuel pool capacity from 600 to about 2,000 assemblies. The $1.8 million expansion involves installing additional storage racks, with half done this year and the rest later. NRC approval was granted despite appeals from three anti nuclear groups.
Democrats in Winooski will caucus again to nominate a replacement for Rep. James Shea after casement controversy. Former Mayor Dominique Casavant faces opposition from Noel Viens as Gov. Snelling requests a second caucus amid a split in the local party. Normand Shaw warns the rift may not heal before next year’s primary.
Central Vermont Public Service Corp President James Griffin told a Public Service Board hearing that inflation is the major factor behind the proposed 16.4 percent electric rate increase. He said higher costs cannot be borne by the utility alone and must be passed to customers, with a five year construction plan totaling about $87 million, a 60 percent rise over current assets.
Vermont State College Trustees approve an 18 million, 10 year capital improvement budget with 674000 set for next year at three of five schools. Projects include 600000 to expand Johnson State dormitory and office building, plus gym expansion at Castleton State and planning a new maintenance building at Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center. Peggy Longe pleads innocent to second degree arson in Montgomery Elementary School fire.
In Ft Edward New York Terry Mannell 24 fatally shot himself after police failed to stop him while using Citizens Band radio to reach him for over five hours. Mannell parked at 44 Broadway collapsed after being shot and was listed in serious condition at Glens Falls Hospital. State police tracked a death by own action threat heard on a car CB late Sunday and tried to dissuade him amid family problems. In Windham Greene County a hunter found the decomposed body of a man in his 30s likely shot head wound. investigators cannot yet determine murder accident or suicide. Remains found at Cross Roads may have sat there for months.
Heavy rains clear silt from the Clam River after construction of a flood-control dam in SANDISFIELD. Officials say cleaning the river would do more harm than good. The dam, last of five, will be stocked for fishing next year. A Lee robber wearing a ski mask and armed with a long gun robbed a Massachusetts Turnpike Exxon station of about $900 Sunday night. police are unsure if the thief fled by foot or car.
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