Plans for Manchester Town Office Move Ahead
The Manchester Board of Selectmen announced bid readiness for a small town land location at Manchester Depot to house a new town office. A special town meeting on the first Tuesday in December will seek voter approval. sealed bids are due November 19 at 8 p.m. and may be awarded on factors beyond price if voters approve the project.
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Manchester
Board of Selectmen
Manchester Depot
James Woodard
Woodard
Our Man in Manchester boosts Banner coverage citywide
The Banner appoints Chester C. Ringheiser as Manchester city reporter, effective Nov. 1, to cover all Manchester news and assist reporters in Arlington Dorset Peru and Bondville. Ringheiser, 33, a former wire editor and NBC producer, will help establish headquarters and later subscription and circulation services. The board also discusses park land issues and sand pricing amid winter preparations and private contractors.
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Manchester
Bennington Banner
Donald B. Miller
Philip P. Savory
Chester C. Ringheiser
The
Banner
Manchester News
Arlington
Dorset
Peru
Bondville
Ringheiser
Elizabeth
N.J
St. Bernard’s School
Gladstone
Trinity College
Hartford, Conn
Manchester Town Fathers Meet More Often These Days
Manchester selectmen now meet weekly to handle routine business. They discussed preserving the old firehouse if the Fire District joins town by vote, inspected Hill's Restaurant demolition for insurance on the contractor, and sought action on a Five Flys nightclub banner violation. They planned a maintenance schedule for town equipment, invited bids for an air compressor, and approved maple orders from Sudbury Nurseries. They set highway acceptance for Joseph Markey road, notified residents on non town owned streets about snow plow maintenance after July 1 1966, and discussed a mutual aid plan with Arlington and Dorset to receive Montpelier deliveries. They proposed cooperative hot lunch food use and set a sand charge of 75 cents per yard loaded to Dorset and Manchester.
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Joseph G. Davidson
Mount Equinox
Bentley Hill
Woodard
Davidson
A Rd
Manchester
Dr. Davidson
Orrin Beattie
Sunderland
Sandgate
John Hutton
Robert Squires
Mit
Sudbury Nurseries, Inc
Mass
Hutton
Arlington
Dorset
Montpelier
Bennington College Director Named Arts Council Trustee
In Montpelier the Vermont Council on the Arts gathered about 60 members and guests at the state house for an all day meeting. Committee reports were heard, three new trustees were elected, and a state wide program in the visual and performing arts was discussed. Carleton Howe of Manchester, the president, welcomed artists educators musicians writers museum directors architects photographers and others. Attendees from the local area included Howe James L Montague and Mrs. Emily K Johnson.
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Montpelier
Vermont Council On the Arts
State House
Carleton Howe
Manchester
Howe
James L. Montague
Emily K. Johnson
Minister Honored for Twenty Five Years in Vermont
The Rev. Theodore Gregg former pastor at East Arlington Federated Church is honored for 25 years in the ministry. Open house planned at his Harvard Massachusetts church. Trustees named William Bales Richard Janson and Edward Feidner. Guest speaker William Hull of the New York Council on the Arts urges statewide survey of Vermont artistic resources. Council trustees meet November 6 in Middlebury to plan the 1966 arts program.
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Theodore Gregg
East Arlington Federated Church
Harvard
Mass
Phyllis Newman
Bolton Road
Southern Vermont Art Center
Dean Fausett
Dorset
Mortimer Kollender
Manchester
William Bales
Bennington College
Richard Janson
Fleming Museum
Burlington
Edward Feidner
UVM
Paul Aschenbach
Charlotte
William Avery
Brattleboro
William Hull
New York Council On the Arts
Syracuse
Hull
Vermont
Vermont Council On the Arts
Middlebury
Manchester Elementary School to close early for conferences
Manchester Manchester Elementary School will close at 12 15 p m one day due to parent teacher conferences as announced by Principal Donald R Shanks. No hot lunch or afternoon kindergarten. Conferences are also scheduled for Monday evening.
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Manchester
Donald R. Shanks
Shanks
Lynn Averill
Newington
Conn
Thomas Martin
Sunderland
Harriet Dobson
Winhall
Highland Avenue
Tri-Valley
Eusgene Kayatta
John Moore
Arlington
John Shuell
Peru
Manchester Ninety Home Demonstration Members Salute UN
Nearly 90 members of Home Demonstration groups attended the fall meeting of the Homemakers Council in Manchester Bennington County. The theme honored the United Nations and its 20th anniversary with a UN Day luncheon featuring dishes from member countries and decorations. Speakers included former Rep. George J. Heaslip of Manchester on Vermont reapportionment, and Mrs Heaslip attended the UN luncheon.
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Manchester
Homemakers Council
Bennington County Extension Service
United Nations
Israel Congregation
IOOF
Mt. Equinox
Maple Leaf
Winhall
Peru
Edwin K. Treat
Marion Harris
Bennington
Helgi Mets
U.N
Mets
Council
Philippines
Waltrode Pierce
North Bennington
Purdue University
Dorothy Damour
Helen Pearson
Marjorie Simmons
Betty Jones
West Arlington
Tours
Evelyn Jones
Dorset
George J. Heaslip
Vermont
Heaslip
Senators Plan Dance To Benefit Injured Youth
The Senators a Norshaft teenage group plan a benefit dance Friday night for William Lorette 16 injured last week in an auto accident in Hoosick The event at North Bennington Firehouse runs 812 p.m with music by The Vikings Public invited Lorette was among six injured and listed in critical condition at Putnam Memorial Hospital on NY 22
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Shaftsbury
Senators
Norshaft
William Lorette
Clarence Decker
North Bennington
Vikings
Lorette
N.Y
Hoosick
Putnam Memorial Hospital
SOS Brings Special Film To Manchester
The Manchester Film Society opens its season with The Gold Rush starring Charlie Chaplin. When the scheduled short failed to arrive, director Mrs. John Hawkes organized a surprise. Robert H. Woodworth of Be College will screen color films from his own collection, shown around the country. Mrs Hawkes, a Bennington College alumna, praises the North Benningtonian for the help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Film Society
Charlie Chaplin
John Hawkes
Be College
Robert H. Woodworth
Bennington College
Peru Pastor Pryce to chair Operation Friendship committee
Reverend Richard Pryce of Peru and Londonderry Congregational Church will lead the local Operation Friendship committee. The annual program will host foreign students December 26 to 31 with supervision of student placements at a tea hosted by Col. and Mrs. Jackson Matthews. Richard Po Taylor of New York City could not attend but plans to schedule another meeting soon.
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Peru
Richard Pryce
Londonderry
Friendship
Springfield
Bennington
Pryce
Jackson Matthews
Richard Po
Taylor
New York City
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Rutlander
Wilmington
Otis
Bel Air
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Sales & Service
Manchester Center
Tel
Arts Council
East
Amelia Lawrence
Vermont Investment Corporation
U.S. 7
East Dorset
Peter Fontana
Helen F. Watkins
Fairfield
Beech Ridge
Vermont Railway, Inc
State of
Dufresne Pond
Stanley
Bertha Petersen
Eugene
Lydia Moffitt
Max Seaton
Robert Armstrong
Eugene List
James Beattie
Barnumville Road
Hanley Farm
Edward Canfield
Potomac, Md
Monday Club
Paul H. Bullock
Seminary Avenue
Earle Fowler
Walter Hard
First Baptist Church
Service Club
Howard G. Marsden
William A. Griffith
Bischotts Restaurant
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Main ST
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