Chessmen of many worlds on display at Met Museum
The Met’s current exhibition showcases chess sets from around the globe, from a seventh century Persian elephant piece to 20th century American abstract cubes and pyramids. The display illustrates how chess pieces mirror their eras and cultures as the world championship match between Fischer and Spassky unfolds.
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Staunton
Bobby Fischer
Barls Spassky
Teeland
Metropolitan Museum
Decorative Arta
Max Ernst
Man Ray
Ives Tanguy
Marcel Guchamp
Howard Staunton
Neil Diamond to play SPAC concert in Saratoga Springs
Neil Diamond returns to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Sept 3 at 8 30 pm. The show is nearly sold out with lawn seating available. Diamond, famed for songs like Holly Holy and Sweet Caroline, has a long charting career and multiple gold albums.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Neil Diamond
Saratoga Ferfaming Arts Center
Diamond
Holly Holy
Cashbox
Elvis Presley
Mantayant
New York Removes 260 Illegal Billboards and Signs
The New York Department of Transportation has removed about 260 illegal outdoor signs along state and interstate highways over four months. It has mailed more than 1,500 removal notices, typically one to landowners and one to sign owners. Under the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 and 1968 state laws, signs within 660 feet of highway rights of way are targeted, especially if not on the advertiser premises, with rules on size spacing and lighting.
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Albany
N.Y
State Department of Transportation
Congress
New York
Pownal church and fire groups schedule meetings
The North Pownal Congregational Church choir will rehearse Saturday at 2 pm. The Mayflower Pack and senior youth fellowship meet at the parsonage, the former at 6 pm and the latter at 7 pm. The North Pownal Center fire auxiliary meets Tuesday Sept 5 at 7:90 pm at the firehouse. The North Pownal Volunteer Fire Department meets Saturday between 1 and 2 pm at the old Parmenter farm to burn down the remaining structure. No meeting Monday. The Pownal fire auxiliary meets Tuesday at 7 pm at the firehouse. The Pownal Fire Protective Association will not meet Monday.
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Pownal Center
Firehouse
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Pownal Fire Protective Association
Woodford Democrats Nominate Five for Justice of the Peace
Woodford Democrats caucusing last night nominated Jesse Hughee Rose Wright Mary Lauzon Jack Cleary and Toni Button for the office of justice of the peace.
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Woodford
Office of Justice of the Peace
Jesse Hughee
Rose Wright
Mary Lauzon
Jack Cleary
Toni Button
Fowler relatives visit from Michigan and New York
Mr and Mrs Brian R Fowler and infant Douglas Read of Farmington Michigan and Miss Diana and Judy Fowler of Villahoro New York were guests of grandparents Mr and Mrs Earle J Fowler. They were accompanied by their mother Mrs Virginia B Fowler.
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Brian R. Fowler
Douglas Read
Farmington, Mich
Diana and
Judy Fowler
Villahoro
N.Y
Earle J. Fowler
Virginia B. Fowler
Pine Cobble to Open New School Building in September
Pine Cobble School will begin its first full year in the new building September 13 with about 140 pupils. The old classrooms moved in April. New staff include Margaret Meachem teaching music, Lynn Heyman French, Robert Loomis Grade 5 math coordinator, Jerome Baron social studies, Dorothy E. Seney Grade 3, Marilyn Giersbach and Gwen Steege art, Francis Foley Jr. as assistant director and upper school advisor, Lee Dalrell librarian. Enrollment limited with openings in grades 3 6 and 7. about 25 percent of students bused from Bennington Stamford and North Adams areas.
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Pine Cobble School
Eleanor Patterson
Margaret Meachem
Petty Pierce
Meachem
Pine Cobble
Bennington College
University of Mass
Robert Loomis
Williams College
Lynn Heyman
University of Massachusetts
Mt. Greylock Regional High School
Ernest Brundage
Williamstown
Our Lady of the
Dorothy E. Seney
North Adams State College
Little Red
Marilyn Giersbach
Gwen Steege
Giersbach
Southern Connecticut State College
New York Studio School
Steege
Dickinson College
Ears
First Congregational Church
Chace Peabody
Francis Foley Jr
Bridgeport
Tem
John Carroll University
Fairfield University
Lee Dalrell
Lbrarian
Bennington
Stamford
North Adams
Vermont Grocers Convene at Stratton Mountain Inn
The 38th annual Vermont Retail Grocers Association convention will start September 10 at Stratton Mountain Inn Stratton Rutland. Carl R. Smith says about 2M grocers wives and suppliers are expected. Major events include a fight party golf tournament and a security seminar by Bob Curis of Dayton Ohio.
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Vermont Retail Grocers’ Association
Stratton Mountain Inn
Stratton
Carl R. Smith
West River Valley towns form health council
Virginia Page reports on Townshend towns forming a Health Council to assist doctors serving about 4,000 people across seven towns. The group, led by Gertrude Watkins with volunteers including Bernard Scholz and Dr. Carlos Otis, aims to improve home nursing, visiting nurse services, emergency care, children's health, dental and mental health services, and a reassurance call network.
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West River Valley
Bernard W. Scholz
Health Council
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Voluntzers
Gertrude Watkins
Wordsboro
Scholz
Edward J. Gully
Jamaica
Ruth Hammond
Newfane
Eleanor Bishop
Carlos Otis
Luke A. Howe
Eigil de Neergaard
Connecticut Valley Health Compact
de Néergaard
de Neergaard
Brattleboro
United Way
Otis
Past Masters Night at Battenkill Grange Held in Pawlet
Battenkill Grange reports strong turnout for Past Masters Night at Mrs. Belle Decker’s home with a hamburger roast. A $25 donation was given to Rev Kenneth McCrea family whose Wilkes Barre home was damaged in the flood. A Sept 28 Grange gathering in Hoosick is planned and the next meeting moved to Sept 13.
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Pawlet
Kenneth McCrea
McCrea
McCreas
Wilkes-Barre
Hoosick Grange
Pam
Rutland Fair
Grange
Dana Gate
Shirley Matteson
Arlington
Vermont
Decker
Barre Auditorium
Ethan Allen Pomona
Battenkill Grange
Reds Mill Dam
New TV season offers Peanuts specials and Hallmark dramas
TV viewers can look forward to a diverse season with Peanuts specials on CBS and NBC including You're Elected Charlie Brown Snoopy's Internationally Follies and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown NBC Hallmark Hall of Fame. NBC CBS ABC will air documentaries and interviews including Growing Up in Prison and Meet the Press with GM chair Richard C Gerstenberg.
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UPI
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Charlie Brown
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Justice
Meet the Press
the Toard
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Sid Caesar
J Durante
Lanie Greene
di Shore
Ed Sullivan
Jimmy Durante
Dave Garcoway
Robert Young
NBC
Orson Welles
George S. Kaufmann-Mogs Hart
George C. Scott
Alan Arkin
James Coco
Renee Taylor
Josepha
Abs-Tv
Joseph Papp
New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre
NBCTV
Cole Parlar
Paris
Perry Como
Diaharm Carroll
NBC TV
Caril Fugate
Charles Starkweather
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