Planning Bennington’s better future in the cost of not planning
An observer recalls a modernized vision of downtown Bennington with a promenade by South Stream, a well designed Main Street, and a riverfront tourist economy. The piece contrasts today’s disjointed layout with a hypothetical planned town featuring parks, hotels, factories, bike paths, and improved flood control, arguing the cost of not planning is immense.
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Bennington
Bennington Brush Co
A&p
North Bennington
Lake Paran
Bennington Brush
Union Carbide
Valentine, Cooper and Bradford Mills
The
Display Company
Rockwood Mill
South Stream
Seigenthaler confronts FBI over smear and files
The Tennessean editor Jacque Sroujs faced dismissal for undercover work with the FBI in 1976. John Seigenthaler pressed for his FBI files, accusing the agency of gossip and defamation rather than genuine investigation. He published what he could, detailing blanked telexes and censored memos about rumors involving him.
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Tennessean of
Nashville
Jacque Sroujs
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Seigenthaler
Homer Boynton
FBI
Washington
New York Times
Siouji
Boynton
The
Times
Seigenthaler
Clarence Kelley
Bureau
Kelley
Srouji
Memphis
Lane Named Health Officer front Bennington picks
Bennington Selectmen recommend Dr John D Lane for health officer to fill the vacancy caused by Joseph M Ayres resignation He is a Hoosick Falls native who has practiced in Bennington for 27 years Also mention of Marion Reichling returning home from New York Juilliard School of Music and Robert Frost related notes amid broader commentary on FBI director nomination and local education plans.
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John D. Lane
Bennington
Joseph M. Ayres
Lane
Hoosick Falls
Marion Reichling
Union Street
New York
Juillard School of Music
Concord
Robert Frost
Amherst College
Shaftsbury
Frost
National Foundation For
Thomas Street
Old First Church
Bennington College
Joseph Adelson
Robert Woodworth
Robert Alvin
Morris Oliver
Francis Golffing
Harold Kaplan
George Holt
Sacred Heart School
Carter Shares Field Life While Noting Yellow Meat Melons
Jimmy Carter is photographed in Plains, kneeling to split a watermelon with a pocket knife as Secret Service watches. He comments on yellow meat melons and washes up at a faucet. The scene shifts to Carter Farms, inspecting peanut fields with tenant farmer Leonard Wright and recounting family land ownership and history dating to 1833.
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United States
Secret Service
Jimmy Carter
Billy
Sumpter
Webster
Carter Farms
Leonard Wright
Carter
Wright
Cleveland
Chicago
Republic
Miss Allie
Roslynn
Georgia
End of the penny sparks debate on value and economy
Baltimore Sun opinion argues the federal mint weighing penny elimination threatens language and money sense. It questions how one can be penniless or a penny pincher without pennies and notes President Carter’s traditional values. The piece warns against penny-wise but pound-foolish choices.
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Federal
Jack
Carter
Baltimore Sun
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Frank M. Johnson Jr
Essex County
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Supreme Court
Johnson
Alabama
Bell
Carthusian Foundation Charterhouse
Mt. Equinox
Jean Mackey
Milton Mackey
Cambridge School
Monument Avenue
Cape Cod
Palo Alto
Calif
National Humane Alliance
US Mainland
Florida Keys
Sgt
Alvin York
Walter C. Rodgers
Plains, Georgia
Free World
Plains
Halls of Congress
Christian Science Publishing Society
Hospital Drive
Main ST
Bennington, VT
Cherry Hill
Duxsbury
Mastercharge
Bank Americard
Bennington, Vermont
ELM Street
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