Vermonter Fineman to read at Park McCullough Mansion
Irving Fineman, longtime Shaftsbury resident and novelist, marks 40 years in Vermont with a Park McCullough Mansion reading in North Bennington. He will present poems from From Start to Finish and explain his aim for art to move or inform the layman through accessible, communicative poetry.
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Irving Fineman
Maple Hill
Shaftsbury
Fineman
Andrew Wyeth
Robert Frost
Shakespeare
Park McCullough Mansion
North Bennington
Who’s Who In
America
Rutland X-film theater files suit against police
Five Rutland area police officers named in a $45,000 suit by theater owners Robert Shannon and William Shea over the closure of an X-rated show at the Rutland Fair. Laffley and two city officers plus two sheriff deputies named. damages sought include 20,000 actual and 25,000 punitive. Claimed orders allegedly came from fair president Congdon and City Council President Abel. both deny involvement.
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Rutland
UPI
Rutland Area
Rutland Fair
U.S. District Court
Burlington
Robert Shannon
William Shea
Reginald Laffley
Fair
Rutland County
Laffley
Edward Congdon
Shannon
Shea
Joseph Abel
Abel
Congdon
David Dean
Yankee Quill Awards honor three New England journalists
Arthur A. Michelson of the Berkshire Eagle Thomas W. Gerber of the Concord Monitor and John N. Cole of the Maine Times have been named the 1973 Yankee Quill Award recipients. The banquet will be October 24 at the Colonial Hilton Inn in Lynnfield Massachusetts.
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Boston
UPI
Arthur A. Michelson
The
Berkshire Eagle
Thomas W. Gerber
Concord
N.H
Monitor
John N. Cole
Maine Times
Academy of New England
New England
Sigma Delta Chi
Colonial Hilton Inn
Lynnfield
Mass
Michelson
Massachusetts
the Eagle
University of Wisconsin
Eagle
Beacon Hill Weekly
Gerber
United Press International
Boston Herald Traveler
Washington
New Hampshire
New England Society of Newspaper Editors
New England Daily Newspaper Association
Dartmouth College
American Newspaper Guild
Cole
York County Coast Star
Kennebunk
Brunswick Record
Bath - Brunswick Times Record
Yale University
New England Newspaper Association
Snow Goers unit starts sixth season in Southern Vermont
The Southern Vermont Snow Goers prepare for their sixth season as weather cooperates. The autumn meeting and annual chicken barbecue and picnic occurred Sept. 9 with officers named: John Brochu president Roy Milligan vice president Wanda Mooney secretary Barbara Rousseau treasurer and others as trustees. Club meetings are the second Tuesday of each month at 7 30 p m at the Stark Street Playground recreation building. The first regular meeting is Oct. 9.
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Vermont
John Brochu
Roy Milligan
Wanda Mooney
Barbara Rousseau
Alice Sausville
Ray Armstrong
Dennis Rousseau
Marcel Garvais
Bruce MacDonald
Stark Street Playground
Vermont proposes post secondary education board
The blue ribbon Commission on Higher Education in Vermont released plans for a state post secondary education board. It would approve new construction and degree programs, oversee state funded aid programs, and have certification and degree granting authority in cooperation with the University of Vermont and state colleges. The panel chair described it as a planning group with coordinated higher education across the state.
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Middlebury
UPI
Commission On Higher Education
Vermont
Windsor County
Frank Smallwood
Post-Secondary Education Board
Smallwood
James Armstrong
Middlebury College
University of Vermont
State Colleges System
Surprise Birthday for Bennington Matriarch Honors 80th
Mrs. Sylvia Fleming of 311 Beech St. Bennington is pictured with Denise Cindy and David Woodward at a surprise party on her 80th birthday. A long-time Bennington resident, widow of Frank Fleming, she cared for illness after 1971 and later lived with her son-in-law Dennis Woodward before returning home with her daughter Caroline. She welcomes visits from friends and relatives.
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Sylvia Fleming
Beech St
Bennington
Denise
Cindy
David Woodward
Butter Road
Frank Fleming
U.S. Post Office
South Street
Fleming
Dennis Woodward
Caroline
Chorus joins orchestra for fall concert series in Vermont
The Bennington County Choral Society and Vermont Symphony Orchestra announce a fall concert series with performances in Bennington on November 17 and Manchester on November 18. Rehearsals occur Sundays in Manchester and Bennington. all singers are welcome, especially men. The program features Brahms, Dvorak, Mozart, and Poulenc works, with the chorus performing Gloria and the Coronation Mass. The series also supports the orchestra’s music in the schools program and a Messiah sing-in in December plus a Verdi festival and a summer Pops concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Manchester
Zion ‘Episcopal Church
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Vermont Symphony
da Camera Orchestra
Symphony
Richard Guererro
Stephen Gilman
Donald
What You Do Speaks So Loud film on RSVP work
Doris Gable, Bennington director, announces October–November loan of a new ACTION film to show RSVP volunteers nationwide. Open volunteer assignments include social welfare visitors and managers, a weekend cook, a weekday evening meal aide, route drivers for hot meals, and center hosts. Nursing homes seek aides, visitors, writers, craft and recreation helpers, slide program operators, and bridge players.
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Action
RSVP
Doris Gable
Bennington
Department of Social Welfare
Bennington Convalescent Center
Sourcliffe Nursing Home
Crescent Manor
Prospect Nursing Home
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Marks
McCullough
Rutland X-film
N.E. Journalism
Senior Citizens
Bennington Briefs
Recreation Department
George Salem
Life Stride
Baja
Main St
Triple ‘‘S
Grand Union
Mallory
Connecticut
Cotter, Giaimo
Grasso
McKinney, Sarasin, Steele
Maine
Kyros
Cohen
Boland
Burke
Donohue
Drinan
Harrington
MacDonald
Moakley
O’neill
Studds
Conte
Cronin
Heckler
New Hampshire— Republi
Cleveland
Wyman
Rhode Island
Tiernan
St. Germain
Ted Cook
Bennington County Choral Society
BenMont Ave
Depot St
Main
Bennington, Vt
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