Kearns Again Protests Flood Problems Behind Backyard Brook
Bennington Rep William Red Kearns protests to selectmen about Barney Brook flooding behind his yard and soil dumped from Kahwajy property altering banks. Town officials say they will “dress the banks” and clear the brook while considering a $50,000 culvert plan diverting overflows to Roaring Branch, tied to a future bypass project years away.
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Bennington
William “Red” Kearns
Gage St
Barney Brook
Kearns
Edward Frasier
Lamb
Dirt Gardeners Host First Vermont Club Season Meeting
The Plain Dirt Garden Club opened its 1971 72 season with a house tour and table settings at five homes including Mrs Arthur Roberts Mrs Norton Barber and Mrs George Hadwen. Decorations and demonstrations accompanied by a bridge luncheon tea and birthday party themes. A business meeting followed led by president Mrs Eugene Clark and reports from members on Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont. The club plans a nature trail walk at Molly Stark School on Sept 29 with ongoing nursing home liaison and card design credits noted.
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Plain Dirt Garden Club
Arthur Roberts
Franklin Frantz
James Wolf
John Cahill
Thomas Thomas
Norton Barber
Stephen Lincoln
Joel Whittemore
Arthur Dewey
George Hadwen
Roderick Humphreys
Peter Donavan
Eugene Clark
H. J. Wallace
Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont
Margaretta van R. Schuyler
Cornelia King
Molly Stark
Bennington
Suspect remanded to jail in Troy on theft charges
Daniel Victor Bryant 27 formerly of Williamstown Mass Hoosick and Bennington appeared in Rensselaer County Court to face third degree burglary and petty larceny charges for stealing 170 dollars from Hoosac Pharmacy Hoosick Falls on August 7 1968. He was brought to New York on a governor's warrant after extradition battles. The court remanded him to county jail and set a 48 hour bail notice.
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Troy
N.Y
Daniel Victor Bryant
Williamstown
Mass
Hoosick
Bennington
Rensselaer
Hoosac
Hoosick Falls
Bryant
Rensselaer County
Vermont
James W. Smith
Timothy J. Fogarty
New York State
Lawrence J
Power outage planned Sunday in North Bennington area
Central Vermont Public Service Corp announced a testing interruption of electric power for North Bennington residents on Sunday September 26 from 2 to 3 30 p m If conditions prevent the original date the outage would occur Sunday October 3 during the same window Customers affected will receive mail notification before the event
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Rutland
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
North Bennington
Central Vermont
Two MAUHS Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
Mt. Anthony Union High School principal Charles W. Keir announces two students, Craig S. Allen and Lynne B. Crowell, have been named semifinalists in the 1971-72 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 15,000 semifinalists nationwide were chosen as top scorers on the NMSQT from more than 655,000 test takers.
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Charles W. Keir
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Craig S. Allen
Lynne B. Crowell
Stafford gets committee assignments in Senate
Senator Robert T. Stafford of Vermont received committee posts on Public Works Labor and Public Welfare and Veterans Affairs during his first Senate meeting. He will fill only Prouty’s Labor seat. Beall moves to Commerce and Stevens takes Prouty’s Rules and Administration post. Assignments announced by Senator Gordon Allott and approved quickly by the Rules Committee and the Senate.
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R-Md
Public Works
Commerce
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Veterans’ Affairs
Prouty
Rules and Administration
Stafford
Beall
Stevens
Gordon Allott
R-Corp
Rules
Senate
Bellows Falls approves funding for police station study
Bellows Falls voted to borrow 8400 to strengthen local law enforcement and study building a new police and fire station. The move accompanies hiring of extra officers dispatchers and procurement of equipment. A Windham County inquest into a fatal fire at the lockup highlighted department shortcomings.
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Bellows Falls
UPI
Windham County
State’s Attorney's
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Roaring Branch
Burgess Road
Route 9
Mutual Savings Bank
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Brattleboro
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Burlington Savings Bank
Burlington, Vermont
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Harold Riemann
Alan Evens
Fred Welling
Bennington Banner
Main St
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
U.S
Zenith
AFC
Sunshine
Space Command
E. T. Williams
Bizzarro
BCI
J. M. Clare
Brunswick
John R. Dwyer
Joseph J. Burns
MAUHS
United States
Ladd Brook
Pownal
Altar Rosary Society
St. Francis de Sales
John XXIII Institute
Anna Voss
Heritage House
Bernard Ryan
Monument Plaza
Bennington, VT
Nichols
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