Sister John Vermont editor’s fight for press freedom book
Londonderry Historical Society announces a new book about George T. Shanks known as Sister John, founder of The Londonderry Sister. The 85 page illustrated volume, with an intro by Karl Schriftgiesser, narrates his jail time and battles against the railroad ring in 1880s Vermont, his libel suits, and a famed post office war in Londonderry.
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Londonderry Historical Society
Sister John
Vermont
Abby Starr Williams
George T. Shanks
Londonderry Sister
Karl Schriftgiesser
Williams
John
Levi K. Fuller
James Loren Martin
Windham County
Newfane
West River Valley
Peabody House
Lowell Lake
Boston Evening Transcript
Washington Post
The
New York Times
Newsweek
Ludlow
Londonderry Weekend Socials and 4-H Meeting Notice
White Creek visitors from New York Albany and Oregon residents stop by Londonderry homes as the Methodist Youth Fellowship schedules a church meeting. The 4-H Club invites families to a covered dish supper September 26 at Jermain Community Hall with county agent Margaret Wento present to discuss joining.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship
Jermain Community Hall
Margaret Wento
Hoosick Falls Troop 64 retreat at Auriesville Shrine
Hoosick Falls Boy Scout Troop 64 sponsored by the Church of the Immaculate Conception joined a retreat for scouts and scouters at Auriesville Shrine. Bishop Edwin Broderick presided over a concelebrated mass. Awards were presented to qualifying scouts and scouters, with senior leaders and parents urged to attend upcoming meetings.
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Church of the Immaculate Conception
Auriesville Shrine
Edwin Broderick
Albany Catholic
Broderick
St. George
David Downey
Christopher Reinfort
Christopher Smith
Sean Casey
Robert Foster
Norman Bettit
Shawn Bettit
Daryl Kenyon
Stanley Remancus
Gary Cramer
Larry Bump
Kent Bornt
Thomas Levandowski
Richard A. Severson
Joseph Florio
Dennis Bornt
James Downey
Auriesville
Arlington board outlines 1975 76 bargaining and shuttle plan
Arlington educators pursue the 1975 76 bargaining culminating in fact finding with death of the contract to be disclosed after signing. The board delays paying Donald Keough expenses from the fact finding, approves a shuttle moving 11 Sandgate students to Wayside Country Store for pickup by the Sandgate bus, reducing a long run by 20 minutes with no extra Arlington cost. Also notes casino activity in Colombia, rental of Fisher Elementary cafeteria to Arlington Fish and Game Club for a fall fundraiser, and an advanced biology trip to Bourne Pond October 5 6 with nine students to Mt Laurel School in Manchester amid driver status uncertainty.
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Donald Keough
Keough
Sandgate
New York State Line
Wayside
West Arlington
Nancy Tschorn
Sandgate School Board
Arlington
Fisher Elementary School
Arlington Fish and Game Club
Bourne Pond
Fisher
Ira Manross
Mt. Laurel
Manchester
Manchester selectmen face eggs and petitions
Manchester selectmen meet at 7 30 p m with a 100 name petition seeking Ruth Cook’s reinstatement after her firing as meter maid. Friends of St Pauls Church protest the banner ban on Main Street and Hillvale Drive residents challenge the Pewter and Things lot exit decision.
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Manchester
Hillvale Drive
Pewter and Things
Manchester IBA delays decision on Dorr park
The Manchester Zoning Board recessed a hearing on Donald Dorrs trailer park at Dufresne Pond Road to draft a motion expanding the operation to two adjacent lots as an extension of a non conforming use. Final approval rests with the selectmen under town ordinance.
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Manchester
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Donald Dorr
Dufresne Pond Road
Dorr
Selectmen
ZBA
Burr and Burton Seminary elects officers and expands fund drive
Burr and Burton Seminary trustees re elected Robert C. Brewster as president Ilsley S Zecher as treasurer and James B Campbell as clerk William C Nawrath becomes vice president and chairs the prudential committee Terry Tyler joins the committee and heads the budget committee The board plans a near million dollar capital fund drive and expands the Internal Steering Committee for Development to include non trustees The school also advances an expansion project including gymnasium addition and a new parking lot with plans to break ground soon
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Robert C. Brewster
Ilsley S. Zecher
James B. Campbell
Douglas P. Shaw
William C. Nawrath
Nawrath
Prudential Committee
Campbell, Zecher
Richard C. Bartholomae
Nathaniel
Terry’’ Tyler II
Fredrick Buechner
Robert Treat
Brewster
Robert Torrence
Londonderry
BBS
Shaw
Burr
Burton
Village Planning Commission
Burr and Burton
Burr and
Carl Rice
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Walloomsac
Raymond Williams
Sifter
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