Arlington Chorale starts 20th year celebration
Arlington Chorale marks its 20th year with an old fashioned Christmas program aligned to a bicentennial theme. The concert is set for Sunday evening December 14, with rehearsals beginning September 16. Rehearsals occur at Bailey Hall East Arlington Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Sopranos and altos lead, basses and tenors needed. students welcome. a nominal membership fee supports music costs.
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Arlington
Arlington Chorale
Bailey Hall
East Arlington
Shaftsbury Fire Aux Meets Tonight and Chorus Milestone
Shaftsbury Firemen's Auxiliary will meet at 7 30 pm at Kay Ritchie's with a vote on new uniforms. The Shaftsbury Fire Company hosts its first season event Saturday night from 9 30 pm to 12 30 am with Theodore Cook as director and Nyoka Little as pianist. In January the Chorale begins its 20th year, 1976 marking years of longtime members and a leadership history from Theodore Cook to Nyoka Little.
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Shaftsbury Firemen’s Auxiliary
Kay Ritchie’s
Shaftsbury Fire Company
Fire Company
Theodore Cook
Nyoka Little
Chorale
Marjorie Macksey
Lorraine Moody
Dorothy Grout
Florence Burggraf
Mathilda Kenny
Larry
Lester Brush
Edward Powers
Louise Harris
Kay Pelham
Stephen Kenny
Finney
Norman Rockwell
Arlington
West Arlington Community House
Bailey Hall
JoAnne Keough
Wallace Bennard
Marion Ayers
Marian Meyer
Collette Galusha
Philip Elwell
Rocks Break Windows and Road Bridge Damaged in Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls village police logged two window rockings on Sunday night at 5 River Street and 9 Carey Avenue, likely by the same person. A malfunctioning bank alarm on Main Street suggested. a vehicle damaged Dooley's Railroad Bridge on Mechanic Street. In a separate incident, Richard Molyneux, 23, injured when his bicycle hit a car at Classic Street and Main Street, taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital. Two Huntington Station men escaped serious injury in a one car crash on River Street bridge. Carmine Farce and James Miranda faced impairment-related charges.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Kenneth Lawton
River St
Stephen Reiss
Carey Ave
Lawton
Dooley’s
Mechanic Street
Boston & Maine Railroad
Richard A. Molyneux
Beckett Street
Lower Classic Street
Main Street
Molyneux
Classic Street
Margaret H. Hunt
Classic St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Town of
Huntington Station
River Street Bridge
Village
Carmine Farce
Greenwich Ave
Farco
James C. Miranda
Bogart St
West Arlington-Sandgate 4 H Club Reorganization Meeting
The West Arlington Juniors 4 H Club reorganized with 24 members. Meetings are on the second Monday monthly in the Grange hall West Arlington. New officers: Merle Wiley president Gerry Hess vice president Mary Jo Urbanek secretary Susan Crofut treasurer Wanda Caler recreation leader Jon Wiley health officer. Other leaders: Steve Matteson general junior leader Gerry Hess dairy leader Sandy Matteson woodwork art and crafts. Next meeting is a pot luck parents night at 7 p.m. Oct 13 at the Grange hall.
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West Arlington
Grange Hall
Merle Wiley
Gerry Hess
Mary Jo Urbanek
Susan Crofut
Wanda Caler
Steve Matteson
Sandy Matteson
South Cambridge Church Service and club meeting updates
The combined services of the circus churches will be held Sunday September 28 at South Cambridge Church. The October meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Manchester will be held Wednesday October 1 at the home of Jan Sullivan Witherall Lane Manchester. The Pleasant Valley Granges will meet Friday night at 8 at their hall. The annual food and rummage sale will be held October 11 from 9 30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Cambridge Church. Mrs Foster Thayer of Pownal Marian Dick and Irving Dick of West Hoosick visited Mrs Gertrude Aiken. Mr and Mrs Malcolm Hamilton and Mr and Mrs William Perry attended the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Massachusetts last Wednesday.
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Circus
Business and Professional Women’s Club of Manchester
Jan Sullivan
Witherall Lane
Manchester
Pleasant Valley Granges
Wii Area
Foster Thayer
Pownal
Marian Dick
Irving Dick
West Hoosick
Gertrude Aiken
Malcolm Hamilton
William Perry
West Springfield
Mass
Long Trail School Field Trip Highlights Dorset Visit
The Long Trail School staff and students visited Shelburne Museum in Burlington and the University of Vermont campus to select reading materials. They rode a Lake Champlain ferry from Charlotte to Essex and used two donated school vans. Total cost was 34 dollars.
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Dorset
Long Trail School
Shelburne Museum
Burlington
Vno
Universty of Vermont
University
Lake Champlain
Charlotte
Essex
N.Y
Sarah Larson School of
Manchester
Johnson’s Fuel Service of
SARs travel to Hubbardton for battlefield honoring
Vermont Society of the Sons of the American Revolution gathered 28 members and their wives at Hubbardton to mark the Battle of Hubbardton. A ham buffet preceded the field visit as the group discussed bicentennial plans and agreed to reprint the pamphlet Markers and Tablets.
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Hubbardton
Vermont Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Hubbardton Grange
Sar’s
Woodford PTG Holds First Meeting and Plans Bingo
The Woodford PTG held its first meeting on Sunday afternoon naming Dorothy Gilbert as president, Sally Squires as vice president, Erma Wright as treasurer, and Pat Dwyer as publicity officer and secretary. A monthly Bingo at 7 p.m. starts Oct 2 at Woodford School with a wood stove raffle. tickets cost $1 and are sold by students. The drawing is Nov 6 at 7 p.m. The next meeting is Oct 16 at 7 p.m.
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Woodford Ptg
Dorothy Gilbert
Sally Squires
Erma Wright
Pat Dwyer
PTG
Woodford
Pownal Meeting Notices and Church Choir Rehearsal
The Liaison Committee meets Thursday at 7 30 p m at Green Mountain Park Race Track. The Board of Selectmen convenes Thursday at the town office at 7 p m. The Pownal Baptist Church choir rehearses tonight at 6 30 p m. The weekly prayer meeting is at 7 30 p m Wednesday. The Rap Group meets tonight from 7 to 9 p m at the Pownal Recreational Community Center. Insurance forms from Pownal Elementary School were due by Wednesday. The Pownal Board of Adjustment granted two variances at Monday's public hearing, the first for Philip Frost to add two eight by 10 foot additions to the old Brookside.
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Green Mountain Park
Pownal Baptist Church
Pownal
Diner and Liquor Store Get Route 7 Variances
A variance was granted for a Route 7 diner near Searles Crossing to square the T shaped structure and roof it, despite 23 feet of Jewett Brook setback. Vera Tornabene also gained a variance to add a 50 by 80 foot liquor store expansion on Route 7 with stipulations including south side entrance, parking area sign, and extending east shrubs to match the new building length.
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Route 7
Searles Crossing
Jewett Brook
Vera Tornabene
Connally to Keynote Barree Fund Dinner for GOP Debt
Former U S Treasury Secretary John Connally will headline a November fundraiser for Vermont’s State Republican Party in Barre. The event, a $50 per plate dinner, aims to retire more than $30,000 in 1974 campaign debts. Connally, formerly Texas governor and ex Democrat who backed Nixon, is the main speaker.
Raleigh consultant hired as Burlington police planning chief
Steven Angel a Raleigh criminal justice consultant has been hired as Burlington police planning and management specialist under a two year federal grant through the Governor's Justice Commission. He will be paid 15000 a year start Oct 6 and will be available to other area police departments.
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Burlington
UPI
Steven Angel
Raleigh, N.C
Governor’s Justice Commission
Angel
Essex Junction cops seek reinstatement in court
Ronald Audette Jr. and James Sexton sought court-ordered reinstatement after being laid off by Essex Junction police for economic reasons. Village officials said the terminations were to cut costs and denied justification for the firings.
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Burlington
UPI
Essex Junction
Chittenden County
Ronald Audette Jr
James Sexton
VERMONT STUDENTS VOTE ON VPIRG FUNDING CONTROVERSY
University of Vermont students vote this week on continuing automatic $3 per semester VPIRG dues unless they opt out. VPIRG faces conservative opposition over militant activism while SA President Davis predicts reaffirmation. VPIRG warns it will withdraw if the ballot fails. UVM students currently provide about $35,000 of VPIRG’s $48,000 budget.
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Burlington
VPI
University of Vermont
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
VPIRG
Student Association
Stave Davis
UVM
Snowplow cuts considered in Vermont budget plan
Gov. Thomas Salmon seeks to trim state costs with a plan to curb winter snow plowing on key highways. Highway Commissioner John Gray would ask the Transportation Board to limit plowing to normal hours, saving about 5 000 overtime hours on routes including U S 7, U S 2, Vermont 48, I 91, and other central Vermont roads as part of a $3 million cut with possible further $6 million gaps if taxes aren’t raised.
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Montpelier
UPI
Thomas Salmon
John Gray
Transportation Board
Gray
U.S. 7
Burlington
Canadian
U.S. 2
Milton
Vermont
Rutland
New York Line
U.S. 5
New Hampshire
Salmon
Public Safety Commissioner O'Connor resigns after 242 years of service
George W. O'Connor announced his resignation Tuesday to join a Washington DC police research nonprofit. City Manager John P. Buckley considers separating police and fire departments, which would abolish OConnors role. Buckley to assume OConnors duties in the interim as council members back the plan.
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Troy
Public Safety
George W. O’connor
Washington, D.C
John P. Buckley
Buckley
O’connor
Murphy blocks probe of firing in county legislature
Troy Rensselaer County Executive William J. Murphy declines Thursday meeting of the county legislature to discuss his firing of the planning director. He calls the investigation blatantly political and outside the charter. The Democratic majority authorized the probe, and Murphy objects to press attendance.
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Troy — Rensselaer
William J. Murphy
Murphy
Berkshire Halloween Activities Questioned by Town Officials
In Great Barrington Berkshire a Selectmen meeting discussed canceling Halloween trick or treat events and urged local groups to sponsor youth costume parties. The town Rotary Club had tentatively canceled its parade and party, contingent on public support. Selectman A John Tuller said trick or treat is an idea that has outlived its usefulness.
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Great Barrington
Selectmen’s
Rotary Club
Rotary
Selectman
A. John Tuller
Selectmen
Dust storm blankets Lee Marble Street residents for year
Neighbors on Lee Marble Street complain of a year long dust storm from U S Fiber Corp two stacks drifting grey dust over homes including elderly housing. Residents say it poses a health risk with emphysema sufferers present. Plant manager John White denies current problems but promises a fix without details.
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Lee
Marble Street
U.S. Fiber Corp
John
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