North Adams Lions Auction for Help Line Tonight
The North Adams Lions Club hosts a benefit auction at 6 30 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Summer Street to aid Help Line. Volunteers have gathered hundreds of donated items and auctioneer Ron Seifert of Hoosick Falls NY donates his services. Proceeds support a 24 hour crisis hotline serving Northern Berkshire with referrals and new services like elder reassurance calls.
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North Adams
North Adams Lions Club
Unitarian Universalist
Summer Street
Help Line
Lions
Ron Seifert
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Berkshire
Weston Antique Show sets three day sale in Weston
The 15th annual Weston Antique Show and Sale runs October 4 to 6 at the playhouse with more than thirty dealers from the northeast. A preview party is set for October 3 at 5 p.m. at Weston Community Club. Hours are 10 to 6 daily with lunch served. The event blends primitive, country and period furnishings, quilts, stoneware, decoys and more, timed to Vermont foliage season.
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Weston
Playhouse
Northeast
Weston Community Club
Bennington
Vermont
Stark joins faculty at Ethan Allen Community College
Timothy Stevenson announces Robert Stark, Catamount Bank manager, has joined the faculty to teach a twelve week basic management course covering insurance banking real estate planning business law and marketing. A six week tapestry weaving workshop led by Joanne Mattera runs Oct 10 to Nov 14 in the Red Barn 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. cost 50 dollars.
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Manchester
Timothy Stevenson
Ethan Allen Community College
Robert Stark
Catamount Bank
Joanne Mattera
Red Barn
Champlain Valley Inc Formed to Fight Alcoholism in Vermont
Burlington hosts the first National Council on Alcoholism affiliate in Vermont, Champlain Valley Inc., organized by civic leaders at the First Congregational Church. Marian Wettrick welcomed the group as the national network adds its 151st unit to nationwide voluntary health groups.
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Burlington
National Council On Alcoholism
Vermont
First Congregational Church
Marian Wettrick
Champlain Valley Inc
Northshire Senior Center Weekly Calendar and Activities
Northshire Senior Center outlines a busy week with ceramics on Monday, a 12:30 lunch at the Worthy Inn on Tuesday followed by a 2 p.m. sing along, and a fall tag sale. Wednesday features bowling at 1 p.m. and quilting at 10 a.m. Thursday hosts Hazel Kitts Wires art class at 1 p.m. Donations of items for the sale are urged, with transportation help available. The center also notes a drive for Betty Crocker coupons for Rutland Hospital to support alcoholism prevention. New officers and directors are named, and Champlain Valley Inc. plans a January official opening, with volunteers and college partnerships already planned.
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Northshire Senior Center
Worthy Inn
Hazel Kitts Wires
Betty Crocker
Rutland Hospital
Hspital
Pownal
Gardner’s General Store
Alcoholics Anonymous
Pownal Recreational Community Center
Nancy Farnum
P.T.G
Castleton Colonial Day and Fall Foliage Festival Detail
Castleton hosts a fall foliage festival weekend on Oct 4 and 5 with tours of historic pillared houses built by Thomas Royal Dake. The event, led by the Castleton Woman’s Club and Castleton State College, features a two dollar fifty cent home tour, free public buildings, children's fair, bands, crafts fair, and demonstrations by Vermont craftsmen gaining national recognition.
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Castleton
Woman’s Club
Castleton State College
Thomas Royal Dake
World fairs program leads Manchester BPW meeting
The October meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Manchester will be on world fairs. Ann Marie Lovel chairs the program. A progressive dinner starts at 6 p.m. at Eleanor Treford’s Hillvale Drive home. the 8 p.m. meeting is at Betty Kamber’s West Road home. Craftsmen’s work will be on sale. Castletown State College parents weekend overlaps with the festival featuring Butterflies Are Free by Castleton Players, with campus tours, soccer, dinner, cocktail hour, and a semi formal dance planned.
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Manchester
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Ann Marie Lovel
Eleanor Treford
Hillvale Drive
Betty Kamber
West Road
Castleton State College
Castleton Players
Haden
Fall foliage report shows early color across Vermont
The foliage summary from the Agency of Development and Community Affairs blends 25 reports from forest rangers airports and weather bureaus. Southern counties Bennington to Londonderry show mostly green with some color Route 100. North and central areas report early color in St Johnsbury Danville Middlebury and Waits River areas with scattered color statewide.
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Montpelier
Agency of Development and Community Affairs
Vermont
Bennington
Windham
Londonderry
South Central
Rutland
Windsor
Central
Addison
Washington
Orange
Middlebury
Waits River
Mad River
North Central
Caledonia
Lamoille
Chittenden
St. Johnsbury
Danville
Essex
Franklin
Grand Isle
Orleans
Arlington School Lunches Menu Plan
Arlington school meals list weekly prompts lunches from Monday to Friday. Each day includes a main item a side and milk with fruit or dessert options. Meals feature goulash soup beef and roll macaroni salad fish sticks and assorted sides.
Utilities postpone Montague Plains nuclear plants a year
Northeast Utilities delays two Montague Plains nuclear generating facilities for one year due to financial pressures. Groundbreaking shifts from fall 1975 to fall 1976 amid sagging earnings and revenue. Announcement follows a protestor’s acquittal in Greenfield related to tower destruction at the site.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Northeast Utilities
Montague Plains
Greenfield
Samuel H. Lovejoy
Lelan F. Sillin Jr
Northeast
Hydrant flushing to run in Hoosick Falls weekdays
Hoosick Falls residents face daytime hydrant flushing from 7 a.m. for about eight hours, starting in the third ward Monday and rotating through wards Tuesday to Thursday to avoid overtime. In Pownal, local fundraisers and meetings are planned, with a flea market charity sale and support groups.
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Hoosick Falls
Charles Stowell
Hoosick Legion plans fund drive for new HQ
Hoosick American Legion Post No. 40 plans an annual fund drive ending Thanksgiving Day to fund a new headquarters on the former Main Street school site. The post, now clearing four dead trees on the property, has engaged an architect, and an open house is set for Nov. 9 at the state Armory on Church Street in lieu of Veterans Day observance.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick American Legion Post No. 40
John Cahill Jr
Main Street
Francis LaPorte
Albert J. Goodwin Jr
Goodwin
Legion
State Armory
Church Street
American Legion
Miami
Korea
Vietnam
The
Marriage Encounter events to be held at St John Hall
A list of two meetings invites all couples who attended a Marriage Encounter weekend to St John the Baptist Church Hall in North Bennington on Sunday evening September 29 to hear Bruce and Tina Hacker of Chatham New York. A follow up informational night will be held at St Johns Hall the following Sunday with presenters John and Jean Stone and Father Gus Graap of the Carmelite Retreat House in Williamstown inviting all married couples and interested clergy.
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St. John the Baptist Church Hall
North Bennington
Bruce
Tina Hacker
Chatham
N.Y
St. John’s Hall
John
Jean Stone
Gus Graap
Williamstown
Kempf elected chairman of community center
Carl J. Kempf was elected chairman of the Hoosick town community center at the annual meeting Monday night. Officers include William J. Murphy president Donald Bogardus vice president Robert Hayden secretary Morgan Burke treasurer. The board plans its annual fund drive around October 15 led by Bogardus Murphy and Keyes.
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The
Hoosick Township
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Carl J. Kempf
Hoosick
William J. Murphy
Donald Bogardus
Robert Hayden
Morgan Burke
Murphy
Kempf
Bogardus
William
Keyes
Robert Springer
Arthur Hyde
Raymond Calhoun
Omer Brenenstuhl
Ralph Millington
Joseph Cullen
William Rourke
Calhoun
Brenenstuhl
Police probe Stamford robbery at Rondeau home
Stamford police and state trooper investigate a break in at Ernest G. Rondeau’s Stamford residence. About $800 in items vanished between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. yesterday, including a color television, cassette recorder, and binoculars. Contact Rubin at his Stamford office with any information.
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Perham
Rubin
Stamford
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