Downtown Parking Reform Faces Citywide Backlash
The Winchester council weighs raising parking fines from 1 to 3 dollars for timely payment and 3 to 5 dollars for delinquent tickets amid downtown shopper decline concerns. Merchants lobby to offer free garage parking with a 3 dollar purchase while officials consider expanding the AutoPark to add capacity.
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Winchester City Council
Public Safety Committee
Winchester
Winchester Retail Merchants Association
Richard Martin
Winchester Parking Authority
Singing Bus Driver Fights Firings Over Change Issue
Hartford AP states Benford Stellmacher, the cheerful bus driver who sang and hosted parties, was fired on October 19 for taking eight dollars in change from passengers. He seeks reinstatement via his union and Gov. Ella Grasso with potential campaign bus job offer from Congressman Ronald Sarasin. Stellmacher decorated his bus, handed out songbooks, and hosted monthly birthday parties funded by himself.
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Hartford
Stellmacher
Connecticut Transit Co
Depot Square
Benjy
Grafton School Board Approves 1.3 Million Budget
The Grafton School Board adopted a 1.3 million dollar budget for 1978 79 with 95 percent of income from Virginia and Maryland sources and 90 percent of expenditures to be spent locally. Construction plans for a campus expansion are to be finalized by Richard Snibbe with bids set by January and construction to start in April with completion by August 1980.
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Berryville
Grafton
Arthur Weiss
Virginia
Maryland
Weiss
John Friant
Richard Snibbe
Friant
Signourney Romaine
Barbara Dunfree
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Winchester Auto Park
Warren Rudolph
Winchester-Frederick County
Connecticut Transit
eBean Bags
Capon Valley Wholesale Furniture
Debbie Bauserman
Miller & Anderson, Inc
Boscawen St
Raub Supply Co
Winchester Vo
Stuart M. Perry
Berryville Rt
Winchester Evening Star
Idear
John
Warner
Senate
Miller
Washington, D.C
Clarke Frederick Winchester
Ron Joyce
Heritage Savings & Loan
Heritage
Heritage Financial Corporation
Weems Lane
Richmond
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp
Asurer
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