Dana Dix offered some assistance to a soap box derby particpant in this photo from October 1976.
School directors in Whitingham backed away from plans to study a unification of the Dover, Wilmington, and Whitingham school districts. Dover and Wilmington had already warned meetings to ask voters to fund a study and form a committee, but Whitingham board members said they weren’t ready to take that step. Instead, they said, they wanted to wait until they received the results of an independent study by Ray Proulx.
15 years ago:
The television show “Unsolved Mysteries” shot a reenactment of a UFO abduction at Wards Cove. A Wardsboro resident and two friends claim they were abducted by aliens during a fishing trip in Maine’s Allagash Wilderness in 1976. “Unsolved Mysteries” chose the Harriman Reservoir location because of its resemblance to the campsite in Maine, and the area’s proximity to the three men.
Killington-based S-K-I Ltd. added Waterville Valley, New Hampshire’s largest ski area, to its growing list of northeastern ski resorts.
Mount Snow was building a pipeline to tap into Haystack’s snowmaking water.
20 years ago:
The Dover Selectboard rejected an application for a grant to finance the Valley Trail prepared by zoning administrator William Weiss and the Dover Planning Commission. Board members said the proposal didn’t contain enough specific information.
25 years ago:
A group of 25 local residents signed a letter accusing the Wilmington Police Department of “willful harassment” in their enforcement of traffic regulations. The letter writers said the department “had gone on the hunt,” conducting early morning, midday, and 5 pm radar enforcement near G.S. Precision.
35 years ago:
Poncho’s Wreck was offering octopus sautéed in sauce, squid paella, and lobster. “Bring the kids for free Mexican jumping beans.”
In Vermont Vignettes, columnist Rona Mendelson recounted the “Lake Raponda Grass War” of 1973. According to Mendelson, it started when a group of “outlanders” ignored signs restricting use of the public beach to local residents. Worse, they also ignored signs to keep off the newly planted grass at the beach. When the interlopers refused to comply with repeated requests to move, a local official turned the hose on them. No one came out on top in the ensuing scuffle, but the grass was trampled and destroyed.
40 years ago:
A feature on summer entertainment noted that Fat City had been “invaded by an all-girl band that really sounds like something.” The five-member band, called Ariel, included Pamela Brandt, Anne Bowen, and Helen Hooke, who would go on to form the nationally acclaimed folk trio The Deadly Nightshade. The Deadly Nightshade recently reunited and is playing in western Massachusetts again.
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