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LOCALSTATE Page 6 Tuesday, June 9, 1987 Bennington Banner WEATHER Today, variable cloudiness, breezy and cooler with a shower possible. High, 65-70. Tonight partly cloudy and quite cool. Low, 40-45. Wednesday, partly to mostly sunny and continued cool.

High, 60-65. Yesterdays high temperature was 75. For updates call 442-3121. VERMONT BRIEFS Major expansion is now underway By CHRISTOPHER GRAFF The Associated Press MONTPELIER The home of Vermont state government is abuzz with activity this summer, as the state complex gets its first additions in nearly two decades. Two separate projects underway will greatly expand the Statehouse and the Pavilion Office Building and will pave the way for a complete renovation of the building housing the Supreme Court.

The first project, a $1.9 million, three-story expansion of the Statehouse, is being built onto the back of the building that houses the Legislature. It will contain a new cafeteria, new offices for the Legislatures support staff, new bathrooms, a private dining room for meetings, the offices of the House clerk and a new office for the House speaker. The second project, costing $4 million, will add 35,000 square feet onto the Pavilion Office Building, which was built in 1971, and houses the offices of the governor, the- Agency of Development and Community Affairs, the Budget and Management Department, the Tax Department, the attorney general, and the state Historical Society. The new structure will be attached to the back of the existing one, which originally was a hotel. State Buildings Commissioner John Zam- pieri said Monday the five-story addition will house divisions of the Development Agency, the Tax Department and Budget and Man- agement that are now in quarters elsewhere in Montpelier.

The state library and the librarys administrators will also be moved to the Pavilion addition from the first floor of the Supreme Court building, clearing the way for a total renovation of the court building. That work will almost double the space for the court, from 10,990 to 20,290 square feet. The Supreme Court justices, most of whom now share offices with their law clerks, will get private offices. The project will also provide conference rooms and offices for court staff now located in other buildings in Montpelier. The Pavilion addition will be joined to the Supreme Court building by a two-story colonnade and glass link.

The state librarys reading room and book display, as well as some administrative offices, will be located in the connecting building. Zampieri said the plans call for relocating the governors office, now located in the Pavilion, to the new addition. But he said Gov. Madeleine Kunin has not yet decided whether she wants the office moved. He said the back of the building will have an enclosed parking area for the governor.

A new elevator will be built that will be available fof the public but can be used privately by the governor. The Statehouse addition is scheduled to be completed in December. The new cafeteria will seat 180, compared to the 80-seat capacity Pownal district votes today POWNAL The town school district meeting will be held at 7:30 tonight at the elementary school (9 act on four articles of business. Voters will hear reports of the school board, and other officials of the district, decide whether to authorize the school board to borrow money in anticipation of revenue, vote on the district budget and transact any other business. The school district 1987-88 budget is $1,076,714, not including the Mount Anthony Union assessment of $1,156,997.

The estimated amount to be raised by taxes is $1,158,664. Terms of directors Sherry Pudvar and Stephen Counter, elected in March, begin today. The school board will meet tonight at the elementary school immediately following the district floor meeting. On the agenda is reorganization of the board, public interests and comments, the second reading of a school AIDS policy, opening of bus purchase and supply bids, bus transportation policy review, a report from Southwest Supervisory Union Assistant Superintendent Spencer Sullivan and committee reports. An executive session to discuss personnel will follow the open meeting.

AP Work continues at the Pavilion Office Building construction site. The $4 million project will add square feet to the building, which houses the tax attorney generals office and the governors staff. of the existing one. The Statehouse project will provide 10,000 square feet of new space and renovate 9,500 square feet of existing space. The Pavilion addition is scheduled to be completed within a year.

Once the state library moves into the addition, the renovations will begin on the Supreme Court. They are scheduled to be completed by the following November. Zampieri said the ambitious building project is designed to give the state much-needed space, at a time when many state offices are being moved to Waterbury. We ran out of room here a long time ago, he said. I think this will help keep state government in Montpelier.

Information curtailed on, abandoned infant BRATTLEBORO (AP) A hearing took place Monday on the fate of a 14-day-old abandoned baby, but authorities continued to refuse to answer questions about the case. The hearing was closed because the baby is a juvenile. Under Vermont law, no information from the session can be made public, Windham County States Attorney Dan Davis said. The lV4-hour session was to be on the merits of a petition alleging that the infant is in need of care and supervision, according to a legal notice published in the Brattleboro Reformer. The notice was addressed to the parents, guardian, custodian, relative or any person knowing the identity of an infant girl found at the rest area on U.S.

Route 5 in Putney on May 25. A state worker discovered the baby near a garbage can as he col- lected trash that day. The infant was admitted to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H., where she remained on Monday. Authorities shut off information about the baby on May 27. Confidentiality laws were cited as hospital spokesmen, police investigators, social service workers and others refused to talk about the case.

The state Department of Public' Central voters go to polls today HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y District voters today will elect two new Central School Board of Education members and decide whether to adopt the proposed 1987-88 school budget. Voting will be at the Central School with polls open from noon to 8 p.m. After the polls close, the schools annual meeting will be held, where a floor vote will be held on the schools proposed $7.1 million budget. Tax abatement meeting is tonight The Bennington Tax Abatement Board of Civil Authority will meet bf the town clerks office, 205 South at 7 tonight for the purpose of abating taxes. Mobile home park before board POWNAL The planning board will met at 7 tonight at the town office.

I Pending is action on the application of John and Janice Bushee for a mobile home park on Jackson Crossing Road. I s- The Falls getting dog complaints HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. The village board will discuss enforcement of the village dog ordinance in tonights board meeting at the municipal building, starting at 7. The topic is the result of a large number of dog complaints, Mayor Donald Bogardus said. i Dorset considers child abuse policy DORSET School directors will meet at Dorset Elementary School at 6:30 tonight to adopt a child abuse and neglect policy and discuss policies on AIDS and tuition students.

There will be presentations on Project S.LG.N. and on incentive grants for teachers. State board meets in Manchester MANCHESTER The state Transportation Board will meet at the I Eagles Club in Manchester today 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to review the status of highway projects.

I PAVE plans tag sale Projects Against Violent Encounters is having a tag sale to help the organization purchase books for its library and client pamphlets on domestic violence, sexual assault, acquaintance Tape, incest and child abuse. The tag sale will be Saturday, June 27. If you have any items you would like to donate, large or small that need to be picked up, call 442-5841. Tatro is police academy graduate Bennington Police Chief Peter Barton has announced that william Tatro graduated from the Vermont Police Academy on May 22. Tatro was a member of the 46th Basic Training naaa for Law Enforcement Officers.

This class was the largest in the history of the academy with 42 graduating officers. Officer Tatro has since been assigned full-time to duty with the Bennington department. Vt. couple are lottery winners BARRE (AP) A Randolph couple will be splitting a $2.1 million lottery jackpot with a Maine constuction worker. Linda and Bernard Lefebvre walked away from Vermont lottery headquarters Monday with a check for $40,800, after taxes.

Its the first installment of the Tri-State Megabucks lottery Jackpot they will receive every year for 20 years. Bernard Lefebvre said he and his wife checked their tickets several times when they heard Saturdays winning numbers in the gnm serving Vermont, New Hamsphire and Maine. We had to check the numbers three or four times, he said. And to tell you the truth we still didnt believe it Snelling out of hospital BURLINGTON (AP) Former Gov. Richard Snelling has been discharged from the Medical Center Hospital, following treatment for an infected foot.

Snelling, who entered the hospital May 27, was released Sunday, a hospital spokesman said. His wife Barbara said Snelling bumped his left foot on a family boat off of Bermuda and an infection later set in. He was treated at a hospital, but she said they did not feel he was getting adequate care and he was flown to Burlington. CALENDAR Safety has challenged the part of the order prohibiting police from discussing aspects of the case. Legal counsel James Crucitti said the order prevents investigators from appealing to the public for information on the babys parents.

Crucitti could not be reached after Mondays hearing. But Davis, when asked if authorities were any freer to talk about the case, replied, No comment. i Missing person case a year old ST. JOHNSBURY (AP) State police are still puzzled by the disappearance of a Walden man who has been missing for a year. Russell Bovit disappeared from his dairy farm in May 1986.

Since then, police have tracked down numerous clues, and Bovits father has hired private detectives to work on the case. But police have no substantial leads that could crack the case, said state police Detective Sgt. Wayne Dyer. We still do get little bits of information here and there, and we check them all out. But it doesnt look like very good news," Dyer said.

Bovit was classified as missing on May 11, 1986, after his blue Renault was found abandoned on a road ear the Walden-Danville line. It may be coming to a Bovits father, Robert, said. Ive had private detectives working on the case for six months. Unfortunately, no one has come forth to answer the ad he has placed in a local newspaper since his son disappeared. The Ridgewood, N.J.

man said he will continue running the advertisement, which offers a $50,000 reward, despite the lack of information about his son. i Russell Bovit has been described as an avid outdoorsman and experienced mountain climber. He was a part-time student at Lyndon State Today Arlington AA, 8 p.m., Community House. Bennington AA, 12:30 p.m., SVC. Bennington Tutorial Center, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

For information on adult education, call 447-0111. Bennington HELP weight group, 6:30 p.m., Putnam Hose Firehouse. Newcomers welcome. Bennington The American Legion post 13 Band performs on the front lawn of the Vermont Veterans Home at 7 p.m. in honor of the U.S.

Armys birthday. The public is welcome. In case of rain, concert will be held in the dining roam of the home. Bennington Vietnam Veterans rap session, 7-9 p.m., Beech Court Community Room. Information: 447-1368.

Bennington Parents Anonymous, call 229-5724 (collect) for time and location. Bennington Parents Against Sexual Abuse, PASA, a support group for parents whose children have been sexually abused, meet at 7 pan. at the Sunrise Family Resource Center bam, Union St. For information or transportation, call 823-5019 or 442-8116. Bennington 7 p.m., Senior All-Night party committee meeting, room 210, MAUS.

All committee chairmen please be present to give reports. Additional vointeers needed on some committees. AH parents of MAUS seniors are invited. Bennington Mount Anthony lioness Club, 7 p.m., Mount Anthony Pownal North Pownal Fire Department Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., firehouse. Pownal Planning board, 7:30 p.m., town offices.

Williams town. Mass. Sweet Adelines Inc. (ladies barbershop harmony), 7:45 p.m., First Congregational Church. Information: 442-9158 or 4435397.

Wednesday Arlington Senior citizens meal, npon, Bailey Hall, East Arlington. Arlington Overeaters Anonymous, 7 p.m., Community Center. Information: 375-6412 or 362-2231. Arlington Wednesday Forum, 7:30 p.m., Pepper Mill Restaurant. Arlington Order of the Eastern Star, 8 p.m., Red Mountain Lodge.

Bennington Tutorial Center, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Information of adult education: 447-0111. Bennington Medicare referral service, 9 a.m. to noon, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center. Information: 442-2925.

Bennington Senior citizens square-dance lessons, 9:30 a.m., Senior Center. Bennington Weight Watchers, 10 a.m., Second Congregational Church. Bennington Overeaters Anony mous, noon-1 p.m., St. Peters Episcopal Church. Information: 442-8486 or 447-0950.

Shafts bury Senior citizens meal, noon, United Methodist Church. Country Club. Bennington The monthly meeting of the Bennington Fire District 1 will be held at 7 p.m. at the Willow Road Firehouse. All district residents are invited to attend.

Bennington Boy Scout Troop 335, 7 p.m., Methodist Church (use back entrance). Newcomers welcome. Bennington Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, 7:30 Post 1332. Bennington Fraternal Order of Eagles officers, 7:30 Aerie 1861 rooms; members mert at 8 p.m. Hoosick Falls, N.Y.

Kiwanis Club, noon, Baptist Hall. Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Overeaters Anonymous, 7 p.m., First United Presbyterian Church. Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Bingo, 8 p.m., Church of the Immaculate Conception Church, benefit of St.

Marys Academy. Dorset Regular meeting of the Dorset School Board will meet at 6:30 pm. at the Dorset Elementary School. Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Village board, 7:30 p.m., village clerks oflce.

Manchester Mostly Madrigals, singing group, 38:30 p.m., at Burr and Burton. For information, John Sanders, 362-1775. North Bennington The board of Trustees of North Bennington will hold their regular monthly meeeting at 7 pm. at the village Depot office. Pownal Senior citizens meal, 11:45 firehouse.

Pownal Lions Club, 7 p.m., Jaeger House..