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Ti Bennington Banner Friday, June 6, 196 Page 7 Town hires Barre assessor as lister listing departments property records Into the late 20th century through computerization. He will also arrive just in time to take charge of redrawing the tax maps and adding previously-unmapped areas to the listers charts. 1 Bailey was chosen for his impressive job knowledge, participation In professional development and his likely ability to interact well with the public and other town officials, Town Manager Kevin Ryan wrote in a memo to selectmen. Bailey, designated a Vermont property evaluator last year, was elected vice president of the Vermont Association of Listers and Assessors in 1986, his resume noted. A liberal arts graduate of Broome Community College in Binghamtom, N.Y.

and recipient of a bachelors degree in American history from Harpur College in Binghamton, Bailey also received data base management instruction at the Susquehanna School in the same town, according to his resume. He studied different approaches to evaluating property at the Appraisal Institute at the University of Chicago Graduate School for Business in 1985, and also attended the Vermont School for Listers in Waterbury last year. By KURT MAYER Town officials have ended their search for an aggressive new chief lister with the selection of Michael P. Bailey, currently assessor in Barre, Bailey, 33, will begin work July 7 at a salary of $24,000. The listers office has been without a chief for two years.

The board has relied instead on the contracted services of Steve Wright, a Pittsford-based assessor. The town will save money by employinga full-timedepartment head, said Stuart Hurd, assistant town manager. Among Baileys first tasks will be bringing the Once strong Citizens Partyinow defunct the vote, Lloyd said. Creating a political party that has a strong political platform to out last the charisma of its candidates takes a lot of work, Laskaris said. You have to care about a party to have one, Laskaris said, Thats a lot of energy.

Laskaris has since returned to work with the Democratic Party, like others who have drifted back to mainstream parties or to progressive coalitions. Judith Ashkenaz, who was a cochairwoman of the Citizens Party in 1982, is now co-chairwoman of the Rainbow Coalition. The major point of the organization then was to try to organize a third party in response td a feeling that the Democratic Party was unresponsive to the issues we were concerned about, Ashkenaz said of the 1980 and 1982 campaigns. She ran on the Democratic ticket for state Senate in 1982 in what she called an unwinnable race against Sen. Robert Gannett, R-Windham.

At the same time, she continued working with the Citizens Party, Her candidacy was a long shot, she said, but she was able to talk about the ideals of the Citizens Party while wearing the label of a Democrat. Her conclusion, however, mirrors that of Lloyd and Laskaris: Vermont is not ready for a third party, one that can present a realistic challenge to Wendell Severinghaus Spending time The party platform in 1982 included a call for a nuclear weapons freeze, comprehensive test ban treaty and pledge of no first use of weapons. It also recommended a 50 percent reduction in the nations military budget, a treaty banning chemical weaponry, detente with the Soviet Union, an end to draft registration and establishment of a national Peace Academy. Nationalizing the railroads, utilities and oil companies to help the ailing economy was also high on the list of priorities. Closer to home, two-time congressional candidate Robin Lloyd and Marcia Marshall, a state Senate candidate, pointed to the feminization of poverty as a major issue, and decried cuts in social programs.

Marshall offered to introduce a state Equal Rights Amendment, if elected. Women had a larger and more prominent role in the party than in the two traditional parties, the two candidates said in 1982. In 1984, the party ran a woman for president, Sonja Johnson; more than half of its national committee members were women. In Burlington a breeding ground for Vermonts political activists the part sort of withered on the vine with socialist Mayor Bernard Sanders first bid for office in 1981, said Lloyd, who ran one of the partys most serious, and successful, congressional races in 1980 and 1982. She lost both times, Its very hard to find serious candidates who want to run, knowing that they are going to lose, that they are going to get less than 4 percent of VI Rte I 201 South St, Bennington, Vt A patient duo, Sammy, 3, and David, 5, Lauzon awaits a parent who went shopping at Main Streets Nichols.

The family lives in Shaftsbury. Grass Mountain fire a 4 blessing in disguise Timber, labor costs minimal EDITORS NOTE: What just six years ago was thought to be die great progressive hope of Vermont, the Citizens Party, finds itself defunct in 1986. In a special series, the Associated Press looks at the state of Vermonts political parties in this election year. Part three of four. By MEG DENNISON MONTPELIER (AP) The Citizens Party was the great progressive hope of Vermont when it was founded in 1980.

Its congressional candidate won nearly 13 percent of the vote. Six years later, the Citizens Party is dead. As far as I know, no effort was made by anyone to organize for this year, said Ion Laskaris, a 54-year-old Burlington resident who helped to run the Citizens Party in Vermont and nationally. The party held major status in 1982, and had its name and candidates on Septembers primary ballot just like the Democratic, Republican and Liberty Union parties. But it didnt draw enough votes in 1982 to retain its major party status.

This year, it did not try to organize in the required towns, said Arthur Stone, one of the statewide candidates during the 1984 general election. Marian Wagner of Lyndon was the last Citizens Party candidate to run for governor, winning less then 2 percent of the vote. Major party status requires that at least one candidate for statewide office pull in 5 percent of the vote. Then the party must organize in 15 towns, which amounts to electing officers and filing with the state, said Paul Gillies, deputy secretary of state. Former Citizens Party members chuckle when questioned about the partys slate of candidates this year.

What party? What candidates? The Citizens Party ceased to exist sometime last year, Stone said, who has since joined the Liberty Union Party and is considering a run for statewide office. When the Citizens Party got started, there was a sense that it was a new spark across the county, Laskaris said. But it was staffed by newcomers to party politics, whose energy just ran out. AND RV, INC. Jiminy Peak 413-458-3093 7 Days A Week 8.00 AM until Dark Police stumped by BURLINGTON (AP) Police say they are stumped by a man who planted three evergreen trees in potholes on city streets apparently to protest the condition of the roads.

spent about $750. Because file land was not in the Green Mountain National Forest the U.S. Forest Service did not play a large role. The Bennington County Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Auxiliary of the Shaftsbury Fire Department also spent about $750 on food and supplies for fire fighters. They will be reimbursed by the town and the forest services, Norkeveck said.

The cause of the fire Is still under investigation and Norkeveck declined to release the details until the investigation is complete. He did say leads investigators had found led them to believe the fire was started by a person. It could just have as easily been started accidentally as on purpose, Norkeveck added. the Democrats and Republicans. Ashkenaz said the Rainbow Coalition, which had its roots in Jesse Jacksons campaign for the Democratic nomination in 1984, provides a better vehicle for promoting her political philosophy than the Citizens Party.

Through the Rainbow Coalition, Ashkenaz said, We could run people in Vermont and get them to win. No Citizens Party candidate has ever won a statewide race. But several have made a strong showing in local races. Terry Bouricius was elected to the Burlington City Council on the Citizens Party ticket in 1980. -However, he lost a bid for lieutenant governor in 1982, and was later reelected to the City Council as an independent.

Arthur Stone won 9.7 percent of the vote for state treasurer in 1984, find won more than 40 percent of the vote in Lamoille Countys state Senate race in 1982. Bouricius wrote in a 1982 press release that voting for Citizens Party candidates would increase the chances for success for alternative progressive candidates down the pike. And it appears the Citizens Party did help to pave the way for Independent candidates and larger scale progressive movements but it was unable to ensure its own survival. pothole bandit The who is calling himself The Pothole Bandit," claimed responsibility for the act Thursday through a telephone call to WQCR-FM morning disc jockey Louie Manno. Open 1 Days a Week 9 AM-liJ PM 123-7345 Rout 7 Powna Vermont S7 Vr' Manor NEW ENGLAND WEAR The Factory Outlet Store Fathers Day Specials 15 Offal.

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1 1 i Much of the 60 acres that bpmed. was undergrowth, leaves and brush. The land had just been lumbered eight years ago, so much of the good lumber had been cleared, Norkeveck said. This fire burned many of the undesirable trees which will give the more desirable ones a better chance, The final tally on the cost to put out the fire was over $8,000, he said. Arlington will be responsible for $1600 while the remainder will be made up by state and federal forest services.

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