Thinking snow in the summer. Mount Snow founder Walt Schoenknecht, center, checks out the license plate and window stickers on a Lincoln Continental in this undated photo from the late 1960s taken outside Snow Lake Lodge. The other two people in the photo were not identified. If anyone recognizes them, let us know.
Valley school board members vowed to push forward with plans for a study regarding a proposed Dover/Whitingham/Wilmington school district. Board members found themselves hobbled by statutes requiring a public vote in each town to authorize funds for the study, another vote in each town to approve a formal proposal. In addition, Dover said they’d only consider a school merger if it included grades K through 12, while Whitingham only wanted to discuss combining the middle and high school grades.
15 years ago:
After several fits and starts, Dover selectboard members accepted a $449,650 bid submitted by Tom Rayl for their new firehouse on Route 100. Town Meeting voters had voted down an earlier design.
Dr. George Humphreys, 86 (in 1994, now deceased) told The Deerfield Valley News that his decision to preserve his Handle Road property through the Vermont Land Trust stemmed from an experience he had as a young man traveling in Damascus. It was there that he saw the impact of a thousand years of civilization on the natural landscape. He said he vowed to “preserve the land, to keep it rich and forested, not to let it turn into a desert, eroded and empty, as I had seen on the road to Damascus.”
20 years ago:
A disagreement over the pruning of a forsythia bush on town-owned land erupted into an argument between Wilmington Selectboard members and abutting landowners. The meeting was finally gaveled to a close after selectboard member Ann Manwaring declared “This is crazy. It’s an absurd use of a public body. Absurd!”
25 years ago:
Dover listers presented the results of a boundary survey between Dover and Stratton. The new boundary added 6.88 acres to the town of Dover. The Dover Selectboard scheduled a meeting with Stratton Selectboard members to ratify the new boundary.
The Dover Selectboard voted to discontinue Pisgah Road. Mount Snow submitted an Act 250 application to build a new road that would provide better acess for snowmaking operations and increase the availability of parking in the lower parking areas.
35 years ago:
Vermont National Bank tore down the Victorian Manor House, which occupied the area near the corner of School Street and East Main Street in Wilmington. Bank officials said the stately Victorian house would cost too much money to renovate. At first, the house appeared to withstand the demolition, and a small boy was heard to say, “I don’t think it wants to be taken down.”
40 years ago:
Construction began on Mount Snow Airport with the cutting of trees along the area that would become the airport runway. The airport and its 2,600-foot runway were designed to accommodate small private aircraft, and the location would allow a runway expansion of another 1,100 feet. Mount Snow Development Corporation said they built the airport to take advantage of a growing number of families seeking ski destinations in their own aircraft. Mount Snow also hoped to encourage a shuttle service to Mount Snow from major metropolitan areas.
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