Visitors to Mount Snow enjoyed a classic car show outside the Main Base Lodge in this file photo from the early 1970s.
The Dover, Wilmington, and Whitingham school boards each warned a special Town Meeting to ask voters to finance a study to merge the three towns’ school districts. Under state statute, the three towns were to split the cost of the $21,000 study based on the number of students in the proposed unified district. Wilmington would pay about half, or $10,500, and Dover and Whitingham were to pay about $5,250 each.
15 years ago:
Local teachers Lester and Robin Matathias were building their dream house, a solar “earthship” in Wilmington. The thermal mass house, which used low-cost or free materials, was the first of its kind in the Northeast. The house depended on a mix of solar and wind-generated electricity and passive solar heat.
20 years ago:
Police charged two men with assault after a “road rage” incident on East Main Street in Wilmington. According to reports, a man from Wardsboro was incensed when a Whitingham man failed to yield the right of way fast enough suit him. When the two reached the Wilmington Post Office, the man from Wardsboro assaulted the man from Whitingham, punching him in the face and strangling him. Both subjects went to the Wilmington Police Department to file complaints against each other.
25 years ago:
Deerfield Valley government officials and developers excoriated the Windham Regional Planning Commission for what Dover Selectboard chair Don Albano called their “unimaginative, plodding planning process.” Wilmington Selectboard member Bill Palumbo took the commission to task for dragging their feet regarding improvements to Route 9. “How many more people must we scrape off the highway before you have enough information on where the portable toilets will be located during construction?”
35 years ago:
President Richard M. Nixon resigned in the midst of the Watergate scandal. Columnist Sandy Jaffe said Nixon’s resignation was proof that “our Constitution does work.”
The Red Cricket Lodge & Restaurant sponsored an advertisement for the town of Dover, seeking donations of land for parks, trails, and forest preservation. “Someday, somewhere, someone will donate land valued in the hundreds of thousands to the new Dover Park Forest Recreational Foundation Inc. but for now, (consider) a quarter acre, one, two, or three acres for the same purpose. Think about it, a tax-deductible donation of a small parcel of your Dover land.”
40 years ago:
Former state trooper Charles “Chuck” Goodnow assumed his duties as Wilmington’s first police chief. The department, authorized just a few months earlier at Town Meeting, included Goodnow and four special officers, Arnold Bernard, Robert Southworth, Samuel Thompson, and Lee Waters. The department had one fully-equipped police cruiser, and shared quarters with the fire department on Beaver Street.
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