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el 10 Brattleboro Reformer Wednesday, July 30, 2008 www.reformer.com Elsie P. Corse Richard K. Fisher 1934 2008 1943 2008 WHITINGTHAM Elsie Purington Corse died Tuesday morning, July 29, 2008, at her home on Corse Road, following a long courageous battle with cancer. Born in Greenfield. on July 14, 1934, daughter of Arthur and Geneva "Susie" Call Purington of Colrain, she grew up in Colrain and was educated in Colrain Schools and at Arms Academy in Shelburne Falls.

After her family moved to Halifax, in 1951, met Lewis M. Corse at square dance. They were mar ried on Aug. 16, 1952, Whitingham front of the in Shelburne Mr. Fisher had been employed for fireplace at the red house just down the road from the Corse Farm.

She lived on the Corse Farm all her married life and was very active in the daily operation of the farm. In her earlier years, she worked in the hayfields and sugarlot alongside Lewis and her sons. She was also the farm groundskeeper and, with the help of her sickle and brush cutters. kept the farm looking neat. In her later years, she was the one responsible for delivery of Corse Farm maple syrup.

In addition to her life on the farm, she was a longtime blood donor until cancer made her ineligible. She had donated more than 15 gallons of blood. In her later years she also was a regular volunteer at Red Cross blood drives in 1 Brattleboro. For several years Elsie enjoyed playing her dulcimer for the residents of area retirement homes. She bowled in the Thursday night league at Northstar Bowl in.

Wilmington for more than 35 years and served as a Whitingham Ballot clerk for many years. She and Lewis were avid square dancers at local square dances and also enjoyed attending the Hunter Mountain music festival for. many. years. She enjoyed horseback riding.

reading and time spent with her family, especially her grandchildren. Mr. Corse died Jan. 28. 2006.

Elsie leaves three sons. Leon and his wife, Linda; Roy and his wife, Vanessa, and Wayne and his friend, Jennifer Herrick, all of Whitingham; her grandchildren, Abbie, Caleb. Henry and Molly Corse and Ben and Natalie Herrick: eight siblings, Marion Burnap of Mesa. Edward, (Bud) Purington and Ellen Miller of Colrain, Virginia Fellows of Warwick, Doris Johnson and Sam Purington of Buckland Agnes Steele of Southboro, and Roger Purington of Heath, and dozens of nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her brother.

Nelson in 1952. and his infant twin brother in 1931. FUNERAL NOTICE: Services will be Saturday. Aug. 2.

at 11 a.m. at the COVEY ALLEN FU: NERAL HOME in Wilmington. Fellowship and refreshment will follow at the Whitingham Municipal Center. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. when the family will be in attendance.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Whitingham Ladies Benevolent Society or the South western VT Regional Cancer Center, Covey Allen Funeral Home. P.O. Box 215, Wilmington VT 05363. To send personal e-mail condo lences to the family of Elsie P. Corse please visit www.sheafuneralhomes.com.

Pictures are worth a thousand words. Or, a few dollars. Capture your favorite image. www.Reformer.com Click on 'Photo Reprints' GUILFORD Richard Kenneth Fisher, 65, of Weatherhead Hollow Road died peacefully Sunday afternoon at his home, surrounded by his family, following an extended illness. Born in Guilford on May 12, 1943, son of John and Jeanette LaFlam Fisher, he was raised and educated in Guilford, graduating from Brattleboro Union High School.

Class of 1961. many years as a printer for Griswold Offset Printing in Brattleboro and later worked at the former Book Press. More recently, he had been employed for Comcast, working for the company for six years. Mr. Fisher was a member of the AM.

Brattleboro. Lodge Brattleboro Shrine Club and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Brattleboro Aerie Of his pastimes and interests, he enjoyed hunting, traveling. and time shared with his family, especially his grandchildren. Additionally, he. loved puttering around his home that overlooks Guilford Pond.

He leaves his wife: the former Irene Squires, whom he married April 26, 1968 in Putney. Besides his wife of 40 years, he leaves three sons. Robert J. Henry and Anne Coughlin, of Dummerston, Thomas P. Henry and wife, Kelly, and Samuel D.

Henry and wife, Tara, all of Guilford; one daughter, Sandra A. Garland and husband. Mark, of Guilford: three brothers, John Fisher of Belmont, N.H., Scott Fisher of Hudson. N.H.. and Frank Fisher of Litchfield, N.H..

eight grandchildren, and many nieces, nephews and cous- ins. FUNERAL NOTICE: A Memori- al service in celebration of his life will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Guilford Community Church with the Rev. Lise Sparrow, pastor, officiating. A reception will follow the services.

There will be no calling hours at the funeral home. Memorial contributions in Mr. Fisher's name may be made to The Guilford Athletic Association, Guilford Town Clerk's Office. 236 School Road. Guilford.

VT. 05301, attn: Katie Buckley. Messages of condolence may be sent to the family through the funeral home at. www.atamaniuk.com. OBITUARY POLICY To place an obituary in our newspaper, call 800-245-0254.

Funeral homes may send obituaries and photos to AFGHANISTAN DEATHS As of Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at least 491 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Of those, the military reports 347 were killed by hostile action. Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 65 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, two were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea: Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.

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it takes to carry out new highway and transit projects. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said the plan would reduce the 13-year average it now takes to build. It also promises a renewed focus on maintaining and expanding federal highways instead of diverting funds to other projects. She also called for Congress to revamp the "antiquated" gas tax, which she said results in less revenue for transit because it relies on volatile fuel prices. "Without a doubt, our federal approach to transportation is broken.

And no amount of tweaking, adjusting or adding new layers on top will make things better," she said at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. "It is time for a new, a different and a better approach." Environmental activists quickly raised a red flag, saying the Police Continued from Page 7 woman in the face at Landmark College after consuming a large amount of Adderall. Walsh will face charges at Windham District Court Sept. 2. Stratton Art Continued from Page 7 She explained how she was forced to flee her home when the Germans invaded and eventually she told him what happened in Berditschev.

He returned and eventually found four Berditschev natives who remembered the mass killings. Along with Wanscheinbeum, the artist interviewed Ida Berson, who got out just as the Nazis Blueberry- plan would eliminate the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program, a key air pollution project. "It's a little bit surprising that they would go so far as wanting to abolish a critical part of the Clean Air Act." said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch. "The message they are sending is they want money going for asphalt rather than clean air." Peters said the funding that would go to the program would instead be funneled into a pool that cities could use as they wish. Cities struggling to meet clean air guidelines could use their share to reduce pollution, while others could expand transportation.

"Planners would no longer have to slice and dice every federal dollar into. niche programs," she said. The plan also calls for consolidating 102 federal transportation programs into eight umbrella projects, which Peters said would cut waste. She said she hopes it would ultimately help restore confidence Jonathan Vargas-Abreu, 25, of Puerto Rico, was arrested July 26 for stealing roughly $1,500 of personal property and baggage from an Able Express delivery person at Stratton Mountain Resort. All of the stolen property was recovered and Vargas-Abreu was held at Southern State Correctional Facility for lack of were invading the village.

He spoke with Bella Reinsdorf, who was sent to visit her grandparents before the killings, only to return to find that 42 members of her family had been killed. And he documented the story of Isaak Bakmajew, who survived two-and-a-half years with his family hiding in a basement. Today the killing fields are marked with memorial stones. A steel windmill, that stood in the middle of one of the fields, is included in the show and a tape of Continued from Page 7 "This is great, I'm have so many events Chamber of Commerce. The process that Boyd has gone through to organize the different groups involved and the time allotments has been amazing, Sibilia added.

The event has generated a buzz on the chamber's Web site: Officials say it has been No. one in terms of Web traffic for several said Sibilia. "I'm looking forward to it this year and many years to come." For more information or a complete schedule of the events, residents may visit www.visitvermont.com or www.boydfamilyfarm.com. Chris Garofolo can be reached at or weeks. 802-254-2311 ext.

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"If we can show commuters there's a better way to fund transportation projects then they'll believe again," she said. The proposal, launched just months before the November election, would have to be adopted by a Democratic. Congress. Peters said she and other Bush administration officials will immediately start lobbying. The reaction from congressional Democrats was chilly.

"Mostly, it is a collection of the same uninspired and uninspiring policies that this administration has offered over the past five years: toll it, privatize it, lease it, sell it, or congestion-price it," House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar, said in a statement. "The administration's plan, presented during its waning months, calls to mind the concept of mortmain the dead hand, reaching out from the past to affect the $25,000 bail. He will face charges at Windham District Court at a later date. Wardsboro Serena Jenkins, 21, of Jamaica, flipped her 1996 Subaru on Route 100 Sunday night. According to police, Jenkins its eerie rattle will play while visitors are in the gallery.

Dianich heard about the show through a mutual friend and decided to bring it to Brattleboro even though she has never staged a multimedia show in her Main Street gallery. "The first thing I seek to do with a show is engage people and this clearly falls into that," Dianich said as she worked with Wernicke to install the show. "At first it wasn't a show I thought was a good fit for this gallery but the more I learned about it the more I realized I had to hold it in MADISON, Wis. (AP) Three environmental activists were indicted on charges that they helped vandalize a U.S. Forest Service research station in northern Wisconsin, prosecutors said Tuesday.

A recently unsealed indictment said members of the Earth Liberation Front and Earth First damaged the property in Rhinelander in 2000 because they erroneously believed that scientists were performing genetic research on trees. Katherine Christianson of Santa Fe, N.M., Aaron Ellringer of Eau Claire, and Bryan Rivera of Olympia, were charged with conspiring to damage government property and damaging government property. They face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Prosecutors said Christianson, Rivera and two others cut down 500 research trees and used spray paint and etching cream to vandalize government vehicles with ELF references, including: "ELF is watching the U.S. Forest Service." The indictment noted $500,000 in damage.

Ellringer was their driver, prosecutors said. The environmental activist groups, which have used arson and vandalism in protests, view that research as damaging to the environment, prosecutors said. The vandals planned the attack to coincide with protests at the International Society for Animal Geneticists in Minneapolis, the indictment said. The attack set back an ongoing research project designed to make certain species of trees grow faster and healthier to improve their efficiency as an energy source, said Tom Schmidt, a Forest Service official in St. Paul who oversees the Rhinelander station.

Schmidt said the project does not involve genetic research and instead uses traditional plantbreeding techniques. "Unfortunately, they were misinformed on that," he said. The attack has prompted the Forest Service to improve security at the Rhinelander facility, which has about 20 full-time employees. became distracted and lost control of her vehicle as she drove north between Wardsboro and West Wardsboro. The car went off the road and stopped on its roof.

Jenkins was cited for failing to maintain control of her vehicle. this space. It is a story that has to be told again and again and again." When Wernicke hung a portion of the show in a gallery window in Berlin earlier this year, a car stopped out in front and someone got out and smashed the glass with his foot. "I want people to listen to these voices. It has made me look at my life," he said.

"If we want peace in the world, all over the world, people need to make it happen." Howard Weiss-Tisman can be reached at er.com or 802-254-2311, ext. 279. happy we this year," Brattleboro Reformer CORRECTIONS POLICY The Brattleboro Reformer staff takes great pride in its reporting efforts. It is the policy of this newspaper to promptly correct errors of fact to clarify potentially confusing statements that appear in the Brattleboro Reformer or its Web site, www.reformer.com. If you think we have published something in error, please contact the newsroom at 802-254-2311 ext.

7 or e-mail Clarification: In regard to the story "Racism topic of meeting," which ran on July 24, there is not set date or time for the "Not in Our Town" series to air on BCTV. No plans have been finalized. Carole Cummings has been named the vice president of Putnam Insurance Agency. The company's name was misspelled in a headline on Page 5 of Monday's Reformer. In an Associated Press story on Page 1, July 29, story about Entergy Corp.

selling off five nuclear plants to a newly created company, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Entergy will provide a $700 million, "support and $1 billion line of credit for the plants. Those financial instruments will be provided by the new company, Enexus Energy Corp..