Bennington News

Despite recent approval in the House, a redistricting plan which forms a single two-seat legislative district encompassing both Arlington and Shaftsbury is far from a done deal, according to those opposed to the plan.

The only contested race on the Shaftsbury Town Meeting ballot is between two candidates with extensive accounting backgrounds eyeing the town treasurer post vacated by Henrietta Billow, who is stepping down after 21 years.

The multitude of your sacrifices, what are they to me?" says the Lord. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings." Seek justice, encourage the oppressed.

A Pownal man who was arraigned Feb. 2 on a felony charge of domestic assault is being held without bail after being arraigned one week later on a felony charge of sexually assaulting the same woman.

In 1982, artists Joan Furchgott and her husband, Brad Sourdiffe, opened their business doing frame and art restoration from their home in Buels Gore.

State police have made an arrest in connection with burglary investigations that involved a multi-agency search of the Foster's Cannery on Benmont Avenue Thursday.

The Martin County School District's finance director is charging that the district's former head of human resources conducted private business on school time using school resources.

The year 1891 was a year of many new opportunities. The Wrigley Company was founded in Chicago; Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera and the radio; the first gas powered car debuted; and James Naismith introduced basketball.

Mike Bethel has pushed to implement policy changes for years as an activist. Now, he is looking to do so from the inside -- as a member of the Select Board.

WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON TODAY: For Friday's Bennington Banner, the staff is working on, among other articles, a profile of Bennington Select Board candidate and longtime activist Michael Bethel; the resignation of an administrator in the Battenkill Valley Supervisory Union; the election race for deliquent tax collector in Arlington; the firing this ... (more)

Michael George, 49, of Niles School Road, for the past two years has served as the town's emergency management coordinator.

A developer is seeking an Act 250 permit for a 23-lot subdivision to be built off Sunderland Hill Road at what is now a dormant gravel pit.

United Counseling Service's program for children and families is sponsoring a photo exhibit of the HighLow Project, which explores the experience of homeless youth in Vermont.

The owner of the former Johnson Controls property is making the case for a change in the property's zoning designation ahead of a Feb.

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22, 2011. Austin E. Bevin, 19, of Hartford, Conn., Evan J. Francis, 19, of Rochester, N.Y., and Michael R. Smith, 20, of Burlington, pleaded innocent to the misdemeanor charge.

The 2006 Capital Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington D.C. took place in front of the Capitol Building on Wednesday, and there were at least two Bennington representatives on hand.

Monument Elementary School teacher John Dockum appears in Bennington Superior Court, Criminal Division, to plead not guilty Monday to five felony counts of possessing child pornography.

The Select Board voted to amend the warning for Town Meeting day, asking if voters would allow two properties to be exempt from property taxes.

Greg Van Houten said he was attracted to Bennington because of a resident's positive attitude about it.