Pownal News

A Pownal woman was held without bail Thursday after pleaded not guilty to allegedly cutting another woman in the stomach with a pair of scissors.

Karen Gallese, a longtime principal and special educator in Massachusetts schools, was unanimously hired Wednesday as the next superintendent of Battenkill Valley Supervisory Union.

State police cited a Pownal man for supplying minors with alcohol, resisting arrest, and violating court conditions of release after an incident early Wednesday.

Firefighters got the call at about 6:30 a.m. and by the time they arrived the home had already burned to the ground.

It is a school trip students from Cabot will likely never forget. That's because they got trapped in a gondola above Montmorency Falls near Quebec City.

A Pownal teen has been charged with a felony, which could carry a 15-year sentence, for allegedly shooting another boy in the back of the leg with a BB gun.

Pamela Babcock had waited 32 years to hear her name called at commencement -- an accomplishment she achieved Saturday as she walked across the stage in Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Amsler Campus Center gymnasium to receive her bachelor's degree.

The Select Board voted 3-1 Thursday to ask the Vermont Department of Historic Preservation to remove Bartels Lodge from the Center Street Historic District.

A Bennington man who crashed his truck and fled from police in February received a suspended sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to a number of charges.

State police are seeking information on a daytime burglary Monday at an undisclosed residence on South Stream Road in Pownal.

POWNAL, Vt. - Twenty years after the race track here closed for good, the site just north of Williamstown, Mass., is on track to finally have another permanent occupant.

A regional committee studying consolidating school districts expressed frustration Monday over a lack of progress that has been made after spending one year and $13,500, but agreed it would continue trudging forward until its $25,000 budget is depleted.

State police said they arrested a Pownal teen after a short chase on Hidden Valley Road shortly before 8 p.m. Monday.

The Town of Pownal's Recreation Board, currently non-functioning, will hold an initial reorganization meeting Wednesday, May 9, at 6 p.m., at Pownal Town Hall.

Agenda: Economic Development Plan - Review Scope of Work - Formulate Steering Committee; Review Final Draft of Bennington Energy Plan; Other Business.

The small plane of a Pownal, Vt., couple flipped over shortly after take-off Saturday at the small Chapin Field Airport in Cambridge, landing on its roof and injuring a passenger.

The Young at Heart Seniors of North Bennington invite all area seniors to their senior luncheon at Kevin's, 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. seatings.

Two local hydro developers want to get the town-owned dam producing power again, and they seek a lease option agreement from the Select Board to determine the projects feasibility.

Police said a minor two-vehicle fender-bender Saturday led to the arrest of one of the vehicle's operators for driving under the influence.

A 47-year-old four-passenger plane flipped over and fell into a corn field Saturday afternoon shortly after it took off from Chapin's Airport, Washington County sheriff's deputies said.