Friday, July 3 OLD BENNINGTON — There's a piano in the laundry room. There's one in the office. Several cluster at one end of the living room. There's a piano in each dorm-style bedroom. A few are tucked into stairwells, and there's even one in a "Harry Potter" closet. And everywhere you go, even in the piano-free kitchen, there's the sound of someone playing.   Full Story

Friday, July 3 BENNINGTON — Four teens from Southwest Vermont Career Development Center traveled halfway across the country last week to put their knowledge to the test — and returned as gold medalists. More than 90 contests More than 5,400 students from around the country, with representatives from every state, competed in one of the 91 hands-on occupational and leadership   Full Story

Wednesday, July 1 MONTPELIER — A judge has blocked the city of Barre from enforcing an ordinance that would have required a convicted sex offender and his family to move. Twenty-nine-year-old Chris Hagan had been ordered by city officials to move under an ordinance passed last year that blocks convicted sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools or other places children   Full Story

Wednesday, July 1 Announcements Town offices closed BENNINGTON — Bennington Town Offices will be closed Friday, July 3 in Observance of Independence Day and will reopen Monday, July 6, at 8 a.m. Summer camp for girls BENNINGTON — Rosie's Girls is a three-week summer day camp for girls entering sixth through eighth grades.   Full Story