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BENNINGTON — Margaret “Peg” Bowen was enslaved in Bennington from 1772 to 1778. But her memory will live on thanks to a Stopping Stone dedicated to her in front of Catamount Tavern in Old Bennington.
ARLINGTON — The town's Energy Committee has been hard at work, meeting twice a month and conducting a survey of the town's carbon footprint --…
MANCHESTER — The Taconic & Green Regional School District Board of Directors has called on the state’s Congressional delegation and state …
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ARLINGTON — The town’s Energy Committee has been hard at work, meeting twice a month and conducting a survey of the town’s carbon footprint — …
Karen Rose didn’t understand why a Wall Street-type like herself, who never really took to the outdoors, started rescuing small animals, but s…
POWNAL — Select Board member Robert Jarvis urged the board last week to “slow down” any consideration of a proposal to redevelop the 144-acre …
BENNINGTON — The town is taking steps to acquire and raze the fire-damaged former CTC Corporation building at 254 Benmont Avenue — a process t…
MANCHESTER — A loaded propane delivery truck left the road and came to rest in a ditch on Route 30 across from Dana L. Thompson Memorial Park …
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BENNINGTON -- The VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region invites players to the fifth annual Golf Day Fore VNA. Berkshire Bank will host the event on Aug. 19 at the Mount Anthony Country Club at 180 Country Club Drive in Bennington.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema announced the movie lineup for Family Flicks Under the Stars, an annual free outdoor film series. This year’s movie series is presented by Camp Northwest Hill and The Spring Street Market & Café.
BENNINGTON -- Mount Anthony Union Middle School announced the third trimester honor roll. The students are:
Bicycle tour leader Rick Gallo, left, holds a daily "map meeting" for riders staying at the Catamount Motel in Bennington on Saturday.
MANCHESTER — Manchester Community Library invites the public to the post-COVID reopening of “The Gallery” on July 8, featuring Daisy Rockwell’s Dhwani/Resonance exhibition.
BENNINGTON -- Shaun McNiff, PhD -- artist, art therapist, professor, and author -- is the next guest on Medical Matters Weekly. Viewers are invited to tune in at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6. The show will address the power of art as a component of health and wellbeing in addition to the men…
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Bicycle tour leader Rick Gallo, left, holds a daily "map meeting" for riders staying at the Catamount Motel in Bennington on Saturday.
The Hoosick Falls High School Class of 2022 celebrated its graduation on a beautiful evening Friday. Top: A little girl holds a rose she received during the Hoosick Falls High School commencement ceremony. Bottom: The class processional featured students with roses marching onto Ken Baker Fi…
MANCHESTER — Wherever he went and whatever he did, the late John Kennedy, for years a member of Manchester’s Development Review Board, brought his innate and endless sense of curiosity about the world around him, and showed that he cared about his adopted hometown.
MONTPELIER — The Vermont State House was vandalized during the early hours of Saturday morning, leaving seven broken windows and a message of “If abortions aren’t safe you’re not either” in black spray paint on the front granite portico of the building, according to the Capitol Police Department.
Vermont leaders responded to the U.S. Supreme Courts’ ruling on Friday overturning Roe v. Wade. Among the statements:
BENNINGTON — The blue and gold lighting at the Bennington Battle Monument to honor Ukraine will continue past a July 1 deadline for its removal.
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Mount Anthony’s Nate Potter was a constant for the Patriots soccer team this fall. The senior scored in all but three games for the Patriots, …
Reigning girls cross country athlete of the year Liara Foley of Burr and Burton strung together another strong cross country season this past fall.
Ty Dickerson and Kai Lamothe of Long Trail and Carson Beavin of Burr and Burton were named to the Southern Vermont League A Division ultimate frisbee first team on Monday.
Arlington’s Sidney Herrington can score in bunches. She’s been doing so since her eighth grade year with the Eagles. In 2021, the sophomore led Arlington all the way to the Division IV girls state championship game with her play.
Emma McCart was the engine that powered the Hoosick Falls Panthers to the New York Class C state championship game. The junior forward tallied 45 goals for the Panthers and was a constant offensively.
Bellows Falls Post 37 grabbed a pair of home victories over Bennington Post 13 in a Sunday American Legion baseball doubleheader.
The following are Devil’s Bowl race results from Saturday.
MANCHESTER — The Devin Speno to Tristan Evans connection was deadly during the second annual Vermont All Star Football Camp 7v7 tournament on Saturday afternoon at Judy McCormick Taylor Field.
BENNINGTON- The school year might be over, but the Bennington youth sport scene continues. The Marauders swim team that calls the Bennington Rec Center home will begin their summer schedule this Tuesday, hosting Springfield.
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Register to vote. Then vote. Not tomorrow. Today. Local ballots for the Aug. 9 primary are available; early voting has begun. And the need for your voice to be heard has never been greater.
This isn’t the world I grew up in. I was raised in the 50s and 60s, when everything seemed so much simpler. Times were good, people were happy.
BENNINGTON — Bennington stands at a crossroads.