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BENNINGTON — With the Bennington Bookshop moving this week from Main Street into new space at the Four Corners, other changes are waiting in the wings as the first phase of the Putnam Block redevelopment project nears completion.
BENNINGTON — When Aiden Green walked into the Capital City Grange Hall in Berlin on Memorial Day weekend, he carried the hopes of his friends …
The blare of sirens made its way through Bennington County Saturday morning as around 40 emergency vehicles participated in the second annual …
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BURLINGTON — A Chittenden County judge approved the payment of nearly $8 million in outstanding claims made by three Koffee Kup Bakery credito…
MONTPELIER — Vermont is ending its pandemic-related emergency housing in hotels and motels for some of the homeless population because the pro…
When the temperature outside rises, the oven in our house gets to take a vacation.
BENNINGTON — In support of Oldcastle Theatre Company’s 49th season, Coggins Auto Group purchased a block of 100 tickets Monday as part of Oldc…
I first learned about Woven Roots Farm and so many other Berkshire farms and food producers when I was doing recipe-testing and copyediting fo…
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BENNINGTON — With the Bennington Bookshop moving this week from Main Street into new space at the Four Corners, other changes are waiting in the wings as the first phase of the Putnam Block redevelopment project nears completion.
BENNINGTON — When Aiden Green walked into the Capital City Grange Hall in Berlin on Memorial Day weekend, he carried the hopes of his friends and family with him. When he travels to Philadelphia at the end of July, he’ll be representing all of Vermont.
BENNINGTON — As springtime officially turns to summertime this coming week, state and local crews are continuing to make improvements to the region’s roadways. This list of new and continuing projects has been provided by the Vermont Agency of Transportation and local departments of public works.
The blare of sirens made its way through Bennington County Saturday morning as around 40 emergency vehicles participated in the second annual first responders appreciation parade.
WATERBURY — A small, walk-in vaccination clinic held in Waterbury on Thursday is one of the reasons Vermont was able to be the first state in the country to give at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot to 80% of the eligible population.
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BENNINGTON — Fido will have to sit this one out, but everyone else is invited to take part in the grand opening ceremonies for the new Bennington Dog Park on Saturday, June 26th, beginning at 2 p.m. at the site, next to the volleyball courts in Willow Park.
MANCHESTER — Sanjay Correa, an aerospace engineer with GE Aviation, will discuss the current state of commercial aviation on June 29 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. via Zoom. His talk is presented by the Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning.
BENNINGTON — Anthony DeVito-Ely, a member of Bennington Cooling and Heating’s apprentice program, has met the Environmental Protection Agency’s certification requirement for all technicians who are to handle or charge systems with refrigerant.
BENNINGTON — Kaitlyn Daniels, a registered nurse who works in Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s Women’s and Children’s Unit, has been honored with the hospital’s DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses for May.
BENNINGTON — The monthly Walloomsac Walk will be held on Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. at People’s Park on Depot Street, between Main and River streets. The walk leader will be holding an orange flag.
ARLINGTON — Mentoring at UCS will host a Family Fun Day, a day full of food, fun, and friends on Saturday, July 10 from 12-4 p.m. at the Arlington Recreation Park. All are invited to stop by and enjoy a hot dog or hamburger and learn more about the program. Activities will include bocce ball…
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MANCHESTER — Joey McCoy found himself in a few unfamiliar spots on the mound on Tuesday night against Brattleboro Post 5.
WEST HAVEN — Demetrios Drellos continued his hot start to the dirt track racing summer at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Saturday netting his fourth Sportsman Modified victory in the first eight weeks of the 2021 campaign. The Queensbury, N.Y., driver won the annual Father’s Day Weekend “Topless” …
BRISTOL — Bennington Horseshoe Club members competed on Sunday in the 2021 Father’s Day Open at the Sodbusters Horseshoe Club.
BENNINGTON — The Bennington Little League home run derby returned after a one-year hiatus on Monday.
Armored Athlete is gearing up for its seventh season of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a $1 million winner-take-all, March Madness-style tournament featuring 64 teams battling it out for the top prize
BENNINGTON — Usually in the preseason, teams are trying to tweak their gameplans to find just the right fit.
MANCHESTER — For the more than 800 people jammed into Applejack Stadium for Saturday night’s Women’s Premier Soccer League contest between the Vermont Fusion and the New York Shockers, there was a lot of familiarity on the pitch.
MANCHESTER —Max Brownlee took the hill for Manchester Union Underground’s first ever game as an American Legion baseball team on Saturday afternoon against Bennington Post 13. The Manchester native delivered in a big way, tossing a complete game shutout in a 2-0 victory in the first game of …
HOOSICK, N.Y. — The Hoosick Falls baseball team had a pair of first-team all-stars named by the Wasaren League this week.
BENNINGTON — Southern Vermont Storm general manager Chris Cipperley can tell you exactly how long it’s been since his team last played in Bennington: 609 days.
BENNINGTON — Jake Sparks went 3-for-5 with a three-run homer and Nick Santiago started the year with a perfect 5-for-5 performance as Bennington Post 13 held on through a furious seventh-inning rally to beat Brattleboro Post 5, 13-11, at Mount Anthony Union High School on Thursday.
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It’s no secret that people under a certain age (I’m going to put it as high as 50) throw around the word “like” as if they lived in mid-1980s Beverly Hills.
The rise of the dangerous delta variant of the coronavirus gives new urgency to the effort to get people vaccinated. Delta has been spreading phenomenally fast. It’s already the dominant strain in India, the U.K. and Singapore, and it has a foothold in more than 80 countries. While it accoun…
Many legislators and school officials are eager to adjust Vermont’s education finance system to provide more money for school districts with kids from low-income families and those for whom English is not their first language. We agree these resources are necessary and should be provided as …
I mentioned Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “The Bomber Mafia,” in an earlier column. It is one of the best works of nonfiction that I have read in a long time. Gladwell weighs and contrasts the effectiveness, from both a military and a moral standpoint, of two divergent schools of thought invo…
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