Pownal Elementary School students prepare for a performance with the Bread and Puppet Theater. The piece, which draws on Pownal's history, celebrates the town's 250th anniversary. The performance takes place at the school Friday, Oct. 2, at 2 p.m. For a video of Thursday's rehearsal, visit benningtonbanner.com.
10/1/2009
Album ID: 854159
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Vendor ordinance
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Jim Carroll serves customers at his curbside grill Monday in Bennington. The Select Board is weighing changes to the town's vendor ordinance. Businesses such as Carroll's could be affected.
9/14/2009
Album ID: 836397
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Patrick Kinney
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Patrick Kinney, the town of Bennington's road foreman, is retiring.
8/19/2009
Album ID: 818670
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Smoking ban debated
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The Bennington Select Board discussed a proposed ordinance Monday that would ban smoking on public lands in town. Kiah Morris, coordinator of the Tobacco-Free Community Partnership, displayed a jar filled with cigarette butts collected at a local park. Bruce Lee-Clark, a pre-law teacher at the Southwest Vermont Career Development Center, explained changes made to the ordinance by his students.
6/22/2009
Album ID: 782576
Photos by Peter Crabtree
North Pownal Bridge
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A new bridge spanning the Hoosic River should last at least 50 years, according to estimates.
6/16/2009
Album ID: 778731
Photos by Paul Guillotte
No smoking?
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Patrick Sheets, 22, smokes a cigarette Monday outside the Bennington Recreation Center. The Select Board is debating whether to ban smoking at town parks. Sheets supports the ban, saying it would discourage youngsters from taking up the habit.
6/8/2009
Album ID: 772896
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Benmont Avenue plan
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Peter Barnard, a graduating senior at Bennington College, proposes a redevelopment of Benmont Avenue to the Bennington Planning Commission on Wednesday.
6/3/2009
Album ID: 769529
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Historic fountain
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Bennington Rotary Club member Jerry Albert was instrumental in restoring a historic fountain. Lisa Byer, the executive director of Catamount Access Television, stands beside the fountain, which is destined for a town park on South Street.
5/18/2009
Album ID: 756149
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Yellow Barn Farm
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Keith Squires, chairman of the Arlington Select Board, prepares a Douglas fir to be planted Wednesday by Nate Fice, rear, the Bennington County forester. They were joined by Bruce Caler when planting nearly 400 trees at the town-owned Yellow Barn Farm. The town plans to build raised gardening beds in the near future, and perhaps hiking trails at a later date. "This is just one of the pieces of the things we have planned," Squires said of the Christmas tree farm.
4/29/2009
Album ID: 742087
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Tax sale
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The town of Pownal is moving forward with a tax sale of the former Green Mountain Racetrack.
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