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Audit finds more Vermont voters assigned to wrong state House and Senate...
MONTPELIER — An audit of local voter rolls prompted by the error-plagued race for a Vermont House seat in Bennington County last year uncovered 100 more cases across the state in which people had been...
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Judge partially sides with Pownal in church property rights dispute
The Pownal Community Church on Wednesday, June 11. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A Superior Court judge dismissed, in part, the Pownal Center Community Church’s complaint against the town in an...
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Centuries-old church takes Pownal to court over property rights
The Bennington County Courthouse in Bennington seen on Sept. 8, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger In a small town in the southwestern corner of the state, the ownership rights to a historic...
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Voter checklist error prompts call for revote in Pownal House race
The ballot drop box outside the Randolph Town Clerk’s office seen on Friday, October 18. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas is calling for a revote in the...
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Pownal death ruled homicide, victim identified
Police have identified a man who was found dead in Pownal on Tuesday, and they are now calling his death a homicide. Casey Gras, 36, of Bennington, died of multiple stab wounds to the abdomen and...
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State police investigating suspicious death in Pownal
Police are investigating a suspicious death that occurred Tuesday in Pownal following an altercation. Authorities received a report of an altercation around 3 p.m. on Chickadee Drive, and responding...
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Pownal-area residents memorialize ‘Widow Krieger,’ the subject of Vermont’s...
An artist’s rendering of Margarete Krieger’s “witch trial” in Pownal sometime around 1785. Courtesy photo/oPownal Historical Society Illustration courtesy of Pownal Historical Society NORTH POWNAL —...
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Pownal veteran gets France’s highest honor
Wallace Mattison holds the Legion of Honor award he was awarded Wednesday at the Vermont Veterans Home. Photo by Holly Pelcznski/Bennington Banner (This story by David LaChance was published in the...
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Attorneys agree Pownal man charged in slashing death is not competent to...
The Vermont Superior Courthouse in Bennington. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Darren Pronto. Police photo. BENNINGTON — Prosecutors and attorneys representing a man accused of fatally slashing...
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US Forest Service buying 2,000 acres in Pownal, Stamford to expand Green...
Roaring Branch Cascades is a scenic, secluded gorge in the new additions to the Green Mountain National Forest. Photo by Matt Peters The Green Mountain National Forest is expected to grow by 2,100...
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Tennessee Waltz: Does the Bennington County sheriff still live in Vermont?
Bennington County Sheriff Chad Schmidt, bottom left, attends this year’s county budget meeting, held remotely on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Participants include County Clerk Marya Bossong, county...
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Pownal man who taught at private school charged with sexually assaulting student
Peter Hirzel, 60, shown attending his hearing from a Vermont correctional facility. Screenshot A Pownal man who worked as a teacher at a Massachusetts private school is being held without bail on...
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Bennington voters reject Spinelli Complex proposal, including synthetic turf...
The Spinelli Complex at Mount Anthony Union High School. Courtesy photo In a bond vote on Tuesday, residents in the Mount Anthony Union School District rejected a $3.5 million proposal for a new...
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Pownal man gets 3 years in prison for threatening trooper with shotgun
Bernard Rougeau, top right, was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday for threatening a state trooper with a loaded shotgun in 2018. He appeared in Bennington Superior criminal court via video...
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Bus driver shortage leads to school closures in southwestern Vermont
Classes were called off in eight southwest Vermont schools on Tuesday when its bus service provider, Dufour Transportation, didn’t have enough drivers to run the school bus routes. Photo courtesy of...
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Bennington and Pownal residents complain of erratic mail delivery
Drive-by mailboxes bearing the logo of the United States Postal Service on Elmwood Avenue in Burlington. Seen on Monday, August 17th, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Bennington and Pownal...
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Judge rejects plea deal for man who allegedly threatened a trooper, who then...
The Vermont Superior Courthouse in Bennington. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger A Vermont judge has rejected a plea deal calling for a 30-month jail sentence for a Pownal man accused of pointing a...
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Basin plan highlights water protection and restoration efforts in...
A snowmaking pond at Pico Mountain that could transfer water from one basin to another. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Officials and conservationists in Bennington County have an updated plan to direct...
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Pownal race track burns in a massive fire authorities call suspicious
POWNAL — Authorities are calling a fire suspicious that burned the grandstand building of the former Green Mountain Race Track Wednesday night and into Thursday morning. The main building at the...
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A tale of two towns: How Covid-19 is complicating ATV debates statewide
A sign in Coventry shows where ATV riders should go. Photo by Justin Trombley/VTDigger Covid-19 is further complicating divisive conversations about allowing all-terrain vehicles on municipal roads...
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