Tag: Bennington

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    Now back to class? Colleges prepare for influx of students

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    Area colleges make plans to welcome students back as virus surges nationally   A seating area behind the Case Campus Center at Skidmore College awaits the arrival of students. The college is among several in the region that aim to resume in-person classes this month.Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CASTLETON, Vt. read more

    Now back to class? Colleges prepare for influx of students
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    Changing a culture of policing

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    Bennington weighs how to transform officers from warriors into guardians   The town of Bennington is crafting a series of reforms to its policing policies after a report issued this spring found the local department’s practices had sown “deep distrust” in the community it serves. Tony Israel file photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, read more

    Changing a culture of policing
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    A vote of confidence in Bennington’s future

    Finally the dream is starting to become real.It’s been more than four years since community leaders began formulating a plan to redevelop nearly a full square block in the center of downtown Bennington. Its backers say the Putnam Block project, formally unveiled in 2017, will restore three historic multi-story buildings along Main and South streets read more

    A vote of confidence in Bennington’s future
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    How the 1960s recast Vermont, from politics to art

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    Two shows explore how the 1960s reshaped Vermont’s politics and art In 1960, demonstrators in downtown Bennington joined nationwide protests that pushed the Woolworth’s chain to end segregation of its lunch counters in the South. This photo, from the May 1960 Bennington College Bulletin, was credited to Jon L. Allen and is included in the read more

    How the 1960s recast Vermont, from politics to art
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    Mozzarella from the mountains

    Bennington cheesemaker grows with Vermont’s artisanal food movement Corey Gilliland, an apprentice cheesemaker at Maplebrook Farm in Bennington, hand pulls stracciatella, a kind of fresh mozzarella that is stretched by hand and then soaked in cream. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Come the second weekend in August, local cheesemaker read more

    Mozzarella from the mountains
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    A downtown makeover begins

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    Bennington sees landmark buildings as key to reviving its urban core The former Putnam Hotel and two neighboring buildings in the center of downtown Bennington are the focus of a redevelopment effort that started construction in June. photo by Joan K. Lentini   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. After two years of delays and read more

    A downtown makeover begins
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    Judge bars college from selling arts center

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    The founders of the Bennington Center for the Arts have gone to court in an effort to annul their gift of the center to Southern Vermont College. In a lawsuit filed May 21 in Bennington Superior Court, Bruce Laumeister and Elizabeth Small argue that when they agreed to donate the arts center and its collection read more

    Judge bars college from selling arts center
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    Broadway to Bennington

    Oldcastle Theatre sets stage for new ‘transitional’ season Sarah Corey and Peter Langstaff perform in Oldcastle Theatre’s 2018 production of A.R. Gurney’s “Fourth Wall.”Erika Floriani photo/courtesy Oldcastle Theatre Company   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. It was the early 1970s when Eric Peterson and a handful of his actor friends left the shadow of read more

    Broadway to Bennington
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    Colleges on the brink

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    Demographic, financial pressures spell doom for three area schools Southern Vermont College President David R. Evans stands on the patio outside his office in the college’s Everett Mansion. The college is one of three in the region that plan to close this spring. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer     With read more

    Colleges on the brink
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    Disappearing local colleges pose questions for future

    As scandals go, this one was stunning in its scope yet somehow unsurprising. In mid-March, federal prosecutors accused nearly three dozen wealthy parents across the country of making six- and seven-figure payments to buy their children admission to top-ranked colleges from Yale to Stanford. The parents, authorities say, paid a corrupt educational consultant who then read more

    Disappearing local colleges pose questions for future