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The Village Trustees will hold their next monthly meeting on Jan. 6 at 7:00 p.m., in the Old First Church Barn. The meeting will be open to the public, both at the Barn and on Zoom. Instructions for participating via Zoom will be in the agenda, posted under the Board of Trustees tab prior to the meeting.
The Village Trustees held their most recent monthly meeting on on Dec. 2. The minutes, including a link to a video recording, are posted under the Board of Trustees tab.
Scroll down through the Board of Trustees tab to find the current and recent Treasurer's Reports.
For Information concerning Vermont's Open Meeting Law, see the Open Meeting Law Notice under the Other Documents tab. The law requires any person aggrieved by an alleged violation of the Open Meeting Law to provide the Village a written notice of such allegation before bringing any civil action in court. See the Other Documents tab for a sample Open Meeting Law Complaint Form.
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Location
Old Bennington is situated on a height of land approximately one-half mile west of the center of the Town of Bennington, which lies in the Walloomsac River valley below. Looming over the Village to the southwest is Mount Anthony. A ridge called Monument Hill elevates the northern third of the Village, but along the eastern edge of the Village the land falls sharply away in a steep slope toward the river below. The remainder of the Village is fairly level. Many large, well-spaced houses are surrounded by lawns and gardens. We still enjoy the luxury of some open land with beautiful vistas.
History
The Village of Old Bennington represents the original center of Bennington. Samuel Robinson and a band of religious separatists from Connecticut and Massachusetts founded it in 1761. Over the past 254 years the focus of industrial, commercial and residential development has shifted to the valley below, and Old Bennington has become a small, incorporated Village within the Town of Bennington. Its character has become a historical, single-family residential community.