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The Village Planning Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday Sept. 14, 2026, a week late because of the Labor Day holiday. Plans call for the Planning Commission to post the new draft Village Plan on that date, for a State-mandated 30-day public comment period. Zoning Administrator David Kiernan has been designated the sole recipient of public comments, at obzoning@gmail.com.
The Trustees held their monthly public meeting on Sept. 1. The minutes are posted under the Board of Trustees tab, in the "Trustees Meeting Minutes" section. The most recent monthly Treasurer's Report can be found in the "Treasurer's Reports" section of the same tab.
The Village's Nominating Committee anticipates an opening on the Planning Commission and would like to hear from residents with an interest in serving. Members of the Nominating Committee have served as Village officials in the past and are well equipped to give interested residents a sense of the duties and time commitments involved. If you're interested, please contact Suzanne Buchsbaum at suzanne.buchsbaum@gmail.com.
The Village Clerk thanks residents who sent their email addresses for advance notification of meetings and hearings outside the usual monthly schedule. (Regular monthly meetings will still be "warned" on the Village website, according to Vermont's Open Meeting Law. ) We do not intend to spam residents or sell their email addresses. If you'd like to get these emails, please send your address to the Clerk, Mary Walsh, at mary.williams.walsh@gmail.com.
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. A sample Open Meeting Law Complaint Form is also posted under "Other Documents."
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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 265 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.