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The Board of Trustees' decision to conditionally authorize a Conditional Use Permit for 3 Seminary Lane is posted under the Board of Trustees tab, the first item in the section titled Trustees Meeting Minutes. A list of the conditions begins at the bottom of the second-to-last page
Minutes from the July 8 regular Trustees' meeting are posted under the Board of Trustees tab, in the Trustees Meeting Agendas section. The most recent monthly Treasurer's Report can be found in the Treasurer's Reports section of the Board of Trustees tab.
The Village's Nominating Committee is meeting with residents interested in serving on the Planning Commission or the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The 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 has been building a list of the email addresses of residents who wish to be notified in advance of news outside the regular calendar of Board and Commission meetings. She doesn't have very many addresses yet and would be happy to add to the list. (Regular meetings will continue to be "warned" on the Village website, according to Vermont's Open Meeting Law. The emails are simply to alert residents when there's news that's off the regular schedule. 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."
About Us
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.