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The next regular monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held at the Old First Church Barn on Tuesday, April 7, at 7 p.m. The agenda, and a link for those wishing to participate on Zoom, will be posted under the "Board of Trustees" tab, no later than the Sunday evening before the meeting.
Minutes from the March 3 Trustees' meeting are available under the "Board of Trustees" tab, in the section titled Trustees Meeting Minutes. There, too, is a copy of the Conditional Use Permit that the Board of Trustees approved for The Walloomsac Property LLC in the March 3 meeting. Also available are preliminary sketches of the welcome center being planned for the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bennington. Plans call for the welcome center to be in a tent printed to look like the Catamount Tavern of 250 years ago. More information on the plans can be found in the March 3 meeting minutes.
Minutes from the public portion of the March 3 Board of Tax Abatement meeting are also posted under the "Board of Trustees" tab. Immediately below them is the Board's three-page decision on an abatement request for 18 Walloomsac Road. Each of the three pages had to be posted separately, for technical reasons, but they should be read together as a single decision.
Readers wishing to view current and recent Treasurer's Reports can find them by scrolling farther down through the Board of Trustees tab. They are below the Agendas and Minutes.
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.
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 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.