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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1977
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont 05201, serving as the local newspaper for the area.
Editorial argues the House ethics code improves Capitol Hill standards and questions outside income caps. It notes a $57,500 salary and $8,625 outside income limit, urging the Senate to adopt a sooner effective date and consider stronger measures.
Editor notes celebrate Burr & Burton Bulldogs capturing the state Class I basketball crown while MAU Patriots face defeat after a four year run. Parade greets the team. Also quips on postal re routing and shifting county population, noting Shaftsbury’s rising voter presence and a town meeting takeaway.
Letters to The Banner challenge the town’s claimed best interests cited at a hearing on a proposed North Branch Street Extension junkyard. Citizens support a nearby factory for jobs but oppose visual pollution, soil erosion, and hillside bulldozing that would affect Willow Park and longer‑standing residents.
David R. Newton of Bennington urges townspeople to oppose a proposed junkyard citing water pollution threats. He notes petroleum products antifreeze and battery acid could runoff into Furnace Brook from springs wells and nearby sites, questioning town interests and pointing to a previously closed dump near the same stream.
A letter to The Banner editor urges citizens to reassess priorities during Lent to aid Janet Henry in her long legal fight to recover her abducted daughters. The writer notes the high costs and complex laws hindering single mothers and suggests donating to the Janet Henry Fund at the Chittenden Bank.
Vermont Dental Care expresses gratitude to Bennington residents for backing the recent election. The program will form a Community Dental Advisory Group to review services for area children and gather input on delivery needs. Interested individuals may contact Renee Wiman at 442-8079.
On behalf of the officers and members of the Bennington Rescue Squad Inc., I thank the people of Bennington for granting Rescue Squad members exemption from paying poll taxes at the Town Meeting. Bernard J. Bourgeois, President, Bennington Rescue Squad Inc., Bennington.
The writer critiques prison policy and crime control, noting Shadowbrook as a medium security plan and contrasting it with protecting residents of slums. He cites NYT reports of street crime, a pattern of witness name withholdings, and fears of harassment, urging greater civil liberties focus on victims and harsher deterrence. He recalls ACLU venality, legal system unreality, and calls for decisive punishment to deter crime.
Washington columnist describes a mock wedding under a lax U S immigration system. Immigration Commissioner Leonard Chapman Jr. details a scam where Marrying Mary and partners exploited loopholes for green cards and welfare, while national estimates warn of millions of illegal entrants and a potential population surge by 2026.
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