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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1977
Page
4
The Bennington Banner, published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corp at 425 Main Street, Bennington VT 05201, continues its local news coverage and community notices from Vermont.
The MAU board finance committee has prepared a tight budget with clear terms for voters. Applauding their effort, the editorial warns that a budget defeat would force cuts to education, sports, and staff to cover rising fixed costs as 2,300 students enroll next year. It urges parents and residents to vote Yes on Tuesday.
After years of semi retirement Green Up Day returns in Vermont. Readers are urged to join either as individuals or through organized groups to pick up roadside debris and support a cleaner state. The piece notes the positive impact of the non returnables ban and calls for year round efforts to keep roadsides neat.
A Moscow fashion piece allegedly disguises Soviet views on Jimmy Carter and human rights. Vyacheslav Zaitsev writes that jeans are universal but warns Carter should not wear them to the Bolshoi, implying limits on his rights advocacy for high level talks.
The Banner letters respond to the editorial on flat rates for electricity. The writer argues flat per kWh charges would be unfair since serving industrial residential and commercial customers costs differ. Central Vermont already uses flat rates within each class while rate levels vary by customer type.
Central Vermont explains its 1974 shift to flat rate pricing highlighting full cost pricing for all customers. The utility notes industrial customers often own transformers, justifying differentiated pricing and introduces a new time-of-day rate offering lower off peak prices for residential use in Rutland.
A Vermonter at 1073 East Main St argues against the Bennington beltline and a new superhighway. They warn of displacement and loss of homes seen in Los Angeles and Minneapolis projects and urge repairing Route 7 instead. The author appeals to preservation of rural Vermont and local access over out of state benefit.
A Letter to the Editor from North Bennington questions expanding highway maintenance for a high speed parallel road amid declining car use. The writer likens the impulse to a lemming like drive to self harm and notes Letters must include signature and address, with 200 words or fewer.
A Vermont columnist argues for government backed housing as employer and landlord of last resort as low income residents face acute housing shortages. The piece highlights buying an old wreck or mobile options, notes rising energy costs, and sketches a DIY path: five acres for 2000 dollars with a 10 year seller financed note, emphasis on wood fuel, solar warmth, septic avoidance, and self built cottages for as little as 200 to 700 dollars cash.
A meditation on modern optimism and the blind spots of the pursuit of happiness. The piece contrasts contemporary denial of suffering with medieval views that linked pain and mortality to meaningful living, arguing love and community give life its true value.
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