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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street, Bennington Vermont 05201.
The Bennington Banner notes teachers oppose district policy and face pressure from Dr Richard Sleeman who chairs the school board and serves as a lister. The piece argues for outside professional listers to protect rights to liberty and fair taxation while praising Lions Club carnival cleanup and predicting a summer influx of Vermont visitor-counterculture adherents.
Teachers protest Bennington School District plan to abolish the elementary supervisor position. They cite the 1968 69 experience with Phillip Viereck and highlight programs from the media center to special pupil services, curriculum cabinets, and weekly broadcasts as essential to coordinated education for about 1800 elementary students. The letter, approved by the Southwestern Vermont Education Association, lists 79 signatories.
A seasonal nature column from Searsburg traces the first tree swallows, a mixed bird population, and spring’s slow arrival. Notes amid home crafts, time quirks, and a Florida visit frame reflections on seasons, poetry, and daily life in Vermont.
The 18 to 21 year old vote hinges on where students may cast ballots. Kesten seeks to register in Ithaca for campus votes while state rules vary, potentially influencing 7 to 8 million new voters on campus and affecting Congress, local offices, and state laws.
A Miami Herald brief notes that some men question how to live without women, joking that the answer is cheaper, reflecting a light humorous take in the newspaper’s style.
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