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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1977
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation. It operates from 25 Main Street in Bennington, Vermont 05201.
The Banner column questions the Vermont Fish and Game Board for ignoring professional biologists on bobcat population management and for muzzling experts under Martin L. Johnson. It presses on the potential governor’s involvement and urges accountability for the silenced expert testimony and the lack of disclosed reasoning.
The board shut the 1978 bobcat season in the Green Mountains amid dispute and secrecy. Officials say data from trapped animals would have guided policy, but the gag order blocks biologists and the Health Department from discussing the case, risking distrust among taxpayers.
The piece mocks Arie Rothenberg for blaming Chittenden County prejudice after losing the state chairmanship race to Peter Galbraith. It condemns his post defeat remarks as childish and self serving while noting ongoing tensions within the party in Chittenden County. It also mentions the New York Times covering heavy rains in New York City and evoking the 1927 flood anniversary.
The New Republic lampoons Congress and the Capitol Hill Football League, detailing requirements that each nine person team include at least four women on the field, with women facing women at the line and a woman must advance the ball on one of four plays. The piece notes permissible race balance and mocks strict timetables, promising a follow up on spring rites.
The article traces Grace Niles misreading a Troy Times excerpt about William Loughton Smith’s 1790 New England journal. It confirms Washington and Smith traveled together Aug 15–19, 1790, then split. The piece includes a long description of a Shaker settlement near the Pool and Lebanon Springs with rituals, rules, and social details.
Edwin A. Colvin chairman recounts a neighborhood workday on Chicken Coop Hill west of Sycamore Lane that drew over 50 volunteers. They cleared brush, bulldozed and prepared the site for a safe nearby sledding and skiing area, with support from families, Scouts, Lions, and local businesses.
A fragmentary column blends humor and travel fantasies from a Dorset writer. It parodies a proposed Parma Cleveland club trip to Poland via Air Poland, listing an absurd 12 day itinerary with dubious times, fake prices, and outrageous inclusions. It also recalls whimsical anecdotes about banter on ethnic jokes and a Guinness World Records quirk.
A Truro resident found a couple sleeping in a car parked in a beach lot directly in front of an overnight parking sign warning a $20 fine. The occupants replied, Where else can you stay for $20. Malcolm Hobbs reports in the Cape Codder.
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