Page 3 - John Killacky News Today

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — On Friday, April 2, Bennington Museum will reopen after a three-month winter hiatus. Spring hours of operation will be Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum library will be open to visitors, free of charge, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays. "I am very excited about the opening of the Bennington Museum 2021 season," interim director David Pilachowski said in a release. "We have been hard at wor...

The Mountain Times By Amanda Gokee/VTDigger A eugenics survey in Vermont sought to “breed a better Vermonter” by sterilizing and institutionalizing Indigenous people, French-Canadians, and people who were mixed-race, poor or disabled. Ninety years after the 1931 survey got underway, lawmakers are proposing an official apology for the state-supported program that tore families apart. Abenaki people in Vermont say the ripple effects of the eugenics movement are still felt today and an apolog...