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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — Consultants preparing a report on reuse options for the 300,000-square-foot Energizer factory complex provided a snapshot of their preliminary findings and observations this week during a public information session. The remote Zoom webinar also included an update from a state Department of Environmental Conservation official on past and pending hazardous materials remediation work and ongoing monitoring of the longtime battery manufacturing site. DUE IN SEPTEMBER The Bennington County Regional Commission was hired by the ...

NORTH ADAMS — Roads? Who needs roads? Barring major setbacks — and there probably will be setbacks — years from now someone could ride their bicycle from Bennington, Vt., through Pownal and Williamstown, and into North Adams without spending much time on roads. In fact, the route mostly would flow alongside the Hoosic River, passing through valleys, meadows and forests, under railroad tracks using a former drainage route and through the Blackinton Mill. An earlier proposal that took it through The Spruces and along a route in the Chenaille Terrace neighborhood to the airport pr...

NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — Roads? Who needs roads?

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — The concept of a peanut-shaped roundabout on Route 67A near the Bennington College entrance was praised by town officials Monday after they received an update from project planners. “This is a great proposal,” said Select Board Chairman Donald Campbell, adding that he liked the description from project designers of a “peanut,” rather than his first thought of a one-cell organism. The board was shown the $2.6 million state project’s conceptual design by VTrans project manager Michael LaCroix, Denni...