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         <title><![CDATA[Mercedes launching product in Manchester]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 15

 MANCHESTER &#151; Some residents might experience a little motor vehicle envy this summer with brand new Mercedes-Benz SUVs scheduled to roll around town.


 The German-based auto manufacturer received permission from the Select Board on Tuesday to conduct a product launch on town-owned land in June.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[JOHN D. WALLER, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/15/2008 07:07:41 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA['Click It or Ticket' returns]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 15

 BENNINGTON &#151; Local police say they will be taking part in an annual national campaign intended to enforce seat belt laws and encourage use of the safety device throughout the year.


 Bennington Police Lt. Paul Doucette said his department, along with the Bennington County Sheriff's Department, the Vermont State Police and the Wilmington Police Department, have joined]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[NEAL P. GOSWAMI, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/15/2008 07:07:38 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Select Board approves Bombers' plan to play games in Manchester]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday, May 14

 MANCHESTER &#151; America's pastime got one step closer to Manchester summertime on Tuesday, as the Select Board gave initial approval to a plan that would bring a collegiate baseball team to town for the month of July.


 The plan would have the Bennington Bombers play its 11 July home games at Dana L.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[JOHN D. WALLER, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/14/2008 07:08:33 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shaftsbury seeks grant to assess Cole Hall]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday, May 14

 SHAFTSBURY &#151; The town Select Board voted at its meeting Monday night to seek a grant to do an assessment of Cole Hall.


 Town Administrator Aaron Chrostowsky said that the Preservation Trust of Vermont was offering a $250 matching grant to pay for a review of the building.


 "What I'm asking the board to do is to allow me to move forward with this grant," said]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[MIKE GLEASON, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/14/2008 07:08:25 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Town will continue 'rolling reappraisal']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday, May 14

 BENNINGTON &#151; The town will continue with its rolling reappraisal this year and bring all homes up to 100 percent of market value. Not doing so could cost taxpayers more money, according to town officials.


 The Bennington Select Board voted unanimously at its meeting Monday to continue the fourth year of the four-year rolling appraisal after a lengthy discussion.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[NEAL P. GOSWAMI, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/14/2008 07:08:24 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Local bagel shop burglarized]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday, May 14

 MANCHESTER &#151; A local bagel shop was burglarized after it closed on Sunday, according to police.


 A large safe was taken from Bagel Works on Depot Street in Manchester Center between 8 p.m. on Sunday and 2 a.m. on Monday, according to Manchester Police.


 The business was entered by disassembling a window, police said, and the safe was removed through a side door]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/14/2008 07:08:23 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cambridge man arraigned on sex charges]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday, May 14

 BENNINGTON &#151; A Cambridge, N.Y., man was arraigned in Bennington District Court on Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old female.


 Jacob Shortt, 19, of Chestnut Hill Road pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated sexual assault assisted by one or more people and sexual assault.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[MIKE GLEASON, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/14/2008 07:08:23 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Study ranks Vermont first in well-being]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday, May 13

 BENNINGTON &#151; A recent study has ranked Vermont as number one in the country in terms of child well-being.


 The study, released by the Every Child Matters Education Fund, relied on ten indicators, including child and teen mortality rates, births to mothers receiving prenatal care, child poverty, child abuse fatalities and juvenile incarceration rates.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[MIKE GLEASON, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/13/2008 07:04:26 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Local woman pleads not guilty to felonies]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday, May 13

 BENNINGTON &#151; A local woman faces the possibility of life imprisonment after being charged in Bennington District Court on Monday with allegedly plotting to steal a car.


 Gladys Bordeaux, 27, of Jennings Drive in Bennington pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted grand larceny, inciting another to commit a felony, unlawful taking of tangible property, obstructing]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[MIKE GLEASON, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/13/2008 07:04:16 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Woodford school audit report should be released in June]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday, May 13

 WOODFORD &#151; After months of delays, a school audit that could potentially incriminate a local school treasurer or absolve him of any wrongdoing has been completed, according to the district's superintendent, but auditors are still working on a final report to present to the public, he said.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[JOHN D. WALLER, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/13/2008 07:04:15 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A fun Sunday morning]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday, May 12

 CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. &#151; Jeff Maust was one good roll away from setting a new course record when he looked past the sun in his eyes and analyzed the curves in the road. The road bent slightly to the left and peaked in the middle; the 28-ounce bowl needed to stay slightly left on the road, bounce over the small hill, roll through the finish line &#151; and he would lay claim to the]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[ANDY McKEEVER, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/12/2008 07:03:46 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[SVC to honor a 1984 graduate]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday, May 10

 HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. &#151; A local man who excelled in academics and athletics at Southern Vermont College will return to campus on May 18 to be honored at the college's 81st graduation ceremonies.


 Benjamin Patten, a Hoosick Falls resident and radio disc jockey in Albany, will receive the college's Distinguished Alumni Award, the college announced Monday.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[JOHN D. WALLER, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/10/2008 07:08:58 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pownal seeks Taconic trail access]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday, May 10

 POWNAL &#151; Ken Norris does not know where to begin.


 He is leading an effort to create a connecting trail from the Taconic Crest Trail to North Pownal village, but the only two accessways are not feasible, he told the Select Board on Thursday.


 "This trail has been slow going so far.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[ANDY McKEEVER, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/10/2008 07:08:57 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lake acts to curb E.coli  outbreaks]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday, May 10

 SHAFTSBURY &#151; State officials will be hard at work this spring striving to ensure that the closure of Lake Shaftsbury in 2007 because of high E. coli readings does not recur.


 Frank Spaulding, the parks project coordinator with the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, said efforts are being made to prevent geese, associated with the high E.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[wMIKE GLEASON, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/10/2008 07:08:18 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Complaint: More state employees sick after contact with files]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday, May 9

 BENNINGTON &#151; The Vermont Department of Health is investigating a complaint that state employees became ill after coming in contact with files from the now-closed "sick office building."


 "Every time somebody has touched the files somebody has gotten sick. This last time the girl got pneumonia," a corrections employee, who asked to remain anonymous, said Thursday.]]></description>
         <author><![CDATA[NEAL P. GOSWAMI, Staff Writer]]></author>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/09/2008 07:05:56 AM GMT]]></pubDate>
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