Friday December 14, 2012 NEAL P. GOSWAMI Staff Writer BENNINGTON -- A small, locally owned gun store alongside a gas station will be closing down on Monday after nearly 40 years in business. Charlie Wells, owner of the Charles H Wells Guns & Ammo Shop on Northside Drive is currently wrapping up a retirement sale.   Full Story

Friday December 14, 2012 Mike Bethel Why does the Bennington Select Board always play small ball? The board never thinks big. It is content with studying everything over and over again, never coming up an original idea of its own. I was at the last Select Board meeting and I was very disappointed about the reaction to my recommendation about putting the advisory question on Johnson   Full Story

Friday December 14, 2012 DAWSON RASPUZZI Staff Writer BENNINGTON -- Second year nursing student Eva Friend was originally supposed to do her clinical observation in Massachusetts on Nov. 26. At the last minute, the 26-year-old Vermont Technical College student was told her clinical site had been changed to Washington Elms, an assisted living facility in Bennington.   Full Story

Friday December 14, 2012 FORT EDWARD, N.Y. -- Steven McComsey was sentenced Thursday to one to three years in prison for his role in causing his Salem house to explode in 2011, killing six people. McComsey, 34, pleaded guilty in November to criminally negligent homicide. He initially had faced six counts of manslaughter which could have resulted in a 15-year sentence.   Full Story

Friday December 14, 2012 LOCAL SPORTS ROUNDUP CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. -- Notching pins in seven of 11 contested matches, the Hoosick Falls Central School wrestling team cruised to a 59-6 win over Cambridge on Thursday night. Starting at 145 pounds, the Panthers claimed each of the first six matches before Nathan Winchester earned a second-period pin in the 220 pound match for   Full Story

Thursday December 6, 2012 BENNINGTON -- Oldcastle Theatre’s four-decade nomadic adventure finally comes to an end, the nomadic part anyway. The beginning of the 41st consecutive production season also marks the grand opening of Oldcastle’s new home at 331 Main St. in downtown Bennington.   Full Story