Joel Howard, a lieutenant at the Bennington County Sheriff’s Department, decided to drop his bid to run as an independent candidate after getting the most Republican write-in votes in the primary election.
James Gulley Jr., a Manchester police officer and law enforcement instructor, won the Democratic primary with 44% of the vote. His two opponents said they’d already filed the necessary paperwork to run as independent candidates in the general election in November.
All three declared candidates say the next sheriff should be more visible than outgoing Sheriff Chad Schmidt has been during his most recent term in office.
Max Misch’s plea agreement with the Bennington County State’s Attorney’s Office includes the state’s recommendation of probation with no jail time.
Inflation and supply-chain problems are lengthening project timelines and hiking potential costs.
The designation means that federal health officials recommend residents in Washington and Bennington counties take broad, community-wide precautions such as masking and social distancing. Seven other Vermont counties had “medium” levels of Covid, the CDC said.
Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders have earmarked a combined $827,000 for Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s proposed child care facility.
A designated task force’s recommendations center on how the Bennington Police Department should handle complaints against it.
Forte had for nearly 35 years evaded resolution of the case. He was accused of assaulting a 12-year-old girl at his Landgrove vacation home.
Bennington County has the second-highest Covid rate in New England, with Rutland County right behind in third.
Leonard Forte, 80, has been asserting for nearly three decades that he is too sick to be retried and that his three felony charges should be dismissed. His first jury trial, in 1988, resulted in guilty verdicts.
Orleans and Caledonia have fallen out of the second- and third-highest slots for their case rates.
Besides being financially compensated, residents affected by a chemical contaminant also would undergo medical monitoring for certain diseases. The federal court still needs to approve the agreement.
Storms in Bennington and Windham counties brought some of that area’s worst flooding in more than a decade.
