Bennington’s Community Policing Advisory Review Board has set up an internal committee for community outreach, knowing that some residents have reported unfavorable experiences with town police.
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BENNINGTON â Seven Bennington County residents died from opioid overdoses between January and April, the third highest count among Vermont counties, according to the latest state data.
The figure is more than double what the county saw during the same period in the past two years. There were two such deaths both in 2019 and 2020, records from the Vermont health department show.
At the end of 2020 â Vermontâs deadliest year on record for opioids â Bennington County had nine deaths in total. This put the county somewhere in the middle of the statewide counts last year.