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BENNINGTON â Bennington is applying for a $1 million grant on behalf of two local housing projects for people in recovery from substance misuse.
The town Select Board, in a 6-1 vote on Monday, approved the grant application request from Shires Housing. The housing developer said it intends to use the funds to buy two Bennington homes and transform them into recovery housing, with $500,000 allotted for each project.
The specific properties to be developed were tied to the request for the Vermont Community Development Program grant. Squire House, located at 185 North St., will house up to nine women in recovery, according to a presentation by project proponents at the board meeting. The houseâs programming will be run by Mission City Church and the Vermont Foundation of Recovery, which manages other recovery housing in the state.
BENNINGTON The Select Board is considering grant applications seeking a total of $1 million to develop recovery housing units in two downtown buildings for up to 17 people dealing
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The R/V Melosira, shown here docked on the Burlington waterfront, has been the most visible aspect of the University of Vermont’s freshwater research, teaching, and outreach program for over 30 years. The ship will be replaced next year with a state-of-the-art new vessel. (Photo: Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist)
“It’s all connected,” says Beverly Rubenstein. “The water, the air, the land it all goes together and we all live here on earth, so research that benefits the environment benefits everybody.”
A generous new gift from Beverly and her son Andrew to support the University’s research vessels will help generations of University of Vermont students and researchers better understand the interconnections between the broader environment and freshwater ecosystems. This, in turn, will benefit communities across the country and around the globe who depend on freshwater ecosystems for drinking water, food, tourism, commerce, transportation, and natural resource productio