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BENNINGTON â The Select Board reluctantly agreed Monday to accept terms of a multi-billion dollar settlement of complex bankruptcy proceedings and other litigation focused on OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma and the companyâs founders and owners, the Sackler family.
Some 3,000 lawsuits by municipal, state, county and other entities, including Bennington and Brattleboro and the state of Vermont, were consolidated and have been the subject of ongoing negotiations in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y.
The most recent talks have focused on proposed changes to a company bankruptcy plan that now calls for Sackler family members to contribute $4.5 billion in cash and other assets, while not admitting any wrongdoing, the Associated Press reported.
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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.
THE community group striving to re-wild the north of Winchester featured on TV – and were interviewed by a Peter Symonds alumni. Wilder Hyde spoke to presenter Megan McCubbin (Springwatch) and her crew from ITV’s This Morning about their gardens recently. The young presenter, who attended Peter Symonds College in the city, has a new slot on the popular daytime programme called “Nurture your Nature” which explores a different aspect of Britain’s wildlife each week. Having heard about Wilder Hyde’s Hedgehog Highways project, Megan and her team spent an afternoon interviewing members of the group. The programme was aired on Wednesday May 5 to coincide with Hedgehog Awareness Week.