The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper published in Bennington, Vermont . The paper covers local, national, and world news. It is distributed throughout Southwestern Vermont and eastern New York (Rensselaer and Washington Counties). The paper is owned by Vermont News and Media LLC and is published Monday through Friday, plus a weekend edition.
7-545: Vermont newspaperman and Republican politician, Frank E. Howe , bought two Bennington, Vermont , weeklies in 1902 and merged them to form the daily Bennington Banner , of which he was publisher and editor. Around 1960–1961, the Bennington Banner was purchased by Lawrence Miller and his brother Donald, the sons of Kelton B. Miller , a politician and newspaperman in nearby Pittsfield, Massachusetts . Kelton's grandson, also named Kelton Miller, served as publisher of
14-516: A printer . On October 2, 1895, he married Flora May Cummings. Howe worked as a reporter for newspapers in Vermont , New York and Florida before buying two Bennington, Vermont weeklies in 1902 and merging them to form the daily Bennington Banner , of which he was publisher and editor . A Republican , Howe served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1908 to 1912, and
21-627: A group of Berkshire County, Massachusetts -based investors . In May 2021 the New England Newspapers sold Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer and Manchester Journal to Vermont News and Media LLC A copy of the Bennington Banner is shown in Norman Rockwell 's painting Freedom from Fear , one of the paintings in his Four Freedoms series. In early 2007 the Bennington Banner came under fire from The O'Reilly Factor for allegedly not taking an editorial stance on
28-515: A legal case involving child molestation, an accusation disputed by the newspaper's editor at the time, Jim Therrien. Frank E. Howe Frank Edmund Howe (October 2, 1870 – July 20, 1956) was a Vermont newspaperman and politician who served as the 49th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1912 to 1915. Frank Edmund Howe, nicknamed "Ginger" was born in Heath, Massachusetts on October 2, 1870 to Edmund Perry Howe and Laura A. (Worden) Howe. He
35-566: The Banner from 1977 until 1995, at which point it was purchased by MediaNews Group. Under MediaNews Group ownership, Jim Therrien served as managing editor of the Banner from 2006 to 2012. MediaNews Group eventually combined with other entities and re-branded as Digital First Media . In 2016, the Banner and other newspapers in the New England Newspapers Inc. portfolio were purchased from Digital First Media by
42-462: Was Speaker from 1910 to 1912. He was a Republican presidential elector in 1908 . In 1912 Howe was elected lieutenant governor, serving until 1915. The end of Howe's term was extended from October, 1914 to January, 1915 in order for his successor's term to start in January. This extension was in keeping with a law changing the start date of Vermont's state legislative sessions and the start of
49-692: Was the great grandson of Gardner Howe , an early settler in Vermont and soldier in the Revolution, and he was a direct descendant of John Howe (1602-1680) who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from Brinklow, Warwickshire, England. Howe was also a descendant of Edmund Rice another early immigrant to Massachusetts. He was raised and educated in Brattleboro, Vermont , attended West Brattleboro Academy, and trained as
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