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summer Established in 1841 and nearby New York Serving the communities of Bennington County 20 Pages 75 cents SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 7-8, 2005 On the Web: www.benningtonbanner.com He's Planning Ahead Bene College poet awarded Guggenheim Fellow ready to write jj Wtw I spending some time in India, he said. "Residence abroad is a gixid way to begin new projects," said Cole, who admitted that it is more difficult to commit himself fully to his writing while he is teaching. "In between is a very good place to look for poems." POET, page 4A V'L V' 7 I 1 i vCi J9 "LMt JESSICA YORK Staff Writer BENNINGTON A Bennington College faculty member and poet will spend a year escaping the mundane realities of the daily grind in order to concentrate on more creative matters with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Henri Cole, a graduate writing seminar faculty member for the college, received one of 186 fellowships to further his work in poetry out of this year's more than 3,000 applicants to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment," a release from the Guggenheim Foundation reads.

"On a practical level, it kind of frees you from worldly concerns," said the poet Cole, 49, from his home in Boston Friday. Cole plans to use his time to live in Paris for three months beginning this fall, where he will be able to "set up conditions that you know have worked for you in the past." He is also contemplating Zachary P. Stephens Maxwell Perry, 3, Iris Patterson, 4, and Hannah Patterson, 7, enjoy some Ice cream outside Power's Market in North Bennington Friday afternoon. Susan Unterberg Henri Cole Town harkens back llth Annual Historic Preservation Conference comes to Bennington ii Questions arising on deer regulations JESSICA YORK Staff Writer BENNINGTON The topic of historic preservation has its strong followers'- those likely to have license plates that read "PRSRV" and first time converts who want to make sure they can properly insure their new "old" properties. Some 20(1 people fitting these descriptions and more gathered Friday for the day-long llth Annual Historic Preservation held for the first time in Bennington on Friday.

The Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation worked with the town and conference coordinator Margaret Campbell to make the event a reality. Campbell said she was pleased with the way the town came together to put the historic conference on, and that it was a success-ful event. William "Bill" McKibben, a former staff writer for the New Yorker and scholar in residence at Middlebury College, started off the day with his keynote speech at the Old First Church on "Preserving Scale: A Small State in a Big (this year's conference theme). McKibben said during his talk that thq important thing for Vermont to do is to get the scale right not too large, but not too small. He touched on the topics of fossil fuels and their, global warming effect, buying food locally from the growers, the dangers of large conglomerate superstores and their effect on local businesses and See HISTORIC, page 4A Tit I 1 i fam i i I "I want to know where the board came from," said Rep, Steve Adams, R-Hartland, chairman of the I louse committee, during a break in the hearing.

"I want the board to know that while they're not answerable to voters, they certainly do answer to the General Assembly. I want them to know that we're watching what they do." On April 21 the board voted to limit Vermont hunters to just one buck in the autumn's hunting seasons and defeated a projxwal by the department that put restrictions on antlercd bucks. The board also voted to ban feeding and baiting of deer and to allow antlerless permits to be issued in Sec HERD, page 4A MONTPELIER, (AP) The Legislature is questioning the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board recent vote on new deer hunting regulations. One year after ceding control over the state's deer herd to a board appointed by the governor, House lawmakers held a public hearing Thursday to better understand where the regulations are heading. The House Fish, Wildlife and Water Resources Committee heard from officials from the Fish and Wildlife Department and eight members of the Fish and Wildlife Board who voted late last month to make sweeping and controversial changes to the deer-hunting regulations.

Jessica York Sally Fishburn gives a hands-on demonstration of window restoration techniques to Historic Preservation Conference-goers. TODAY She sees in a new light Moosefest 2005 JESSICA YORK Staff Writer VILLAGE of CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. These blue eyes don't give away the struggles behind them. A 1 a waiting for a completely unexpected cornea-replacement surgery in Albany's Children's Hospital. "It's one of those things that, while you're going through it, you don't mi Bennington Perry, a 17-year-old senior at Cambridge Central School, is learning some familiarity with squinting eyes and blurry vision after sr' Only three more days until Moosefest! Visit www.ben-ningtonmoosefest.com for more information.

WEATHER realize it, said Perry in an interview at her school Friday. "I just shut down. I couldn't let anything bother me." Perry had contracted an known as rare occur- Alyssa Perry's eye 4 I jj. -Mi 't ilw niiii ml 1 fi Ti li MMMfcJ Pownal paving projects up for bid JENNIFER HUBERDEAU North Adams Transcript POWNAL, Vt. Selectmen are preparing four paving projects lor the bidding process.

Road Supervisor Casey Mattison brought the projects before the board at Thursday night's meeting. The paving projects include Maple Cirovc Road, Jackson Cross Road and 3X) feet of Barber's Pond Road, where a culvert is being put in. A fourth bid will involve patching of sections of Jackson Cross Road slated to be ripped up during future construction of the town sewer project. Mattison originally brought three proposals before the board, but said he did not believe this year's grant from the state would cover the 3.7 miles of road the town needs to pave. Select Board Chairman Nelson Brownell said the town received more grant money than the state had indicated earlier.

The award amount was not released because the grant will pay for the projects being put out to bid. Si-e page 4A parasitic infection acanthamoeba a "V- more than a year of eye problems. In early 2004, Perry first woke up one morning at her Eagle Bridge home to find herself extremely sensitive to the light and with two dramatically different-sized pupils. As a wearer of contacts, Perry assumed she had irritated her eyes in some way the previous day. Her mother thought she had conjunctivitis.

That was a Thursday. By Saturday, in the midst of her SAT testing with tears streaming down her eyes from the eye medication, Perry was worried her peers thought she was hung-over from a wild night of partying. Four months later, Perry would be feeling no pain or worry, with the help of some pre-operation medication, as she lay Nicole Marmillo Bennington Elementary School See today's complete forecast, inside on page 7A rence, she was told, made even more unusual by the fact that she had it in not just one, but both eyes. Her eye may have been "roughed up," possibly by contact usage, allowing the parasite to get in and start eating away at the cornea (the clear, dome-shaped outermost layer surface on the front of the eye.) The parasite is found just about everywhere, doctors told Perry, in water and dirt alike, although more prevalent in the southern states. Not long after finding out what was wrong with her eyes, but before the operation, Perry was taking specialized eye drops See EYE, page 4A Zachary P.

Stephens Alyssa Perry, 17, of Eagle Bridge, N.Y., was diagnosed with parasites In her eyes a year ago. She had to have her right cornea replaced. Perry can see with 2030 vision in that eye, and may need surgery In the other. 8 7 2(K)5 New England Newspapers. Inc.

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