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...case involves Spruce Tissue Mills, a New York manufacturer of toilet tissue. Last spring the company announced that it would build a plant employing 100 workers in Bennington County, an area of chronic rural poverty where the unemployment rate stands at 7% and is rising...
Delighted by the prospect of new jobs for Vermonters, the state made every effort to accommodate Spruce Tissue, including a 35-acre site on the banks of the Hoosic River and a loan of $7.2 million. Everything was set-except the final approval of the Bennington district environmental commission...
Fearful of losing the plant, the chairman of the state environmental control board publicly urged the company to appeal the case to his group. Governor Davis, running hard for re-election,.declared his opposition to the Bennington commission's action, thus vitiating the new law. When the company hired local lawyers to present its case, they turned out to be some of the very men who had drafted the environmental laws in the first place. Now the state board has revoked most of the restrictions, and Spruce Tissue will start building its mill next spring...
Like his novels, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s message to the graduating class of Bennington College was by turns desolately winsome, merely bleak and utterly but almost gaily despondent. Confessing to congenital pessimism, Vonnegut told the graduates: "Everything is going to become unimaginably worse and never get better again...
Williams voted to go coed last year along with several other small New England, colleges including Wesleyan, Amherst, Bennington, and Yale...