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| name = The Bennington Banner

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| type = [[Daily Newspapernewspaper]]

| format = [[Broadsheet]]

| foundation = 1841

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| owners = [[Vermont News and Media LLC]]

| publisher = Jordan Brechenser

| editor = Executive Editor: Noah Hoffenberg <br /> Vermont Statehouse Editor: Greg Sukiennik <br />News Editor: Dave LaChance

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'''''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.<ref>{{Cite web| title = About Us| work = The Berkshire Eagle| access-date = 2017-10-25| url = http://www.berkshireeagle.com/eagle-about-us.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180625111459/http://www.berkshireeagle.com/eagle-about-us.html| archive-date = 2018-06-25| url-status = dead}}</ref>

Around 1960-19611960–1961, 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 the ''Banner'' from 1977 until 1995, at which point it was purchased by ''MediaNews Group.''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.benningtonbanner.com/site/about.html|access-date=2021-01-16|website=Bennington Banner|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|title=Former Bennington Banner publisher dies|url=https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/former-bennington-banner-publisher-dies/article_025e310f-c4ed-5cbc-ac88-486d3562b2d2.html|access-date=2021-01-16|website=Rutland Herald|date=12 May 2007 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Ap|date=1991-04-02|title=Lawrence K. Miller; Publisher, 83 (Published 1991)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/02/obituaries/lawrence-k-miller-publisher-83.html|access-date=2021-01-16|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Under ''MediaNews Group'' ownership, Jim Therrien served as managing editor of the ''Banner'' from 2006 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jim Therrien, Author at VTDigger |url=https://vtdigger.org/author/jim-therrien/ |website=VTDigger|date=22 October 2018 }}</ref> ''MediaNews Group'' eventually combined with other entities and re-branded as ''Digital First Media''.<ref name=":0" />

In 2016, the ''Banner'' and other newspapers in the ''New England Newspapers Inc.'' portfolio were purchased from ''Digital First Media'' by a group of [[Berkshire County, Massachusetts]]-based investors''.<ref name=":1" />'' In May of 2021 the New England Newspapers sold Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer and Manchester Journal to Vermont News and Media LLC

*[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95066012/ Historic Newspaper Pages (1903-19221903–1922) on Chronicling America]