Pownal farms put out the welcome mat

By Cherise Madigan, as seen in the Bennington Banner: http://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/pownal-farms-put-out-the-welcome-mat,539776? POWNAL — Are you ready to discover Pownal? With a slew of events planned for this summer — including farm tours and workshops, an Independence Day picnic, and a fall harvest festival — a Pownal initiative is working to make the town’s farms and food…

Empower Pownal

Pownal was the first community to participate in VCRD’s Climate Economy Model Community Program (CEMCP), named Empower Pownal. 150 Pownal community members participated with support from 31 visiting resource team members. Through the process, community members identified 5 priority areas for future action and over 40 citizens joined task force groups that will work to: Develop…

Empower Pownal Report – 2017

Pownal was the first community to participate in VCRD's Climate Economy Model Community Program (CEMCP), named Empower Pownal. CEMCP is community-driven process with local leaders, VCRD, Green Mountain Power, and Efficiency Vermont to cultivate economic development, innovation, and affordability in the face of climate change. Read the Empower Pownal Report and Action Plan. Through the…

e-Vermont Community: Pownal

e-Vermont initiatives in Pownal were spearheaded by a team representing Pownal’s school, library, businesses, government and interested citizens.  In one short year, the team succeeded in bringing the following accomplishments to Pownal: Development (still in progress) of Pownal’s first municipal government website; Seventy-eight netbook packages to ensure that every Pownal Elementary School student in grades…

Pownal Community Visit Report – 2006

Through the Community Visit Process, Pownal established a Housing Task Force that built a mobile home tenants association and planned for an affordable housing project. It also developed community gardens and activities and built a tourism map and a communications campaign to tell the good story of the town’s success. Read the Report and Action…