VERGENNES — Each year a Vergennes Union High School senior is chosen for the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Good Citizen’s Award by faculty members nominating three seniors and then the senior class elects one of those three as their Good Citizen. This year, Jackson Bennett, the son of James and Kim Bennett of Waltham, was tapped for the honor.

The Good Citizen award is sponsored by the local Daughters of the American Revolution, Seth Warner-Rhoda Farrand Chapter and is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The award recognizes a student who possesses the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism to an outstanding degree. The student can apply for a scholarship as well.