BENNINGTON — The first major storm of the winter season covered Southern Vermont with snow and ice Tuesday, making roads hazardous, disrupting travel and closing schools. Light fluffy snow started falling just before daybreak and continued all day, with amounts reaching 7 inches by mid-afternoon in the higher elevations, and about half that in the valleys, Vermont Agency of Transportation officials said.

The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., said two heavy bands of snow were headed to southern Vermont by 5 p.m. Those bands should bring the snow totals up to the predicted 6 to 10 inches of snow, said NWS Meteorologist Rosemary Webb.

Shauna Clifford, the district transportation administrator for the Vermont Agency of Transportation's southeast region, said the crews started treatin

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