Police seek assistance in locating missing Dartmouth student

WEST LEBANON — Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing Dartmouth graduate student, according to a Sunday news release. Kexin Cai, 26, of West Lebanon, was last seen near Drake Lane in West Lebanon on the afternoon of...

Board nixes variance for North Newport senior housing project

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Zoning Board of Adjustment last week denied a variance for a proposed 96-unit senior housing complex on Route 10 in North Newport that the developer has said would help address the region’s housing shortage.Runway Heights Senior Housing...

Upper Valley school notes for May 20

Secondary accomplishmentsLebanon High School senior Ryle Isuga has been named the Lebanon School District’s May student of the month. Isuga is a musician and athlete at the high school, according to a news release from the school district. He performs...

2023 hit farmers hard. Now, many say NH's Ag department is making things worse in 2024

By KATE DARIO

At the start of every growing season for the past 14 years, James Steever, who co-owns Generation Farm in Concord, works his fields, plants his seeds — and hand-delivers his organic certification application to the New Hampshire Department of...

A Life: Elaine Chase ‘was a very generous person’

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH POMFRET — When landscapers came to cut the grass for Lysle and Elaine Chase, Elaine saw it as another opportunity to do what she had done so often in her life: Share with others.“My mother was an amazing baker, and when my father could no longer...

A reduction in Wilmot’s recycling program is forcing some residents to take matters into their own hands

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In Andy Chew’s garage, aluminum cans — remnants of seltzers and assorted drinks — are piled high in large bins because it pains him too much to throw them away.Living in Wilmot, N.H., where recycling options are scarce, with the town lacking...

Lawmakers pass flood disclosure requirements for home sellers, landlords

By CARLY BERLIN

A few years ago, when Corinne Cooper was considering leasing a lot at a manufactured home park in Berlin, she had some sense that the park had experienced minor flooding in the past. But, she said, she didn’t receive much information from the property...

Out & About: Hartford monument unveiling scheduled for Memorial Day

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This Memorial Day a new monument honoring the Hartford’s veterans will be unveiled, decades after the town’s World War I and II monuments disappeared from public view.A ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. Monday, May 27, at...

Editorial: Dartmouth lets protesters know where they stand

In some curious way, the 90 or so peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters caught up in Dartmouth’s dragnet on the Green May 1, and the hundreds of others who supported them on the scene, can be grateful that President Sian Leah Beilock called in the cops...

DHMC union organizers say they have enough signatures to force vote

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — With a unionization campaign by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center nurses making more headway than two previous attempts, the hospital’s administration has hired a prominent California anti-union consultant to resist organizing efforts.Union...

Kenyon: Vermont’s leading Civil War historian finally gets his degree

By JIM KENYON

On a bitter cold February night in 1963, Howard Coffin packed his cardboard suitcase and walked to U.S. Route 5 in the village of Lyndonville, Vt., where he stuck out his thumb to hitch a ride home to Woodstock.“A trucker came by and picked me up,”...

Retiring Windsor County state senator honored for three decades of service

By NICOLA SMITH

MONTPELIER — At the end of the legislative session last week in the Vermont Statehouse, Dick McCormack listened, eyes closed, as a resolution commemorating both his retirement and “profound seriousness of purpose” was read into the record. Standing by...

Edelblut faces skepticism on minimum standards revision

By KELLY BURCH

MANCHESTER — After an hour-long public conversation with the commissioner of the N.H. Department of Education, school board members in Manchester — the state’s largest school district — remained frustrated by a lack of clear answers and unconvinced...

New Hampshire Senate passes bill to restrict transgender athletes in grades 5-12

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — A New Hampshire bill that would ban transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from teams that align with their gender identity is headed to the governor’s desk.The Republican-led Senate voted 13-10 along party lines Thursday in favor of a bill...

Appeal denied for Hanover man in child porn case

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Supreme Court denied a Hanover resident and former Keene State professor’s appeal to overturn his conviction on child pornography charges, holding that evidence in the case supported the trial court’s guilty verdict issued...

Plans shelved to restructure White River Junction postal facility

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The U.S. Postal Service plan to move sorting operations for Upper Valley communities from White River Junction to Connecticut is currently on hold, following concerns expressed by U.S. senators about the impact of USPS’s...

Royalton Hill Bridge to remain closed at least through this year

ROYALTON — Royalton Hill Bridge, also known as Foxstand Bridge, is anticipated to remain closed at least through the remainder of the year, according to the town administrator.The bridge, which spans the White River between Royalton Hill Road and...

New Canaan Elementary School principal hire backs out

CANAAN — Jody Viereck will no longer serve as the principal of Canaan Elementary School, according to an announcement from the Mascoma Valley Regional School District on Thursday. Superintendent Amanda Isabelle said she received an email from Viereck...

State, community members differ on plans for bridge spanning river between Charlestown and Springfield, Vt.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — State officials and area residents remain at odds over plans to fix the nearly 100-year-old Cheshire Bridge, which spans the Connecticut River between Charlestown and Springfield, Vt.The New Hampshire Department of Transportation had...