N.H. Judge Rules Against DCYF

By Allie Morris

A New Hampshire Superior Court judge has sided with a family suing the state child protection agency in a ruling that could pave the way to making confidential abuse and neglect records open to the public.“The court finds defendants’ interests in...

Dartmouth Printing Co. Sold to Minnesota-Based CJK Group

By John Lippman

Hanover — Dartmouth Printing Co. has had eight different owners through its 224-year history.Last week it gained a ninth.The owners of The Sheridan Group, parent company of Dartmouth Printing, have sold Sheridan to CJK Group of Minnesota. The sale...

Great View Rink, Home to Generations of Skaters, Is for Sale (Video)

By John Lippman

Enfield — Gayl Pringle, general manager of Great View Roller Skating, walks across the rink’s floor as skaters glide past her under a canopy of blinking red lights. “This is my home,” she says on her way to the control booth, where she programs the...

Out of Prison, and Working to Stay Out

By David Crary

Boston — Tykeam Jackson’s mellow voice and warm smile give little hint of how the 21-year-old spent his youth: in and out of juvenile detention and jails, leading a life in Boston’s mean streets centered on gangs and guns.“I just kept getting caught,”...

Jim Kenyon: The True Cost of Truth in Sentencing

After serving a little over 15 years for killing his mother and firing a second shotgun blast that nearly hit his father, Laird Stanard was released from prison in 2015.Tough-on-crime hard-liners might say that Stanard, who was 17 at time of the 1999...

Unity Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Crash

By Jordan Cuddemi

Newport — A 25-year-old Unity man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two charges stemming from a September 2015 incident in which he struck two pedestrians with his vehicle, killing one of them and seriously injuring the other.Aaron Moeller accepted a plea...

Strafford Voters Voice Opposition to NewVistas

By Jordan Cuddemi

Strafford — Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved an article opposing the NewVistas proposal to build a planned settlement in Strafford, Tunbridge, Royalton and Sharon.But the somewhat lengthy discussion focused not on the merits of the...

Video: Perkins Sentenced to 26 Years to Life in Prison for 2011 Bethel Shootings

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — Emily Perkins has had years to consider what she might say, if given the chance, to the woman she shot and left for dead in a Bethel trailer in 2011.On Wednesday, at her sentencing hearing for the shooting, Perkins was to have...

Young Writers Project: Love Letters to Inanimate Objects

By Eliza Goodell

Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit that engages Vermont and New Hampshire students to write, helps them improve and connects them with authentic audiences in newspapers, before live audiences and on websites, youngwritersproject.org,...

Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Elliot Hospital End Affiliation Talks

By John P. Gregg

Lebanon — Officials at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Elliot Health System said on Friday they had ended formal affiliation talks, a setback for the state’s only academic medical center as it seeks to establish a hub among the bigger cities of southern New...

Perkins Letter to Judge Asks for Leniency

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — The South Royalton woman convicted of killing a Bethel man and wounding a young woman during a drug-related incident in 2011 accepted some responsibility for her actions in a letter addressed to the judge who will sentence her...

How Corning Inc. Handled Contamination of N.Y. Neighborhood

By Rob Wolfe

Corning, N.Y. — As a girl, Margaret McDougal used to dig in the thin topsoil of her neighborhood, picking out the pieces of warped and broken glass that littered the Houghton Plot.Decades later, after raising children, moving away, and then returning...

Owner of Upper Valley Inns Pleads Guilty to Stalking, Assault Charges

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — The co-owner of historic inns in Windsor and Hartland had stopped taking medication for depression when he stalked two employees and fired a bullet into one of their vehicles last fall, his lawyer said in court this week.Kenneth...

DHMC Doctor Accused of Stealing Drugs

By Rick Jurgens

Lebanon — A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist accused of stealing powerful pain drugs for his personal use and falsifying medical records has voluntarily stopped practicing medicine and entered a program for doctors with addiction,...

Two Area Nursing Homes Were Sold: One Got Better, the Other Got Worse

By Rick Jurgens

White River Junction — Recent ownership changes at two large nursing homes in the heart of the Upper Valley have had opposite effects on the conditions and quality of care for dozens of residents, according to observations and ratings from regulators...

Jim Kenyon: At the Shady Lawn Motel, Every Room Has a Story

A Dartmouth College graduate lives in a room on the Shady Lawn Motel’s ground floor. A 72-year-old who gets by on Social Security has been a guest since his release from prison four years ago. A grocery store worker and his wife share a room with...

Vershire Salvage Yard Fined for Hazardous Waste Violations

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Vershire — Sitting in the dim light of his heavily cluttered office space, Allen LaFlamme, owner of Allen’s Affordable Auto Salvage, peered at his computer screen, scrolling through a national directory of used vehicles for sale.Sixty-four years old,...

Victims Embrace Man Who Maimed Them

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — Dale and Lisa O’Keefe made a request in Windsor Superior Court Tuesday morning that was as unexpected as it was unusual: They wanted a little personal time with Gustavo Chang, the man whose car had slammed into the motorcycle...

Randolph Man Charged With Kidnapping, Assault

By Jordan Cuddemi

Lebanon — A 32-year-old Randolph man is being held on $10,000 cash bail after police say he lured a teen to a secluded spot in West Lebanon this summer and assaulted and tormented him.Kristopher Locke allegedly duped the 17-year-old boy into thinking...

Independent Upper Valley Retailers Struggle to Survive as Shopping Moves Online

By John Lippman

Hanover— It was a tough year for mom-and-pop stores in the Upper Valley.At least nine longtime independent retail stores closed their doors in 2016, accelerating a trend that has been especially noticeable since the end of the 2008-09 recession. The...