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Volunteers needed for June’s Quechee Balloon Festival
QUECHEE — The Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce needs volunteers to help out at the 44th annual Quechee Balloon Festival, which is scheduled to take place Father’s Day weekend in June.The festival begins Friday, June 14, and runs through Sunday, June...
Enfield wildlife management area parking lot to close temporarily
ENFIELD — The parking lot at Lower Shaker Wildlife Management Area off Route 4A will close for at least two months due to construction.Work is scheduled to begin Monday, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department,...
After Vermont Senate rejects Zoie Saunders, Phil Scott names her interim education secretary
By ETHAN WEINSTEIN
After a lengthy and dramatic debate Tuesday morning, the Vermont Senate voted against the confirmation of Zoie Saunders as state education secretary — but the fight over her appointment appeared far from finished.Saunders needed a majority of the...
NH firefighters rescue horse from barn calamity
By ASHLEY SAARI
NEW IPSWICH, N.H. — On Wednesday morning, fire crews responded to a unusual rescue request — a horse that had fallen through the floor of his barn and was stuck in his stall.Shortly before 8 a.m., crews responded to 11 Preston Hill Road, and when they...
Claremont takes step toward charging Washington Street property owners for repaving
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CLAREMONT — The City Council has taken the first step toward placing a special assessment on Washington Street properties to pay for a majority of the estimated $1.2 million cost to repave the city’s main commercial strip.The council, at its meeting...
Lebanon moves forward with plans for employee housing
By PATRICK ADRIAN
LEBANON — City officials are studying the feasibility of building a small, affordable housing development for public employees on a parcel of city-owned land near Interstate 89.On Wednesday, the City Council will hold a public hearing to consider a...
Parkinson's impairs movement. This group dances to keep the symptoms at bay.
By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH
For people with Parkinson’s, daily life can grow harder as the disease impairs their movement and balance.Exercise is one of the best ways to slow down those symptoms. That’s why people with Parkinson’s, and their partners, gather at Dartmouth...
Howard Dean weighs (another) run for governor
By PAUL HEINTZ
Vermont’s longest-serving governor is thinking about getting back in the saddle. Howard Dean, a Burlington Democrat who led the state from 1991 to 2003, has been discussing whether to challenge Republican Gov. Phil Scott in this fall’s election, WCAX...
Colby-Sawyer president announces plan to depart
By FRANCES MIZE
NEW LONDON — After eight years at the helm of Colby-Sawyer College, Sue Stuebner will depart in June to take up the mantle as president of Marietta College in Ohio.Under Stuebner’s tenure, Colby-Sawyer’s endowment doubled — from $36 million in 2016 to...
Windsor man who failed to show up for trial arrested in Hartland
HARTLAND — A Windsor man who was wanted on an arrest warrant after he failed to appear for his jury trial on a charge of attempted sexual assault of a minor was apprehended during a motor vehicle stop on Route 5 in Hartland, Vermont State Police...
School Board schedules Hartland budget revote
HARTLAND — The Hartland School Board has scheduled a revote of its proposed school budget after a petition seeking the second vote received more than 200 signatures.Voting by Australian ballot will take place on Tuesday, May 28, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m....
Under covered work
Isaac Jenson, left, and Randy Buzzell of Isaac’s Excavating and Construction, work on their second day of a project to install a 10-inch ductile iron sewer line under the Packard Hill Covered Bridge in Lebanon on Wednesday. About 900 feet of sewer...
Volunteers needed for Lebanon High airplane project
LEBANON — Lebanon High School is looking for adults who would be willing to serve as volunteer mentors for a student airplane building project set to begin in September.Over the course of two school years, students will build a two-seat RV-12iS light...
Students demand that UNH divest from Israeli companies
By OLIVIA RICHARDSON
Students of the University of New Hampshire gathered on Thompson Hall Lawn in Durham Thursday to demand that the school divest from Israeli-based companies and any businesses that could be aiding the country in the war in Gaza. They also want the...
Pro-Palestinian protest encampments spring up at the University of Vermont, Middlebury College
By PETER D’AURIA and SOPHIA KESHMIRI
BURLINGTON — Pro-Palestinian protesters pitched encampments at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College on Sunday, joining a surge of student activism at institutions of higher learning across the country. By Sunday afternoon, roughly a dozen...
Publisher’s note: Valley News launches updated online app
The Valley News app, available for download on Apple and Android devices, currently allows users to read a digital replica of the print newspaper, known as the e-edition.Beginning Monday, the app will be upgraded so subscribers can read breaking news...
Bradford restaurant fined for labor violations
By JOHN LIPPMAN
BRADFORD, Vt. — A mainstay Bradford restaurant and anchor of the downtown business scene has been ordered to dish out a total of $290,000 in penalties and damages for running afoul of various federal employment practices.The U.S. Department of Labor...
Big drop in tuition and aid is boosting Colby-Sawyer
By DAVID BROOKS
One year after it made a radical change to how it charges students by slashing both tuition and financial aid, Colby-Sawyer College’s president says the benefits seem to be outweighing the risks, indirectly helped this year by problems with the...
How NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut used his office in the culture war
By SARAH GIBSON and CHRIS HAXEL
In January 2023, New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut convened a private meeting in Concord to “discuss explicit materials in school libraries.” The invitation — sent to about a dozen school librarians, several parent activists and one...
A Life: Richard Fabrizio ‘was not getting rich but was doing something that made him happy’
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NORTH HAVERHILL — Richard “Dick” Fabrizio cherished, and often reread, a letter he received about 35 years ago one March from a family that was returning from a vacation in the White Mountains the previous fall. They were looking for a place to pick...
