After more than 45 years, Upper Valley guitar shop closes

04-21-2025 6:01 PM

WEST LEBANON — After more than 45 years in business, financial troubles and a falling out between business partners led music shop Blue Mountain Guitar to take a final bow last weekend.


Roman Catholics mourn Pope Francis

04-21-2025 5:31 PM

VATICAN CITY — He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore South Sudan’s rival leaders to make peace.


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As spring skiing season winds down, one NH ski area plans to spin its lift until May
04-19-2025 5:25 PM

The Red Sox season was already a dozen games deep when, on April 9, a small ski area in New Hampshire fired up its snowmaking guns to add to the snow base on its main slope.

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Editorial: New Hampshire budget shortfall is a crisis of Republican design
04-11-2025 10:01 PM

Who says manufacturing is dead in the United States? The budget crisis that Republican lawmakers in Concord are now purporting to solve through draconian reductions in state spending is at least partially, and perhaps mainly, the result of unwise and unwarranted tax cuts they enacted over the past decade. If that’s not manufacturing a crisis, what is?

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A little off the top
04-18-2025 3:03 PM

Joel Luis and Danny Sanchez of Olsen Roofing remove shingles on a large barn last week in Orford. Built in the 1800s, the barn is getting a new roof to help preserve the building.

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A timeline of events in the rebuilding of Lebanon’s Baptist church
04-20-2025 6:04 PM

This timeline of the construction of the new First Baptist Church of Lebanon is taken from accounts in the Valley News and recent interviews with church leaders.

Obituaries

Obit photo for Richard B. Adams Jr. Richard B. Adams Jr.

Richard B. Adams, Jr. Claremont, NH - Richard Benton Adams, Jr., age 63, passed away on Monday, February 3rd, 2025. He was born on December 20th, 1961 in Lebanon, New Hampshire to the late Richard Benton Adams, Sr., and the late Nancy Le... remainder of obit for Richard B. Adams Jr.

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Perkinsville, VT - Karson Calvin Lewis, 34, of Perkinsville, VT, passed away on April 15, 2025, after a fiercely brave nine-year battle with brain cancer. He was surrounded by love, laughter, and a few inappropriate jokes-just the way h... remainder of obit for Karson Calvin Lewis

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Bradford, VT - Richard J. Cooke, 78, died peacefully surrounded by his family on Friday April 18, 2025 Richard was born on January 26, 1947 in Albany, NY the son of Robert J. and June Melville Cooke. Richard graduated from Bishop Gibbo... remainder of obit for Richard J. Cooke

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Ascutney, VT - Victor R. Hayward, age 84, passed Friday, March 7, 2025. A public graveside interment service will be held on Saturday, April 26th at Ascutneyville Cemetery at 11am. Knight Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrange... remainder of obit for Victor R. Hayward

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