
Fairlee Drive-in won’t open for season this summer
FAIRLEE — The Fairlee Drive-in’s towering film screen will remain blank this summer as owner Peter Trapp recovers from an illness.

Tree-clearing work near power lines causes Upper Valley outage
HANOVER — More than 4,600 Grafton County electricity customers lost power for about an hour and a half midday Monday, causing businesses to close and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to cancel appointments.
Sports

A Life: Larry Flint ‘just chose to focus on the positive’
NEWPORT — When Larry Flint received a liver transplant in 1991, he was told he could expect to live another seven to nine years.




Opinion

Editorial: Free speech detentions reach into Upper Valley
So now the war comes home, as wars always do. This time it’s the dirty war that the American government is waging against immigrants, international students and the rule of law. And home is the heart of the Upper Valley.





Your Daily Puzzles

An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."

A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.

Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.

Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.

Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.
Photos

A little off the top
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.




Arts & Life

Amphibians’ migration routines are getting more difficult. These brigades are trying to help.
It’s a dark and stormy late-March night. There’s a thick layer of fog over Keene, New Hampshire. Dozens of people walk slowly down a road that curls around the Woodland Cemetery, back and forth, flashlights in hand, eyes trained on the pavement.




Obituaries

Quechee, VT - Merton M. Young, age 88, passed Wednesday, February 19, 2025. Burial will take place at 1pm on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 in the Hilltop Cemetery in Quechee, VT with full military honors. Knight Funeral Home has been entrust... remainder of obit for Merton M. Young

William "Bill" Franklin West Salem, OH - William Frederick "Bill" Franklin III, 78, passed away peacefully while tending to his beloved sheep at his home in West Salem on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Bill was born on September 28, 1946, i... remainder of obit for William Franklin

Ryegate, VT - Barbara Elliot , age 79, passed Saturday, December 14, 2024. Burial will be on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 10:00 AM at the Ladd Street Cemetery in Haverhill, NH. www.rickerfh.com ... remainder of obit for Barbara Elliott

Woodsville, NH - Barbara Thornton, age 86, passed Sunday, January 26, 2025. The interment will be in the spring on Friday May 23, 2025, at 1PM at Town House Cemetery, Scotch Hollow Rd, Newbury Center, VT. www.rickerfh.com ... remainder of obit for Barbara Thornton