NH warns of E-ZPass scam

CONCORD — State law enforcement officials said they are stepping up coordination with federal authorities to investigate ongoing scam targeting E-ZPass users in New Hampshire and the region.

NH Fish and Game: ‘Very ill-prepared’ pair rescued from Mount Cardigan should have to pay

ORANGE — New Hampshire Fish and Game officers are preparing to ask the Attorney General’s Office to bill two unprepared hikers, including a Dartmouth College student, after they had to be rescued on Mount Cardigan on Monday evening.

Enterprise: Trio discusses partnership that brought Protectworth Brewing to Kellyville

By PATRICK O’GRADY

KELLEYVILLE — When Tim Fraser, Tony Grasso and Adam Bray opened Protectworth Brewing last May, they had a goal beyond producing craft beer.

Federal judge finds NH school district’s actions ‘entirely reasonable’ in transgender athlete protest by parents

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A federal judge has ruled against a group of Bow parents who claimed their First Amendment rights were violated when the local school district barred them from wearing pink wristbands to protest against transgender athletes playing in girls’ sports.

Alice Peck Day CEO announces retirement

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital President and CEO Susan Mooney plans to retire as soon as her replacement is found, though the process is expected to take  months, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday.

Palestinian activist with ties to Upper Valley taken into custody by federal agents in Vermont

COLCHESTER, Vt. — A Columbia University student activist with ties to the Upper Valley was taken into custody by hooded federal agents at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office on Monday.

Harvard defies Trump's demands and risks $9B in federal funding

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON — Harvard University announced Monday that it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as part of its campaign against antisemitism, which could put almost $9 billion in funding at risk.

A Venezuelan man was tackled in a New Hampshire courthouse and sent by ICE to Texas

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — A Venezuelan man facing misdemeanor charges in New Hampshire was apprehended in a courthouse by federal agents who also knocked over a bystander as they tackled him.

Dartmouth alumnus gets 20-to-40-year sentence in rape case

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A state Superior Court judge has sentenced a Dartmouth College alumnus to 20 to 40 years in state prison for raping a woman at a campus fraternity house in 2022.

Federal judge hears arguments in detained Tufts student’s case, makes no ruling

By SHAUN ROBINSON and OLIVIA GIEGER

BURLINGTON — A federal judge in Burlington heard arguments Monday in the case of a Tufts University student who was arrested by immigration agents in Massachusetts late last month and then transferred to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana via Vermont.

Lebanon fire department responds to two residential electrical fires

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Two electrical fires Sunday displaced the occupants of two homes and left a cat dead.

New Hampshire’s 2026 Congressional races starting to take shape

By JOSH ROGERS

With 1st District Congressman Chris Pappas announcing his candidacy for the US Senate seat now held by Jeanne Shaheen, other 2026 federal races are starting to take shape.

After concessions, Vermont House advances bill to overhaul state’s school districts

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

After a night of closed-door dealmaking and a day of public debate, the House passed its education reform bill Friday.

Fighting for the future of the trades in NH

By ADAM DRAPCHO

Some call it a “silver tsunami,” others a “demographic cliff,” but both terms refer to the same effect, and both evoke the disastrous possibilities of what could happen if meaningful steps aren’t taken soon to create the next generation of skilled tradespeople. The good news is that the work has begun.

Two Vermont high school students face expulsion from the US

By OLIVIA GIEGER

Two Champlain Valley Union High School students are being forced to leave the U.S., after an order from the Department of Homeland Security suspended a legal parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

Brattleboro’s cornerstone Brooks House block up for sale

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes slept in one of its bedrooms in 1877. Writer Rudyard Kipling drank lager in its basement bar and played poker in its penthouse suite from 1892 to 1896. Broadcaster Lowell Thomas presented the NBC national radio news live from its ballroom in 1946. And if current owners have their way, someone new will buy this town’s cornerstone Brooks House and soon make their own history.

Changes to federal grant rules cause loss of summer educational programming in Vermont

By AUDITIGUHA

For the past three years the Orange Southwest School District has offered a five-week summer program for elementary students at no cost to families, including meals and transportation.

Upper Valley Business Notes: Claremont MakerSpace volunteers make quilts for families in need

Members of the Claremont MakerSpace’s Community Quilts made and donated nine quilts to Baby Steps Family Assistance, a Claremont-based nonprofit organization that distributes items to regional families in need. Group members spent about 30 hours to create each quilt, which are made from donated fabric, according to a news release from the Claremont MakerSpace. 

Newport superintendent resigns, citing ‘challenge of working with a member of the School Board’

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Superintendent Donna Magoon announced her resignation in a prepared statement at Thursday’s Newport School Board meeting, citing the lack of support from one board member, whom she did not name.

‘A despicable company’: Vermonters protest proposed Amazon facility in Essex, Vt.

By COREY McDONALD

Katie DeSanto, the general manager of Phoenix Books, first heard of the plans through a customer: a proposal to build a 107,000-square-foot Amazon distribution facility in Essex, Vt.