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By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, Vt. — A Hartford man who was serving dual federal and state prison sentences following his arrest in a high-profile police raid nearly two years ago died in a Vermont state prison over the weekend.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTFORD — In an effort to spur growth, the town has hired its first housing and development specialist.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Following a federal order that schools ban diversity, equity and inclusion-related programs, the Vermont Agency of Education is asking school districts to submit compliance certifications.

THETFORD — A Thetford Academy team took home third place in the University of Vermont’s Vermont Pitch Challenge last Thursday.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

In a few weeks Dave Kemp will be making his annual pilgrimage to the Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans, where he will tour the open houses of sugaring equipment manufacturers clustered nearby.

BRADFORD, Vt. — The Orange East Supervisory Union has made the interim principal of Bradford Elementary School permanent.

WOODSTOCK — Families can receive free produce through the Vermont Foodbank’s VeggieVanGo program Wednesday, April 9, at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School.

By ETHAN DEWITT

Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would prohibit “diversity, equity and inclusion” clauses in state contracts, adding the measure to the state budget as Democrats object to the late notice.

LEBANON — Sustainable Lebanon and the Lebanon Rotary Club will collect Styrofoam from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 12.

By HOLLY RAMER and AMANDA SWINHART

JACKSON, N.H. — A skier since age 4, Thomas Brennick now enjoys regular trips to New Hampshire’s Black Mountain with his two grandchildren.

By RICK GREEN

Cuts in corporate tax rates since 2015 have led to up to $1.2 billion in forgone state revenue, according to a report a nonpartisan research group released Tuesday as lawmakers considered millions of dollars in spending reductions.

By TRIS WYKES

Two of the region’s strongest high school soccer programs have new but familiar leadership.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Selectboard is seeking public support for an $11.1 million budget this year, after voters rejected the board’s proposal last year.

By TODD BOOKMAN

It’s a home fit for a governor — at least, one with very deep pockets.

I attended Hanover's Planning Board meeting on April 1, at which zoning amendments allowing infill development in districts with water and sewer were approved to put on the warrant for vote at Town Meeting. I heard several residents express their concern that trees would have to be cut, either to install sidewalks or to tuck in housing, resulting in the loss of Hanover's rural character.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

House lawmakers approved changes to the next state budget that would subtract an additional $271 million from Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s proposal, cut more than 320 state jobs and abolish several services.

Haoyi Liu, of Richmond Middle School, will represent New Hampshire at the National MATHCOUNTS competition in Washington, D.C., in May. 

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Roughly 1,500 people — three times the predicted number — filled the sidewalks on Maple Street from Hartford Avenue to the end of Lyman Bridge on the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne Conroy’s testimony this week in a fertility doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit brought me back to the summer of 1973 and the U.S. Senate’s televised Watergate hearings where Republican Howard Baker, of Tennessee, famously asked: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

By STEVE TAYLOR

It was going to become “the Ben and Jerry’s of beer” and as the concept took shape it generated a lot of buzz in the Upper Valley some 40 years ago.

By TODD BOOKMAN

A group of law enforcement officers, military veterans and civilians filed civil lawsuits against SigSauer last week, claiming the company’s popular P320 pistol fired without an intentional trigger pull, causing, for some victims, serious and life-altering injuries.