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Bird flu drives up prices for Upper Valley farms
02-19-2025 5:01 PM

By MARION UMPLEBY

In a typical year, Nate McNamara would order laying hens from a hatchery in Pennsylvania for his farm, Mac’s Maple in Plainfield. But this year, when McNamara called to confirm his order, he learned that the hatchery’s flock had been killed because it carried H5N1 bird flu.

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Plan afoot to relocate Windsor Diner to alternate Main Street lot
02-18-2025 5:00 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WINDSOR — When Theresa Taylor closed the Windsor Diner in mid-January, she knew that the diner’s basement kitchen needed a new concrete floor and a furnace.


Elevated PCB levels at Hartford High and tech center require remediation
02-17-2025 6:31 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — The school district faces extensive and costly remediation of several areas of the high school and career and technical center due to elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, commonly known as PCBs, according to recently completed environmental testing.


Enfield brewery plan back on track
02-13-2025 5:31 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Plans for a brewery in the former laundromat in downtown Enfield are back on tap after the business owners purchased the building, which the previous owner put up for sale due to his frustrations with the town’s planning and zoning process.


Dartmouth sorority won’t face criminal charge linked to student’s drowning death
02-12-2025 7:55 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Prosecutors are not moving forward a criminal case against a Dartmouth College sorority that was accused of hosting a party attended by a student who subsequently drowned in the Connecticut River last summer.


Judge sentences Dartmouth protesters to community service for trespassing
02-11-2025 9:06 PM

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Two Dartmouth students found guilty of criminal trespassing in January were each sentenced to 20 hours of community service and a possible fine in Lebanon District Court Tuesday afternoon. 


Four students face discipline, potential criminal charges after gun scare in Claremont
02-11-2025 6:15 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — Four students are facing expulsion and some may be charged criminally after a gun scare that touched off a huge police response and sent Stevens High School into lockdown on Tuesday afternoon.


Norwich Town Meeting article asks voters to allow nonresidents to serve on town boards
02-11-2025 5:00 PM

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — Town Meeting voters will be asked whether to allow Vermonters who don’t live in Norwich to be elected or appointed to some town offices and boards.


Greensboro Road church project on hold as judge keeps neighbors’ lawsuit alive
02-10-2025 6:01 PM

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — A nearly decade-long effort by a Greensboro Road couple to block the construction of a church next to their home continues, following a ruling last month that allows their legal challenge to the constitutionality of a land use law to continue.


Report: Lebanon Public Works employees misused city property for side jobs
02-10-2025 12:40 PM

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — An internal city investigation has found that employees in the Department of Public Works misused city resources for personal gain, according to a final report.


Town Meeting: Proposed Norwich budget up 8%; Selectboard opts not to use surplus for tax relief
02-06-2025 5:31 PM

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — After weeks of debate, a divided Selectboard approved a general fund budget proposal of $6.7 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.


White River Indie Film Festival seeks to marry humor and love with political resistance
02-05-2025 6:01 PM

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Film festivals with a political bent often risk falling prey to what Samantha Davidson Green, executive director of Junction Arts & Media, calls “the doom and gloom festival dilemma,” wherein audiences leave the theater feeling more hopeless than when they entered.


Town Meeting: Hartland voters to decide school sale
02-04-2025 6:01 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTLAND — Town Meeting voters next month will decide whether to allow the town to put the long shuttered North Hartland School building up for sale.


Trust reaches goal to purchase Coburns’ store in Strafford
02-03-2025 6:01 PM

By MARION UMPLEBY

SOUTH STRAFFORD — Ever since husband-and-wife owners Melvin and Sue Coburn announced their plans to retire in 2022, the fate of Coburns’ General Store has hung in the balance.


Woodstock interim principal takes permanent post
02-02-2025 5:31 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — The Mountain Views school board has named the Woodstock Union Middle and High Schools’ interim principal to the permanent post.


Theater Review: Male friendship takes center court in ‘King James’
01-31-2025 6:31 PM

By ALEX HANSON

How sad a thing must male friendship seem, held together as it so often is by professional sports. It’s a question worth considering as the Super Bowl bears down on us in all its feathered glory.


Upper Valley towns spent COVID relief funds in myriad ways
01-31-2025 4:01 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

Enfield’s police department has a new cruiser, Hartford installed a lactation pod for nursing mothers in the town offices, and in Orford, 90% of the population will for the first time have access to reliable, high-speed broadband.


Two Lebanon city workers face theft charge after probe of Department of Public Works
01-30-2025 6:00 PM

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Two city employees face criminal charges and have been placed on paid leave in connection with a theft investigation at the Department of Public Works.


Whitney Hall renovation nears completion
01-29-2025 7:01 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — A $5.8 million renovation of Whitney Hall is nearing completion.


Art Notes: Saint-Gaudens Memorial hires its first executive director
01-29-2025 4:31 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Jackie Rocha’s longest job was a 14-year stint at the history center of The Statue of Liberty — Ellis Island Foundation.


Cornish group gets grant for new library renovation
01-29-2025 2:53 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH FLAT — The Cornish Community Initiative has earned a $727,000 federal grant to convert the former Cornish store into a community center and library.

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