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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
WOODSTOCK — The Mountain Views school board has named the Woodstock Union Middle and High Schools’ interim principal to the permanent post.
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.
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.
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.
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
ENFIELD — A $5.8 million renovation of Whitney Hall is nearing completion.
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.
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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