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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

MERIDEN — To owner Angela Toms, Mill Bridge Farm is a “4-H project gone right.”Toms, a physician, and her husband, Chris Forman, a software engineer, built the barn that houses 11 Guernsey cows in 2018, after their four children joined 4-H and got...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Two Dartmouth College students and a Greek organization have been criminally charged with furnishing alcohol to a 20-year-old Dartmouth student who drowned in the Connecticut River following a party at a college sorority in July.Matthew...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Every year, dozens of volunteers and organizations make Thanksgiving special.This happens in various ways: there’s people who put together meal boxes for families in need, those who serve meals at Thanksgiving Day dinners and yet others who volunteer...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The Selectboard has rejected a resident’s claim that it violated Vermont’s open meeting law when it met behind close doors last month to discuss making changes to Town Manager Brennan Duffy’s contract.In Thursday’s special meeting, the board...

By ALEX CERVANTES

It’s late October in Manhattan and the Dartmouth football team’s defense, which held Columbia scoreless in the first half, had forced a three-and-out to begin the third quarter. Out trotted Lions punter William Hughes to boot the ball back to the Big...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Prosecutors have dropped a sex charge against a Newport small business owner in connection with allegations that forced him to step down from the School Board earlier this year and give up hosting a popular community-oriented...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

PLAINFIELD — After hearing a plan to combine the two towns’ middle schools at a joint meeting this week, the Plainfield and Cornish school boards voted unanimously to continue to move forward with considering a merger and to reconvene in a month. They...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The Selectboard will hold an special meeting on Thursday to respond to a resident’s complaint alleging the board violated Vermont’s open meeting laws when it amended Town Manger Brennan Duffy’s contract last month.Kris Clement’s complaint,...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Service cuts the University of Vermont Health Network announced last week have the potential to affect health care delivery across the region, including in the Upper Valley.The changes Vermont’s largest hospital system announced last...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Basketball is a sport defined by its spurtability. Coaches often declare that the game is decided by runs, each team propelled by short or extended bursts of scoring while the other squad falls cold. The Dartmouth women’s basketball team...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

UNITY — The symbol spray painted on road signs is not quite befitting with the town’s name.Road signs in Unity have been defaced with Nazi swastikas and the town has yet to remove them. The vandalism may be tied to similar road sign defacement that...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

THETFORD — The Selectboard approved a proposal to hire a part-time social services coordinator to help Thetford residents connect with resources.The plan calls for contracting with the Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction, where Mona Elliott...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WEST NEWBURY, Vt. — The power was out at West Newbury Hall due to high winds on the night of the 63rd annual West Newbury turkey supper and bake sale last month, but the more than 70 volunteers organizing, cooking, serving and cleaning up afterward...

By ALEX CERVANTES

 HANOVER — Dartmouth women’s basketball first-year guard Tahira Muhammad held her right hand in the cookie jar for an extra second or two, hopping backward on her left leg as she watched her 3-point attempt arc toward the hoop Wednesday against...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — The School Board voted Wednesday to proceed with a search for a new superintendent with the goal of inking a contract by late March. The vote was 4-0 in favor of going forward. Board member Nancy Russell was absent.The search is being...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

RANDOLPH — Victoria Davis has been a patient at the Sharon Health Center for more than 20 years, even choosing to drive about an hour from Piermont to Sharon to continue receiving care after she moved out of Vermont.On Nov. 7, Davis received a call...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — In September, Vermont State Treasurer Mike Pieciak spent two days driving to all 14 counties returning more than $150,000 to businesses, nonprofits and service providers.The September deliveries returned just a portion of the $130 million in...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST WINDSOR — Residents will decide whether or not to change the town’s budget year from a calendar year schedule to a fiscal year schedule during a Special Town Meeting on Saturday.The in-person-only meeting will take place at 10 a.m. at Story...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ENFIELD — A documentary called “Mountains Not for Profit,” tackles the scrappy and creative efforts of Whaleback and three other nonprofit mountains to remain sustainable in an era of resort consolidation that has seen the closure of many small,...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The town’s Board of Listers is attempting to solve a boundary dispute with the town of Sharon that has raised concerns for at least 20 years, but not everyone agrees that it’s a problem worth fixing.Nearly the entire length of the border...