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By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When I stepped into Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, an arts cooperative in the Tip Top Media Arts building, on Tuesday afternoon, it was clear that the work on display was not based on the Vermont landscape.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LYME — A single mother and her two youngest children are in the process of moving out of town after the Selectboard decided not to renew the lease for the town-owned house where the family has lived for nearly a decade.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — After receiving a “concerning phone call from a property owner,” the town’s Board of Listers has requested a “police presence” at upcoming public hearings for residents who want to contest the new appraised value of their properties.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — Two weeks since a pro-Palestinian sit-in in Dartmouth’s main administration building, tensions between student activists and college officials continue to boil.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Signaling that the future of government support for health care is murky, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and its associated clinics said they are instituting a “hiring pause” in the face of industry “headwinds,” including potential cuts to Medicaid and research funding.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NORWICH — For many years, Suzie Wallis sold sheep fleeces, raw wool and dyed yarn, as well as flowers and vegetables from her family’s garden at the Norwich Farmers’ Market.

By ALEX HANSON

In a sign of how heated Vermont’s education reform debate has become, the board of the White River Valley Supervisory Union has cut ties with the organization that advocates for the state’s public school boards.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

ENFIELD — The Mascoma Valley Regional School District is fighting for reimbursement of half-a-million dollars it has already spent on ventilation improvements and professional development programs after the U.S. Department of Education declined to provide the district with the previously approved funds.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — In what has been a notoriously rainy spring, not a cloud hung in the sky over Lebanon High School’s commencement ceremony on Thursday evening as the 137 graduates processed onto a school athletic field.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

MANCHESTER — The Hanover High boys’ tennis team fell short in its pursuit of perfection and a second-straight championship after losing to rival Bedford in the NHIAA Division I final, 6-3, at the Mark Ouellette Tennis Courts at Southern New Hampshire University on Wednesday.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

LEBANON — Lebanon High School hockey is seeking a new head coach after Dean Cashman informed the school he would not return for a third season.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WOODSTOCK — For almost four decades, Killington, Vt., resident John Hurley has been at the helm of West Woodstock’s casual eatery, the White Cottage Snack Bar.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — As state and federal pressure on “sanctuary jurisdictions” intensifies, the future is uncertain for policies aimed at protecting immigrant communities in some Upper Valley municipalities.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WOODSTOCK — Over the past few years, comedian Vicki Ferentinos has been busy getting in reps at stand-up venues in the Upper Valley and across Vermont.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Campus cafes at Dartmouth are returning to normal operating hours this week after undergraduate student workers ended their strike amid plans to resolve contract disagreements with the college.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like most people who find themselves at the Filling Station, Anna Guenther and Jesse Pollard have been coming to the Gates Street watering hole for years to play pool and enjoy a couple beers.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — Officials in Lebanon and Enfield have reached an agreement to equalize the sewer rates that residents in both communities pay.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — As the town’s proposed Animal Control Ordinance heads into its seventh revision, many residents continue to oppose a section that would ban off-leash dogs on Huntley Meadows.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEWBURY, N.H. — Conservation groups are urging the state to require Mount Sunapee Resort to replace an aging septic system as a condition of opening for the 2025-26 recreation season.

By ALEX DRIEHAUS

A pedestrian attempts to keep dry in the rain while carrying her lunch across the green in Hanover earlier this month. More cool temps and rain are in the forecast for this weekend.