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HANOVER — Political strategists Donna Brazile and Kellyanne Conway discussed the 2024 election and the importance of fostering conversations across the political divide this week in the first in a series of debates hosted by the Dartmouth Political...

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HARTFORD — The School Board this week acknowledged a “procedural glitch” in the non-public session of a June meeting, but denied that it violated the Vermont  Open Meeting Law when it negotiated and signed a severance agreement with the district’s...

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WILDER — Dothan Brook School’s kindergarten and first-grade classrooms are back in operation this week after a month-long process to clean up mold discovered in parts of the building.Meanwhile, the district is still sorting out how to pay for the cost...

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SHARON — Voters will take to the polls on Oct. 15 to decide whether to allow retail cannabis establishments in town, less than two weeks before the state stops issuing new retail licenses.In August, Sharon received a petition from Sean Trombly, a...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the first time since the spring of 1975, parking meters are set to cast shadows over downtown streets after the Hartford Selectboard voted to bring them back, albeit in a more modern form.In a unanimous vote Tuesday night,...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s graduate student union is the subject of a religious discrimination complaint filed by a graduate student and teaching assistant opposed to the union’s support for pro-Palestinian causes.Benjamin Logsdon, a student in...

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HARTFORD — Beginning Monday, Oct. 14, the VA Cutoff Road bridge over the White River will close for two weeks while crews connect two sections of the span. Traffic will be detoured to the Route 4/Route 5 bridge during the closure.The newly constructed...

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HARTFORD — The School Board is the subject of an allegation that it violated Vermont’s Open Meeting Law when it negotiated and formalized a severance agreement with then-Superintendent Tom DeBalsi outside of public view. DeBalsi, who left his position...

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RANDOLPH — A report presented last week to the Green Mountain Care Board makes sweeping recommendations for restructuring Vermont’s health care systems and some communities and hospital leaders fear the loss of emergency rooms and inpatient beds, and...

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WILDER — Participants in a “listening session” held by the town at the Wilder Club and Library earlier this month expressed concerns about Hartford officials’ transparency and accountability, difficulty navigating the town website and a lack of...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Last May, 11 Hartford middle schoolers were so frustrated with disruptions to their classes caused by misbehaving students that they staged a walkout and demanded to meet with the superintendent.“It was our last cry for help” to...

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LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has announced a collaboration with a Maine-based mountain guide service to offer the first Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM) program east of the Rocky Mountains.The program is designed to train...

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NEW LONDON — The development of a total of nearly 200 housing units has stalled after the discovery that chemical contaminants from a dry cleaning business have spread to the groundwater of one of the two project sites.Planning for both projects — one...

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WEST FAIRLEE — Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity will transfer ownership of a newly renovated, high-efficiency modular home to a family of three from Vershire this week. The structure, manufactured by White River Junction’s Vermod Homes was originally...

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LEBANON — Cyclists are enjoying the unpaved back roads of Vermont and New Hampshire in new ways, boosting rural businesses and shifting how residents and visitors experience the Upper Valley’s rural landscapes.Bike sales surged during the COVID-19...

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HANOVER — More than 300 members of the Dartmouth community signed a petition submitted to President Sian Leah Beilock last week, urging her administration to keep the college’s child care center out of the hands of for-profit chains.The appeal comes...

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HARTFORD — At a tense meeting this week, residents accused the Hartford School Board of procedural wrongdoing related to the departure earlier this summer of former Superintendent Tom DeBalsi.The board pushed back against residents’ allegations...

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WILDER — The discovery of mold in classrooms has delayed the first day of school for kindergarten and first-grade students at the Dothan Brook School.While the rest of the district returns to school this week, the 70 Dothan Brook students in those two...

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HARTLAND — In a last-minute change of course, the Hartland Planning Commission is continuing to press its appeal of an Act 250 permit for a farm store on Route 5, just outside the village center.In September 2023, Sunnymede Farms, a 600-acre cattle...

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WEST LEBANON — In the race to represent New Hampshire’s second district in Washington, 13 Republican candidates filed for the chance to flip Democrat Annie Kuster’s congressional seat.The three GOP front-runners, Bill Hamlen, Vikram Mansharamani, and...

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HARTFORD — Some student programs at the Hartford Area Career and Technical Center will have new locations this fall as efforts to remediate contamination of so-called forever chemicals are expected to continue throughout the school year.Testing in...