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BETHEL — Victoria Weber and Davis Dimock first met when they were in college, he at Pomona and she at Pitzer, two small liberal arts colleges in Claremont, Calif., east of Los Angeles. This was in the 1960s.After living in California and performing...

By ALEX HANSON

CORNISH — After almost two years of study and debate, voters here will be able to weigh in on whether to accept the gift of a new, more accessible library at Town Meeting.Representatives of the town’s library trustees and the Connect Cornish...

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BETHEL — A house fire early Tuesday morning claimed the lives of a Bethel couple.Neighbors identified the residents of 2937 Christian Hill Road, Davis Dimock and Victoria Weber, both in their 70s, as victims of the fire.Fire personnel were called to...

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HANOVER — In certain respects, Julia Griffin’s career in municipal government has unspooled backward, as she worked from New York City, through Santa Monica, Calif., then Concord, to a long career in Hanover, where she started work in 1996, and from...

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For weeks, Andrew Schain tried to find someone to run the Public House Diner, a classic diner in Quechee that he’s been leasing since 2017. His posts on Facebook were frequent and plaintive.“Everything you need to open is here,” he wrote on May 4, the...

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CROYDON — Nearly 60% of Croydon’s registered voters filled the vast dining hall at Camp Coniston to standing-room-only capacity on Saturday and reinstated the small town’s $1.7 million school budget.The vote count was 377-2, and its announcement by...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like any creature just getting its legs under it, electronic music had a wobbly start.Composers worked on cumbersome analog machines and recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. Concerts often consisted of composers placing a reel...

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LYME — The Lyme School District has hired John D’Entremont to lead the Lyme School.D’Entremont, who has been principal of Lebanon Middle School since 2017, will take over in Lyme on July 1. The Lyme School Board voted to hire him on Saturday and he...

By ALEX HANSON

Though she remains in contact with friends who have fled Ukraine, Anastasia Rivet can take in only so much information about the war there.One family she knows has split up, with the husband staying to fight and his wife and two daughters enduring a...

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BRADFORD, Vt. — Bert Dodson, an influential artist and illustrator who spent the bulk of his prolific career in the Upper Valley, has died at the age of 83.A draftsman of daunting skill, Dodson asserted that drawing, and art-making in general, is...

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Since its founding in 1945, Post Mills Airport has changed hands only a few times, most recently in 1988, when Brian Boland acquired it.And since its founding, the small grass airstrip has been privately held.Boland’s death in a July 15 hot air...

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RUTLAND — A federal judge has granted Vermont Law School’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an artist whose murals the law school wants to hide behind a wall.But lawyers for artist Sam Kerson said he will appeal this week’s ruling by U.S....

By ALEX HANSON

At tonight’s First Friday receptions in White River Junction, a pair of recently opened galleries will do something local art viewers don’t often see.Both Tourist, a gallery on South Main Street that opened in January, and Kishka Gallery & Library,...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the past few years, Ben Finer and Bevan Dunbar have been mulling over what they would want an art gallery to look like.At first, they considered opening a gallery in a room of their Hartford Village apartment, which would...

By ALEX HANSON

HARTFORD — Doug Heavisides wasn’t looking for a new job.He’s nearing the end of his ninth year as the director of the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center, where he’s hired much of the staff during his tenure. He’s currently serving as the...

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WOODSTOCK — A proposed new middle and high school for Woodstock and six surrounding towns would cost an estimated $73.3 million, a figure that a committee studying the project thinks will not pass muster with taxpayers without other funding sources.At...

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LEBANON — The Civil Rights Unit of the state Attorney General’s Office has reached a settlement with The Fort@Exit 18, the Lebanon truck stop diner charged in 2018 with employment discrimination and creating a hostile work environment.Juan Smart, who...

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HANOVER — Varujan Boghosian, the puckish artist who mined the castoffs of material culture to assemble works both powerful and whimsical, died Monday at his home in Hanover. He was 94.He had suffered a broken hip last week and died of complications...

By ALEX HANSON

Stories don’t always follow an easy trajectory from beginning to middle to end. Life doubles back on itself and what might look like a conclusion turns out to be just another plot point.Here’s an example: In October 2016, Jeff Sharlet was in a small...

By ALEX HANSON

It is a measure of how far comics have risen in stature that they are now being used to teach schoolchildren and adults alike how American democracy is supposed to function.Or is it a measure of how diminished our government is that cartooning has to...