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MERIDEN — After the blood tests of a child of a Kimball Union Academy faculty member showed elevated levels of lead, subsequent testing of the building that housed the school’s child care center also revealed “trace” levels of the toxic heavy metal,...

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THETFORD — On Saturday, recycling services won’t be available at the Thetford Transfer Station.Trash and food scrap services will be available as usual, and Town Manager Brian Story expects recycling to resume next weekend.The suspension of services...

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SUNAPEE — A new heating system at Sunapee Elementary School is the “Corvette” of wood-burning operations, said Mathew Bouranis, the school district’s facilities director.But a “Prius” may be a more apt comparison.The burner rarely needs to fall back...

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CONCORD — A longtime waste management company based in Orange faces six felony charges for allegedly falsifying annual facility reports, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced last week.If found guilty, Hammond Grinding and Recycling,...

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SOUTH STRAFFORD — When Melvin Coburn takes Amtrak’s Vermonter train eight hours south to visit his son in New Jersey, he makes sure spend some time in Wegmans, a chain supermarket.“I say, ‘All you have to do, Craig, is take me down there in the...

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LEBANON — A fast-approaching federal deadline to identify lead piping in municipal waterlines, and create a detailed plan for replacement, has sent some Upper Valley public works departments scrambling. The task, as mandated by the Environmental...

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NEW LONDON — The New London Fire Department was on thin ice Sunday morning when it rescued a partially submerged deer from Pleasant Lake.Just before 7:30 a.m., with temperatures around freezing, the Fire Department received an emergency call from a...

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HARTFORD — Returning home from an errand run in a thunderstorm, Linda Wilson was stopped by a felled tree blocking the road. She got out of her car — where her young daughter Amy remained seated — slapped on some chaps and revved up a chainsaw, which...

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HANOVER — Speaking on the eve of the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and with just weeks until the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney came to Hanover on Friday with a...

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HANOVER — A $250,000 state grant will help conserve 140 acres of land on Moose Mountain.The grant, announced earlier this month, is one of the largest ever received by the Hanover Conservancy, said Adair Mulligan, executive director of the...

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NORWICH — By two wheels or by four, travelers in bikes and cars ventured to five farms across the town Saturday for an outing hosted by the Norwich Historical Society.Self-guided audio tour Feast from the Farms took over 80 participants to working...

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HANOVER — Standing at the end of Tuck Drive, between the Tuck Business School and the Thayer School of Engineering, is Dartmouth’s commitment to energy research. In 2015, when the college expressed interest in creating an institute focused on the...

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HANOVER — In two weeks, Luke Cuomo will be leaving his home on Long Island to begin classes at Yale Law School in Connecticut. But this weekend he’s stopping by Hanover for an experience he should have had two years ago.Dartmouth College hosted a...

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WOODSTOCK — Three Democrats, including the woman who could become Vermont’s youngest senator, are running for the party’s nomination to the three state Senate seats representing Windsor County.Becca White, of Hartford, is campaigning alongside...

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HARTLAND — A proposal for a new “traditional Vermont farm outlet store” just off Interstate 91 has sparked questions about the future of commercial growth in Hartland as well as conversation among the town’s residents.Last month, a Florida development...

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HANOVER — Gab Smith understands both sides of the conversation surrounding legacy students and Black students at the nation’s elite colleges and universities.A senior at Dartmouth College, Smith is a Black legacy student. Her mother, Tracey...