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WEST LEBANON — After months of delays, back-and-forths and testy exchanges between the developers and city representatives, the Lebanon Planning Board recently approved a one-year extension for the site plan of River Park.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSVILLE — After 138 years as an independent bank — and the oldest in the Upper Valley — Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank is merging with a Maine bank that in recent years has made a push into New Hampshire and Vermont.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Forgoing a formal search, Windsor Town Manager Tom Marsh has tapped Weathersfield Police Chief Bill Daniels to be Windsor’s next police chief.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Festering tensions within the Woodstock Police Department spilled out into the open this week as the town’s police chief fought for his job at a marathon public hearing where the town manager and several department employees detailed their complaints about and lack of confidence in the chief’s leadership.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 65-year-old Vershire woman has been criminally charged in connection with the death of an 82-year-old pedestrian, who she struck with her car in Chelsea four months ago and subsequently died from his injuries, according to police.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

A package of proposed new laws from Gov. Phil Scott’s administration seeks to address the public’s concerns over crime by reining in some Democrat-led initiatives in recent years while at the same time recognizing that Vermonters would not accept a far-right lurch on law enforcement.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

April Frost, she might agree, probably got along better with dogs than her own species. But it was through canines that she believed people could open a new dimension into what it means to be human.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Sam Gregory said he worried that the investigation into the death of his daughter, Sammantha Cruger, would stall out after Woodsville Police Det. Wayne Fortier, who had been investigating the case, died in 2021.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Superior Court judge has denied a request by defense attorneys to obtain the email addresses and phone numbers of members of jury for a sexual assault trial earlier this year.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Chief Jen Frank is trading maple trees for palm trees.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A Bethel man who faced a felony manslaughter charge for allegedly not responding quickly enough to aid a friend who died from a drug overdose after collapsing in his apartment pleaded no contest to a reduced misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment and received a fully suspended jail sentence in Orange County court.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 2017 graduate of Hanover High School has been charged with sexually assaulting a Thetford woman.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — For the fourth time in six years, there will be no Five Colleges Book Sale.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — A 58-year-old Windsor man who has been held without bail for three years after he fired a shotgun through the floorboards into the bedroom of his downstairs neighbor before he broke into the neighbor’s apartment while continuing to shoot was sentenced earlier this month.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The smell of smoke awoke a napping father who climbed out his bedroom window when he encountered a smoke-filled hallway at a Crystal Place home on Thursday evening.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The long-delayed River Park mixed-use development that was conceived as a home for biomedical and tech offices is seeking a two-year extension on its site plan, arguing that a court decision last year in the developer’s favor amounts to a “material change” in the plans and paves the way to extend the timeline for the project.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A vandalism spree in which car tires were slashed, bus windows smashed and racist slurs spray painted on a homeowner’s car, garage and fence has turned out to be very costly for two Newport men.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The news is as annoying as a jammed zipper.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Prosecutors are not moving forward a criminal case against a Dartmouth College sorority that was accused of hosting a party attended by a student who subsequently drowned in the Connecticut River last summer.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — Four students are facing expulsion and some may be charged criminally after a gun scare that touched off a huge police response and sent Stevens High School into lockdown on Tuesday afternoon.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — Police are investigating a middle school teacher for having an “inappropriate relationship” with a 14-year-old former student.