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By PATRICK ADRIAN

STRAFFORD — Facing limited funds to address a backlog of aging bridges and deteriorating roads, the Selectboard plans to gather town residents for a discussion about highway infrastructure solutions.The board will host the community meeting on...

By JIM KENYON

A recently constructed 10-foot high solid wooden wall runs the length of the property facing the highway. A private security force brought in from New York patrols the grounds 24/7 with holstered sidearms.After commandeering the former rest area on...

Lead cashier Nina Paczykowski opens The Woodstock Farmers Market for the first time in 56 days in West Woodstock on Friday after is was forced to close by the floods of July. Customers began congregating at the doors shortly before 8 a.m.Valley News...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Three residents have had to vacate their homes due to an emergency closure of their only access road, after the embankment supporting the road was washed out by recent flooding.Town staff announced last month that Hemlock Road, a dead-end...

By MAX SCHEINBLUM

MONTPELIER — In front of a newly gutted Capital Cannabis store Tuesday afternoon, the Cannabis Retailers Association of Vermont outlined a plan to raise money for the industry, members of which expect to lose tens of millions of dollars as a result of...

By FRED THYS

MONTPELIER — As with most of the capital’s downtown, many state government buildings face a long recovery before they can be fully open to employees and the public.The flooding earlier this month affected 22 state buildings in Montpelier, said...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard has approved two plans of action concerning the covered bridge and the dam located on the Ottauquechee River near Simon Pearce — which both sustained damage during last week’s flooding. At an emergency...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Tuesday afternoon to discuss recommended emergency repairs at Quechee dam, which sustained damage during last week’s flooding. Hartford officials have asked pedestrians to...

By PATRICK ADRIAN, ALEX HANSON and LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — Heavy rain, flash floods and rising rivers closed roads, damaged infrastructure and forced evacuations around the Upper Valley on Monday, as the region was expected to see its worst flooding since Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. The worst...

By JIM KENYON

After losing her home and many of her belongings to Tropical Storm Irene’s floodwaters 12 years ago, Ethel Davis braced for worst as she made her way back to Riverside Mobile Home Park in Woodstock around noon Tuesday.“I told myself, ‘If the place...

By JIM KENYON

In the late summer days following Tropical Storm Irene’s rampage through Riverside Mobile Home Park in Woodstock, Nelson Gilman and Al Pristaw loaded donated orange juice, bread and carefully placed cartons of eggs into a wheelbarrow.The two longtime...

By CLAIRE POTTER

NEWPORT, N.H. — Cindy Stone has held an annual reunion for her close friends at Northstar Campground for the last 22 years. Their children grew up with the tradition, and now they bring their children. By Thursday, about 15 families had set up their...

By Maggie Cassidy