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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH — Ruth Ferland carefully poured a jug of maple syrup into tiny containers lined up on a lunch tray in a red booth at the Cornish Fairgrounds.After the row was finished, she placed a lid on each one and put the tray aside. Next, she began...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

CANAAN — Voters will be asked to approve a $3 million project to upgrade and repair the town’s water system at a special Town Meeting next month.The infrastructure improvements, which involve replacing pipes, are needed to address levels of lead in...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — A team of Dartmouth College researchers studying prostate cancer surgery has been awarded a $31.3 million grant as part of the federal government’s Cancer Moonshot program.The funding for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College...

By MARION UMPLEBY

There’s something uncanny about performance spaces just before the first visitors arrive. A room that will soon be filled with bodies and sound is eerily quiet. The unused props are the only hint of what is to come. This is how it felt at 7:45 on a...

LEBANON — Upper Valley drivers are under increased scrutiny as police intensify traffic patrols to crack down on dangerous driving.The Lebanon Police Department announced in a Tuesday afternoon news release that high-profile patrols will target the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The Planning Board on Monday unanimously adopted an amendment to the city’s zoning ordinance prohibiting the collection, storage or transfer of construction and demolition material and hazardous waste at permitted recycling...

SUNAPEE — An 18-year-old Northfield, N.H., man turned himself in to police last weekend after police issued a warrant for his arrest on reckless conduct charges related to his role in a late July rollover crash in Sunapee.Mackaidan C. Decato turned...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Two Enfield residents have filed a lawsuit against the town’s Zoning Board of Adjustment over its approval of a height variance for a proposed nearly 300-unit housing project.Linda Jones and Alv Elvestad, whose Route 4 property abuts the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LYME — The New Hampshire Department of Safety has denied a petition to limit the use of motorboats on Post Pond in Lyme.Nearly 40 residents — many of whom are affiliated with Friends of Post Pond — submitted a petition this spring asking the...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

CANAAN — Canaan Hardware and Supply received a federal grant to install a solar array that is expected to save the business nearly $10,000 annually.The $56,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program for the...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

CORNISH — On a Friday afternoon in late July, a procession of about 40 fire trucks wended its way through Cornish, Meriden and Plainfield on a route that passed an unassuming machine shop nestled between a two-story residence and the Cornish Flat fire...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

HANOVER — Though his name is next to the title New Hampshire High School Boys Track and Field Coach of the Year for 2024, Hanover head coach Steve McConnell said the award recognizes the work of the entire coaching staff.“We are fortunate to have a...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH NEWPORT — The town’s Airport Advisory Board is seeking to avoid relying on Federal Aviation Administration funding for long-needed repairs of the runway at the town-owned Parlin Field.The advisory board believes maintaining Parlin Field’s...

Kimball Union Academy employee Fabio Sobrinho cleans up debris left after a driver accelerated from the parking lot into the building shared by the school’s College Advising Office and the Meriden Post Office in Meriden on Tuesday. Gunnar Olson, KUA...

CLAREMONT — An ambulance carried a motorcyclist with “serious injuries” to the hospital following an accident on Route 120 on Friday night, according to a news release from the Claremont Fire Department.Police are investigating the cause of the...

CLAREMONT — Big Lots, a discount home goods retailer, is closing its store on Washington Street in Claremont, in addition to nearly 300 locations nationwide, according to the company website. The Claremont store, which has about six employees,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Last fall, high school teacher Penny Culliton received a notice from the New Hampshire Department of Education that appeared to expand the scope of a parental notification law passed in 2017. The department’s initial advisory to schools had said that...

Firefighter Jeremy Dodge, left, and Isabelle Hamilton, 18, right, load lockers onto a trailer as Capt. Jeff Egner, back left, and Lt. Todd Hamilton, Isabelle’s dad, back right, look on during the moving of Lebanon Fire Station One.

By ELLE MULLER

WEST LEBANON — It turns out fiber arts such as knitting and crocheting weren’t just a hobby fad that helped people get through the lengthy — and often isolating — COVID-19 pandemic.“It seems like interest in fiber arts keeps growing,” said Terry...

By JIM KENYON

Since Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore isn’t talking, it’s hard to figure out how she decided to file criminal trespass charges against some people but not others who were on the Dartmouth Green during a pro-Palestinian protest back in May....