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By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — Dan Fraser, whose warm smile, bright shirts and colorful shoes are familiar to customers of Dan & Whit’s General Store in Norwich, has stepped down from running the family-owned store, his father, George Fraser, confirmed to the Valley News...

WOODSTOCK — A 24-year-old Norwich man has been charged with impersonating a police officer after Vermont State troopers said they received a complaint of  a black Ford Explorer Interceptor stopping a vehicle between the Hartford and Wilder exits on...

By KAELI BENNETT

NORWICH — Laughter, music and the rumble of carnival rides were hard to miss and resist in downtown Norwich over the weekend.The annual fair is brought to town by the Lions Club and takes place on the green. This year’s festivities lasted from...

NORWICH — Former Norwich Police Chief Wade Cochran took a job at the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, according to a news release from the DMV.Cochran, a Waterford, Vt., resident, has been named DMV enforcement and safety director, the news...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The town announced this week the hiring of Matthew Romei, the former chief of Vermont’s Capitol Police Department, as the town’s new interim chief of police.Romei, who effectively took over the department on Thursday, is replacing former...

By JIM KENYON

NORWICH — Renee Manheimer’s husband and two children were aware that she had overcome great adversity and perilous situations early in her life. How much hardship was unclear.She spared them many of the details of what she endured growing up without a...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The resignation of a patrol officer just six months after being hired is rekindling the debate about staff and pay levels at the town’s police department.After the departure of two officers last week, the department is currently operating at...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Nine months after being hired, Norwich Police Chief Wade Cochran has tendered his resignation. Cochran, who took over the department last October, notified the community at Wednesday’s Selectboard meeting that he has accepted a position in...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — After several years of searching for a solution, the community is initiating a project to address a failing septic system at Marion Cross School that periodically causes wastewater to spill out onto the Norwich green. Last Thursday, the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The sea creature that Eli Hoen, 7, and Emma Woloshin were creating was slowly coming together.Woloshin held out a fuzzy pipe cleaner for Eli to divide into tentacles with a pair of scissors. Then she helped him attach to a cork...

NORWICH — The Selectboard voted 4-0, with one abstention, on Wednesday to give a one-year contract extension to interim Town Manager Brennan Duffy. The board hired Duffy, a former economic development leader in Rutland, Vt., as the interim manager...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Town officials will consider grant funding to study the feasibility of building affordable housing on a challenging parcel of town-owned property.On Tuesday the Norwich Planning Commission voted 6-1 to support a memo asking the Selectboard...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — Peter Rutledge was a couple years out of Dartmouth College as a philosophy major and working as bartender at Simon Pearce Restaurant when he had a dining experience that was to set the course of his life.At dinner with his boss, Andy Fallen,...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NORWICH — On the second floor of the Montshire Museum of Science last week, a group of schoolchildren was hard at work building with wooden toys.They constructed railroads, roads and some cabins. Then, the table beneath the structures began to shift...

By RUSSELL HIRSCHLER

An unintended consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic — or what I call a “COVID lining” — was the unprecedented demand for recreational opportunities in the area.Beginning in March 2020, when stay-at-home orders went into effect, Upper Valley residents...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NORWICH — Like many Upper Valley historical societies, Norwich has a large collection of town documents and artifacts.While the town’s early Town Meeting reports are interesting, they can also be cumbersome to read and relate to. As a way to better...

NORWICH — A portion of New Boston Road will be closed to through traffic from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. next Monday through Friday, according to town officials. The Public Works Department will be replacing a number of culverts near the intersection with Turnpike...

By SEAN OGLE

As the trail programs director at the Upper Valley Trails Alliance, I have the privilege of working on many trails across the region. The Upper Valley is lucky to have an expansive variety of trails, including the longest ice-skating trail in the...

​​​NORWICH — A nonprofit organization that assists families with young children is looking for a new executive director.Nancy Bloomfield, who has lead the Norwich-based organization for eight years, is stepping down later this year, according to a...