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By PATRICK ADRIAN

HARTFORD — A project to hang banners on municipal light poles to honor veterans and first responders remains in limbo as the Selectboard tries to find common ground on the parameters of a banner policy.Two months have passed since a group of residents...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — State officials and area residents remain at odds over plans to fix the nearly 100-year-old Cheshire Bridge, which spans the Connecticut River between Charlestown and Springfield, Vt.The New Hampshire Department of Transportation had...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — In the only contested race on the annual Town Meeting ballot, two former Selectboard members and the owner of a local business are challenging the incumbent for a three-year term on the Selectboard in Tuesday’s election.Also on the ballot is...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Three people are vying for two three-year terms on the Hanover Selectboard in Town Meeting voting next week.Voters will be asked to choose from a slate including Kari Asmus, Jarett Berke and incumbent Joanna Whitcomb, the acting Selectboard...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard’s crafting of a new regulatory policy for displaying banner on light posts is leaving a project aimed to honor military veterans in limbo. Selectboard members said at a meeting last week that their...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Voters will have an opportunity on Monday to discuss articles on the proposed town warrant, including new collective bargaining agreements for three employee unions, amendments to the town zoning ordinance and a petitioned resolution to...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

BRADFORD, Vt. — Voters have filed a petition for a revote on a Town Meeting article they say was confusing.The petitioners are seeking to revisit an article rejected at Town Meeting on March 2, which asked whether the town should “cease the scoping,...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — Old rivalries have resurfaced in this town of 1,200 as four candidates compete for two Selectboard seats at Tuesday’s annual Town Meeting. In ballot voting, Selectboard Chairman John Adams squares off against longtime Orford resident Larry...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Voters will be asked at Town Meeting to elect three candidates to the Hartford Selectboard, two of whom will replace board members who did not seek reelection. Rocket, an incumbent who goes by a single name, and three...

NEWPORT — Interim Town Manager and Finance Director Paul Brown presented a proposed operating budget of $9.37 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1 to the Selectboard Monday night.The budget represents a $655,000, or 7.6%, increase from the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Selectboard has unanimously approved the hiring of Kyle Harris, borough administrator in Garwood, N.J., as Newport’s next town manager.The board ratified a contract with Harris at its meeting Monday night and announced that Harris will...

FAIRLEE — The Selectboard seeks to fill a seat left vacant by Cathy McGrath, who stepped down on Jan. 16. “Having retired, it is now my moment to travel and explore the country,” her resignation letter said. McGrath, who was re-elected last year,...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — The Selectboard gave Municipal Manager Eric Duffy permission last week to dig further into the possibility of the town purchasing the Woodstock Aqueduct Co., the town water supplier that has been privately held since 1880.A working group...

By JIM KENYON

With 2022 wrapping up, I figure it’s time to share my wish list for the Upper Valley in 2023. Here goes: Enough with the Norwich Farm Foundation’s $1.25 million fundraising campaign to “Bring the Cows Back.” The Upper Valley already has Billings Farm...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — A tax relief program aimed at spurring redevelopment of qualifying structures has been approved for the developers who plan to convert the former Ruger Mill on Sunapee Street into 70 housing units.The Selectboard’s unanimous vote Monday...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard announced on Friday that Town Manager Tracy Yarlott-Davis has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, while the board discusses “her future as town manager.”“We know that this news is...

Staff Report

Controversial Croydon figure Ian Underwood announced his resignation from the Selectboard in a letter to the board members on Aug. 16. Underwood’s letter provided no explanation why he was stepping down.Chair Russell Edwards read the letter into...

By DARREN MARCY

HARTFORD — Weeks after her job performance became the subject of a divisive public kerfuffle, Town Manager Tracy Yarlott-Davis is receiving a formal performance review, which the Selectboard admits is long overdue.According to her three-year contract,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT, N.H. — Two planned housing projects took small steps forward on the financing side at the Newport Selectboard’s meeting Monday night.The board first approved a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant application for Occom Properties, of...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The town one day might see fit to change its name to Foodstock.The farm-to-fork food movement that is a growing attraction in Vermont’s travel economy is poised to get a boost in Woodstock, with an agreement reportedly in place to allow a...