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By JUSTIN CAMPFIELD
HARTLAND — In a slow, deliberate voice that at times strained with emotion, Hartland Town Clerk Brian Stroffolino issued a statement at the town’s Selectboard meeting Monday that alleged a toxic municipal workplace and ignited a debate that has some...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard discussed plans Tuesday to organize training workshops and team building following an organizational meeting earlier this month, where rising tensions resulted in friction between colleagues and...
Staff Report
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Town Manager Search Committee will hold its first meeting on Thursday to oversee the search for a new town manager, a position last held by Tracy Yarlott-Davis, who officially parted ways with the town last...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford Selectboard members called for more collaboration, communication and civility after a recent organizational meeting gave way to criticism of colleagues, disputes over committee positions and frustrations over a...
By JOHN LIPPMAN
ORFORD — For 168 years, the Orford Congregational Church has ministered to the needs of the community.Now the Orford community is being asked to minister to the needs of the church.Voters at Town Meeting on Tuesday approved — excluding a solitary...
By JIM KENYON
The names Manu Tesone and Omer Trajman didn’t appear on Norwich’s Town Meeting ballot, but their fingerprints were all over Tuesday’s outcomes.Tesone and Trajman are the founders — and pied pipers — of a group called Stand Up For Norwich formed last...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
WINDSOR — Both candidates in the lone contested Selectboard race want more funding for amenities such as recreation and the arts, but only one of the candidates has been forced to fend off allegations of having participated in the Jan. 6, 2021,...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CHARLESTOWN — A group of residents is demanding that two building permits issued to a landowner whose property is at the end of a Class VI road be rescinded, claiming they are not in compliance with local building codes or state law and threaten a...
By RAY COUTURE
HARTLAND — The Selectboard has no plans to hold another public vote on the $1.5 million project to reconfigure the Hartland Three Corners intersection despite public requests at Tuesday night’s Selectboard meeting to do so over cost concerns.A public...
By RAY COUTURE
CHELSEA — Voters have replaced the four members of the Selectboard who resigned in November after a public spat with the town’s road crew.Top vote-getters were: ■Kelly Lyford, who ran unopposed to serve the final two months of a three-year term;...
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...
By JIM KENYON
In the end, former Hanover police officer Mark Ridge not only voted with his feet, he spoke his mind.At the Hanover Selectboard meeting on Monday, Ridge gave an unsolicited insider’s view of the town’s police department, or more specifically, what he...
By JIM KENYON
Despite her recent appointment as Weathersfield’s first-ever “Open Meeting Law Enforcement Officer,” Olivia Savage doesn’t plan to start carrying a gun and badge.Savage might, however, put a set of flashing blue lights on her car, she told me in...
By JIM KENYON
The town of Charlestown has become a YouTube sensation in recent weeks, but not in a good way.Charlestown’s troubles began when a YouTuber named Marc Manchon, who lives south of Concord, showed up to film vehicles coming and going from Whelen...
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