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Rehab of Lyme-East Thetford bridge could keep span closed for 18 months
09-26-2022 8:51 PM

By JUSTIN CAMPFIELD

LYME — The good news is that after a first round of bidding failed to attract any contractors willing to take on the Lyme-East Thetford Bridge refurbishment project, a second round of bidding in May elicited three bids, with the New Hampshire...


2022 HS cross country preview: Runners going the distance to compete
09-01-2022 1:01 PM

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

From the Thetford girls winning a state championship to the Hanover boys advancing to New Englands, 2021 was a welcome return to normalcy for high school cross country in the Upper Valley. This fall should bring just as much excitement, with new...


2022 HS boys soccer preview: Programs relying on experience
09-01-2022 12:11 PM

HANOVER Coach: Rob Grabill (17) Last year: 15-2-1 League: NHIAA Division 1 Returnees: Seniors — Ty Nolon (G), Becket McCurdy (D/M), Jack Gardner (F), Jack McGrath (M), Owen Smith (D), Juniors — Carter Guerin (M), Will Guerin (M), Ryder Hayes (M),...


2022 HS girls soccer preview: Schools looking to return to the playoffs
09-01-2022 11:58 AM

HANOVER Coach: Doug Kennedy (15) Last year: 5-10-2 League: NHIAA Division I Returnees: Seniors — Casey Havrda (F), Mia Madden (M), Riley McGuire (F), Emilia Torresani (F). Juniors — Maeve Lee (M), Sydney McLaughlin (F), Emma Campfield (M), Kiran Park...


Local Roundup: Hanover girls crew racks up medals at NEIRA Regatta
05-28-2022 10:21 PM

WORCESTER, Mass. — An extraordinary performance by the Hanover High School girls crew team on Saturday resulted in a silver and two bronze medals at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta.“This has never happened in Hanover High...


Spring H.S. sports preview: Softball
04-27-2022 12:52 PM

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Back after a yearlong absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Upper Valley softball squads had seasons to remember in 2021, with Oxbow winning the VPA Division III state title and Windsor and White River Valley in the mix as well. Lebanon may...


Spring H.S. sports preview: Track and field
04-27-2022 12:51 PM

By PATRICK O’GRADY

Hanover Coach: Steve McConnell (9th year).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: 11th at state meet with Ella Maclean, now at Southern Connecticut University, winning the 100-meter dash.Boys’ returners: Seniors — Taj Bagnato, Aidan Peterson, Sebastian...


Pedestrian, trap shooter dies after being struck by vehicle in Thetford
01-08-2022 3:00 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

THETFORD — A longtime Thetford resident who was a trap shooting champion was killed on Thursday morning after being struck by a vehicle while walking near his home on Latham Road.Dennis DeVaux, who grew up in Norwich and graduated from Dartmouth...


After death of owner in balloon crash, quirky Post Mills airport has uncertain horizon
11-14-2021 7:03 AM

By ALEX HANSON

Since its founding in 1945, Post Mills Airport has changed hands only a few times, most recently in 1988, when Brian Boland acquired it.And since its founding, the small grass airstrip has been privately held.Boland’s death in a July 15 hot air...


Post Mills pilot killed in fall from hot-air balloon; four passengers survive harrowing flight
07-19-2021 11:07 AM

By ANNA MERRIMAN

BRADFORD, Vt. — As the hot air balloon began to rise swiftly over the treetops, Roger Blake knew he had to make a decision.Just seconds earlier, in a freak accident, the pilot had become trapped under the balloon basket while it was on the...


25 years later, long-lost mail finds its way to Thetford home
04-02-2021 11:08 PM

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — The blue air mail envelope that Anne Cook picked up from the Thetford Center post office last week bore a familiar name.But it was a name from her past. Cook lived in Donegal, Ireland, in the early 1990s and visited with Judith Hoad...


New owners for three Upper Valley convenience stores aim to remain core of their towns
10-24-2020 10:03 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Rural general stores, given the number that have closed across the Upper Valley, are generally not considered hot growth businesses.But several well-known general stores in the region recently have been taken over by new owners who apparently see a...


Local roundup: The numbers add up for Lebanon in opener
04-12-2019 10:30 PM

MILFORD, N.H. — Baseball math: six hits + three errors = a nine-run inning and a nice start to the season for the Lebanon High baseball team.After watching host Milford jump to a 4-0 lead after one inning, the Raiders gradually chipped away before...


Aloha Foundation apologizes after finding more past sexual misconduct by boys camp counselors 
02-04-2019 10:29 PM

By TIM CAMERATO

FAIRLEE — The Aloha Foundation is apologizing to former campers and their families after documenting allegations of sexual abuse involving a total of three counselors more than three decades ago at Lanakila, a summer camp for boys on Lake Morey.An...


Thetford Resident Recalls Her Life in Vietnam and Years of Travel
08-06-2018 12:12 PM

By Nicola Smith

Le Lieu Browne brings bowls of pho, the national dish of her native Vietnam, to her dining room table. Pronounced “fuh,” it’s a meat broth with transparent rice noodles, onions, thin slices of beef, ginger, fish sauce, whole cloves and the faintly...


Bradford Educator Gives Up Licenses
06-29-2018 12:37 AM

By Mike Donoghue

Bradford, Vt. — A former Orange County educator has voluntarily surrendered his licenses to work as a school superintendent and principal in Vermont.Keith A. Thompson is alleged to have engaged in inappropriate conduct with staff while employed as an...


Aloha Foundation Tells of 1980s Abuse at Lanakila Camp
10-27-2017 12:30 PM

Tim Camerato

Fairlee — The Aloha Foundation has notified parents and former campers that it failed to respond adequately more than 30 years ago when a counselor at its boys camp on Lake Morey “inappropriately touched” at least two campers in the 1980s.The...


A Life: Nick Berry, 1989-2016; He Died on His Wedding Day With Love in His Heart
07-06-2016 3:34 PM

By John Lippman

Post Mills — On the afternoon of May 8, Megan Naylor and Nicholas Berry exchanged wedding vows in the living room of their trailer home in Post Mills.That evening, the guests gone and the newlyweds alone, Berry died.They were married six hours.“Nick...


Man Kills Bear in Thetford After It Attacks His Chicken Coop
05-18-2016 11:36 AM

By Jordan Cuddemi

Thetford — Fish and Wildlife officials said a Thetford resident shot and killed a black bear last week after he caught the sow in the act of killing chickens inside his chicken coop.Fish and Wildlife District Supervisor Lt. Justin Stedman said a...

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