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THETFORD — Thetford announced that Tom Yennerell will serve as interim town manager for about six weeks in a web post on Monday.The Selectboard has offered the permanent town manager position to a candidate, but has not made an official announcement...

By JUSTIN CAMPFIELD

LYME — Long planned — and panned by some residents — the 18-month closure of the Lyme-East Thetford bridge will commence Thursday, disrupting the daily routines of residents and businesses on both sides of the Connecticut River.The $8.94 million...

EAST THETFORD — The bridge spanning the Connecticut River between East Thetford and Lyme is slated to close for 18 months beginning on Thursday, April 27, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. The $8.94...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Two area nonprofit organizations are joining together to celebrate the area’s youngest residents while promoting pollinators.From 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at George Peabody Library (7922 Route 113), young children and their caregivers can gather to plant...

THETFORD — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Thetford voters approved the school budget and elected officials in uncontested races.The school district budget voters approved, 262-68, is $9.34 million, which was up from a nearly $8.8 million school budget...

THETFORD — 87 voters at Thetford Elementary School passed all warned articles with minimal discussion Saturday morning, including a $1.77 million general fund budget, $1.33 million of which will come from taxes.Of the passed $1.54 million highway...

Article of note: One article on the town warning asks whether voters want to reduce the number of Thetford’s representatives on the Tri-Town Commission, which is responsible for the operation and management of the Lake Fairlee Dam, from three to...

By RAY COUTURE

THETFORD — In some ways, Owen Dybvig is just like any other 21-year-old still living at home: He’s ready to move out from under his parents’ wings and pursue his own interests, make new friends, and see more of the world.But moving is a lot more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...