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By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Film festivals with a political bent often risk falling prey to what Samantha Davidson Green, executive director of Junction Arts & Media, calls “the doom and gloom festival dilemma,” wherein audiences leave the theater feeling more hopeless than when they entered.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Max Overstrom-Coleman had just dropped his daughter off at day care on Wednesday when he learned that his cocktail bar, Wolf Tree, was among the semifinalists for the James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Eighteen chronically homeless community members have found a home on Hartford Avenue.The 18 one-bedroom apartments, which first opened this fall and were developed by the White River Junction-based nonprofit Twin Pines, are now...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A couple facing health challenges is fighting their landlord in court for the right to stay at their Demers Avenue apartment because they have nowhere else to go.Bob Stange, 85, and Cindy Anne Packard-Stange, 65, have lived in...

By NATHAN DOUGLAS GARDNER

Northern Stage’s 2024 winter musical, “Beauty and the Beast,” feels like a glass of warm milk before bed — comforting and nostalgic, yet hard to critique without a layer of sentimentality. For those who grew up in the ’90s or raised children during...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — State officials have extended a ban on burning debris for Windsor County and three other counties in southern Vermont for another week.The burn ban will now end on Nov. 25 at 3 p.m. for Bennington, Rutland, Windham and Windsor...

By ALEX HANSON

Halloween is upon us, and in the Upper Valley that means that all eyes that aren’t watching over children in search of candy are on White River Junction.And for good reason. As Halloween enthusiasts have come to expect, this year’s Gory Daze events,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 42-year-old White River Junction man has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor after he was arrested in a raid by Hartford police at his apartment in White River Junction on Friday morning.Joseph “JoJo” Vaillancourt...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Good Neighbor Health Clinic will offer a free drive-through and walk-up vaccination clinic on Saturday.The clinic will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 19 at 70 North Main Street in White River Junction.The event is open to...

By EMMA RO TH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Two formerly vacant restaurant spaces on South Main Street have come alive again.On a rainy Thursday afternoon, White River Junction resident Tracie Gunion enjoyed a bite to eat in a new cafe and bakery downtown.But instead of...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — The School Board is the subject of an allegation that it violated Vermont’s Open Meeting Law when it negotiated and formalized a severance agreement with then-Superintendent Tom DeBalsi outside of public view. DeBalsi, who left his position...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WILDER — Hartford’s planning and zoning boards recently greenlighted a plan by developers to convert a former nursing home into a residential building with 38 apartments.Ledgeworks, a Lebanon-based real estate firm, intends to create 22 studios and 16...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A nonprofit is petitioning the town of Hartford to install an outdoor vending machine that will offer the overdose-reversal medication naloxone and other health resources 24 hours a day.Good Neighbor Health Clinic — a White...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Organizers are seeking to reestablish the Upper Valley Kiwanis Club which closed in 2017.An organizational meeting for a the new club will be held on Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. at the Hartford Parks and Recreation Center located at 171...