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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — A couple on Greensboro Road continues to oppose the Hanover Planning Board’s reluctant decision last year to approve Christ Redeemer Church’s (CRC) plan for a roughly 24,000-square-foot, two-story church near their home.Lara Acker, who was...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

CANAAN — Lightning damaged buildings in the town center on Thursday, including the town library and offices and a church on the opposite site of the street. The charge from a mid-afternoon storm struck the top of Assembly of God church on Route 4,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Demers Avenue couple, facing housing and health challenges, is selling raffle tickets for a train set to benefit St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.Bob Stange, 84, and Cindyanne Packard-Stange, 64, are trying to clear out the model...

By JIM KENYON

When Tom Harty, the pastor at United Church of Bethel, brought up an idea to parishioners on a recent Sunday morning, he wasn’t quite sure what the reaction might be.Harty, a former Vermont State Police trooper, recognized that any individual or group...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — A new state law shielding religious institutions from certain land-use regulations is limiting the town’s authority to review a proposed church for up to 400 congregants on Greensboro Road, according to town staff.On Tuesday, the Planning...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — In hindsight, Stephen Girdwood admits he was a little too optimistic about when the First Baptist Church of Lebanon would reopen.Worshipers have been displaced since an arsonist set the original 1870 Gothic Revival structure ablaze in late...

By RAY COUTURE

BROWNSVILLE — A congregation of kids gathered outside Brownsville Community Church Saturday morning, bundl ed in coats and winter hats to guard against the chill and holding empty wicker and plastic baskets on their arms.Strewn all around them, from...

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 PATRICK O’GRADY

ORFORD — The historic Orford Congregational Church on Main Street, built in 1855, has served generations of residents for traditional church services such as weekly worship, weddings, baptisms and memorial services as well as being a place for...

By ALEX HANSON

Though she remains in contact with friends who have fled Ukraine, Anastasia Rivet can take in only so much information about the war there.One family she knows has split up, with the husband staying to fight and his wife and two daughters enduring a...

By Jordan Cuddemi

North Haverhill — A 29-year-old Lebanon man will spend the next 25 years in prison for a series of crimes in the city, including setting the fire that destroyed First Baptist Church on School Street in December 2016 and then later stabbing a couple he...

By Nicola Smith

What’s a parish to do when it owns a number of extraordinary paintings by a famous 20th century American modernist, but almost no one knows they’re there?In the case of St. Francis of Assisi church in Windsor, which has the distinction of holding...