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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

BRADFORD, Vt. — Two Selectboard members submitted resignation letters last week. The departures come amid hostility and public outcry following upheaval last month on the fire department that saw the majority of members quit.

Lebanon 6, Littleton 3

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In New Hampshire, one in four adults over the age of 65 lives alone, putting them at greater risk of social isolation and its negative impacts on both mental and physical health, according to a recent study.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

POMFRET — The Selectboard plans to request emergency assistance funding through the Vermont Agency of Transportation after a landslide triggered by last week’s rain temporarily closed a portion of Pomfret Road and reduced a portion of another street to one lane.

By ALEX HANSON

Long a ripe subject for literature, farming is difficult to dramatize. How do you squeeze a farmer’s lifetime of daily toil into the length of a play or a feature film? The necessary decisions can’t help but leave an incomplete impression.

By MARION UMPLEBY

SOUTH STRAFFORD — The nonprofit foundation overseeing the future of Coburns’ General Store has found a successor for the outgoing owners.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Last year’s city budget drew more public scrutiny than any in recent memory as the City Council struggled to strike a balance between reducing the high tax rate and preserving city services.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council was adamant that the city maintain a schedule of repaving roads as it began its review of a proposed $20.22 million budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 last week.

The northbound ramp to Interstate 89 from I-93 will be closed Tuesday, May 13, to allow for pavement pothole repairs.  

WOODSVILLE — A threat that forced all Haverhill schools into lockdown May 6 was a hoax, according to school district administrators.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEW LONDON — New concerns about the town’s public works facility are overshadowing longstanding plans for a new police station as voters prepare to vote this week on two police station-related articles rejected at Town Meeting in March.

WEST FAIRLEE — A bulldog died after the car it was riding in rolled into Lake Fairlee on Sunday afternoon.

JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A 38-year-old Grantham man who was behind the wheel of a dump truck when it struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk in Newport last week was arraigned in Claremont District Court on Monday afternoon on felony charges.

BRIDGEWATER — Voters will reconsider eliminating the elected office of the town lister and instead hire a professionally qualified assessor at a special town meeting Tuesday night. 

Lebanon 15, John Stark 6

LEBANON — The Interstate 91 Northbound Exit 10A off-ramp that directs traffic onto Interstate 89 will be closed Wednesday and Thursday.

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Former New England College assistant men’s basketball coach Shannon Sciria has been appointed to lead the Colby-Sawyer College men’s basketball team, for whom he played during the 2008-09 season.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

THETFORD CENTER — To the dismay of some residents, the Thetford Center Post Office suspended service earlier this month due to “safety concerns” of the building, according to a letter the United States Postal Service sent to customers.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — Sometimes when Sarah Schneider was working as a server at Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery in Hanover, she’d look across the room to her mother, Becky, who was doing the same.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Village trustees concluded that evidence of the town police chief’s lack of leadership was so “damning” that they were left with no choice but to uphold the municipal manager’s decision to demote him to the entry-level rank he held when joining the force as a rookie 25 years ago.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As Hartford school officials consider the drastic step of tearing down and rebuilding major portions of the town’s high school in order to address chemical contamination, other Upper Valley school districts have yet to find out if their buildings are plagued by now-banned toxic construction materials.