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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Hanover Terrace Health and Rehabilitation Center has been faulted for failing to prevent or properly address abuse that contributed to the painful death of a resident in January.State inspectors found that the facility on Lyme Road put...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.It’s a move...

NEW LONDON — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters approved five zoning amendments. The amendments included: a clarification of the sign regulations; allowing electric vehicle charging stations by special exemption in the commercial zone; allowing for...

LYME — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Leigh Prince and Kristen Roth were the top vote getters in a three-way race for two three-year terms on the School Board.They earned 276 and 309 votes, respectively, besting Darin Knaus, who earned 176 votes.In an...

NEW LONDON — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters of the Kearsarge Regional School District, which includes the Upper Valley towns of New London and Springfield, N.H., approved an operating budget of $51.1 million.They also approved a new agreement...

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD — New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday turned away the latest attempt to get a sentence reduction for Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage lover to have her husband killed in 1990.Smart, 55, was 22...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Quechee man who has twice been involved in incidents in which he was shot was found in violation of his probation and ordered to report to residential treatment program.James Luce, 23, of Luce Meadow Road in Quechee, who was...

CHARLESTOWN — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters rejected petitioned articles that would have had the members of the Charlestown Fire Department elect the fire chief, 290-364, and that would have decreased the number of people on the Selectboard to...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — The Hood Museum of Art and the Dartmouth Anthropology Department have discovered the skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans in its collections, the college announced Tuesday.Some of the discovered bones were a part of human osteology...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — The city’s latest proposed site for a new fire station — just about 1,000 feet from the existing building — is already receiving objections from nearby residents and business owners.With the city’s pending purchase of three connected...

Staff Report

HARTLAND — Following a closed-door meeting Monday evening and consulting by phone with the town’s lawyer, the Hartland Selectboard placed Town Manager Dave Ormiston on paid administrative leave, starting Tuesday. Board Chairman Phil Hobbie declined to...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CANAAN — Leaders of the Mascoma Community Health Center and a Franklin, N.H.-based federally qualified health center are dusting off a partnership plan that was shelved in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The plan would make the Mascoma clinic on...

The Associated Press

SWANTON, Vt. — A Vermont man has died after falling through the ice while riding an all-terrain vehicle on Lake Champlain.Donald Jones, 82, of Richmond, Vt., died Monday evening at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vt., Vermont State Police...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Town officials are proposing a $2.1 million spending increase next fiscal year to cover the rising costs of personnel, consumer inflation and anticipated inflation over the next five years. The Selectboard will hold a public hearing on...

By MIKE DONOGHUE

BURLINGTON — A White River Junction man — who remains the chief suspect in the deadly shooting of a Windsor County teenager five years ago — has been sentenced to 9 months in federal prison after he tested positive for drugs and failed to report to...

By ALEX HANSON

The Vermont Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by three families who argued that the state should pay for all students to attend the school of their choice, public or private.The court’s March 17 decision in Vitale v. Vermont affirms a...

By FRANCES MIZE

WILDER — Henry Hazen’s family has owned Brookside Farm, which sits just where Dothan Brook crosses Christian Street, for seven generations. Previously a beef and vegetable operation, the farm is now used for boarding horses.From the farm’s 174-acre...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — Joyful screams echoed through the sleet early Saturday evening at Dartmouth College’s Scully-Fahey Field. A contingent of about a dozen fans rushed on to the whitened turf, joining the Big Green men’s lacrosse players as they mobbed winning...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After a 10-year deal with Casella Waste Systems, Concord is on track to shift from burying its trash to burning it.Under the terms of their new contract set to begin on July 1, 2024, Casella will continue to collect and transport the city’s waste, but...

By RAY COUTURE

QUECHEE — In a warmly-lit downstairs room in the Upper Valley Waldorf School’s Roberts House, three early-education teachers dance and twirl marionette puppets on a cloth mini-stage to the awe and delight of a pack of small children and their...