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By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Upper Valley sports fans tuning into the NCAA women’s basketball Final Four on Friday night weren’t just taking in an exciting semifinal matchup between Virginia Tech and LSU — they were watching one of their own.Taylor Soule, who grew up in West...

AMHERST, N.H. — The Lebanon High boys tennis team opened the spring season with a resounding win, 9-0, at Souhegan on Tuesday afternoon.Nolan Arado got things started with an 8-0 win at No. 1 singles for the Raiders. Will Katz and Finn Ericson each...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

ENFIELD — State Rep. Joshua Adjutant, D-Enfield, has stepped down from his position after incurring a head injury last week at work as a security officer at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.Reached by phone on Tuesday, Adjutant, 28, said...

HARTLAND — A week after placing Town Manager Dave Ormiston on paid administrative leave without going into specifics for its decision, the Hartland Selectboard appointed his interim replacement Monday.Martin Dole, the town’s finance administrator...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — A solution that satisfies the school district’s need for recreation land to replace the property where a new agricultural center will be constructed appears imminent.At Monday night’s Selectboard meeting, board Chairman Jeff Kessler said the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Judith Belyea was in her historic farmhouse home on Route 120 on Sunday morning when she was awakened by what sounded like a boom, so she didn’t pay much attention.“I thought it was thunder and lightning in the storm,” Belyea recalled.But...

By FRANCES MIZE

LEBANON — As a nonprofit energy supplier prepares to take over energy procurement for a handful of Upper Valley communities, a process designed to save residents money on their utility bills is also aiming to make it easier for them to go...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

RANDOLPH — Despite increased costs and a longer timeline, a new child care center off Route 66 near Exit 4 on Interstate 89 is moving forward.The White River Junction-based Green Mountain Economic Development Corp. took ownership on March 7 of the...

By RAY COUTURE

RANDOLPH — 11-year old Alex Belitsos’s brow furrowed as he watched his queen get toppled over and removed from the board.The chess match with his opponent, fellow 11-year-old Melia Rose, of Dummerston, had been a blur of tactical moves that saw...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With two maps of the United States, a flag in the corner and photos of past U.S. presidents pinned to a foldout whiteboard, an office at Overcomers Refugee Services resembles that of a high school history classroom. Instead of high school kids, Eileen...

By STEVE TAYLOR

Upper Valley roads are wicked muddy this spring? Ha! Go back a few decades, or maybe a century or two — that’s when just about every road around here was a muddy slog, even in downtowns, for weeks on end. Little wonder folks then actually liked winter...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — There does not seem to be enough room at the city-owned Arrowhead lodge to accommodate the needs of the Arrowhead Recreation Club and The Wheelhouse, a local bike shop that is looking to lease part of the lodge to serve the recent increase...

By WILSON RING

MONTPELIER — Thousands of people rallied across the country Friday as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility in support of the rights of transgender people and their resilience amid what many denounced as an increasingly hostile...

By FRANCES MIZE

LEBANON — When a nonprofit coalition takes over energy procurement for a handful of Upper Valley towns later this spring, it promises to offer big savings for consumers who have seen rates at the state’s largest utilities soar in recent years.But in...

By TRIS WYKES

Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens’ “failure to yield right of way” contributed to him being struck by a pickup truck while riding a bicycle earlier this month in Florida, according to an enhanced Florida State Police crash report released...

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...

By DAN MACKIE

On a recent night as we watched the NCAA basketball tournament, I blurted out to myself and the universe, “Now why didn’t I play college ball?”It was an ironic lament, about the road not taken, the ball not dribbled.My wife, Dede, lowered her knitting...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — A partnership between the city and a nonprofit to build and operate a publicly owned child care center is raising concerns among Upper Valley child care providers, who worry the project will exacerbate the region’s ongoing child care...

By SCHUYLER DIXON

DALLAS — This Final Four is a first for Virginia Tech and coach Kenny Brooks, and he’s set to match wits with a counterpart who beat him by 42 points the last time the two met in March Madness. LSU coach Kim Mulkey won three national championships in...

Here’s a look at Easter Egg hunts that are coming up in the Upper Valley. Email additions and updates to calendar@vnews.com.Saturday, April 1 Hanover: 9 a.m., Richmond Middle School, 63 Lyme Road. Ages 3 to 5: 9:30 a.m. Grades K-2: 10 a.m. Grades 3-5:...