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By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The Trump administration’s promise to deport millions of foreign nationals who it says are in the U.S. illegally has reached into the Upper Valley as two individuals associated with Dartmouth College have had their visas terminated, leading one of them to sue the Department of Homeland Security to challenge his deportation.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As customers loaded groceries into cars at the Shaw’s parking lot in Fort Eddy Plaza in Concord, Ricky Tewksbury circulated to round up scattered shopping carts. People waved at his approach, greeting him by name and stopped to chat for a few minutes.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LYME — Jackie Carter rents a house owned by the town, meaning she has an unconventional landlord: the Selectboard.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, Vt. — A Hartford man who was serving dual federal and state prison sentences following his arrest in a high-profile police raid nearly two years ago died in a Vermont state prison over the weekend.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTFORD — In an effort to spur growth, the town has hired its first housing and development specialist.

THETFORD — A Thetford Academy team took home third place in the University of Vermont’s Vermont Pitch Challenge last Thursday.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

In a few weeks Dave Kemp will be making his annual pilgrimage to the Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans, where he will tour the open houses of sugaring equipment manufacturers clustered nearby.

BRADFORD, Vt. — The Orange East Supervisory Union has made the interim principal of Bradford Elementary School permanent.

WOODSTOCK — Families can receive free produce through the Vermont Foodbank’s VeggieVanGo program Wednesday, April 9, at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School.

LEBANON — Sustainable Lebanon and the Lebanon Rotary Club will collect Styrofoam from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 12.

By TRIS WYKES

Two of the region’s strongest high school soccer programs have new but familiar leadership.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Selectboard is seeking public support for an $11.1 million budget this year, after voters rejected the board’s proposal last year.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

House lawmakers approved changes to the next state budget that would subtract an additional $271 million from Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s proposal, cut more than 320 state jobs and abolish several services.

Haoyi Liu, of Richmond Middle School, will represent New Hampshire at the National MATHCOUNTS competition in Washington, D.C., in May. 

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Roughly 1,500 people — three times the predicted number — filled the sidewalks on Maple Street from Hartford Avenue to the end of Lyman Bridge on the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne Conroy’s testimony this week in a fertility doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit brought me back to the summer of 1973 and the U.S. Senate’s televised Watergate hearings where Republican Howard Baker, of Tennessee, famously asked: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

By STEVE TAYLOR

It was going to become “the Ben and Jerry’s of beer” and as the concept took shape it generated a lot of buzz in the Upper Valley some 40 years ago.

Hanover’s Egg-Stravaganza Egg Hunt: Saturday, April 12, 9:30 a.m. Richmond Middle School, 63 Lyme Road. Includes visits with the Easter Bunny, face painting, spring games, jelly bean count and egg hunt for children ages 3 to 11. Registration required: hanoverrec.com.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WEST LEBANON — On Thursday, the first of a seasonal series of monthly chick delivery days at West Lebanon Feed & Supply, a cacophony of chirps greeted customers as they stopped in to pick up their orders.

GRAFTON — A 73-year-old Grafton man died Thursday following a house fire last week that left him with severe burns.