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Students name plow after long-time Strafford resident SOUTH STRAFFORD — Newton School students have named a plow after a long-time Strafford resident and beloved elementary school volunteer.The school named a bright orange plow “Roz” after Rosalind...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

THETFORD — The Selectboard approved a proposal to hire a part-time social services coordinator to help Thetford residents connect with resources.The plan calls for contracting with the Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction, where Mona Elliott...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — For the next 18 months or so, Windsor County criminal court cases will be heading back to the future.Back, that is, to criminal cases being heard in the county’s historic Woodstock courthouse — and back again to resorting to video...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WEST NEWBURY, Vt. — The power was out at West Newbury Hall due to high winds on the night of the 63rd annual West Newbury turkey supper and bake sale last month, but the more than 70 volunteers organizing, cooking, serving and cleaning up afterward...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — In a 5-4 vote, the City Council approved $75,000 capital spending for upgrades to bathrooms at two city parks but left out funding for a splash pad, which the Parks and Recreation Department and the city manager had proposed.Some...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Disciplined. Unselfish. Fast. Together. A tough brand of basketball. These were some of the traits Dartmouth men’s basketball coach David McLaughlin said would be central to defining his team’s success this season while addressing reporters...

By ALEX CERVANTES

 HANOVER — Dartmouth women’s basketball first-year guard Tahira Muhammad held her right hand in the cookie jar for an extra second or two, hopping backward on her left leg as she watched her 3-point attempt arc toward the hoop Wednesday against...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The man who died in a police standoff at the Federal House Inn in Plymouth, N.H., last week has been identified by the Attorney General’s office as Kevin Steinfeldt, the inn’s owner.Steinfeldt, 58, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,...

LEBANON — The Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, or UVLSRPC, is seeking community input for updating regional plans.The commission is asking residents of the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee region to identify issues most pressing to...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — The School Board voted Wednesday to proceed with a search for a new superintendent with the goal of inking a contract by late March. The vote was 4-0 in favor of going forward. Board member Nancy Russell was absent.The search is being...

ENFIELD — Officials are warning against open burning across much of the Upper Valley, amid dry and windy conditions.On Thursday, the National Weather Service in Burlington issued a Red Flag warning for Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for most towns on...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Ahead of his team’s penultimate clash of the 2024 campaign against Cornell on Saturday, Dartmouth College football coach Sammy McCorkle is still preaching complete focus on the next opponent. The mantra of going “1-0 each week” is oft repeated in...

CHELSEA — A Randolph man who lit a fire inside a vacant Randolph home last January has pleaded guilty to second-degree arson and to violating his conditions of release on prior criminal charges.Clair Sherman, 41, was sentenced to one to five years in...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council voted this week to move forward with the possible purchase of a vacant state office building at 17 Water St., which the city plans to resell for redevelopment.Ownership of the building will give the city control over its...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — A Cavendish, Vt., man who stole a Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center shuttle van from outside the emergency room and led police on a high-speed chase down Interstate 91 pleaded guilty to a raft of charges stemming from a 2022 crime...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

RANDOLPH — Victoria Davis has been a patient at the Sharon Health Center for more than 20 years, even choosing to drive about an hour from Piermont to Sharon to continue receiving care after she moved out of Vermont.On Nov. 7, Davis received a call...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — In September, Vermont State Treasurer Mike Pieciak spent two days driving to all 14 counties returning more than $150,000 to businesses, nonprofits and service providers.The September deliveries returned just a portion of the $130 million in...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST WINDSOR — Residents will decide whether or not to change the town’s budget year from a calendar year schedule to a fiscal year schedule during a Special Town Meeting on Saturday.The in-person-only meeting will take place at 10 a.m. at Story...

HARTFORD — The Selectboard Tuesday night decided to leave a vacant seat empty until voters elect a replacement at Town Meeting in March.Sue Buckholz was elected to a two-year term last March. In late October, she resigned her seat without...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ENFIELD — A documentary called “Mountains Not for Profit,” tackles the scrappy and creative efforts of Whaleback and three other nonprofit mountains to remain sustainable in an era of resort consolidation that has seen the closure of many small,...