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FAIRLEE — The hassle of having to detour around Interstate 91 while driving south between Bradford and Fairlee is finally over.As Vermont Agency of Transportation had flagged it expected to do earlier in the week, a single southbound lane between...

A man is dead and a woman seriously injured following a fiery crash on Interstate 93 Wednesday evening, and state police are asking witnesses to come forward.State police were called to the area near mile marker 32.4, just past the I-93 interchange...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A man and a woman are dead after a fire at a home on High Rock Road in Weare, N.H., on Wednesday morning.The Weare Fire Department was called to 83 High Rock Road, a duplex, around 10:44 a.m., according to Fire Chief Mark Roarick.Firefighters arrived...

Jordan Long, who splits his time between Boston and Post Mills, inflated a hot air balloon at the Post Mills Airport on Wednesday.Long, who learned to make hot air balloons under the guidance of Brian Boland, designed and sewed the balloon himself...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

PLAINFIELD — After hearing a plan to combine the two towns’ middle schools at a joint meeting this week, the Plainfield and Cornish school boards voted unanimously to continue to move forward with considering a merger and to reconvene in a month. They...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — After two years of debate, disputes and delays, it appears that an end to a saga involving storage of the Newport School District’s buses is finally at hand.Last week, the School Board voted 4-0 to move forward with its plan, approved by the...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Dartmouth College senior linebacker Braden Mullen can’t bring himself to root for Yale. After a four-year stint in the Ivy League, a span that saw him go 2-2 against the Bulldogs, it’s just too tough.But Mullen and the Big Green’s Ivy title hopes —...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — A plan to build a roughly 300-unit housing development near downtown is one step closer to fruition after the Zoning Board of Adjustment last week approved a request to allow an access road off Route 4 to cross two wetlands.The road — which...

By DAN MACKIE

So here we are in late November and my fellow Democrats are looking for the lighter side of Armageddon.As in, at least there’s only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Six would be a total bummer.But what if the sky really is falling? I mean, what if...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Participation in New Hampshire’s education freedom account program has risen 26% since the beginning of last school year, according to recently released Department of Education data.A total of 5,321 students have enrolled in the program as it enters...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — Thomas Kurtz, a Dartmouth math professor, legend in the field of computer science, and founder of a local bridge club, died at the age of 96 last week.Kurtz is most well known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the first...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ENFIELD — A town employee was tricked into providing the town’s bank account information in a fraud scheme that led to $742,000 in town funds intended to pay for a contractor instead being funneled into a fraudulent bank account.Officials are...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The Selectboard will hold an special meeting on Thursday to respond to a resident’s complaint alleging the board violated Vermont’s open meeting laws when it amended Town Manger Brennan Duffy’s contract last month.Kris Clement’s complaint,...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The budget ball is in Kelly Ayotte’s court.After 50 state agencies presented their budget proposals for the 2026-27 cycle, the governor-elect has about three months to piece together her draft spending plan and present it to the state Legislature.Her...

Concord Monitor

If you get a text from E-Z Pass saying you owe extra money, ignore it – it’s a scam trying to steal your identity.That’s the word from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, which says it has heard of residents getting text messages telling...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Service cuts the University of Vermont Health Network announced last week have the potential to affect health care delivery across the region, including in the Upper Valley.The changes Vermont’s largest hospital system announced last...

NEWPORT — The Selectboard appointed Rachel Dilger to the board in a 4-0 vote on Monday.Dilger was one of seven residents to apply for the seat, which was occupied by Bert Spaulding Sr. until he resigned last month.The seat will be up for election,...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — The Selectboard unanimously approved septic system regulations for those who live near the town’s four major water bodies at its Monday night meeting.The rules — scheduled to go in effect Jan. 1, 2025 — require property owners to have their...

WEST LEBANON — State and federal health officials are advising consumers not to eat multiple brands of recalled bagged organic whole and baby carrots supplied by Grimmway Farms.The carrots, which were sold under brand names such as 365, Good & Gather,...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Basketball is a sport defined by its spurtability. Coaches often declare that the game is decided by runs, each team propelled by short or extended bursts of scoring while the other squad falls cold. The Dartmouth women’s basketball team...