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A Life: Al Pristaw ‘always did what good neighbors do’

03-16-2024 7:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

WOODSTOCK — Al Pristaw was the ultimate doer.After Riverside Mobile Home Park was swamped by Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011, Pristaw and another park resident, Nelson Gilman, pushed a wheelbarrow filled with donated orange juice, bread and eggs...


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Upper Valley solar eclipse events

03-15-2024 5:06 PM

Email additions and updates to calendar@vnews.com. Events are free unless otherwise noted.Talk: “All About Solar Eclipses” in Cornish: Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m. Cornish Store, 226 Route 120. Area astronomy enthusiast Matt Lewis gives presentation...


Out & About: Windsor Diner serves up free meals to seniors through new program

03-15-2024 5:01 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WINDSOR — Theresa Taylor shuffled a couple dozen tickets containing the names of older adults behind the counter at the Windsor Diner, which she has owned for around 15 years.Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Taylor was used to seeing groups of seniors...


This winter was the warmest on record for New Hampshire

03-15-2024 9:13 AM

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

New Hampshire had its warmest winter on record, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The average temperature for meteorological winter — December through February — was 28 degrees. That’s almost 9 degrees warmer...


Black bears are emerging from their winter dens early, in search of food

03-14-2024 4:45 PM

By K. FIEGENBAUM

Reports have been coming in from around the state: Bears are leaving their dens after a shorter-than-usual winter sleep — and they’re hungry.Late last week, the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife began urging Vermonters to take down their bird...


Theater Review: Shaker Bridge’s ‘The Minutes’ illustrates value of unvarnished truth

03-12-2024 6:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Having spent untold hours in selectboard and city council meeting rooms around the Upper Valley, I’ve often joked that it would be more fun to write about the meetings held in them as if they were theater, rather than just the mostly humdrum work of...


Cliff tops in Vershire and Fairlee closed for falcon nesting season

03-12-2024 5:31 PM

FAIRLEE — Several cliff tops across Vermont are closed to hiking and climbing this spring to protect nesting peregrine falcons, including Eagle Ledge in Vershire and the Fairlee Palisades. The sites will remain closed until Aug. 1, or until officials...


Upcoming Easter egg hunts in the Upper Valley

03-09-2024 5:37 PM

Email additions and updates to calendar@vnews.com.Pictures with the Easter Bunny in Claremont: Saturday, March 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Claremont Runnings, 403 Washington St. Kids, pets and families welcome to get pictures taken with the Easter Bunny....


Hartford culinary arts students ready for Jr. Iron Chef competition

03-07-2024 7:41 PM

By NICOLA SMITH

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — On a gray morning this week, a team of young cooks from the Culinary Arts program at the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center gathered around a countertop and stared intently at a plate, as if it were a work of art going...


Out & About: Parks Service trains volunteers to identify hemlock pest

03-01-2024 8:01 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH — The National Park Service is looking to train volunteers at the Upper Valley’s two national parks to identify an invasive insect that poses a risk to hemlock trees.Staff will lead workshops about the small aphid-like insect at 9 a.m. Friday,...


Over Easy: Oats could be the answer

02-29-2024 9:01 PM

By DAN MACKIE

This inflation thing has gone too far. Not only are supermarkets working toward a $5 minimum for essentials such as cookies, the cost of something near and dear to my heart is inching ever higher.I refer to often overlooked old-fashioned oats. They...


New Dartmouth research shows how permafrost shapes Arctic rivers and what that means for climate change

02-27-2024 5:01 PM

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

Thick, frozen soil — or permafrost — is the driving force that shapes Arctic rivers, according to new research from Dartmouth. And the lead researcher says that’s key to understanding how climate change might affect, and be affected by, carbon stored...


A Life: Bertha Brown ‘was a quiet backbone in so many areas’

02-25-2024 10:16 PM

By PATRICK O’GRADY

THETFORD CENTER — From her early years at Norwich Elementary School to her ministry later in life, Bertha Brown lived her faith of service every day and never wavered from her principles of dignity, acceptance and compassion for all.Brown felt a...


Out & About: In honor of Day of Remembrance, woman shares late husband’s story of internment

02-23-2024 9:46 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — Dorothy Whitney Yamashita pointed to black-and-white photographs of her late husband, Kanshi Stanley Yamashita, on screen.There he was, as a child on Terminal Island off the coast of California. There he was with his siblings. Their idyllic...


Art Notes: Longtime Lebanon photographer ‘doesn’t want that kind of exposure’

02-21-2024 10:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Larry Vanier started taking photographs as a hobby. He already enjoyed hiking and being outdoors, so it was natural to him to start taking a camera along.This was in the 1970s and early ’80s, the apex of film photography. The Upper Valley had a robust...


Over Easy: No mail today

02-15-2024 6:59 PM

By DAN MACKIE

The U.S. Postal Service seems to think it can get mail to us more quickly by sending it far away and hauling it back. It is hatching a scheme — for all I know named Project Hither and Yon — to ship mail from Hartford, Vt., to Hartford, Conn., where it...


Art Notes: Upper Valley filmmaker’s debut premiering at WRIF festival

02-14-2024 9:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Loren David Howard started making movies the way a lot of teens do, by recording concerts his dad took him to and making videos of friends out skateboarding.He didn’t expect to make much out of it, but after a school counselor advised him to think...


Rare bird that caused stir in Vermont died of natural causes

02-10-2024 10:39 PM

By K. FIEGENBAUM

Late last September, a large, migratory shorebird alighted in North Hero, causing a stir among birders who recognized it as a marbled godwit — a species not known to live or migrate through the state. News of the sighting spread quickly, with people...


A Life: Fran Hanchett ‘wanted more information’

02-10-2024 10:37 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — Whenever Frances “Fran” Hanchett walked through cemeteries, she’d keep an eye out for neglected stones.“She had a little kit in the back of her trunk all the time,” Hanchett’s daughter, Lisa Wentworth, said in a phone interview. Hanchett...


Woodstock High grad returned home to open comedy club

02-09-2024 9:01 PM

By MARION UMPLEBY

In Paulo Coehlo’s novel “The Alchemist,” the protagonist Santiago embarks on an arduous quest to find buried treasure that appeared to him in a dream only to discover that the bounty lay where his journey began.Comedian and native Vermonter Collen...



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