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Friendship inspires musical gatherings in Randolph fiddler’s home

03-27-2024 4:28 PM

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

Music is made to be experienced in person. Watching performances online can be convenient, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person concerts. The feeling of interconnectedness that comes from a festival, concert or backyard jam,...


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2024 eclipse expected to bring traffic jams to Vermont

03-26-2024 4:22 PM

By BABETTE STOLK

As the 2024 total solar eclipse draws near, so do the hordes of people expected to visit Vermont to see it. Public safety officials say they’re doing what they can to minimize risk.Although the exact number of people coming to Vermont remains unknown,...


It’s all about that base: When are NH ski areas closing this spring?

03-23-2024 8:12 PM

By CHLOE RATTEE

A lack of snow on the ground due to an abnormally warm and wet New Hampshire winter doesn’t mean that ski and snowboard season has to end.After a little snowfall at the start of the month, ski mountain staff felt more confident about their projected...


Barnard comic is ‘never afraid to try new things’

03-20-2024 3:45 PM

By MARION UMPLEBY

The first time Vicki Ferentinos pictured herself telling jokes on stage, she didn’t get too far.“I remember saying to a boyfriend when I was 17, ‘I want to be a stand-up.’ And he said, ‘I’m funnier than you.’ Then I didn’t think about it...


Theater Review: Northern Stage’s ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ delivers constant laughs

03-19-2024 4:31 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Like any art form, theater can carry a lot of ideological freight. Mercifully, sometimes it just entertains and amuses.And sometimes, it entertains so thoroughly that you forget everything but the present spectacle. That’s what Northern Stage’s...


Ice-out declared: Winter lasted just 37 days on Lake Winnipesaukee

03-19-2024 10:58 AM

And just like that, ice is gone from Lake Winnipesaukee almost before we knew it was there.On Sunday, the earliest ever “ice-out” was declared on the lake, just 37 days after the latest ever “ice-in” was declared Feb 9.The declarations are unofficial,...


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...


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.Presentation: “Get ready for the April 8 Solar Eclipse” in Enfield: Sunday, March 24, 2 p.m. Chosen Vale Performance Center, 410 Route 4A. Grafton resident and...


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...



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