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Lebanon school officials, police to review response to lockdown
By JOHN LIPPMAN
LEBANON — Students remained in their classroom, activities room, auditorium and even locker room while police detained a 39-year-old man outside Lebanon High School and Hanover Street School on Friday afternoon.The incident, in which police...
Upper Valley voters go different ways on short-term rentals
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
ENFIELD — Upper Valley voters were divided on short-term rental ordinances during New Hampshire Town Meeting voting.During floor meetings Saturday, Enfield and Haverhill residents turned back short-term rental ordinances.Haverhill residents...
Vermont House passes ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products and substitutes
By PETER D’AURIA
The Vermont House passed a ban on the sale of flavored nicotine products and tobacco substitutes Friday morning, a key hurdle before the legislation goes to the governor’s desk. The passage of S.18, after hours of floor discussion Thursday afternoon,...
Mascoma High students build sugar house
CANAAN — Senior Thomas Clifford and two of his Mascoma High classmates, Seth Peters and Aidan Smith, have built a timber frame sugar house with support from technician Koby Van Beest and school resource officer Matt Bunten as part of an Extended...
Plainfield voters pass school budget, approve exploring Cornish school collaboration
PLAINFIELD — At the annual school meeting on Saturday, voters reduced a proposed amount for a capital reserve fund from $75,000 to $10,000.They approved all other articles as warned, including an $8.5 million operating budget, 177-58, Superintendent...
Springfield voters pass spending articles
SPRINGFIELD, N.H. — Voters approved all warrant articles unanimously at Saturday’s floor meeting.Among the items voters approved was an operating budget of $1.85 million; a separate article for $59,000, to come from the Unreserved Fund Balance, to...
Voters approve Dorchester budget, elect officers
DORCHESTER — At Town Meeting on Saturday, voters approved a $659,000 operating budget. They also supported an appropriation of $18,070 for a town-wide property reevaluation, with $17,000 to come from a reserve fund for the purpose.In ballot voting...
Cornish voters pass town spending articles
CORNISH — Voters approved all articles during Saturday’s floor meeting.Among the items they approved was a proposed highway budget of $817,000 and a proposed general fund of $675,000.
Fentanyl found on Haverhill middle school campus
HAVERHILL — Police recovered fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, from the Haverhill Cooperative Middle School campus late last week. On Thursday, officers from the Haverhill Police Department were dispatched to the school grounds after a clear bag filled...
Hearing about Wilder Dam relicensing set for March 18 at 5:30 p.m.
HARTFORD — A public meeting hosted by the Town of Hartford is set for 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 18, to discuss the implications of the relicensing of the Wilder Dam.On Feb. 22, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the application...
Haverhill voters support school bonds
HAVERHILL — Voters passed all warned articles at the annual Haverhill Cooperative School District meeting.By ballot, voters approved a $2.29 million bond for renovations at the Woodsville Elementary School, 112-18, and to raise $57,230 from taxation...
Enfield keeps floor meeting, approves budget increase
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
ENFIELD — For the second time in three years, residents narrowly defeated an effort to switch from a traditional floor meeting to ballot voting.The vote — which needed to be approved by 60%, or three-fifths, of voters present — failed by 13 votes,...
Haverhill voters fail to reach threshold to change town meeting format
By FRANCES MIZE
HAVERHILL — Voters in Haverhill rejected a proposal on Saturday that would have gotten rid of traditional Town Meeting in favor of so-called SB2 balloting.Under SB2 — short for New Hampshire Senate Bill 2, passed in 1995 — towns vote on all warrant...
Croydon cuts money for school improvements, increases road budget
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CROYDON — In town and school meetings on Saturday, voters approved all warrant articles, but cut an appropriation of $100,000 for a capital reserve fund for school improvements to $5,000.The reduced amount passed after more than an hour of debate in...
Rescuers pull body of missing Lebanon woman from Connecticut River
LEBANON — Rescuers pulled the body of a missing Lebanon woman from the Connecticut River on Sunday afternoon, after authorities had issued an alert asking for assistance finding her earlier in the day. At approximately 1:30 p.m., a fisherman told...
Lebanon plans to put temporary fire station near middle school
By PATRICK ADRIAN
LEBANON — The city’s downtown fire station will be packing up and moving — temporarily — during the construction of a new building to replace its aging facility on South Park Street.On Monday, the Planning Board will hear a plan from the Fire...
Former Valley News publisher challenged newsroom to seek continuous improvement
By ALEX HANSON
John Kuhns arrived at the Valley News at a big moment for the small, busy newspaper.His predecessor as publisher, Willmott “Bin” Lewis, announced in January 1993 that he would step down that spring with Kuhns to replace him. Just before Kuhns started,...
Vermont shelves Newbury juvenile facility plan
By JOHN LIPPMAN
NEWBURY, Vt. — In a sharp reversal, the state of Vermont has backed off a contentious plan to open a locked juvenile facility in Newbury, as a state commissioner says he is seeking a “fresh start” with the town that bitterly opposed the...
DH nurses make another attempt at unionization
By FRANCES MIZE
LEBANON — As staffing shortages and extended wait times continue to hamper operations at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, nurses are attempting to unionize.Last weekend, pro-union fliers were distributed around DHMC, the flagship academic medical...
Kenyon: The fight for control of the Windsor County GOP
By JIM KENYON
A gang of gung-ho Republican election deniers got their day in Vermont Superior Court last week. But it wasn’t the outcome of the 2020 presidential election that has these Windsor County partisans in a tizzy.They’re riled up about the Windsor County...