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Upper Valley businesses stung by alleged payroll tax embezzlement scheme
By JOHN LIPPMAN
WEST LEBANON — Every Friday afternoon, without fail, Ryan Wall would pull up in his car at the offices of J.A.S. Auto in White River Junction to personally deliver the company’s employee paychecks.Wall ran payroll services for TSBS, a West Lebanon tax...
Age, gender discrimination suit against Billings Farm heading to trial this year
By JORDAN CUDDEMI
WOODSTOCK — A 25-year-old Hartland woman is suing Billings Farm & Museum and the foundation that owns and operates it, alleging the nonprofit Woodstock Foundation wrongfully terminated her employment in September 2017.Alayna Perkins, who became the...
Read the redacted Mueller report released on Thursday
WASHINGTON — Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation today that President Donald Trump had tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential...
Video: Flooding closes roads in White River Valley; warning issued for West Lebanon
By TIM CAMERATO and DANIELA VIDAL ALLEE
SOUTH ROYALTON — Flooding from heavy rain and snowmelt today closed several roads across the White River Valley, swamped downtown Quechee and sent the Connecticut River toward flood stage at West Lebanon.The parking lot between the Quechee Post Office...
Iconic VW bus a hot collectible
By GUSTAVO ARELLANO
LOS ANGELES — “You see? You see? You see?” Enrique Aragon shouts over the loud purr of his 1966 Volkswagen 21-Window Deluxe Bus as he gestures toward gawkers yet again. For the last hour, the 42-year-old electrician and member of the...
Town says students living in fraternity in violation of Dartmouth policy
By DANIELA VIDAL ALLEE
HANOVER — Two of the letters signifying that it was the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity are gone from the College Street building, and the 16-room home is no longer officially recognized as a residence for students attending Dartmouth College.But cars...
Windsor inn on the market, and its ties to the N.Y. Yankees appear deep
By JOHN LIPPMAN
WINDSOR — It probably doesn’t mean the New York Yankees are going to move spring training to the Upper Valley, but an executive with the team is tied to ownership of a historic inn and restaurant in town that is on the market.Tony Bruno, chief...
Bentleys restaurant in Woodstock to close next month
By JOHN LIPPMAN
WOODSTOCK — The music and dancing — and food — is going to stop at Bentleys.The long-time village restaurant, bar and nighttime entertainment spot will close its doors by the end of April, the owners confirmed on Thursday. It will end a 42-year run at...
Ex-day care worker pleads not guilty in death of 6-month-old
By LISA RATHKE
RUTLAND, Vt. — A former Vermont day care provider was arrested on Monday on suspicion of manslaughter and child cruelty charges in the death of a 6-month-old girl she was caring for in her Rutland home in January.The arrest of Stacey Vaillancourt, 53,...
Lebanon police make another arrest in cyber-sex sting
By JORDAN CUDDEMI
LEBANON — The Lebanon Police Department has filed charges against a fourth man in about a month who allegedly thought he was meeting with a child in the city for sex acts but found officers waiting instead. Police said they engaged in a...
N.H. Fish and Game purchases parcels for hunting in Sullivan County
By JARED PENDAK
CROYDON — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department last week finalized the purchase of nearly 3,200 acres on two parcels to be known as the William B. Ruger Wildlife Management Area.Spanning parts of Grantham, Croydon and Newport, the land will be...
The rise and fall of Vermont, the most European state in the Union
By ANDREW VAN DAM
When we say Vermont is the most European state in the Union, we don’t mean it’s the whitest in terms of ancestry — though it vies with nearby Maine for that distinction.In terms of population trends, Vermont more closely resembles our friends across...
Rape charges filed in Vermont after alleged kidnapping of New Hampshire woman
By JORDAN CUDDEMI
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 41-year-old Vermont man who is facing federal charges alleging he kidnapped a New Hampshire woman and her son outside of a Manchester mall in early January is now facing state charges that he raped the woman at a White River...
Perdue unveils new process for killing chickens
By DEENA SHANKER and LYDIA MULVANY
For a new generation of concerned consumers, every stop their food makes between farm and table matters.In the not too distant past, chickens raised without antibiotics were a niche product. Now, they’re everywhere. The number of meat and poultry...
Driver in fatal Windsor collision faces gun charge in unrelated incident
By JORDAN CUDDEMI
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Weathersfield woman who struck and killed an elderly pedestrian with her car in Windsor five months ago has pleaded not guilty in an unrelated incident after police say she pointed a handgun at her mother’s boyfriend.Arden...
New solutions for old problem of illegal massage parlors
By PHILIP MARCELO
By PHILIP MARCELOAssociated PressBOSTON — They’re nestled amid bustling downtowns and tucked into nondescript strip malls across quiet suburbs. Brothels posing as massage parlors and Asian spas have been part of many American communities for decades,...
Gateway Motors Ford to be sold, merged into Lebanon Ford
By JOHN LIPPMAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When brothers Allen and Charlie Hall followed their father into the family’s Ford dealership business in 1975, Ford’s midsize Granada sedan was the hot new car on the market, gas was 57 cents at the pump and New England Ford...
Claremont man indicted on allegations he took child
NORTH HAVERHILL — A 32-year-old Claremont man has been indicted on a felony charge alleging he unlawfully took a child from her custodial parent and brought her to North Carolina in July.Gabriel Croft allegedly took the young child “with the intent to...
Out & About: Plainfield talk on mountain lions rekindles question of cougars
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
Few wildlife topics inspire passion in the Twin States quite like the debate over whether mountain lions are in our midst.I am fascinated by people who are fascinated by mountain lions, as well as the fervor that follows when someone asks if mountain...
Man who struck and killed trooper on I-91 in 2003 seeks release from prison
By JORDAN CUDDEMI
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 38-year-old Vermont man serving 26 to 33 years in prison for unintentionally hitting and killing a state trooper from Bradford, Vt., during a high-speed chase on Interstate 91 in 2003 is seeking to have his sentence vacated or...
