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Edith Celley stands in one of the classrooms in Pearson Hall, a Haverhill grade school Celley attended as a girl. The Haverhill Historical Society is restoring the building. Celley is president of the historical society. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

A Passion for Possibilities

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Haverhill — On the first warm, sunny weekend of spring, about 30 people sat inside Haverhill Cooperative Middle School brainstorming about the best use for Pearson Hall, the 197-year-old Federal-style building that once housed Haverhill Academy and the Grafton County Court. Among them was 85-year-old Edith Celley, who’s leading the efforts to preserve Haverhill’s oldest surviving public building. A consultant …

Jennie Ethel (Thurston) Corliss

Monday, May 6, 2013

Newbury, Vt. — Funeral services for Jennie Ethel (Thurston) Corliss, 98, who died Friday, December 28, 2012 at Brookside Nursing Home in White River Junction, Vt., will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at Hale Funeral Home, Upper Plain, Bradford, Vt. Burial will follow in the family lot in Sawyer Cemetery in Bradford. The Hale Funeral Home of Bradford, …

Voters Pass Oxbow School Budget

Friday, May 17, 2013

Bradford, Vt. — The second time’s the charm in the case of Oxbow Union High School’s annual budget, as Bradford and Newbury voters approved the revised figure last night after it was defeated earlier this year. Resident’s voted in favor, 294-158, of the newly drafted $7.2 million 2013-2014 school-year budget. “(I’m) grateful that the public supported the revised budget,” said School Board Chairwoman …

Voters to Decide on Proposed $7.3M Oxbow School Budget

Monday, March 18, 2013

Bradford and Newbury, Vt., voters will decide on the 2013-14 Oxbow Union High School budget and several other articles by Australian ballot from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on March 26. Bradford voters will cast ballots at Bradford Academy and Newbury voters will cast their votes at the …

Getting the Measure of Treasure: Enthusiasts, Appraisers Convene for Annual Oxbow Antique Event

Monday, March 18, 2013

Bradford — Advertised as being “loosely patterned” after Antiques Roadshow, the Antiques Appraisal Fair at Oxbow Union High School yesterday had all the ambiance of the popular public television show, albeit on an Upper Valley scale. A steady …

Newbury Voters Choose to Keep Town-Owned Forest  

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Newbury, Vt. — Voters decided yesterday morning against selling a 20-acre parcel of landlocked forest owned by the town after hearing from a local forester who swayed at least a few votes. “I’d just warn the citizens here …

Eleanor M. (Collier) Casciottolo

Friday, February 15, 2013

Newbury, Vt. — Eleanor M. (Collier) Casciottolo, age 84, died peacefully Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at the NVR Hospital in St.Johnsbury, Vt. surrounded by family after a period of declining health. She was born in Tewksbury, Mass. and raised and educated in Boston, Mass. Always with a smile …

Letter: Haverhill and Newbury Celebrations

Thursday, February 14, 2013

To the Editor: Thanks to Ben Conarck for his wonderful article about Archie Steenburgh in the Feb. 11 Valley News (“Tales From the Auction Block). I’d just like to add that the Haverhill-Newbury 250th Anniversary Celebration Program and the Haverhill Historical Society jointly sponsored the Steenburgh talk as …

Heavy Heart, Big Win

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Bradford, Vt. — After learning yesterday morning that his father had just passed away, Thetford Academy boys basketball coach Justin Smith knew he wanted to be with family. That’s why he made sure he was there to coach …

Newbury, Vt. to Vote on Forest Land

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Newbury, Vt., Town Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 5 at 10 a.m. in Newbury Village Hall to act upon 15 warning articles. Town officers and a waste-district budget will be decided by Australian ballot that day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Newbury, Vt. — Newbury …

Celebrating Reading, Film, and a 100th Birthday, Too

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Moving pictures were a nascent form of storytelling in 1914, when classes first met in the building on the village green where Newbury students have been educated ever since. Now, given the choice of watching a movie or …

At Easel

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Margo Steeves, of Newbury, and Don Wright, of New London, paint at Chapin Senior Center in New London yesterday. Painting days are held at the center every Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Steeves has been coming …

Suspect in Christmas Shooting Pleads Not Guilty

Friday, December 28, 2012

White River Junction — A Bradford, Vt., woman pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge that she shot and killed her ex-boyfriend at his Newbury, Vt., home on Christmas night . Anne-Marie Whiteway, who is charged with second-degree …