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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 …

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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March
Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Preparing for Prom
Oxbow Union High girls lacrosse captain Dilan Clements leads her team in a cheer at the close of practice in Bradford, Vt., yesterday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Oxbow Scoring Aces Get Help From Their Friends
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Dan Hillard, of Wilder, left, speaks with Vermont Senate candidate Dick Tracy at the polls in Hartford yesterday. At right are Sen. Dick McCormack and Alex DeFelice, Republican candidate for Vermont House of Representatives. Valley News — Jennifer Hauck

Windsor Democrats Keep Senate Seats

Friday, May 17, 2013

Windsor — Democrats appear to have retained their hold on the three Windsor County Senate seats. Incumbents John Campbell of Quechee, Dick McCormack of Bethel and Alice Nitka of Ludlow, held a solid lead over their Republican challengers, …

Young Writers: Students Let Their Imaginations Take Flight With Poetry and Prose

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Young Writers Let Their Imaginations Take Flight With Poetry and Prose Each week, Young Writers Project receives several hundred submissions from students in Vermont and New Hampshire in response to writing prompts and we select the best for publication here and in 20 other newspapers and on VPR.net. …

Thawne Spencer, of Warren, is a student at Riverbend Career and Technical Center, where he is working on a project in salon management. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

High School Isn’t Always About Preparing for College

Friday, November 2, 2012

The standard advice for all high school students used to be: work hard, get accepted to a good four-year college or university, and earn your bachelor’s degree. Four-year college graduates find better jobs and make more money than …

Oxbow Union High senior Caleb LaFaille pores over a question on the online imPACT concussion test at the Bradford, Vt., school in late August. (Valley News - Greg Fennell)

Oxbow Applies Concussion Testing System To Athletes

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Bradford, Vt. — Rich Thornton believes in concussion testing. As athletic director at a high school with a varsity football program, he believed in it enough to have tried it on his own before help arrived. He’s been …

Young Writers Project: Haunted History, Haunted Houses

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Each week, Young Writers Project receives several hundred submissions from students in Vermont and New Hampshire in response to writing prompts and we select the best for publication here and in 20 other newspapers and on VPR.net. This week, we publish responses to the prompts, “Haunted: You and …