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Green Mountain Lawmakers Pass Plate Reader Restrictions

Friday, May 17, 2013

Montpelier — Vermont lawmakers this week approved a bill to regulate for the first time police use of automatic license plate readers and require law enforcement to dispose of the potentially sensitive information after 18 months. The measure, which Gov. Peter Shumlin told the Valley News he is likely to sign, represented a compromise measure between civil liberties advocates, who worry that plate readers could give police information about innocent …

ECFiber Plans Summer Expansion

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Norwich — ECFiber has connected 325 customers to high-speed fiber-optic broadband Internet service and is about to expand its network to more underserved customers this summer, the organization’s chairman said last week. The Vermont nonprofit provider, which is working to deliver service to 23 municipalities in the Upper Valley and other parts of the state, also has just completed a round of funding …

Robert B. Bailey

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Concord, N.H. — Robert B. Bailey, 75, died Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at the Concord Regional VNA Hospice House in Concord, with family by his side. He was born a son of Bernard Bailey and Juliette Durand on Aug. 7, 1937, in Franklin, N.H. Robert served in the US Army for a time before beginning his career in the snack food industry. He …

Runners Reunite in Lebanon

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Lebanon — Toward the back of Salt hill Pub last night, Lori Bliss Hill greeted a woman in a bright blue jacket with yellow stripes. “It is so good to have you home,” Hill said. And they hugged. …

Norwich Likely Without Pool Again

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Norwich — Residents wanting to take a refreshing dip on a hot day in the town’s swimming hole are likely out of luck for a second consecutive summer. Town Manager Neil Fulton said this week the project to …

TCE Levels At Richmond Deemed Safe

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Hanover — Even though test results for trichloroethylene inside the Richmond Middle School have shown safe levels of the chemical compound, school officials are adamant that more testing will be done. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received results yesterday of testing it did April 1 to determine …

Woodstock's Partridge Boswell Gets Good Buzz as a New Poet

Friday, April 12, 2013

Like any poet, Partridge Boswell is a collector: of words, images and overheard conversations that the universe throws to him. Camped out at a table in the back of a Woodstock coffee house, Boswell bends over a notebook …

‘Eco-Challenge’ Registration Opens This Week

Sunday, April 7, 2013

With Earth Day approaching, organizers of a local “eco-challenge” are asking people to “change one habit for Earth.” Teams or individuals choose sustainability-related goals to work on between tomorrow and 22. Participants can share their stories at a potluck dinner on April 22 (Earth Day) at 6 p.m. …

Time of the Year Again...

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Lyndell Perry, owner of Lyndell’s Gardens in White River Junction, trims the hedges in front of River Road Veterinary Clinic in Norwich this week. This   was Perry’s second day of trimming the hedges, and she said it’s …

Hanover Goes to School on TCE; Waiting On Further Tests

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Hanover — After learning on Friday that trichloroethylene was present in a Dartmouth College owned house, officials were relieved to find out this week that two other vacant homes showed no sign of the chemical compound that can …

Young Writers Share A Life Lesson

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Each week, Young Writers Project receives several hundred submissions from students in Vermont and New Hampshire in response to writing prompts and selects the best for publication here and in 21 other newspapers and on vpr.net. This week, …

More Contaminant Found: Low Level of TCE Detected at Dartmouth College Housing 

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Hanover — A chemical compound known to cause cancer has been detected in a vacant home owned by Dartmouth College adjacent to the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. Dartmouth College conducted its own test on three residences …

Graffiti Found in Norwich

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Norwich — Several instances of anti-Semitic and racially charged graffiti showed up along two of the town’s main roads between Friday night and yesterday morning, police said. Police were alerted yesterday morning to the graffiti, which appeared in two instances on the roadway about half a mile on …