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Malcolm Grobe struck a pose for a story about picking football games against Sports Editor Don Mahler in Dec. 1992. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen)

A Life: Malcolm Grobe, 1930 — 2013; ‘He Called It “I’ve Done a Good Job in My Hatching, Matching and Dispatching” ’

Monday, June 10, 2013

Meriden — Malcolm Grobe wasn’t one to shy away from his convictions. During his first year as an elementary school teacher, Grobe brought two of his sons with him to witness an example of his preaching and teaching. A bus carrying Vietnam War conscripts was departing Lebanon, and Grobe, a fifth-grade teacher in Plainfield, didn’t want to see the young …

Matt Herbert of the Norwich Fire Department directs traffic around a fallen tree and a downed power line on Turnpike Road in Norwich yesterday. (Valley News - Libby March)

Riding Out the Storm: Weather System Leads to Power Outages, Road Closings in Valley

Monday, June 3, 2013

Plainfield — A series of powerful thunderstorms crackled across the Upper Valley yesterday, bringing downed power lines and forcing road closings in what amounted to some of the storm system’s worst damage in northern New England. Plainfield Fire Chief Frank Currier said his department had seen “all kinds of mayhem” in the aftermath …

At Five Sisters Farm in Plainfield, three of the Falcone sisters, (from left) Norah 6, Hannah, 12, and Ella, 10, trim, brush and feed Dalia the sheep as their dog Milo watches. (Valley News - Libby March)

Building a Beehive

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Hannah Falcone, 12, was a second grader when her beekeeping teacher told the class about the pollinators’ dismal situation. Across the world, entire colonies of honey bees are dying off. Stung, Hannah brought the bad news home. “We need to keep bees,” she told her mother Meg Falcone, a veterinarian. That spring, the …

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Mike Cotroneo, a barn restorer, sets up scaffolding around the lowered steeple of the Norwich Congregational Church in Norwich yesterday. Work to restore its rotted framing will take about two months. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Steeple Repair in Norwich
Randolph catcher Ross Caswell hugs teammate Alex Gilbert after the Galloping Ghosts won the Vermont Division III championship last night at Centennial Field in Burlington. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Motivation Works for Ghosts: Unusual History Lesson Lifts Randolph to Baseball State Crown
Randolph vs. BFA-Fairfax in the VPA D-III baseball championship in Burlington, Vt., on June 17, 2013. Randolph won, 3-2. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Photo Gallery: Randolph vs. BFA-Fairfax Baseball Championship
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Driver's licenses, wallets and other items that were stolen from Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in the late 1970s and early 1980s were found in the woods off Cutler Road in Plainfield recently. Police have been tracking down the original owners, who have scattered across the country. (Courtesy Plainfield Police Department)

Loot From Old Thefts Turns Up in Plainfield

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Plainfield — Patrol officer William Heighes was sitting in the Plainfield police station on a recent Sunday afternoon when a visitor arrived with an unusual story. The man, a turkey hunter, said he was walking in recently logged …

N.H.: Plainfield Property Owner Has Upper Hand in Trail Dispute

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Plainfield — State officials say that the town has limited legal authority in an ongoing dispute involving a property owner who purchased 104 acres of land with a conservation easement. Tracey Boisvert, program director for the Conservation Land …

The Kimball Union Academy girls basketball team in 1904. (Courtesy Kimball Union Academy)

200 Years of School Community

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Meriden – A timeline of the school’s 200-year history surrounded the Kimball Union Academy students eating hamburgers and M&M cookies Tuesday afternoon. With a large orange sign reading “Kimball Union: 200 years on the Hilltop” as a backdrop, …

James Estabrook exclaims in surprise as a bear hug knocks his celebratory cigar from his hand following commencement at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden yesterday. (Valley News - Libby March)

‘KUA Will Always Be With You’

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Meriden — At yesterday’s 196th Kimball Union Academy commencement, the class of 2013 was urged to look forward to the opportunities in college and beyond while also remembering the KUA experience and the friendships forged. “KUA will always …

Rev. Malcolm J. Grobe

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Meriden, N.H. — Rev. Malcolm J. Grobe, 82, passed away on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Family and friends are invited to call at the Ricker Funeral Home in Lebanon, N.H. on Thursday, May 30, 2013, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. A …

N.H. Casino Vote Likely This Week

Monday, May 20, 2013

Claremont — After a narrowly divided House panel voted against a proposed casino bill last week, Gov. Maggie Hassan called on lawmakers to consider what their constituents want before the entire House takes up the measure, perhaps as soon as Wednesday. The proposal would allow a single casino …

Jennifer Lesser placed signs on the Secret Trail that say “Private Trail” and “Firing Range Ahead” to dissuade hikers from proceeding. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

In Plainfield, Unease Over Easement: Landowner, Town and Hikers Clash Over Trail Access

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Plainfield — A homeowner who bought a wooded parcel of land in 2010 is now objecting to the presence of a popular hiking trail on her property, despite a conservation easement that guarantees public access to most of …

Letter: Ayotte Ignored the Hysteria

Monday, May 6, 2013

To the Editor: I commend U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte for her vote against more gun control proposals recently before the U.S. Senate. Had they been in place, the expanded background checks under consideration would have had no bearing on the atrocity committed in Newtown, Conn. Ayotte swore an …

Trevor Marsh, of Plainfield, a senior at Lebanon High School, strategizes with his Assassin teammate Jeff Taylor, also of Plainfield and a Lebanon High senior, over how most effectively to ambush a classmate as she walked to her car from work on Etna Road in Lebanon on Wednesday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Teens Loose in the Upper Valley; Annual Spring Assassin Game Raises Safety Concerns

Friday, May 3, 2013

U.S. Presidents enjoy the advance work and protective efforts of the Secret Service. Lebanon High senior Jeff Taylor has his kid brother, Jack. During several mornings earlier this week, Jeff Taylor dispatched his sibling from their Meriden home …

Mike Gaffney, of Amesbury, Mass., waits for the start of bidding at the auction of the historic Chase House in Cornish. “I flip houses for a living,” Gaffney said. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

Plainfield Man Purchases Cornish’s Chase House B&B

Friday, May 3, 2013

Cornish — A historic inn on Route 12A has a new owner after sitting vacant for years . At a live auction yesterday, Plainfield resident Darrell Atwater purchased the childhood home of Salmon Portland Chase, a 19th century …