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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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Can Marauders Continue Dynastic Ways?

Friday, December 21, 2012

There is nothing so constant in the world as change … except when it applies to the Hanover High girls hockey program. The Marauders have won four of the five state championships offered by the NHIAA, a run …

Letter: A Hard-Working Businessman

Monday, May 20, 2013

To the Editor: I have known Lee Walker and his family for many years (“Plainfield Xmas Tree Harvest Yields Charges,” Dec. 17). He is an honest, hard-working businessman, teacher and family man. Getting a tree or wreath at the Walker farm has been a tradition for many area …

Plainfield Man Charged With Trespassing in Tree-Cutting Incident

Monday, December 17, 2012

Plainfield — The former owner of a property that grew Christmas trees claims he had permission to harvest the trees even though he sold the property two years ago. The current owners say they changed their mind about letting Kinsely “Lee” Walker cut trees on property his family …

Mascoma’s Erin Tevere dribbles the ball against Inter-Lakes last week. The Royals reached the New Hampshire Division III quarterfinals last season. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Teams Raring to Return to the Hardwood

Sunday, December 16, 2012

With the winter season officially upon us, the best place to get a front row seat for all the action is your area gymnasiums. Last year, Oxbow and Hartford claimed state titles. Who will be this season’s Cinderella? …

Bolduc - Gallagher

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Plainfield — Amanda Hart Bolduc and Mark Andrew Gallagher were married on Aug. 25, 2012. The outdoor ceremony took place on a pristine summer day in Harwichport, Mass., and was presided over by the Rev. Nicholas Boa. The …

Meriden Library Computerizes Systems

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Hanover — Meriden Public Library recently flipped the switch on its new computerized catalog and circulation system. The library is the first of four associate members of Howe Library’s Howe/Evergreen Project to do so. “Everything went smoothly” on …

Lebanon’s Dominick Morrill takes a jump shot against Hanover in the annual Wechsler Cup doubleheader yesterday in Hanover. Lebanon won, 40-33. (Valley News - Ryan Dorgan)

Lebanon Boys Basketball Gets a Dose of Revenge Over Hanover

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Hanover — As much as it hurt to review last year’s playoff loss to Hanover, Lebanon boys basketball coach Kieth Matte felt obliged to in preparation for yesterday’s season opener with the Marauders. What he saw on film …

A referee jumps in as Hanover’s JJ Daniell and Lebanon’s Heather King wrestle for a loose ball. (Valley News - Ryan Dorgan)

New Center Gives Lebanon Girls Basketball Team New Hope

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Hanover — When would-be starting center Trina Scheie elected not to play for the Lebanon girls basketball team this season, sophomore Vanessa Fleury was thrust into a starter’s role. Yet instead of making a hole in the Raiders’ …

Letter: Fluoridation Makes Sense

Monday, May 20, 2013

To the Editor: Your Dec. 2 editorial, “Bradford Regresses,” points to an extremely important principle on which this country was founded, and one I’d like to think our community practices on a regular basis. Fluoridation is a public health measure in which a tiny communitywide investment benefits everyone. …

Column: Bowing, Scraping and Swooning for Royalty

Saturday, December 8, 2012

London “We know no spectacle so ridiculous,” opined the great 19th-century historian, Thomas Babington Macauley, “as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.” But for sheer ridiculousness, few spectacles are quite so grimly moronic as the American media plunging overboard in one of its …

Plainfield

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

Man Hospitalized in Enfield Fire That Destroys Garage

Hartford Seeks Healing After Suicides

Hanover Buddies Planning a Unique Wiffle Ball Field

Chasing the Dream, Welch Detours Back to Morey

Editorial: Otherwise Engaged; In Vermont, It’s a Labor of Like