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Oxbow coach Brian Musty during an Oxbow girls lacrosse game in Chelsea in Spring 2011. (Valley News - Tris Wykes)

Ex-Oxbow Teacher In Court

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Chelsea — The woman police say was sexually assaulted as an Oxbow Union High School student by former teacher and coach Brian H. Musty said she is uncomfortable returning to the Upper Valley and trying to cope with her role in the ongoing case. In a statement filed in Orange Superior Court, the woman, now 30, said she attends weekly …

Marion Stanley Smith

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Pompanoosuc, Vt. — A committal service for Marion Stanley Smith, 94, who died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at Genesis HealthCare Center in Lebanon, N.H., will be held Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the Union Village Cemetery in Union Village, Vt. Knight Funeral Home in White River Junction, Vt. has been entrusted with arrangements. …

Local Students Win Writing Awards

Monday, May 20, 2013

Three local students were honored recently for their entries in the 2013 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest, held by Vermont Public Television.The annual contest is open to students from kindergarten to third grade. Keira E. Kegelman, a kindergartener from Hartland, won her age group with her story “Best Friends Eat Their Veggies.” First-grade …

Young Writers Project: Thetford Student Wins Writing Prize

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

This week, Young Writers Project announces the six winners of the Farm Project writing challenge. Congratulations to David Amouretti, Grade 5, Thomas Fleming School, Essex Junction; Callista Bushee, Grade 8, Home School, East Wallingford; Kelsey Eddy, Grade 9, …

Fiber-Optic Internet, Fixed Road Finally Reach Long-Ignored Town

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Vershire — By the end of the summer, life is likely to speed up in this tiny Orange County town tucked into the narrow valley where the Ompompanoosuc River begins its 25-mile run to the Connecticut. If work …

Road Sign Thefts Plague Thetford

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Thetford — Who is stealing Thetford’s road signs? The disappearance of more than half of Thetford’s road signs over the past few months has frustrated town officials, who say it presents a potentially dangerous situation for emergency responders unfamiliar with the local map and ends up costing the …

Keeping the Cows In

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Shaun Gulick, right, repairs a fence with his cousin Jason Ball, 11, before letting the cows out of the barn in Ely recently.   Valley News — James M. Patterson …

Puppet Preparations

Thursday, May 9, 2013

In the first photograph, Bread and Puppet puppeteer Frederica Collina demonstrates for Thetford Elementary fifth-graders the introduction to the school’s spring pageant during a rehearsal yesterday. In the second, Jason Hicks of Bread and Puppet outfits fifth-graders Hunter …

Jane L. White Wheeler

Monday, May 6, 2013

North Haverhill, N.H. — Jane L. White Wheeler, 88, died on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at the Grafton County Nursing Home, North Haverhill. Jane was born on April 15, 1925, in Meriden, Conn., to Stanley and Daisy (Birks) Langner. Jane worked for many years as a sales clerk …

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 …

'A Great Way to Move Forward': Thetford's Carmen Tarleton Reveals New Face

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Boston — The freckled skin on Carmen Tarleton’s face was puffy and her eyes and lips sagged a little, but the image that the 44-year-old Thetford resident presented yesterday was one of grace and hope. Nearly six years …

Working the Land

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Lilla Willey works on her yard at her home in Thetford last week. She and her late husband, Chauncey Willey, raised four children there after moving to the property from New York 61 years ago.   Valley News …

Oxbow Budget Restrung

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ballot voting on Oxbow Union High School’s redrafted budget will be held tomorrow for Bradford and Newbury voters from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Bradford Academy auditorium and the Newbury Town Office. ■ Bradford, Vt. — School officials are crossing their fingers that voters tomorrow will …