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Former Lebanon City Manager Greg Lewis dies at 74

LEBANON — Former City Manager Greg Lewis, who helped guide Lebanon through its recovery efforts following Tropical Storm Irene, died last week in a hospital near his home in Lockport, N.Y., after being hospitalized a few days earlier for... - Read Story

ACLU lawsuit over NH immigration checkpoints far from border to proceed

Fire destroys waste management building, tractor-trailers in Grantham

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk reports COVID-19 cluster at Lebanon facility

Man killed in Claremont police shooting showed signs of distress, friend says

Claremont man indicted on child pornography charges

Two found dead with carbon monoxide poisoning in Vershire

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Sports

On the Trails: Mud season presents a slate of challenges

By SEAN OGLE - Today

The last year has been difficult for everyone. Even in our idyllic corner of the world, we’ve been confined to our homes, isolated from loved ones...

IMHO: Assessing our season of silence

By GREG FENNELL - 4/3/21

I will remember the silence most of all. Visiting high school basketball gyms and hockey rinks in this winter of COVID-19 has been unlike anything...

Big Green gets new home turf

By GREG FENNELL - 4/8/21

HANOVER — As soon as next month, members of the Dartmouth College golf teams who once called the site of a former ski jump home will instead head...

High school notebook: Woodstock’s Gubbins best in Vt. D-I boys hockey

By GREG FENNELL - 4/3/21

WOODSTOCK — A coronavirus pandemic-shortened season didn’t leave Woodstock High forward Andrew Gubbins short on honors.Vermont’s high school boys...

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Features

Over Easy: Quality is not in the cards

By DAN MACKIE - Today

Lately I’ve been noticing a calamitous decline in the quality of certain consumer goods — index cards, for one sorry example that has left me...

Out & About: Randolph student theater company overcomes disaster with all-audio ‘Titanic’ musical

By LIZ SAUCHELLI - 4/7/21

RANDOLPH — The students in Randolph Union Middle/High School’s theater program, Encore Theater Company, wanted to perform a spring musical.“Going...

COVID-19 news in the Upper Valley

Columns

Jim Kenyon: No bad guys, just bad ideas in Norwich Farm Creamery dispute

By JIM KENYON - 4/7/21

Despite what the Norwich Farm Foundation would have you believe, when it comes to the fate of what it calls the town’s last dairy farm, the Upper...

Jim Kenyon: Norwich turning a blind eye to lack of police body cameras

By JIM KENYON - 4/3/21

In its infinite wisdom, the Norwich Selectboard has decided — for the time being — against equipping the town’s police officers with body cameras...

Business

Maine firm buys up NH biomass plants, including Springfield’s

By JOHN LIPPMAN - 4/8/21

SPRINGFIELD, N.H. — A Maine-based company has quietly acquired four mothballed wood chip power plants in New Hampshire, including one in...

Lebanon hotel gets go-ahead to convert to short-term apartments

By TIM CAMERATO - 4/7/21

LEBANON — A plan to convert a Route 120 hotel to short-term rental units for workers new to the area was approved by city officials who debated...

Letters to the Editor

Forum, April 10: Standardized tests would show how much was lost without in-person education

Newer than 48 hours

Forum, April 9: NH bill HB 625 protects no one

Newer than 48 hours

Forum, April 8: How COVID-19 may be used for manufacturing hysteria

4/7/21

Forum, April 7: The positive impact on children of community partnerships

4/6/21

Forum, April 6: No way to thank Vt. state employees

4/5/21

Forum, April 5: Parents, not the state, are the primary educators

4/4/21

Opinion

Column: The looming presence in the courtroom

By STEVE NELSON - Newer than 48 hours

Over Easy: Quality is not in the cards

By DAN MACKIE - Newer than 48 hours

Column: Students can raise voices on distracted driving

By OWEN SMITH and ROBERT QUINN - Newer than 48 hours

Column: After the fall ... happy to still be around

By WILLEM LANGE - 4/6/21

Column: Inside the Mormon money machine

By RANDALL BALMER - 4/3/21

Valley Visual

The early line on the White River

Evening shades in Lebanon

Animal training in Norwich

Buttered up

Wood chuck

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Videos

NEW YORK — The country has a new president and may well have a new literary star. In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she... - Read Story