
A Life: Marcia Colligan was ‘definitely her own person’
HANOVER — Marcia Colligan did not let anything stop her from achieving what she wanted or needed to do. She wasn’t boisterous, but she got things done and never looked for credit, and she valued her family above all else.

Hartford High senior stays busy following singing competition
A few weeks ago, Hartford High School senior Macy Bettwieser traveled to New York City with her family and music teachers to compete in the final round of Broadway World’s Next On Stage competition.
Sports

Local Roundup: Hanover, Hartford win in competitive girls hockey games
Hanover 6, Oyster River-Portsmouth 2




Opinion

Editorial: Is Vermont primed to overhaul its schools?
All elections have consequences, but some are more consequential than others. Such might be the case with the tax revolt last fall that upended the political order in Montpelier and brought an influx of Republican legislators to the Statehouse. It potentially created the conditions for a major overhaul of K-12 public education in Vermont.





Your Daily Puzzles

An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."

A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.

Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.

Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.

Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.
Photos

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Arts & Life

White River Indie Film Festival seeks to marry humor and love with political resistance
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Film festivals with a political bent often risk falling prey to what Samantha Davidson Green, executive director of Junction Arts & Media, calls “the doom and gloom festival dilemma,” wherein audiences leave the theater feeling more hopeless than when they entered.




Obituaries

Claremont, NH - Lawrence Roger Plourde, 88, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Wednesday January 15, 2025, at Sullivan County Health Care in Unity, NH. He was born on May 1,1936 in Waterbury, CT, the son of Joseph Remie Plou... remainder of obit for Lawrence Roger Plourde

Chelsea, VT - Jeremy "JB" Beaucage, age 46, of Chelsea, Vermont died on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. Jeremy was born on February 1, 1979, to Donald and Deborah Beaucage and spent his first years in Topsham, before his family moved to Wa... remainder of obit for Jeremy Beaucage

Las Vegas, NV - Steve passed peacefully on January 30th, 2025 after a short illness in Las Vegas, NV. Growing up a 50's kid in Lebanon, he was busy with family, friends, school and sports, culminating in graduation from Lebanon High (Cl... remainder of obit for Steve Muzzy

Windsor, VT - Maria Theresa Hale, 86, died on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. She was born on January 21, 1939, in West Windsor, VT to parents Ferris and Emily (Housechild) Hale. She li... remainder of obit for Maria Theresa Hale