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Hanover Selectboard gives $130,000 severance package to departing town manager
HANOVER — Departing Town Manager Alex Torpey will receive more than $135,000 in severance from the town, according to a separation agreement between Torpey and the Selectboard. But the reason for the parting of ways remains unclear. Last week, the...
Upper Valley health care providers, businesses disrupted by tech outages
LEBANON — Upper Valley emergency service agencies, health care providers and businesses felt the impact of a global internet outage that started early Friday morning.Around 9 a.m., Dartmouth Health reported that its “locations are experiencing a...
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National Weather Service confirms tornado touched down in Lyme
New Hampshire expects next year's food waste ban to increase diversion to facility market
Boy conscious and speaking after 25-foot fall in Weathersfield
“The last player standing” – Swenson Granite’s Concord quarry shuttered after 140-year-history
Editors Picks
Access spotty for summer meals in the Upper Valley
Kenyon: Why not keep Carter Country Club just the way it is?
Upper Valley communities say Supreme Court ruling won’t change approach to homelessness
Sports
The Prouty begins
Volunteer Isabel Bober, right, cheers for rider Jacky Dick, of Andover, Mass., as she nears the finish line for the Prouty Ultimate in Hanover on Friday. Dick has been participating in the Prouty, a fundraiser for the Dartmouth Cancer Center, for 10...
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Vermont’s Elle Purrier St. Pierre punches spot on 2nd US Olympic team
Opinion
Editorial: Is ‘neutrality’ another name for failing to lead?
Dartmouth president Sian Leah Beilock is considering whether the college “should formally adopt a position of institutional neutrality,” according to Liz Lempres, chairwoman of the college’s board of trustees. If it does, Dartmouth would join Harvard...
Perspectives: A relationship built on writing
Editorial: Artificial intelligence poses real risks
Editorial: Response to campus protests only adds fuel to the fire
Editorial: Chris Sununu’s moral vacuum

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
Summer sale
Angela Tibbets, of Lebanon, prepares for a yard sale she planned to have with a friend in White River Junction. Many wood burnings Tibbets has made over the years were included in the sale, which was scheduled for the Fourth of July. Josie Smith, also...
Ready for the weekend
Ade-ing relief in Enfield
The heat is on in the Upper Valley
Disc drill in Bethel
Arts & Life
Vermont’s new Catholic bishop faces a litany of challenges
When John McDermott was ordained as a priest 35 years ago, both the new cleric and the nearly two-century-old Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese — the state’s largest religious denomination — were awash in historic highs.Standing before then-Bishop John...
Art Notes: Sculpturefest features work of Woodstock high alumna
Wasps offer hope for ash trees’ future
Obituaries
Lorraine A. Prior
White River Jct., VT - Lorraine A. Prior, 74, died Monday, July 15, 2024, at Lebanon Center Genesis in Lebanon, NH with her family by her side. Lorraine was born February 1, 1950, in Sherburne, VT, a daughter of William and Dorothy ... remainder of obit for Lorraine A. Prior
Russell O. Collins
Quechee, VT - Russell O. Collins, 90, died Monday July 15, 2024, at the Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, VT. Russell was born January 15, 1934, in Hanover, NH, a son of Robert and Clara (Hall) Collins. Russell attend... remainder of obit for Russell O. Collins
Melodie Oronte
Melodie 'Mel' Oronte Wilder, VT - Melodie 'Mel' Oronte, age 65, died in the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 16th, 2024, at her home after a long road of health issues and dialysis. Mel was born October 21, 1958, in Lebanon, NH to M... remainder of obit for Melodie Oronte
Gwendolyn Place
New London, NH - Gwendolyn Place passed away peacefully at her home with family on July 14, 2024. She was born in Saugus, Massachusetts on March 30, 1930 to Kenneth and Esther Larkin. She attended Katharine Gibbs School in Boston where ... remainder of obit for Gwendolyn Place

On the Trails: The ‘A’ in UVTA stands for ‘alliance’
ACLU calls on UNH and Dartmouth to drop charges against pro-Palestine protesters
Lebanon and Hanover tennis teams earn awards

Woodstock native happy to be Ryder Cup captain — but he wants to qualify as player, too
These NH teachers wanted to make phonics fun. So they wrote their own comic books.