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Discord spurs Orford Fire Department departures

01-26-2024 5:19 AM

ORFORD — Unexpected competition for the role of fire chief last March has divided some residents into opposing factions, reduced the ranks of the Fire Department and left the town of 1,200 without a Planning Board.Orford’s voters in 2014 authorized...


Grantham man remains hospitalized with burns from house fire

01-25-2024 4:27 PM

GRANTHAM — A 28-year-old Grantham man has a long recovery ahead after suffering severe burns in a house fire last week.Zachary Beaulieu remains in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was taken following the Jan. 15 fire and has...


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Sports
Thetford 39, Lake Region 28: Boys basketball team gains momentum
01-21-2024 10:30 PM

THETFORD - Thetford Academy boys basketball coach Jason Gray is an auctioneer by trade. The onetime Panthers star handles farming equipment and estate sales these days and admits he can deliver some of the smooth patter for which his profession is...

Woodstock 3, Hartford 2 (OT): Wasps hand Hurricanes first loss of the season
01-18-2024 4:50 PM

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Goaltending was front and center during Wednesday’s VPA Division II girls ice hockey clash between Hartford and Woodstock. The Wasps defeated their rivals, 3-2, on Hannah Gubbins’ goal with 49 seconds remaining in overtime,...

Hanover 44, Manchester West 30: Bears give Blue Devils first loss of season
01-13-2024 4:07 PM

HANOVER — The Manchester West High boys basketball team arrived here undefeated but left unhappy Friday, after falling, 44-30, to Hanover during a clash of NHIAA Division II teams.Jaysen Oriol, the Bears’ agile post player, scored a game-high 16...

Practice at last for Lebanon Nordic ski team
01-10-2024 8:26 AM

Lebanon High’s Nordic skiing team usually has better luck holding snow on its Plainfield Elementary School course, but even the Raiders have been staring at barren land for most of the winter. That was until Sunday’s healthy snowfall, which made...

A jumping off point
01-08-2024 10:50 AM

With no snow on their home hill on which to practice, Hanover High ski jumping coach Tom Dodds and his Bears have been getting in time on the Blackwater Ski Area jump at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H., lately. 

Opinion
Editorial: New Hampshire voters can deal a blow to Trump by backing Haley
01-12-2024 9:10 PM

New Hampshire voters have the opportunity later this month to vindicate the extravagant claims made over many years for their political acumen and civic engagement. That is, they have the chance to inflict a grievous political wound on Donald...

Sensibilities: A long Upper Valley trail comes to an end
01-12-2024 9:00 PM

In the early 1970s, my wife, our baby daughter and I, traveling from our Ohio home, arrived by ferry in Burlington. We were intent on seeing New England and I was considering UVM for graduate school. We drove down I89, marveling at Camel’s Hump,...

Editorial: The GOP still fights the Civil War
01-06-2024 1:32 PM

On one hand, it is inexplicable that Nikki Haley would fail to cite slavery as the cause of the Civil War in response to a direct question at a town hall event in Berlin, N.H., last month. On the other hand, it is entirely too explicable in the...

Editorial: The complex reality of juvenile justice
12-30-2023 9:13 PM

Vermont still cannot quite make up its mind what to do with “justice-involved” youth, the catch-all term for those under age 18 who have run afoul of the law. Lock ’em up? Or provide treatment in a secure residential setting? A recently decided...

A Solitary Walker: Winter tracks in snow and mud
12-23-2023 10:10 PM

Some years ago, while skiing across a nearby snowy hayfield with two little brown dogs leading the way, I noticed beneath my skis, the snow patterns seemed to be leaning the wrong way — the windblown ridges and valleys were not acting like sand dunes...

Photos
Traction action
01-26-2024 4:32 PM

Take a little off the top
01-25-2024 11:48 AM

Niceties in Windsor
01-25-2024 11:46 AM

Clear skating in Lebanon
01-18-2024 9:56 AM

Snow fall in Norwich
01-18-2024 9:55 AM

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Arts & Life
Vermont beekeepers rebuke Agency of Agriculture’s assessment that the industry is in good health
01-16-2024 2:28 AM

On Sunday, the president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association got a call from a friend, a beekeeper in Pennsylvania, who remarked snarkily, “It looks like Vermont has saved the bees!” The Pennsylvania apiarist had seen a report and accompanying...

HomeBoxAlt A Life: Linda Wilson ‘always noticed what needed to be done’
01-15-2024 12:46 AM

HARTFORD — Returning home from an errand run in a thunderstorm, Linda Wilson was stopped by a felled tree blocking the road. She got out of her car — where her young daughter Amy remained seated — slapped on some chaps and revved up a chainsaw, which...

HomeBoxAlt When El Niño and climate change collide: What it means for a New Hampshire winter
01-11-2024 4:30 PM

The Granite State may have been pummeled by a good ol’ snowstorm on Sunday, but the 50-degree temperatures, rain, and flooding emergencies that followed a few days later were quick reminders that winters here are changing. This year specifically has a...

HomeBoxAlt Out & About: 20 good things from 2023
12-30-2023 9:15 PM

The year is coming to a close and that means it’s time for the “20 Good Things” wrap-up. Out & About started the list at the end of 2020 to acknowledge the good moments that happened in an otherwise difficult year. While 2023 was quite different from...

Unwanted wishbone collection serves as a reminder of days past
12-17-2023 11:42 PM

HARTFORD — This story is about chicken bones. More specifically, it’s about wishbones, a key part of a bird’s skeleton that helps it fly.For some time, Hartford native Jim Dow and his wife, Susan Buckholz, had a CSA share at a farm in Springfield,...

Obituaries
Charles Surat

Charles "Chuck" Surat Norwich, VT - Charles "Chuck" Francis Surat of Norwich, Vermont, passed into eternity on December 30, 2023. A humble, faith-filled man of integrity, true grit, and few ... Read More

James M. West

White River Junction, VT - James M. West, born February 20, 1935, in Marlboro, MA died Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at his home in White River Junction, VT after a year of declining health. H... Read More

Jesse J. Truman

Lebanon, NH - Jesse J. Truman III, 70, died on Monday, January 23, 2024 after a brief hospitalization. Jesse was born in Lebanon, NH, to the late Jesse J. and Mary B. (Krushinski) Truman. F... Read More

Mary W. Rose

White River Jct., VT - Mary W. Rose, 90, died on Sunday, January 21, 2024, at Cedar Hill Health Care Center in Windsor, VT. She was born on July 23, 1933, in Hanover, NH to Ehrick J. and Bl... Read More

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