After more than 45 years, Upper Valley guitar shop closes

04-21-2025 6:01 PM

WEST LEBANON — After more than 45 years in business, financial troubles and a falling out between business partners led music shop Blue Mountain Guitar to take a final bow last weekend.


Roman Catholics mourn Pope Francis

04-21-2025 5:31 PM

VATICAN CITY — He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore South Sudan’s rival leaders to make peace.


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As spring skiing season winds down, one NH ski area plans to spin its lift until May
04-19-2025 5:25 PM

The Red Sox season was already a dozen games deep when, on April 9, a small ski area in New Hampshire fired up its snowmaking guns to add to the snow base on its main slope.

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Editorial: New Hampshire budget shortfall is a crisis of Republican design
04-11-2025 10:01 PM

Who says manufacturing is dead in the United States? The budget crisis that Republican lawmakers in Concord are now purporting to solve through draconian reductions in state spending is at least partially, and perhaps mainly, the result of unwise and unwarranted tax cuts they enacted over the past decade. If that’s not manufacturing a crisis, what is?

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04-18-2025 3:03 PM

Joel Luis and Danny Sanchez of Olsen Roofing remove shingles on a large barn last week in Orford. Built in the 1800s, the barn is getting a new roof to help preserve the building.

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A timeline of events in the rebuilding of Lebanon’s Baptist church
04-20-2025 6:04 PM

This timeline of the construction of the new First Baptist Church of Lebanon is taken from accounts in the Valley News and recent interviews with church leaders.

Obituaries

Obit photo for Diana Piotrow Diana Piotrow

New London, NH - Diana Rives Piotrow, Architect and Star Tennis Player Diana R. Piotrow of New London, NH passed away peacefully April 15, 2025 at the age of 65 surrounded by family. She was born in Washington, DC on a snowy day in Ma... remainder of obit for Diana Piotrow

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Exeter, NH - Robert T. Scott, of Exeter, NH, and formerly of Lake Sunapee, NH, died peacefully on Tuesday, April 15. He was 95. Bob, as he was known to his friends and family, was born in Brooklyn, New York on Aug 1, 1929. As a young m... remainder of obit for Robert Scott

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Newport, NH - Barbara J. Lucas, 85, passed away at Woodlawn Care Center on April 18, 2025 after a period of declining health. She was born on February 14, 1940 in Rome, NY to the late Barton and Teresa (Depasquale) Burlison. Barbara... remainder of obit for Barbara Lucas

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South Royalton, VT - Barbara Taylor Perkins, 84 lost her battle with cancer on Thursday, April 17th, 2025. She passed peacefully in her sleep. She was born on January 21, 1941. She was a strong, spitfire of a woman who loved her family... remainder of obit for Barbara Taylor Perkins

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