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Man hospitalized after Grantham home gutted by fire

01-16-2024 5:42 PM

GRANTHAM — Firefighters battled a blaze Monday night that injured two people, one critically, and gutted a home. Grantham Fire Department’s engine arrived at 505 Route 10 South, a mostly-wooded area across from a public park and about two miles from...


Some NH residents want better answers from the 2024 candidates on the opioid crisis

01-17-2024 9:55 AM

ROCHESTER, N.H. — Kristina Amyot’s life has drastically improved since the last New Hampshire primary, but she isn’t confident the current candidates will help others achieve the same success.Amyot, 36, spent more than half her life struggling with...


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Upper Valley photography studio celebrates self-acceptance

Woodstock Selectboard weighing water system purchase 

Jim Kenyon: Hanover police deny public records request in Dartmouth protester arrests

School Board seeks to reassure voters as cost of proposed Woodstock high school rises

Truth and reconciliation focus of Vermont law school’s MLK event

A Life: Linda Wilson ‘always noticed what needed to be done’

Hanover 44, Manchester West 30: Bears give Blue Devils first loss of season

Editorial: New Hampshire voters can deal a blow to Trump by backing Haley

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Sports
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. 

Dartmouth hockey working to rebuild ‘culture'
01-08-2024 4:29 AM

HANOVER — The last few seasons have not been kind to the Dartmouth men’s hockey program. After pandemic disruptions and middling results, the Big Green appeared to bottom out last season, winning just 5 of 30 games and finishing in the basement of the...

Hurricanes hold on for win over Mount Anthony
01-04-2024 5:05 PM

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Flummoxed by an aggressive zone press and struggling to guard Mount Anthony Union High’s Madisyn Moore, the Hartford High girls basketball team nearly let a big lead slip away down the stretch on Wednesday night before coming...

Stevens boys basketball holds off undermanned Newport
01-04-2024 4:28 AM

NEWPORT — Robert Clark was antsy Tuesday night. The Newport High boys basketball coach is also the town’s elementary school principal and was compelled to attend a School Board meeting on an upper floor of the Towle School building while his team...

Opinion
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...

Editorial: Panhandling is a symptom that calls for a remedy
12-16-2023 10:15 PM

Brattleboro civic officials are perplexed over what can, or should be, done about panhandling, which is rife in their downtown. In this they are hardly alone. Communities elsewhere in Vermont and New Hampshire are struggling with the same issue;...

Photos
Fresh tracks
01-17-2024 11:47 AM

Easy sledding in Hanover
01-17-2024 11:45 AM

Game on in Lebanon
01-16-2024 1:46 PM

Stocking up for a power outage
01-15-2024 12:54 AM

Asher Albrecht, 15, of White River Junction, right, scans a case of bottled water for Kathy Wyle, of Deering, N.H., left, at Dan and Whit’s in Norwich on Saturday. Wyle, who was visiting her mother-in-law in Lyme when the power went out, was picking...

Draining duty in South Royalton
01-11-2024 10:47 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 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,...

HomeBoxAlt Upper Valley Jewish community celebrates Hanukkah as Gaza war continues
12-13-2023 11:36 PM

HANOVER — Against the backdrop of ongoing violence in Gaza, the Upper Valley Jewish community celebrates Hanukkah this week with joyful gatherings tinged with somber reflection. Celebrations around the region have included a public menorah lighting on...

Obituaries
John Dayton Jr.

John Dayton, Jr. Lebanon, NH - John L. Dayton, Jr. died unexpectedly in Merrimack, NH on December 28, 2023 at the age of 79. John was born on March 15, 1944 in New London, NH to Pauline Rus... Read More

Elaine Effman

Grantham, NH - Elaine A. Effman, beloved wife and mother, passed away on January 11, 2024 in New Hampshire after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Born on July 2, 1943 to Allen E and Lydia B... Read More

Claire M. Smith

Lebanon, NH - Claire M. Smith, 85, passed away on January 11, 2024, at DHMC after a brief illness. She was born in Lebanon, NH to the late Raoul & Anita (White) Boutin. She graduated from S... Read More

David Charles Arnold

West Hartford, VT - David Charles Arnold, 54, died Saturday, January 13, 2024, at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, following years of declining health. David was born June 23... Read More

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