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Heavy rains cause landslide, temporary closure of Pomfret Road
Ramp from I-93 to I-89 to be closed for repairs Tuesday
Former South Royalton Market manager to take helm at Coburns’ in South Strafford
SOUTH STRAFFORD — The nonprofit foundation overseeing the future of Coburns’ General Store has found a successor for the outgoing owners.
Theater Review: The music makes ‘The Vermont Farm Project’ worth seeing
Long a ripe subject for literature, farming is difficult to dramatize. How do you squeeze a farmer’s lifetime of daily toil into the length of a play or a feature film? The necessary decisions can’t help but leave an incomplete impression.
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A Life: ‘They all remembered Becky’
Dog dies when car rolls into Lake Fairlee
Dump truck driver faces charges in death of pedestrian in Newport
Woodstock trustees’ report says former police chief failed to serve as town ‘role model’
Black and Hispanic drivers stopped disproportionately across Vermont, traffic stops study finds
Incident that led to school lockdown in Haverhill was hoax, officials say
Editors Picks
Upper Valley Super Compost Project teaches schools how to manage waste
Kenyon: The power-to-the-people side of Woodstock
Editorial: Graduation wisdom from a legendary American
Uncertainty surrounds PCB contamination in Vermont schools
Sports
Dartmouth Roundup: Football holds spring game
WEST LEBANON — After some rough weather, the festivities also known as the Dartmouth College football spring game were moved to the Graham Indoor Practice Facility.
Local Roundup: Hartford and Hanover girls lacrosse teams win
High school lacrosse: Scoring outburst sends Lebanon girls past Pelham
Hartford softball coach ‘just wanted them to get excited about this sport’
Local Roundup: Hartford girls lacrosse remains undefeated
Opinion
Editorial: Dartmouth should join the fight
The president of Dartmouth, home of the brave space, has been notably absent from the list of college leaders speaking out against the Trump administration’s all-out assault on academic freedom and free speech.
Editorial: Vermont judge defends free speech
Editorial: Free speech detentions reach into Upper Valley
Editorial: New Hampshire budget shortfall is a crisis of Republican design
Editorial: Time is running out for American democracy
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
A growing fundraiser
Ledyard Charter School botany students, from left, Kiley Harvey, 18, Sabrina Lopez, 17, and RyaPospychala, 16, right, search for an information sheet on Morning Glories to give Timber Holmes, of Grantham, left, who bought starts of the flowers at their Mother's Day plant sale in Lebanon. The sale includes annual starts planted by the students and house plants they propagated. Proceeds from the sale, which continues through Friday, benefits the school as it prepares to install a lift between the first and second floors of its building.
A welcome home
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Front yard activism
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Arts & Life
A Life: ‘They all remembered Becky’
LEBANON — Sometimes when Sarah Schneider was working as a server at Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery in Hanover, she’d look across the room to her mother, Becky, who was doing the same.
Art Notes: Northern Stage produces play about Vermont farm life
A Look Back: How the Connecticut River transformed from a polluted waterway to a scenic one 
Upper Valley DJs follow own passions while bringing life to the party
Fairlee Drive-in won’t open for season this summer
Obituaries
David Michael DiFrancesco
Brownsville, VT - David Michael DiFrancesco, 65, passed away on May 5, 2025, in Rutland, Vermont, with loved ones by his side, after a recent period of seizures and declining health. Born on February 7, 1960, in Portsmouth, New Hampshi... remainder of obit for David Michael DiFrancesco
Marie Garneau
Hartland, VT - Marie A. Garneau, age 76, passed Saturday, May 10, 2025. A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition of the Valley News. Knight Funeral Home of White River Jct., has been entrusted with arrangements. ... remainder of obit for Marie Garneau
Kenneth H. Sensenig
Grafton, NH - Ken passed away Monday, May 5, 2025, at the age of 84. He grew up in Norwich, VT with his father Herbert and mother Mimi Sensenig on a peaceful farmstead. Ken last worked at Dartmouth College where he met his wife of 38 ye... remainder of obit for Kenneth H. Sensenig
Calista Ann Levakis
Hanover, NH - Calista Ann Levakis died unexpectedly on April 25, 2025, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. She was born to Kimberlee Collins and Gage Levakis on April 11, 2025. Though only here 14 days, her time here f... remainder of obit for Calista Ann Levakis
