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Over Easy: Outlook uncertain for love outbreak
Local Roundup: Mascoma boys beat Fall Mountain
Sunapee Elementary becomes latest Upper Valley school to heat with biomass
SUNAPEE — A new heating system at Sunapee Elementary School is the “Corvette” of wood-burning operations, said Mathew Bouranis, the school district’s facilities director.But a “Prius” may be a more apt comparison.The burner rarely needs to fall back...
Former dry cleaner building demolished as part of Lebanon Woolen Mills development
A crew from Prominent Builders, a Boston-based design and construction company, demolishes the former Kleen Dry Cleaners building on Mechanic Street in Lebanon on Thursday. The demolition is part of the planned Lebanon Woolen Mills development, which...
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Newport School Board member pleads not guilty to sexual exploitation
Hanover High drama club to stage play about Ukrainian teens during invasion
Man shot teen who interrupted theft in Claremont
AG: Upper Valley waste management company falsified reports
Column: Finding companionship in inanimate friends
A Life: Royal Houghton ‘was never one who did things half way’
Local roundup: Windsor girls come back from early deficit to beat Hartford
Editorial: What keeps us from addressing poverty?
Sports
Hartford 71, Otter Valley 22: Hurricanes storm towards title
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION - The Hartford High girls basketball team waltzed past Otter Valley, 71-22, on Friday night at Hanley Gymnasium. Now 8-2, the Hurricanes look like they could reach Vermont high school basketball’s big dance at the Barre Auditorium...
Woodstock’s Wood, Masillo maintain form on slushy surface in Eastern States qualifier
SOUTH POMFRET — Vermont’s best high school Alpine skiers met at Saskadena Six on Thursday. However, the conditions couldn’t have been much worse for the slalom race, the first of two qualifiers for the Eastern High School Championships, which will be...
Local Roundup: White River Valley’s Drury scores 1,000 career points
Early in White River Valley’s girls basketball game against Woodstock on Monday night, Tanner Drury put together a layup, a three-pointer and a foul shot to reach the 1,000-point career mark. Among those who celebrated with the senior were her mother...
Thetford 39, Lake Region 28: Boys basketball team gains momentum
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
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,...
Opinion
Editorial: New Hampshire’s problem with voter suppression
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has ordered the Democratic National Committee to “cease and desist” from calling the state’s upcoming Democratic presidential primary “meaningless,” on the grounds that “falsely” doing so constitutes voter...
Editorial: New Hampshire voters can deal a blow to Trump by backing Haley
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
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
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
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...
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Arts & Life
Art Notes: Lebanon Opera House, Chandler Music Hall reopen following renovations
A pair of the most venerable and active Upper Valley performance venues, Lebanon Opera House and Randolph’s Chandler Music Hall, are reopening in the next week after renovations.The opera house, which will reopen with a refreshed lobby and new seats...
Art Notes: Real-life couple brings a ‘cosmic love story’ to life at Northern Stage
Some partnerships seem destined from the start. A pair of elementary school friends who get married out of college and stay together forever, or Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, to consider just two scenarios.But most people in enduring relationships...
A Life: Jack Candon ‘took total joy in being helpful and bringing some joy to others’
NORWICH — Complete with a red suit and hat and with his trademark good humor and a twinkle in his eye, Jack Candon gave many Upper Valley children (including mine) their first Christmas gift each year: a bell.The gift was a token of the Polar Express,...
Vermont beekeepers rebuke Agency of Agriculture’s assessment that the industry is in good health
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...
A Life: Linda Wilson ‘always noticed what needed to be done’
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...
Obituaries
Walter Woodruff
Walter "Dick" Woodruff Hanover, NH - Walter Richard "Dick" Woodruff (Major USAF, retired) passed on January 27th, 2024, at Hanover Terrace in Hanover, NH, about a month shy of his 95th birth... remainder of obit for Walter Woodruff
Barbara A. Cheney
Enfield, NH - Barbara A Cheney, 80, was peacefully called home to her Heavenly Father on January 10, 2024. She was born in Cambridge Massachusetts to the late Edward R. and Pearl V. (Dean) ... remainder of obit for Barbara A. Cheney
Dolor J. Lambert Jr.
Dolor "Mike" J. Lambert Jr. White River Jct., VT - Dolor "Mike" J. Lambert Jr., age 78, passed Monday, January 29, 2024. A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition of the Vall... remainder of obit for Dolor J. Lambert Jr.
Joyce McKee
Orford, NH - It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our loved Wife, Mother, Grammie, Grand-Grammie and friend, Joyce McKee. Joyce passed on Wednesday January 27, 2024 at the ag... remainder of obit for Joyce McKee
