Hartford keeps Wilder park and ride open, despite safety complaints

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Wilder park and ride will remain open to the public while the Hartford Selectboard considers other ways to alleviate concerns from neighbors about public safety.Town administrators recently proposed closing the commuter lot...

Dartmouth Health’s finances on path to recovery, filing says

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — The financial picture for Dartmouth Health appears to be improving a bit, according to a recent filing with bondholders.While the Lebanon-based health system continued to lose money in the third quarter of its fiscal year, which ended March...

NH declares smoke advisory due to Nova Scotia wildfires

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

Editor’s Note: This story was first published on New Hampshire Bulletin.The state Department of Environmental Services is issuing an elevated particle air pollution advisory for Tuesday afternoon through Friday, citing wildfires in Canada.Central and...

‘The world is changing’: Dana Kaplan steers Outright Vermont through an evolution

By PATRICK CROWLEY

Dana Kaplan wants to push things forward.The executive director of the LGBTQ+ youth nonprofit Outright Vermont said the organization’s mission has had to evolve during his tenure. Instead of reacting to negative events, he said, they now aim to...

Dartmouth archaeology team uncovers 8,000-year-old history at Weirs Beach

By JON DECKER

LACONIA, N.H. — An archaeology team from Dartmouth College found thousands of artifacts and artifact fragments recently at Weirs Beach, ranging from nails and glass of the 19th century to arrowheads dating back as far as 8,000 years.In December, the...

Kenyon: It’s not working out

By JIM KENYON

Before turning in for the night, Dave Gifford wedges wax plugs into both ears and cranks up the white noise machine next to the bed in his studio apartment near downtown Lebanon.“And I still get woken up at 5 in the morning,” Gifford said. “The floor...

Claremont Historical Society reopens museum

BY RAY COUTURE

CLAREMONT — Over-hunting and loss-of-habitat doomed the Passenger Pigeon to extinction in 1914, but you can still see what one looked like — auburn-chested, beady, red eyes and massive in size compared to today’s pigeons — in a glass display case on...

As motel program winds down for unhoused Vermonters, state looks to out-of-state contractors for solution

By LOLA DUFFORT

With close to 3,000 unhoused Vermonters slated to leave a state-run motel program in two waves over the spring and summer and local shelters already full, the state is beginning to sketch out an emergency response – by looking outside Vermont’s...

N.H. EMT services in search of money

By DAVID BROOKS

Add medical transport by ambulance to the list of health-care systems in New Hampshire that says they are being strained to the breaking point.“At the end of the day, the crisis is all about money,” said Justin Van Etten, executive director of the New...

‘They’re helping me save the rest of my life’: Rutland organization helps incarcerated people find sobriety

By TIFFANY TAN

RUTLAND — In 2018, Mike St. Pierre was a year into his most recent incarceration at Rutland’s Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility when he felt drawn to attend a presentation by the local substance use recovery center. After listening to the...

Upper Valley independent restaurants struggling to survive

By JUSTIN CAMPFIELD

SOUTH ROYALTON — Kristen Strong had worked in multiple food service industry jobs when she came to the realization that if she was going to work that hard, she wanted to work for herself.After using that motivation to buy South Royalton diner 108...

Out & About: Canaan remembers 1923 fire and recovery

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CANAAN VILLAGE — On the evening of June 2, 1923, after a fire had taken out most of their town center, Canaan residents gathered at the one church still standing downtown to pray.One hundred years later, on Friday morning at 10:30 a.m., residents will...

Upper Valley Memorial Day ceremonies 2023

SUNDAY (May 28)Norwich Memorial Day Observance, Picnic and Music: Begins at 11:45 a.m. with honors at the bridge on Beaver Meadow Road. Veterans will then proceed to Fairview Cemetery for honors at Alden Partridge’s grave site. From there, the group...

Teen’s text to eating disorder hotline spurs legislative push to add number to student IDs

By ETHAN DeWITT

Two months into his summer break last year, Matthew Brown began to worry he had an eating disorder. Brown, who was then about to enter Merrimack High School as a freshman, did not want to talk to his parents about it. But he did want answers.After a...

NH murder suspect’s attorneys try to suppress evidence collected during police search

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Within 24 hours of learning that the suspect in the double murder of Steve and Wendy Reid was expected to flee the country, Concord police moved fast to locate and arrest Logan Clegg. Due to the immediacy of the situation in October, detectives...

Mental health disparities among Vermont children are clear in youth survey

By KRISTEN FOUNTAIN

A biennial survey conducted during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic shows poor mental health among high school and middle school students, especially in groups that previous surveys found have long suffered more than their peers. According to the...

Mobile home parks tackle septic, drinking water crises with federal dollars

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

When the North Country Village Cooperative asked the state last year for help with failing drinking water and wastewater systems, the manufactured home community was placed at No. 5 on a priority list.Fifty-seven homes occupy the former 1960s...

NH lacks formal citizenship classes, leaving the job up to volunteers

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With two maps of the United States, a flag in the corner and photos of past U.S. presidents pinned to a foldout whiteboard, an office at Overcomers Refugee Services resembles that of a high school history classroom. Instead of high school kids, Eileen...

Report: Dartmouth coach Teevens’ ‘failure to yield’ contributed to bicycle crash that hospitalized him

By TRIS WYKES

Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens’ “failure to yield right of way” contributed to him being struck by a pickup truck while riding a bicycle earlier this month in Florida, according to an enhanced Florida State Police crash report released...

Town Meeting: Incumbents prevail in Hartford Selectboard race

HARTFORD — In ballot voting on Tuesday, both incumbent Selectboard members beat off challengers to retain seats on the board and Hartford voters approved school and municipal spending proposals.In a 861-718 vote, Lannie Collins bested Janelle...