News/Business
Food and shopping options expand in West Lebanon plazas
By JOHN LIPPMAN
WEST LEBANON — Spring is here and the Route 12A shopping plazas will be blooming with new retail businesses.Cold Stone Creamery and Planet Smoothie are in the works to open at Powerhouse Plaza, the latest national chains to stake out space along the...
Green Mountain Power hosts open house in White River Junction
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Green Mountain Power, an electric utility that services the majority of Vermonters, is scheduled to host an open house on Tuesday to discuss its next multi-year plan.The integrated resource plan, as it’s known, is updated every...
Single-family home price in NH hits record high — yet again
By PAUL BRIAND
One month after reaching an historic median price of $500,000 for a single-family home in New Hampshire, the price jumped to a record high yet again — to $515,000 in April.The factors that contribute to these rising prices — high demand and lack of...
Plan on track to ship Upper Valley mail to Connecticut for sorting
By PATRICK ADRIAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The U.S. Postal Service will proceed with a plan to move mail sorting operations for Upper Valley communities from White River Junction to Connecticut, according to a USPS facilities study released this week.The plan is...
Over Easy: On bread, buttered popcorn and big sandwiches
DAN MACKIE
Spring is all a-bloom here in the Upper Valley, and we gallop from too cold to too hot too fast. It is a meteorological microwave.It sends me scurrying to find my summer shorts, which reveal my legs as shiny white as an airport beacon. They are...
Application deadline for ‘Valley News’ board is May 15
WEST LEBANON — The May 15 deadline to apply to the Valley News Reader Advisory Board is approaching.To be eligible to apply for the board, community-minded readers must live, work or go to school in a town or city in the Valley News’ coverage area,...
Killington is the East’s largest ski resort. A developer wants to expand on that in a big way.
By KEVIN O’CONNOR
KILLINGTON — Michael Sneyd may work in a tall office tower in Canada’s most populous city of Toronto, but he’d rather talk up the even bigger slopes of this small town in Vermont.“Killington has long been known as the largest ski mountain in the...
Claremont movie theater to close at end of May
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CLAREMONT — The ticket sales at a recent midweek matinee at Claremont Cinema 6 provided an indication why the theater is closing at the end of the month.The theater had five showtimes with seating of 150 to 225 for each and starting times between 4...
Publisher’s note: Valley News launches updated online app
The Valley News app, available for download on Apple and Android devices, currently allows users to read a digital replica of the print newspaper, known as the e-edition.Beginning Monday, the app will be upgraded so subscribers can read breaking news...
Bradford restaurant fined for labor violations
By JOHN LIPPMAN
BRADFORD, Vt. — A mainstay Bradford restaurant and anchor of the downtown business scene has been ordered to dish out a total of $290,000 in penalties and damages for running afoul of various federal employment practices.The U.S. Department of Labor...
A Life: Richard Fabrizio ‘was not getting rich but was doing something that made him happy’
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NORTH HAVERHILL — Richard “Dick” Fabrizio cherished, and often reread, a letter he received about 35 years ago one March from a family that was returning from a vacation in the White Mountains the previous fall. They were looking for a place to pick...
Herd departs Hartford’s last remaining dairy farm
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HARTFORD — On a gray, drizzly Wednesday morning, George Miller, his son, cousin and brother pushed, pulled and cajoled 27 reluctant Jersey cows and six heifers out of the barn and onto livestock trailers that would take the animals to their new owner...
Over Easy: ‘A breakfast without a newspaper is a horse without a saddle’
By DAN MACKIE
The Valley News was born in 1952 and so was I. This is probably coincidence, but I like to think there is more to our association than the fact that we are both from the year of the water dragon in the Chinese calendar.According to the Internet,...
New ‘incentive calculator’ launches to help Vermonters electrify their homes
By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO
To celebrate Earth Day, two nonprofits announced the launch of a Vermont-specific incentives calculator to electrify everything from your car to your water heater. Rewire America, a national electrification nonprofit, worked with Efficiency Vermont on...
Aubuchon to boost its Vermont hardware stronghold by acquiring Bibens stores
By KEVIN O’CONNOR
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Vermont’s biggest locally owned group of hardware stores is set to be purchased by what bills itself as the country’s oldest and largest family-held chain in the field.Bibens Ace Hardware has agreed to sell its seven locations in...
Chelsea Green to be sold to international publishing behemoth
By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO
One of Vermont’s best-known independent publishers is expected to be sold to an international publishing consortium. Rizzoli International, a New York City subsidiary of the Italian publishing giant Mondadori Group, announced Monday that it had agreed...
Businesses in Charlestown and Springfield, Vt., seek alternative to bridge closure
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CHARLESTOWN — At a meeting Tuesday morning, Charlestown and Springfield, Vt., business owners and public officials said the planned 34-week closure to repair the Cheshire Bridge linking the two communities will “kill” the area economy.About 50 people...
Starbucks store planned for Route 120 at Centerra
By JOHN LIPPMAN
LEBANON — Starbucks hopes soon to be serving from triple grande locations in Lebanon and Hanover.The ubiquitous national coffee chain is working to open its third location in the Upper Valley, this time on Route 120. Construction is expected to get...
Enterprise column: Dartmouth Hitchcock’s pet therapy, canine greeter programs try to take stress out of hospital stays
By TRACY HUTCHINS
Walk through the main atrium of Dartmouth -Hitchcock Medical Center on a Friday afternoon and you may meet one of Dartmouth Hitchcock’s best-loved therapists doing his rounds. His name is Kooper, an 8-year-old golden retriever wh,o with his owner and...
Enterprise column: Considering ‘active transportation’
By REBECCA BAILEY
A “time-space machine” — that’s how Sharon’s Ryan Haac playfully refers to his car.Particularly when he takes the interstate, the experience is one of disconnecting from one place and, in an astonishingly short time, popping out in another, with an...
