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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — In a vote postponed due to technical difficulties at a meeting last week, the Hartford School Board on Wednesday voted...
HANOVER — Dresden schools and the town of Hanover, along with Dartmouth College, this week are joining the majority of Upper Valley schools and...
CLAREMONT — COVID-19 testing and vaccination sites in Claremont are scheduled to close this month, along with others around the state.The testing...
SOUTH ROYALTON — Morgan Haynes has mixed feelings about the end of the White River Valley Elementary School’s mask mandate on Monday.“After wearing...
HANOVER — As COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to trend downward, Dartmouth College will stop requiring masks indoors next...
HARTFORD — The rollback of indoor mask mandates continues in the Upper Valley.Hartford and Thetford no longer have mask mandates in effect after...
WINDSOR — The Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union Board is scheduled to discuss mask protocols in Windsor-area schools on March 14, according to...
WEST LEBANON — As of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends masks for most people in the four counties of...
THETFORD — Thetford Academy is continuing to require masks indoors even though more than 80% of students there have been vaccinated, according to...
LEBANON — The Lebanon City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to hold a public hearing to discuss dropping the city’s face mask requirement on...
WEST LEBANON — Some municipal leaders in the Upper Valley are getting conflicting messages about whether it’s safe to lift masks mandates that have...
COVID-19 cases are down. Hospitals are recovering. Mask requirements are lifting like a sunrise after a storm.The most recent and severe...
LEBANON — If they have not already dropped their mask requirements, Upper Valley schools in New Hampshire are scrambling to do so in compliance...
CONCORD — New Hampshire schools will no longer be able to mandate masks under the state’s new public health guidance on COVID-19.Until Wednesday...
BRADFORD — The Orange East Supervisory Union board has delayed implementation of an employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate until after the current...
SHARON — The Sharon Academy is slated to move to an optional masking policy beginning on March 7, according to a Wednesday announcement posted to...
CLAREMONT — The School Board voted 5-2 at a special meeting Wednesday to revise its COVID-19 protocols making masks optional at all times for...
BRADFORD, Vt. — The Orange East Supervisory Union Board voted on Tuesday evening to require that employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 by March...
BRADFORD — The Orange East Supervisory Union Board is scheduled to consider mandating COVID-19 vaccines for school employees at a special meeting...
LEBANON — For Jenica Nelan, Lebanon School Board vice chairwoman, the time has come.“I actually think we’re overdue for removing masking and...
New Hampshire has sold 5,000 rapid COVID-19 tests at liquor stores across the state, Gov. Chris Sununu said at a news conference Wednesday.Rapid...
HANOVER — Researchers at Dartmouth College co-authored a study released late last month that indicates that people may misinterpret the results of...
NEWPORT — Free rapid test kits have arrived in parts of the Upper Valley.As part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19...
Newport to host vaccine clinic Wednesday NEWPORT — The New Hampshire Mobile Vaccine Van will be in Newport from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday.COVID-19...
CONCORD — Just a few weeks ago, monoclonal antibodies were a major part of New Hampshire’s strategy to unburden overrun hospitals.The treatments...
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and other Lebanon-area D-H facilities will allow visitors for COVID-negative patients beginning Monday...
CLAREMONT — New Hampshire’s fixed COVID-19 vaccination and testing sites, including those in Claremont, will be closed on Saturday due to the...
LEBANON — There is an ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, state health officials said Thursday.The New Hampshire...
COVID-19 tests will be on sale at New Hampshire liquor stores next month, the state’s latest effort to control a pandemic that continues to rage in...
WINDSOR — The Windsor Selectboard unanimously approved a temporary indoor mask mandate in places open to the public at its meeting on Tuesday.The 5...
CLAREMONT — Before employees come to work at Valley Regional Hospital each day, they don’t know how short-staffed the hospital will be, how many...
WOODSVILLE — Woodsville Elementary School will be closed through Wednesday due to a high number of COVID-19 cases at the school.There are 28 cases...
HANOVER — Cases of COVID-19 remain high at Dartmouth College, which reported nearly 750 active cases on Thursday.The college, where nearly 98% of...
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — All 472 employees of the Springfield, Vt.-based Health Care and Rehabilitation Services have been fully vaccinated against COVID...
HARTFORD — The Hartford Finance Office is closed from now until Monday due to staffing issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.Those who need...
HANOVER — After reaching a high of more than 750 cases of COVID-19 at the end of last week, cases at Dartmouth College dropped substantially over...
HANOVER — The number of COVID-19 cases at Dartmouth College continues to grow, and it’s unclear whether they’ve peaked.Over the past week, nearly 1...
RANDOLPH — The current surge in COVID-19 cases continues to affect Upper Valley schools, shuttering at least one for a full week.While some area...
Since 2014, Northern Stage has dedicated a piece of January to developing new plays in a series of readings called “New Works Now.”Thanks to the...
Multiple Upper Valley schools will be closed this week, some of them for multiple days, because of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases among staff and...
LEBANON — The first patient to be hospitalized with COVID-19 in Vermont, back in early 2020, was at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in...
HANOVER — Active cases of COVID-19 at Dartmouth College are approaching 400 at the end of the first week of winter term, according to the college’s...
HANOVER — Spiking COVID cases across the Upper Valley are forcing schools, arts organizations and businesses to make tough decisions in hopes of...
WEST LEBANON — In part to keep the economy rolling amid the ongoing COVID-19 surge, federal and Twin State health officials have reduced the length...
HANOVER — Active cases of COVID-19 at Dartmouth College are in the triple digits this week as undergraduates return for winter term, according to...
Staff reportLEBANON — Relief teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that were supposed to help administer monoclonal antibodies at...
CHELSEA — The Twin States are making progress in vaccinating children ages 5 to 11, the latest group to become eligible for the shots.But they...
WILDER — Starting on Monday, Advance Transit plans to temporarily reduce some of its services because of a shortage of qualified drivers.The Blue...
HANOVER — Dartmouth College will begin winter term in person amid uncertainty surrounding the omicron variant, college officials said Wednesday.The...
Vermont plans to give out 80,000 rapid tests to parents across the state for them to test their kids before they return to school after the holiday...
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will hold three COVID-19 vaccine clinics for children ages 5 to 11 this week in Lebanon.The clinics...
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Dr. Marvin Malek, a hospitalist at Springfield Hospital, tries not to smile.“Usually I try to put patients at ease by saying...
About two-thirds of vaccinated Granite Staters have received a booster, according to a recent poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey...
LEBANON — In an effort to quickly identify cases of COVID-19 to prevent its spread during an ongoing winter surge, state and federal health...
HAVERHILL — Pressure is mounting against the Haverhill Cooperative School Board following the board’s vote earlier this month to make masks...
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is scheduled to host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Wednesday.The clinic, which is set to run from 9...
WINDSOR — Following a roughly two-hour debate about the merits of a mask mandate at a special meeting last week, the Windsor Selectboard opted to...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — In spite of the recent discovery of the more transmissible omicron variant in the Twin States and as the region’s hospitals...
HANOVER — Dartmouth College is requiring students, faculty and staff to get COVID-19 boosters by the end of next month or within 30 days of...