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PLAINFIELD — The Plainfield highway crew has a COVID-19 outbreak, according to the town’s Facebook page.About half of the town’s crew is out with...
CLAREMONT — Police blocked off entrances to Valley Regional Hospital, evacuated outpatient clinics and turned away people with afternoon...
CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital this week boosted security after it received threatening telephone calls regarding a patient under its care...
The latest COVID-19 surge at Concord Hospital is bringing in patients who are younger than previous surges, more likely to be middle-aged than...
HARTFORD — The cluster of Upper Valley municipalities with indoor mask mandates in place is growing.The Hartford Selectboard adopted an indoor mask...
WOODSVILLE — The Haverhill Cooperative School Board this week dropped almost all mask requirements for students at the district’s three schools...
LEBANON — The Lebanon School Board approved a memorandum of agreement with the district’s teachers on COVID-19 safety last week, but a vaccination...
A Cheshire County adult who was infected while traveling out of state is the first state resident known to have come down with the omicron variant...
HARTFORD — Hartford school officials have announced plans to address stress and strain on teachers, families and administrators amid a challenging...
LEBANON — Amid record-high cases and hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 in the Twin States, visitors for the most part will be barred from...
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health officials pleaded on Wednesday with the roughly 35% of Granite Staters who remain unvaccinated against COVID...
THETFORD — Upper Valley communities are taking mixed approaches to adjusting COVID-19 mitigation measures as numbers of cases and hospitalizations...
LEBANON — COVID-19 walk-in vaccination clinics are scheduled to take place in Lebanon, Canaan and Orford this week.The first is scheduled to take...
This school year was supposed to mark a return to normal after two academic years marred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, Upper Valley teachers...
NEW LONDON — There was hope that this holiday season would be different.After a subdued 2020 that saw holiday craft fairs and in-person...
Plainfield to host vaccine clinic PLAINFIELD — A walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinic for people age 5 and older is scheduled to take place at the...
LEBANON — Citing a “marked increase” in COVID-19 cases, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health said Wednesday it was prepared to pause or limit surgeries that...
Upper Valley ‘Booster Blitz’scheduled for Dec. 11CLAREMONT — Registration is now open for New Hampshire’s “Operation Booster Blitz” on Dec. 11...
CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital reached a new pandemic high over the weekend of 12 inpatients with COVID-19, according to a spokesman.The...
HARTFORD — After a 35-minute discussion, the Selectboard Tuesday night voted 5-2 against requiring that face coverings be worn in indoor spaces...
Granite Staters can now order at-home rapid COVID-19 tests for free through the state’s partnership with the National Institute of Health and...
WOODSTOCK — The elected trustees of Woodstock Village are proud that they acted quickly to mandate mask-wearing in public last year to limit the...
WEATHERSFIELD — The town office will reopen to the public on Monday after being closed for much of the past week after one employee tested positive...
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center this week said it was caring for more than 30 patients with active COVID-19 infections and has...
HARTFORD — Several towns on the Vermont side of the Upper Valley are mulling mask mandates following the Legislature’s approval earlier this week...
BRADFORD, Vt. — Recent COVID-19 cases in Orange County have affected schools and Valley Vista, an addiction treatment center in Bradford.An...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford School Board is considering shortening the school day to reduce the burden on teachers who say the COVID-19...
CLAREMONT — Kathy White, a 67-year-old Charlestown resident, had both shots of a COVID-19 vaccine, followed by a booster, but contracted the virus...
By DAN McCLORY For the Valley News I never thought I would be a COVID-19 statistic. How could I be? For some background, I am a 59-year-old man...
NORWICH — Town buildings are closed to the public, a bake sale has been canceled and several Marion Cross School classes are in quarantine due to...
WEST LEBANON — COVID-19 case counts once again are spiking at nursing homes in the Twin States as cases trend upward in the broader community.This...
BRADFORD, Vt. — Little Rivers Health Care now is offering COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11, the organization announced on Facebook.The...
LEBANON — Registration is now live for COVID-19 vaccine clinics for children ages 5 to 11 set to take place in Lebanon on Saturday.Families of...
Members of the public pleaded with a panel of lawmakers Monday morning to make diametrically opposed recommendations ahead of a slew of coronavirus...
LEBANON — New Hampshire parents looking to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 have a couple of options coming up next week.New...
NEWPORT — Richards Free Library closed on Tuesday due to staff exposure to COVID-19, according to the library’s director.The Newport library “will...
WEST LEBANON — New Hampshire health officials are urging families to be patient in scheduling COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5 to 11...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The White River Junction VA Medical Center is set to begin COVID-19 booster shot clinics next week.The White River Junction...
RANDOLPH — At Gifford Medical Center the record is 24.That’s the number of calls it took Gifford employees to find another hospital to take one...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The White River Junction VA Medical Center plans to open some of its beds to adults in Vermont who need inpatient mental...
WEST LEBANON — COVID-19 booster shots are now available in the Upper Valley and beyond, but the Twin States have taken different approaches to...
NEWPORT — Woodlawn Care Center is now limiting visits to essential purposes due to three recent cases of COVID-19 in employees, according to the...
HANOVER — Dartmouth College has expanded its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to include employees working remotely.Dartmouth already has been requiring...
LEBANON — Upper Valley school officials say staffing issues have hampered their participation in COVID-19 testing programs touted by state leaders...
Before she became a school nurse, Creigh Moffatt imagined that the role would consist of tasks such as doling out bandages and aspirin and testing...
NEWPORT, N.H. — Masks were once again optional at Newport’s middle and high schools on Friday after the School Board declined to continue a...
NEWPORT, N.H. — Newport and Claremont schools both reported new COVID-19 cases in the double digits last week as case counts in the two Sullivan...
The Claremont pop-up testing, which began Monday, is offered through a partnership between the state of New Hampshire and the New London-based...
LEBANON — Cassie Audette’s last day as a part-time chemotherapy compounding technician at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock...
ENFIELD — The Enfield Selectboard is requesting “in the strongest possible terms” that people wear face masks in public.The request came in the...
HANOVER — Dartmouth College has added a week to employees’ holiday break this year in appreciation of their work during the COVID-19 pandemic, its...
NEWPORT — Woodlawn Care Center ended its most recent COVID-19 outbreak last week without any deaths, according to the facility’s administrator.That...
The weather has started getting cold and for some people that means it’s time to turn on more indoor fans.Sounds weird? You bet. But COVID-19 has...
LEBANON — The Carter Community Building Association is requiring that all employees and members over 12 be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov...
Dartmouth College extendswork-from-home period HANOVER — Dartmouth College will continue to allow some employees to work remotely because of the...
LEBANON — It may take a few weeks for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health to provide COVID-19 booster shots, according to an update from the Lebanon-based...
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Springfield schools reopened on Tuesday after being closed the day before amid numerous cases of COVID-19 in the district.The...
NEWPORT, N.H. — School officials are taking steps to deal with a growing number of COVID-19 cases in Newport schools.The Newport School Board voted...
CONCORD — A routine hearing in the Statehouse turned confrontational last week when the state’s health commissioner called out a top Republican...
WEST LEBANON — COVID-19 patients in the Upper Valley may come away from the ordeal of treatment with very different medical bills, depending on...