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WEST LEBANON — COVID-19 vaccination efforts continue in the Twin States with both states expanding to include public vaccine clinics at Walgreens...
COVID-19 has crippled and toppled many businesses, most notably restaurants, hospitality and retail shops.Yet a handful of Upper Valley enterprises...
Renée Epler has been a nurse for 24 years. During that time, she’s worked in hospital settings ranging from critical care to oncology, emergency...
In early January, some health care providers reported that a third of their staff were opting out of the COVID-19 vaccine, a number concerning to...
HANOVER — A resident of Kendal at Hanover died this week after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a spokesman for the senior living...
UNITY — A fifth resident of the Sullivan County nursing home has died after testing positive for COVID-19 during an ongoing outbreak at the...
HANOVER — As potentially more infectious variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 arrive in the U.S. from the United Kingdom, South Africa and...
HANOVER — Dartmouth College plans to hold an in-person commencement on campus in June this year, but attendance will be limited to graduating...
Some state-run COVID-19 vaccination and testing sites will be closed Tuesday in the wake of a major snowstorm that’s expected to migrate through...
WINDSOR — A COVID-19 outbreak at the Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community included 23 people as of Monday morning, an uptick of a couple of cases...
QUECHEE — Like most Vermonters under the age of 75, Allene Swienckowski is still waiting for her turn to be vaccinated against COVID-19.In addition...
UNITY — Four residents have now died at a Sullivan County nursing home in a COVID-19 outbreak that has grown to be the largest in the Upper Valley...
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Moderna determined that 860 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine stored at Springfield Hospital are “effective and safe for use...
Judy and Joseph Perez were told they did everything right.When the registration portal opened at 8 a.m Friday morning, they immediately logged in...
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Springfield Hospital canceled a COVID-19 vaccination clinic scheduled for Wednesday morning after a monitor belonging to the...
UNITY — Deaths continue to climb amid COVID-19 outbreaks in Upper Valley long-term care facilities.Three residents have now died in an outbreak at...
The questions usually start in the fall: When will the Girl Scout Cookies arrive?This year was no different, with some Upper Valley Scouts finding...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Vermont Department of Health began allowing people 75 and older to schedule appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations on...
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce has named the whole community as its 2020 person of the year. “All of you...
CLAREMONT — Two top officials from Claremont have signed a letter from mayors and school leaders around New Hampshire aimed at ensuring public...
CLAREMONT — Running his own eatery has been Rocky Beliveau’s ambition since he was a teenager, when he got his first job as a busboy at Dusty’s...
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is using its electronic medical record system to let New Hampshire health officials know which patients are...
MONTPELIER — The state will debut a website and phone number Monday morning for Vermonters age 75 and older to register for COVID-19 vaccine...
CONCORD — Registration for the next phase of New Hampshire’s coronavirus vaccination plan got off to a quick start Friday, with more than 70,000...
WINDSOR — After testing positive for COVID-19, a man over the age of 90 in the memory center at the Village at Cedar Hill died on Wednesday and...
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Two students at the Weathersfield School tested positive for COVID-19 late last week, according to the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union...
WINDSOR — A COVID-19 outbreak at the Village at Cedar Hill has grown to include 17 people, including 10 residents and six workers at the Judith...
Ashley Hudson, co-owner of Four Seasons Care Home, found out at 4 p.m. on Nov. 10 that a staff member had tested positive for Covid.In less than...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Listen Community Services has temporarily closed its two Vermont stores at least through February due to declining revenues,...
In the three weeks since Christmas Eve, Vermont has had 2,769 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s worst three weeks since the pandemic began...
WINDSOR — More retirement communities in the Upper Valley are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks.At the Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community on Route...
New Hampshire’s 400-member Legislature took up a pandemic-era experiment last week, meeting in a UNH parking lot in staggered spaces for a socially...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Public health officials in both states say they are gearing up to begin vaccinating older adults in coming weeks as part of...
WEST LEBANON — Federal officials are warning residents in Vermont and New Hampshire to watch out for a new type of scam related to COVID-19...
UNITY — An outbreak at Sullivan County nursing home in Unity has grown to include 35 people, including 21 residents and 14 employees, said Ted...
CONCORD — For months, a panel of New Hampshire’s foremost doctors, public health scientists, nurses, and state officials debated and developing a...
WINDSOR — A residential care home and two schools in the Windsor area have cases of COVID-19, and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center is adding...
UNITY — COVID-19 cases at senior living facilities in the Upper Valley continue to climb.An outbreak at Sullivan County Health Care in Unity has...
LEBANON — Logistical and legal hurdles surrounding Town Meeting procedures have led at least two Upper Valley communities to schedule in-person...
HANOVER — The Hanover Improvement Society will not allow hockey games to be held at Campion Rink through the month of January.The HIS, which owns...
Natalie Sinkew has worked her way through more word searches than she can count in her weeks of bedridden isolation at Queen City Nursing &...
CLAREMONT — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced another 711 new COVID-19 cases across the state...
The numbersNew Hampshire health officials announced 797 new cases of COVID-19 and an additional seven virus-related deaths Sunday, bringing the...
Sullivan County Health Care on Friday said seven residents have tested positive and are in the Stearns 3 section of the nursing home at the county...
CLAREMONT — The Claremont School Board voted to shift to remote learning through next Friday amid an increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the...
HANOVER — Dartmouth College has 24 current cases of COVID-19, including 22 students on campus or elsewhere in the Upper Valley and two employees...
HANOVER — Melissa Herman, who teaches in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, took to the Upper Valley (VT/NH...
CLAREMONT — Claremont Middle School dismissed classes Wednesday morning and will remain in remote learning mode until Monday after officials...
CLAREMONT — More than 20 residents of an 80-unit subsidized apartment complex for seniors have tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said...
More than 50 inmates at New Hampshire’s largest jail have tested positive for the coronavirus, and officials are still awaiting results for an...
Vermont says it will not prioritize frontline workers for the next stage of vaccination, bucking federal guidelines and frustrating workers who...
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center had two dozen patients with COVID-19 in the hospital on Monday, the most the Lebanon hospital has seen...
MERIDEN — Who in the past 10 months hasn’t dreamed of floating away, above the pandemic gloom and to a soft landing in a sunnier, happier place? A...
As sports fans, we will gauge 2020 by the volume of things lost.March 11 will live most in infamy. As Lebanon and Hanover got ready for an NHIAA...
UNITY — Three employees at Sullivan County Health Care have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the nursing home’s administrator. All three,...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Veterans in their 80s, 90s and and even age 102 rolled up their sleeves to receive the first of two doses of the Moderna...
Vermont will distribute future vaccinations for COVID-19 by age group with special consideration given to people with underlying health conditions,...
HANOVER — Dartmouth College is projecting that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a $91 million impact on its fiscal year 2021 budget, but that budget...
WOODSTOCK — So far in this pandemic year, Alita Wilson has taken advantage of nearly every form of federal and state aid available to Pentangle...