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By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — A section of Gates Street might be reopened to vehicle traffic after years of closure should voters approve a $4 million highway improvement bond to stabilize retaining walls in the area.The project, which involves parts of Fairview Terrace...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

WEST LEBANON — Phone and internet services were unavailable or disrupted for many Upper Valley town offices, businesses and customers on Tuesday morning.Some customers of Consolidated Communications, an Illinois-based broadband company, lost internet...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LYME — Edgell Bridge, a historic covered bridge on River Road in Lyme, will close next Wednesday, Oct. 23, for repairs that are expected to take about four months to complete.The closure comes as Lyme residents — and commuters — are already contending...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health Advanced Response Team, or DHART, will expand with a recent $6.7 million donation. The money will cover three phases of improvements, including purchasing new vehicles, developing an EMT certification program and...

By ALEX CERVANTES

The Dartmouth football team is off to its best start since 2021 following a thrilling 44-43 overtime victory over Yale on Saturday. The win, which saw coach Sammy McCorkle’s squad overcome a 23-point deficit in the third quarter to manufacture the...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Two Dartmouth research teams are set to receive a combined sum of up to nearly $3.6 million in grant funding to spur innovations in pandemic preparedness and vaccine generation.The two research teams — one led by David Leib, chairman and...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST WINDSOR — West Windsor has become the latest Upper Valley town to approve a short-term rental ordinance.The ordinance requires short-term rental operators to apply for licenses through the town and pay yearly fees; it does not place a cap on the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

PERKINSVILLE — The Perkinsville Community Church will resume church services this Sunday for the first time since March 2022 when a plaster ceiling collapsed in the church’s sanctuary.This Sunday at 5 p.m., the red brick church — located at 35 Church...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — A connector road between Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Sachem Village, a Dartmouth graduate student housing community, is under discussion by city officials once again.As proposed, the limited-access road would create a shortcut...

By ALEX CERVANTES

BURLINGTON — Late in the afternoon on Thursday, with a gaggle of onlookers gathered adjacent to the 18th green at Burlington Country Club, Hartford’s Rowan Irvine stood over a short putt for par. The sophomore needed to sink it. Having already torn...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — The School Board this week acknowledged a “procedural glitch” in the non-public session of a June meeting, but denied that it violated the Vermont  Open Meeting Law when it negotiated and signed a severance agreement with the district’s...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEW LONDON — While some people are choosing Halloween costumes and carving pumpkins, many older adults and people with disabilities are shopping for Medicare coverage.Ahead of the Medicare open enrollment period, which begins Tuesday, supplemental...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — The Selectboard appointed Robert Houseman to the permanent town manager position earlier this week.Prior to Monday’s appointment, which was effective immediately, Houseman had served as interim town manager since Aug. 1. He replaced former...

By ALEX CERVANTES

ETNA — Fresh off the program’s first appearance at the National Collegiate Equestrian Association nationals tournament, Dartmouth’s equestrian team opened its 2024-25 campaign with an 8-2 win over Sewanee on Sunday at Morton Farm.“”We’ve been working...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTLAND — Born in Hanover and raised on a family farm in Hartland, Victor Ambros said his early life prepared him for life as a scientist.“Farmers are do-it-yourself-ers,” said Ambros, now 70, in a phone interview on Monday. “I learned from my father...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The estate of a Cornish Flat man who was fatally shot by a friend’s son when he showed up at their home in Woodstock is suing the mother for financial damages.The civil suit alleges that the mother knew her 45-year-old son had a gun and...

By ALEX CERVANTES

ORFORD — Rivendell girls soccer coach Jason Knowles doesn’t want the regular season to end. In a perfect world, the first-year coach could prolong it. He could manufacture a little more time to capture every bit of magic this group of 17 girls has to...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — During multiple site visits to Lebanon Center in July and August, U.S. regulators reported finding  21 “deficiencies,” where the nursing home failed to meet federal health and safety standards.The deficiencies include administering...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vermont’s trails — like many others throughout the country — saw increased use and interest.As organizations examined how to make trails more durable for that use, another conversation started to gain...

By ALEX CERVANTES

How do you honor the legacy of a man whose impact on the field, on the game at-large, on a school, on a community, is so profound and far reaching? That’s the question Dartmouth has been asking itself in the 365 days and counting since longtime coach...

By ALEX CERVANTES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When Hartford and Woodstock meet on the pitch, the game means just a little bit more.To say the two teams are quite familiar with one another is probably an understatement. Leanne Tapley, the Wasps’ coach, and Heather Scudder,...