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By TIM CAMERATO

WEST LEBANON — A developer’s plans to build a combination of single-family homes and duplexes near Route 10 in West Lebanon were scaled back by city officials who worried this week that the project was too densely configured.Jeff Shapiro, the owner of...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

NEWPORT — A former Valley Regional Hospital doctor who voluntarily disclosed his relationship with a patient has taken a plea deal that will allow him to get his medical license back and avoid the sex offender registry.Eric Lee Knight, 53, of Derry,...

By JOHN P. GREGG

CONCORD — Two former Dartmouth College students who accidentally started a fire that gutted a 67-bed dormitory in 2016 do not have to reimburse the college’s insurance company for the resulting $4.5 million claim, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Lebanon High School baseball coach resigned after he was charged this week with assaulting his wife with a bat and breaking four of her ribs, according to court documents.Travis Pelletier, 35, of Hartford, pleaded not guilty...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 37-year-old Hartford man has pleaded not guilty to charges he stole over $10,000 from the Reading Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization while he served as treasurer.Wade Mullins was arraigned on two counts of...

By PETE NAKOS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WOODSTOCK — Starting on Monday, tourists and commuters will again have to pay $1 an hour to park in the heart of the village of Woodstock during the day. But now they’ll have more choices on how to do so.The village has replaced its notoriously...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

ROYALTON — More than a year after a suspicious fire burned through Eaton’s Sugar House on a Halloween night, little remains of the landmark restaurant at the corner of Route 107 and 14, on the banks of the White River.A large, charred stone fireplace...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Bundled in snow pants and a thick knitted hat, Scott Alexander stepped over the wet leaves that lined the remote woods along the train tracks and moved through the trees before stopping in front of a small white hut. “Sorry...

By TIM CAMERATO

LEBANON — The City Council approved a $61.1 million budget for the coming year that preserves the energy and facilities manager position championed by sustainability advocates that had been in danger of being eliminated.The spending plan will come as...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

CONCORD — A former Fortune 500 executive from Sunapee who drove across the median on Interstate 89 in Lebanon seven years ago, killing a pregnant woman and her fiancé, has been granted parole following an emotional hearing Thursday.Robert Dellinger,...

By ALEX HANSON

LEBANON — The Civil Rights Unit of the state Attorney General’s Office has reached a settlement with The Fort@Exit 18, the Lebanon truck stop diner charged in 2018 with employment discrimination and creating a hostile work environment.Juan Smart, who...

By TIM CAMERATO

LEBANON — A Massachusetts developer recently given the go-ahead to build 250 market-rate apartments on Mount Support Road geared to hospital workers says he hopes to begin construction next summer, if not sooner, now that the project has won support...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WINDSOR — The Mount Ascutney School District Board this week affirmed its decision to fire Windsor School Principal Tiffany Riley following a Facebook post she made that was seen as critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, calling the post...

By ALEX HANSON

HANOVER — Varujan Boghosian, the puckish artist who mined the castoffs of material culture to assemble works both powerful and whimsical, died Monday at his home in Hanover. He was 94.He had suffered a broken hip last week and died of complications...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

CANAAN — A 40-year-old Canaan man plans to plead guilty to multiple child pornography charges after police found thousands of sexually explicit images of children on digital memory cards he owned, according to court documents.Last week, a Grafton...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon’s compensation totaled $1.5 million in 2018, an increase of 5% over the prior year, according to the college’s most recent tax filing.Hanlon, however, was not the college’s highest-paid employee that...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health President and CEO Joanne Conroy was paid at least $300,000 less than her predecessor in her first full year leading the Lebanon-based health care system, even though she helped balance its books after it lost money...

By JOHN P. GREGG

LEBANON — Mink, the black bear sow who roamed, charmed and at times chewed through neighborhoods in Hanover and Lebanon with several litters of cubs, has died, authorities said on Tuesday.Her body was found Tuesday morning near the Mascoma River in...

By JOHN P. GREGG

SOUTH ROYALTON — The Vermont Law School Board of Trustees has given an artist 90 days to remove a controversial mural depicting slavery before the school itself will remove it.The decision, announced Friday evening after the board met that day, varied...