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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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HANOVER — Contractors digging a culvert at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory have unearthed animal carcasses and black trash bags. The origin of the carcasses are unknown; the property was formerly owned by Dartmouth College.So far,...

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WOODSTOCK — Town staff and members of the Woodstock Selectboard will be holding recurring weekly meetings to discuss their proposal to purchase the Woodstock Aqueduct Co.The Selectboard and Municipal Manager Eric Duffy announced a two-step plan to...

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LEBANON — Developers of a multi-family housing project in downtown Lebanon are seeking the city’s approval to decrease the size of the project and include an additional parking lot. The request comes as another nearby housing project also struggles to...

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LEBANON — The smokestack towering over the historic Rivermill building off Mechanic Street is currently encased in green netting as work begins to demolish the structure that some consider a visual symbol of Lebanon’s history.The Lebanon Planning and...

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WOODSTOCK — Officials at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park are asking visitors to report any unusual sightings or interactions with animals after an aggressive fox, who is suspected to have rabies, has approached visitors at the...

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WOODSTOCK — The Selectboard is scheduled to meet Wednesday night to approve a town-wide vote next month where residents will be asked to approve the purchase of the town’s private water supplier, Woodstock Aqueduct Co.At an informational meeting on...

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WEST LEBANON — Two climate-focused committees in Hartford and Lebanon are working to install new chargers for electric vehicles. Seven electric vehicle charging stations will be installed in a parking lot on South Main Street in White River Junction;...

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CLAREMONT — After a para-educator unexpectedly died at Maple Avenue Elementary School early Monday morning, students were sent home for the day.The para-educator died suddenly before the school day began, according to an email sent from SAU 6 to the...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A nonprofit is petitioning the town of Hartford to install an outdoor vending machine that will offer the overdose-reversal medication naloxone and other health resources 24 hours a day.Good Neighbor Health Clinic — a White...

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CONCORD — A federal judge sentenced a former office manager of The Dartmouth student newspaper to the maximum possible sentence of 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Monday after the woman pleaded guilty to embezzling over...

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GRANTHAM — The Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust has purchased the 151-acre Byron Barton Woods in Grantham.The newly conserved property is protected from future development and is now open to the public. Trails may be built and connected to the...

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WEST LEBANON — For some in the Upper Valley, the scariest thing about this Halloween season is that there is not a Spirit Halloween store in the area; few options remain for costumes and holiday decorations.The national costume chain pops up around...

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WEST LEBANON — Lebanon City Councilor Karen Liot Hill earned the Democratic nomination for the District 2 Executive Council seat in primary voting on Tuesday.Liot Hill garnered a little more than 17,000 votes, or 56%, besting New London resident Mike...

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NORTH HAVERHILL — Orchards around the Twin States have plentiful crops, following a tough season last year when many growers lost large portions of their apples, due to a late spring frost.In North Haverhill, Windy Ridge Orchards lost 80% of its apple...

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CANAAN — Canaan Hardware and Supply received a federal grant to install a solar array that is expected to save the business nearly $10,000 annually.The $56,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program for the...

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LYME — The New Hampshire Department of Safety will hold a public hearing in Lyme next week in response to a petition to establish a no-wake zone on Post Pond. The hearing on Thursday will be at 9 a.m. at the Lyme School, where representatives from the...