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THETFORD — Selectboard member Li Shen was among those who voted for the town to accept the donation of the Timothy Frost Methodist Church in October 2018.

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LEBANON — Motorists stopped their cars on Mechanic Street Friday morning to investigate the damage an overnight fire caused to the popular Dairy Twirl ice cream shop.

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WEST LEBANON — The theme of the Vermont Legislature’s 2025 session, which begins Wednesday, Jan. 8, could be change.Republicans now hold more Senate and House seats than they have in two decades, upsetting the Democratic supermajority. Legislators on...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Eighteen chronically homeless community members have found a home on Hartford Avenue.The 18 one-bedroom apartments, which first opened this fall and were developed by the White River Junction-based nonprofit Twin Pines, are now...

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HARTFORD — The town is recruiting for a new housing and development specialist in an effort to support residential growth and to reduce the workload of current employees.Recent updates to the housing and economic development chapters of the Town Plan...

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HANOVER — Susan Cohen first moved to Mitchell Lane in Hanover in 1975 with her three children, having never previously owned a car or a house.“She just picked us up out of some sense that it would be better for us out of Manhattan and in Hanover,”...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College Child Care Center employees voted to unionize this week, a little more than a week after the college announced it had dropped plans to pursue partnering with a for-profit child care provider to operate the center.On...

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CLAREMONT — One resident of Marion Phillips apartments suffered non-life threatening injuries in a Wednesday evening fire at the 96-unit affordable housing complex.Golden Cross Ambulance transported the injured resident of the apartments located at...

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SOUTH ROYALTON — After more than three decades as an educator in the Upper Valley, the principal of White River Valley High School has announced plans to retire at the end of the current school year.Jeff Thomas, 59, sent his letter of resignation to...

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HANOVER — Two recent additions to the downtown dining scene bring fresh flavors and old favorites.A building located at 15 Lebanon St. in Hanover is now home to Little Havana, a Cuban restaurant, while a previous tenant of the space has opened a tapas...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A couple facing health challenges is fighting their landlord in court for the right to stay at their Demers Avenue apartment because they have nowhere else to go.Bob Stange, 85, and Cindy Anne Packard-Stange, 65, have lived in...

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LEBANON — The planned opening of the emergency winter shelter this month has been delayed due to staffing shortages, leaving homeless community members with few warm places to stay at night.Upper Valley Haven, the nonprofit that operates the shelter...

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FAIRLEE — Developers are using Vermont’s Rental Revolving Loan Fund to build new workforce housing in the Upper Valley.The $10 million state-funded program, which began accepting applications in March, was created as part of the Housing Opportunities...

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TUNBRIDGE — Community members have rallied around two longtime residents who lost their home of nearly 30 years in an early-morning fire last week.As of Monday afternoon, more than $56,000 had been raised to rebuild the Monarch Hill Road house of Lisa...

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BETHEL — Interim Fire Chief Geary Coogler, who “managed to pull off the miracle” of leading the department during a tumultuous period has resigned, along with Assistant Fire Chief Greg Timmins.The resignations went into effect Sunday. The Selectboard...

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NORWICH — After years of temporary fixes, the Selectboard is seeking a long-term solution to prevent a contaminant from leaking from the deck of Moore Lane Bridge into Bloody Brook.During paving at some point, the timber on the bridge deck was treated...

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MERIDEN — To owner Angela Toms, Mill Bridge Farm is a “4-H project gone right.”Toms, a physician, and her husband, Chris Forman, a software engineer, built the barn that houses 11 Guernsey cows in 2018, after their four children joined 4-H and got...

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NORWICH — The Selectboard has rejected a resident’s claim that it violated Vermont’s open meeting law when it met behind close doors last month to discuss making changes to Town Manager Brennan Duffy’s contract.In Thursday’s special meeting, the board...

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LEBANON — Thomas Kurtz, a Dartmouth math professor, legend in the field of computer science, and founder of a local bridge club, died at the age of 96 last week.Kurtz is most well known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the first...

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NORWICH — The Selectboard will hold an special meeting on Thursday to respond to a resident’s complaint alleging the board violated Vermont’s open meeting laws when it amended Town Manger Brennan Duffy’s contract last month.Kris Clement’s complaint,...

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LYME — By 11:45 a.m. on Friday, about a dozen cars, one motorcycle and a bicyclist were lined up on both sides of the Lyme-Thetford bridge to cross as it opened at noon.About a dozen Thetford and Lyme residents were on hand to celebrate the reopening...