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STRAFFORD — In approving town and school budgets and electing officials, voters might have been doing so for the last time at a traditional Town Meeting.Packed into Strafford’s celebrated Town House, residents opted to make all of their future town...

By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH ROYALTON — A sparse turnout of Bethel and Royalton voters didn’t have much to say at the annual White River Valley Unified School District meeting until after they’d approved all of the business in front of them.After adopting a budget of nearly...

By ALEX HANSON

ROYALTON — The Selectboard decided to put on the Town Meeting warning a proposal to hire a town manager.But the best way to pursue moving to the town manager form of government would be to vote it down, voters and town officials said at Tuesday...

By ALEX HANSON

Around 18 months ago, John Stomberg pitched the idea of curating a show at AVA Gallery and Art Center as part of AVA’s 50th anniversary year.It was not the kind of pitch AVA staff had to puzzle over. Stomberg, director of Dartmouth College’s Hood...

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NORWICH — A change in how Vermont funds public education will lead to a big tax increase in Norwich.Act 127, approved last year, assigns greater weight to students in poverty or who are learning English as a second language.According to a study that...

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CORNISH — After almost two years of study and debate, voters here will be able to weigh in on whether to accept the gift of a new, more accessible library at Town Meeting.Representatives of the town’s library trustees and the Connect Cornish...

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Two longtime Upper Valley performers are each bringing to the stage productions that are departures from their past work.First, on Friday evening, Alan Haehnel opens My Ode to Joy — a performance of spoken-word poetry mixed with music — at Parish...

By ALEX HANSON

In meetings Wednesday, officials with the Hanover, Norwich and Dresden school districts considered cuts to budgets that will come up for approval by the districts’ boards in the next two weeks.Those discussions revealed two communities facing very...

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BETHEL — A house fire early Tuesday morning claimed the lives of a Bethel couple.Neighbors identified the residents of 2937 Christian Hill Road, Davis Dimock and Victoria Weber, both in their 70s, as victims of the fire.Fire personnel were called to...

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HANOVER — In certain respects, Julia Griffin’s career in municipal government has unspooled backward, as she worked from New York City, through Santa Monica, Calif., then Concord, to a long career in Hanover, where she started work in 1996, and from...

By ALEX HANSON

For weeks, Andrew Schain tried to find someone to run the Public House Diner, a classic diner in Quechee that he’s been leasing since 2017. His posts on Facebook were frequent and plaintive.“Everything you need to open is here,” he wrote on May 4, the...

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CROYDON — Nearly 60% of Croydon’s registered voters filled the vast dining hall at Camp Coniston to standing-room-only capacity on Saturday and reinstated the small town’s $1.7 million school budget.The vote count was 377-2, and its announcement by...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like any creature just getting its legs under it, electronic music had a wobbly start.Composers worked on cumbersome analog machines and recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. Concerts often consisted of composers placing a reel...

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LYME — The Lyme School District has hired John D’Entremont to lead the Lyme School.D’Entremont, who has been principal of Lebanon Middle School since 2017, will take over in Lyme on July 1. The Lyme School Board voted to hire him on Saturday and he...

By ALEX HANSON

Though she remains in contact with friends who have fled Ukraine, Anastasia Rivet can take in only so much information about the war there.One family she knows has split up, with the husband staying to fight and his wife and two daughters enduring a...

By ALEX HANSON

BRADFORD, Vt. — Bert Dodson, an influential artist and illustrator who spent the bulk of his prolific career in the Upper Valley, has died at the age of 83.A draftsman of daunting skill, Dodson asserted that drawing, and art-making in general, is...

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Since its founding in 1945, Post Mills Airport has changed hands only a few times, most recently in 1988, when Brian Boland acquired it.And since its founding, the small grass airstrip has been privately held.Boland’s death in a July 15 hot air...

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RUTLAND — A federal judge has granted Vermont Law School’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an artist whose murals the law school wants to hide behind a wall.But lawyers for artist Sam Kerson said he will appeal this week’s ruling by U.S....

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At tonight’s First Friday receptions in White River Junction, a pair of recently opened galleries will do something local art viewers don’t often see.Both Tourist, a gallery on South Main Street that opened in January, and Kishka Gallery & Library,...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the past few years, Ben Finer and Bevan Dunbar have been mulling over what they would want an art gallery to look like.At first, they considered opening a gallery in a room of their Hartford Village apartment, which would...