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BETHEL — Bethel voters will be asked to approve a $2.5 million bond for upgrades to the municipal water system at this year’s Town Meeting.The need is wide-ranging, including improvements to aging water mains, replacement of the Gaiko Well House, and...

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NORTH THETFORD — Three weeks ago, the Uladovskyi family landed in the United States among skyscrapers, their wheels touching down at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.But flying from Poland, they were bound for the...

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LEBANON — Wells in portions of Canaan and Enfield have a high chance of containing unsafe levels of radon, a radioactive gas, according to a new study from the United States Geological Survey. Areas of Hanover and Lebanon are also at an elevated risk,...

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HANOVER — With warm days invading the middle of February, Upper Valley towns are planning to post their seasonally treacherous roads earlier than usual.Among the communities that will begin prohibiting vehicles over six tons from driving on some or...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This week’s warmer weather might be welcome after an historic cold snap in the Upper Valley. But residences and businesses continue to suffer a deluge of burst pipes as temperature extremes take their toll on the area’s water...

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LEBANON — Fiercely cold temperatures will bear down on the Upper Valley starting Thursday night, an “arctic blast” that is forecasted to last into Sunday. Officials urge caution as strong, frigid winds will knock temperatures far below zero on...

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TUNBRIDGE — In a legal dispute turning into a legal saga, a second complaint has been filed against the Town of Tunbridge. Pitting landowners against a municipality, the filing follows the dismissal of a first lawsuit brought by the same plaintiffs...

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WINDSOR — As the mercury falls, Barby Shambo, a cook at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, has her rides to her job in the kitchen sorted for the week. Shambo normally treks to work 30 minutes by foot, but now she’s picked up right at her house...

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EAST CORINTH — The mid-December snowstorm was a head fake at Northeast Slopes, which bills itself as the “oldest continuously operating ski slope” in the country.“That snow groomed out nicely,” said Wade Pierson, ski program coordinator at the...

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LEBANON — Four Upper Valley communities are poised to be in the initial group of local governments receiving their electricity from the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire.The nonprofit is set up in a way to pool the buying power of...

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Dartmouth College junior Valeria Pereira Quintero grew up in Houston, where she rarely pursued outdoor recreational activities.But since coming to the Upper Valley, the 21-year-old Hispanic woman has made the outdoors another home, in large part...

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HARTFORD — Wet, warm weather has halted logging work in the Hartford Town Forest since last week. For now, trails in the harvested section of the forest are littered with woody debris from the paused harvest-in-progress.A.J. Follensbee, forester for...

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NORWICH — By two wheels or by four, travelers in bikes and cars ventured to five farms across the town Saturday for an outing hosted by the Norwich Historical Society.Self-guided audio tour Feast from the Farms took over 80 participants to working...

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HANOVER — Standing at the end of Tuck Drive, between the Tuck Business School and the Thayer School of Engineering, is Dartmouth’s commitment to energy research. In 2015, when the college expressed interest in creating an institute focused on the...

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HANOVER — In two weeks, Luke Cuomo will be leaving his home on Long Island to begin classes at Yale Law School in Connecticut. But this weekend he’s stopping by Hanover for an experience he should have had two years ago.Dartmouth College hosted a...

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WOODSTOCK — Three Democrats, including the woman who could become Vermont’s youngest senator, are running for the party’s nomination to the three state Senate seats representing Windsor County.Becca White, of Hartford, is campaigning alongside...

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HARTLAND — A proposal for a new “traditional Vermont farm outlet store” just off Interstate 91 has sparked questions about the future of commercial growth in Hartland as well as conversation among the town’s residents.Last month, a Florida development...

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HANOVER — Gab Smith understands both sides of the conversation surrounding legacy students and Black students at the nation’s elite colleges and universities.A senior at Dartmouth College, Smith is a Black legacy student. Her mother, Tracey...