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Kacey Knight says she typically hears two kinds of reactions from people when they learn she’s a supervisor on the “kill floor” at Vermont Packinghouse slaughterhouse in North Springfield, Vt.“It’s either ‘Oh, really?’ or ‘I don’t want hear about...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

For decades, Walmart had a hokey-but-warm tradition of greeting customers at the front door.The greeters have been phased out. Now the gates are being phased in.In a sign of our insecure times, Walmart’s West Lebanon store wants to install electronic...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Call it a healthy sign in how digital technology is reshaping Vermont’s economy. Or call it another dispiriting example in how making a real product just doesn’t count as much anymore.Either way, I don’t see it as something to cheer about.Airbnb is...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The Lindt Chocolate Shop off Route 12A will close on Jan. 29.Sarah Luhmann, property manager at Powerhouse Mall, said Lindt’s closing coincides with the store’s lease expiring at the end of the month.Stratham, N.H.-based Lindt &...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

It is, White River Valley residents attest, a small country store. And yet, as an august statesman said of another beloved local institution, there are those who love it.Sharon residents are talking about the Sharon Trading Post, the general store and...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The nearly empty lot of cars at White River Hyundai on Sykes Mountain Avenue in White River Junction has had people wondering what’s up with the auto dealership.Now we know.Owner Rick MacLeay had been mum on the subject but last week disclosed to me...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The Kmart store in West Lebanon might not seem special, but it has a singular status.With the recent announcement about stores slated for closing, the Kmart on Route 12A in West Lebanon will soon be the sole remaining Kmart in New Hampshire, Vermont...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — An 800-pound gorilla has weighed in on Hanover’s property assessment controversy, providing new ammunition to critics who argue the town’s 2018 revaluation was riddled with faulty calculations that confusingly raised some homeowners’...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Two days after Sean Taylor opened his new barbershop in Hanover, customer appointments for haircuts already were double-booked, thanks to a glitch in the online software program.Taylor has been a barber in the Upper Valley for only four years. But in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The Bridgewater Mill has survived fire, the collapse of New England’s manufacturing economy, at least two devastating floods, insolvency and a misguided attempt to turn it into a shopping mall.Now it faces a new existential threat: warring tenants who...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Emily Landecker’s name is not a familiar one in the Upper Valley, and the legacy established in her honor has been shrouded in secrecy.But the Emily Landecker Foundation has had a profound impact in the region as the source of funding for the Upper...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ENFIELD — The Montcalm Golf Club has changed hands for the second time in less than a year after a West Lebanon native and his wife who owned half the property acquired the remaining 50% interest.Chuck Currier, a 1970 Lebanon High School graduate and...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A 5½-year-old Upper Valley digital startup that has become a major player in helping national employers find job candidates has sold a majority stake in the company to a German media giant for $79 million.Appcast, which employs 30 people at...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The dry spell in Upper Valley dry cleaning should soon be over.New London Cleaners will replace the former Kleen dry cleaners on Lebanon Street in Hanover across from the Black Family Visual Arts Center, filling the need for a dry cleaner...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Laundry service Kleen, which earlier this month closed its dry cleaning stores, will also shut down its commercial laundry service Friday, ending more than a century in Lebanon, leaving hospitals scrambling to find a replacement to process...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Randolph would appear to have all the basics a small town in central Vermont would need. With a population of only 4,700, it is home to at least three manufacturing companies, a college, a performing arts center, a downtown movie theater, a hospital,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — WinCycle, the Windsor nonprofit that sells refurbished laptops for a fraction of the cost, has been sold to a New Hampshire e-waste collector and will close its Main Street store this summer.But the service WinCycle provides is not entirely...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Anyone who has ever dreamed of running their own country inn can now pick up one — or both — of two luxury historic inns in the Upper Valley for bargain-basement prices.The Windsor Mansion Inn in Windsor, which last year was put up for sale...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — It probably doesn’t mean the New York Yankees are going to move spring training to the Upper Valley, but an executive with the team is tied to ownership of a historic inn and restaurant in town that is on the market.Tony Bruno, chief...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When brothers Allen and Charlie Hall followed their father into the family’s Ford dealership business in 1975, Ford’s midsize Granada sedan was the hot new car on the market, gas was 57 cents at the pump and New England Ford...