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WOODSTOCK — One particular phrase was often invoked by friends to describe artist Peggy Kannenstine.“She was a force to be reckoned with,” said Kannenstine’s longtime friend Linda Smiddy, explaining the phrase was not to be understood in a coercive...

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THETFORD — They entered to pods and COVID and exited to pomp and circumstance: The past four years had not been easy for the senior class of Thetford Academy, but their graduation on cooling Friday evening was a time to remember, express gratitude and...

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NEWPORT — A 52-year-old Cornish woman has pleaded guilty to involvement with a Medicaid fraud scheme and will spend three weeks behind bars for providing false information to a grand jury weighing charges in the case.Kimberly Patterson, of Beechwood...

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NORTH HAVERHILL — The town of Hanover and its police department must release the arrest records of two Dartmouth students who were taken into custody on campus last year when staging a protest, a state court judge has ruled.Grafton County Superior...

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CHARLESTOWN — A morning fire at a residence in Charlestown claimed the lives of two people as state emergency personnel continued to respond at the scene throughout the day.Crews were called to a residence on Crown Point Drive shortly before 7 a.m. on...

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HANOVER — Elaine Georgakopoulos doesn’t know how many pizzas she’s made in her life.“I couldn’t even guess,” she laughs when asked. “I know it’s a lot.”A lot, indeed.Georgakopoulos and her family’s pizza parlor, C & A Pizza, has been dishing out its...

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BURLINGTON — A Cavendish, Vt., man with a lengthy criminal history in Vermont who bolted out of the emergency room at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and drove off with an idling hospital shuttle van that was parked outside pleaded guilty to...

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NEWPORT — When a caravan of police vehicles descended early one morning last week upon a dilapidated red brick home behind a leaning, broken fence and overgrown weeds in the yard it did not take long for the public to take notice and assume...

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HARTFORD — A Hartford man will be held without bail after police sealed off and issued a shelter-in-place advisory at a residential complex when the man allegedly threatened to shoot officers and burn down his condo building during a domestic incident...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A 57-year-old Vermont man who told police that he “had just run out of gas and needed some,” caused an environmental headache when he used an axe to puncture a truck’s gas tank to drain it so he could refuel a stolen recreational vehicle he...

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CHELSEA — A Strafford man who set the cabin where he was living ablaze after police failed to respond to his repeated calls of distress is free and received a fully suspended prison sentence as part of plea deal on a reduced arson charge.Edward...

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WEST LEBANON — Police on Monday retrieved the body of a missing Dartmouth College graduate student from the Connecticut River in Windsor, nearly 16 miles downriver from where her e-bike was last seen leaning against a picnic table in a parking lot...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Vermont man who was one of four men — and one of only two still living — involved in a drug dispute and violent robbery attempt in Springfield, Vt., two years ago has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges...

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WEST LEBANON — Police retrieved a body they identified as that of a missing Dartmouth College graduate student from the Connecticut River in Windsor on Monday evening.Authorities found the body of Kexin Cai, 26, of West Lebanon, a graduate student in...

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CONCORD — The New Hampshire Supreme Court denied a Hanover resident and former Keene State professor’s appeal to overturn his conviction on child pornography charges, holding that evidence in the case supported the trial court’s guilty verdict issued...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The theft was worthy of a Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mystery: In the dark, early morning hours on a calm November morning in 1983 a pair of agile thieves used ladders and ropes to ascend the rooftop of the train depot in White...

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CONCORD — A Claremont couple has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud, seven months after being indicted on charges of submitting more than $40,000 in false mileage reimbursement for travel to treatment programs.Sarah LaPointe, 29, pleaded guilty in...

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WEST LEBANON — Spring is here and the Route 12A shopping plazas will be blooming with new retail businesses.Cold Stone Creamery and Planet Smoothie are in the works to open at Powerhouse Plaza, the latest national chains to stake out space along the...

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NEWPORT — A 21-year-old Claremont woman who cleaned blood stains from a vehicle used to transport a man who was shot and gravely wounded when he attempted to barge into a downtown apartment, has pleaded guilty to obstructing police in their...

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NORTH HAVERHILL — A 29-year-old former Dartmouth College student who assaulted two security guards at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center where he had been admitted for psychiatric care will avoid jail time, providing he continues to get mental health...