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PLAINFIELD — Rescue crews retrieved a man who was stranded on the roof of his vehicle after it plunged into the Connecticut River in Plainfield early Wednesday evening, according to Hanover Fire Department.Hanover Fire Chief Jim Wheatley said...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ROYALTON — A Vermont Superior Court judge has ordered ECFiber operator ValleyNet to be paid a total of nearly $2 million in damages stemming from losses it suffered in the embezzlement of the company’s coffers, although how much of that sum —...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — A West Lebanon provider of in-home care workers is categorically denying that it cheated employees out of overtime pay and forced employees to “kick back” wages recovered by the government, setting up a potential court fight challenging...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Windsor-area school authorities have agreed to pay former Windsor School Principal Tiffany Riley a total of $650,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit she brought against her former employer. Riley alleged that she was improperly...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHARLESTOWN — A Charlestown man is being charged with first-degree felony assault in the alleged beating of another man who then spent a combined 21 days in intensive and palliative care before dying, according to court records and interviews with the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

TUNBRIDGE — Who took Tundra? And why? Those and other questions surround the disappearance of a 2½-year-old Siberian husky named Tundra from a residence in Tunbridge last week, with the dog’s owner saying he returned home from an errand to find his...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — When the Norwich Historical Society was burglarized last Thursday, the first person neighbor Priscilla Vincent called after notifying police was Roger Blake, whose dedication to meticulously looking after the 1807 clapboard federal house in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — The premier hotel in the Upper Valley for business travelers on expense accounts and well-heeled parents visiting their kids at Dartmouth College has a new owner.The Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Lebanon has been sold to a Denver-based...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two men accused in a “brazen” daytime theft last month at the Jiffy Mart convenience store at The Fort near Exit 18 in Lebanon.The crime, which occurred Dec. 23 but was made public on...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

On a January morning in 2019, after she got off her 24-hour shift as an in-home care assistant for an elderly woman in Pomfret, Jeannie Ayer got a call from owner of the agency she worked for. Her boss asked to meet at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A Dartmouth College alumnus will avoid being prosecuted for his role in vandalizing a campus menorah display nearly two years ago, providing he stays out of legal trouble and fulfills other requirements ordered by the court, according to a...

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ROYALTON — A Northfield, Vt., man is accused of embezzling more than $590,000 from ValleyNet, the nonprofit that operates ECFiber, and using the money to buy real estate in other states, according to a lawsuit filed in Vermont State court.ValleyNet...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — At 8:21 a.m., a crack like rifle fire shot through the cold autumn air, and with one short tug from an 85-horsepower John Deere skidder, the ski jump structure at Storrs Hill Ski Area collapsed into a heap of splintered wood.“I was here at...

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CHELSEA — George Contois is well past the age when most career law enforcement officers turn in their badges. At 72, the part-time Orange County sheriff’s deputy could easily tool around with the bush hog or saw wood on his 150-acre farm in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 25-year old Newport man who allegedly told witnesses “I am sorry” has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a Massachusetts workman at the Comfort Inn in White River Junction on Friday morning.Nathan-Mikhail...

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NEWPORT — Three New Hampshire men were ordered held without bail as they face charges in an alleged attempted robbery and shooting of a fourth man in the parking lot of Walmart in Claremont on Wednesday afternoon, according to officials.The three men...

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SOUTH ROYALTON — The 9-year-old boy rips up and down the dirt road on his new lime-green mini Kawasaki motorbike, the din of the 110cc dirt bike heard throughout the backwoods hollow. “Watch cars!” “Be careful!” “Keep your helmet on!” shouts his...

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Five years after a jury took only three hours to acquit him of charges that he conspired to kill his ex-wife, Maurice Temple recently celebrated a sign that his life is returning to something like normal: He bought a bulldozer.“Last weekend was the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A former Alice Peck Day nurse has been charged with diversion of drugs for her personal use, the latest incident of a regional health care worker swept up in the opioid epidemic.Amy Vickers, of Bradford, Vt., is charged with stealing...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — James Mann walked onto his apartment’s porch for a smoke Wednesday afternoon when he was confronted with a scene unusual for his “nice, quiet neighborhood.”A few feet from Mann’s porch was a fleet of police cruisers, fire department...