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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Since the start of the year, 137 first responders from Upper Valley communities have taken a new two-hour training program put together by the Special Needs Support Center.About two dozen of the Lebanon police department’s 35...

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CANAAN — The town has received a $74,000 grant to put toward much-needed repairs on its historic 1793 meeting house.The funding for the Canaan Meeting House, located on Canaan Street across from the Canaan Street beach and Canaan Historical Society,...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Listen will hold a sit-down Christmas Day dinner for the first time in five years.The newly named “Upper Valley Winter Holiday Dinner” will be held for the first time at Listen’s dining hall in White River Junction. The event is...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard will ask voters to approve a local option sales tax for the second time in two years at Town Meeting.The local sales tax would add a 1% tax on retail items — including cannabis — sold in the town’s five...

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SHARON — Voters have approved the sale of retail cannabis in Sharon nearly two months after narrowly rejecting a similar measure.The vote was 295 to 196 in favor, according to results provided by Sharon Town Clerk Catherine Sartor after the polls...

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LEBANON — Dozens of people gathered in the book room at Listen’s Miracle Mile Thrift Store, while more waited outside the store holding tight to reusable bags in Friday morning’s cold air.Dorothy Syme made her way to the front of the crowd inside to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Two one-room schoolhouses in Enfield have been added to the New Hampshire Register of Historic Places.The State Historical Resources Council, part of the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, added Lockehaven School on Ibey Road...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

QUECHEE — For around a decade, Pat Tivnan has been volunteering at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science to help care for baby birds.During her four-hour shifts, she’d feed the tiniest patients at the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation and...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Every year, dozens of volunteers and organizations make Thanksgiving special.This happens in various ways: there’s people who put together meal boxes for families in need, those who serve meals at Thanksgiving Day dinners and yet others who volunteer...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — A plan to build a roughly 300-unit housing development near downtown is one step closer to fruition after the Zoning Board of Adjustment last week approved a request to allow an access road off Route 4 to cross two wetlands.The road — which...

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ENFIELD — The Selectboard unanimously approved septic system regulations for those who live near the town’s four major water bodies at its Monday night meeting.The rules — scheduled to go in effect Jan. 1, 2025 — require property owners to have their...

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THETFORD — The Selectboard approved a proposal to hire a part-time social services coordinator to help Thetford residents connect with resources.The plan calls for contracting with the Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction, where Mona Elliott...

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WEST WINDSOR — Residents will decide whether or not to change the town’s budget year from a calendar year schedule to a fiscal year schedule during a Special Town Meeting on Saturday.The in-person-only meeting will take place at 10 a.m. at Story...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NEWPORT — An unpleasant odor drifting from Newport’s wastewater treatment facility that permeated throughout the downtown earlier this week and closed the middle/high school Thursday is beginning to dissipate.The smell stems from hydrogen sulfide in...

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ROYALTON — Voters in Bethel and Royalton narrowly rejected a $3.8 million bond issue for improvements to the White River Unified District’s middle and high schools.The vote was 753 against to 743 in favor of the project, according to unofficial...

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CLAREMONT — Artist Jane Kolias likes to forage for metal.Those skills are essential to the recycled metal sculptures she creates — a Christmas tree made of wrenches and an old file, a singer with a body made of a piece of a Singer sewing machine —...

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ENFIELD — A plan to open a brewery next spring in a former laundromat is in jeopardy after the building’s owner decided to put it up for sale instead.Brian Degnan said he decided to sell 59 Main St. due to “the bureaucracy that exists and the amount...

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ENFIELD — The Enfield Planning Board unanimously approved a proposal for a new coffee shop in downtown Enfield last week.Thomas Morrill, an Enfield resident who serves as pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Lebanon, asked the Planning Board for a...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — The long-vacant site of the town’s former public works headquarters is set to be redeveloped into housing.The Selectboard has approved the sale of about 3 acres of town-owned land to Lebanon-based Oakes & Son Construction, which has agreed...

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NEWPORT — A nonprofit organization has launched a pilot program to better support children and adults dealing with trauma in Newport.Turning Points Network’s “Newport Stops the Cycle of Abuse” aims to help town residents better react and support...