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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

GRAFTON — Residents and town officials are at odds over what to do about a historic building that has fallen into disrepair.Earlier this month, the Selectboard voted to condemn the East Grafton Par sonage. Selectboard Chairman Leif Hogue and Jennie...

GRAFTON — Steve Darrow defeated Maureen O’Reilly for a two-year seat on the Selectboard in ballot voting on Tuesday, 180 to 125.In an uncontested race, voters also elected Ed Grinley to a three-year term on the board.Voters rejected, 181 to 158, a...

Articles of note: One article would establish a Police Department Speical Detail Revolving Fund. Another would give the Selectboard authority to acquire or sell property. A petitioned article, which has the support of the Budget Committee but not the...

Contested races: There are no contested races.Budgets and spending articles: The proposed operating budget is $32.06 million. That’s up from the proposed budget of $30.5 million of last year.When, where and how to vote: Ballot voting is scheduled to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Voters will have a chance to weigh in on the Mascoma Valley Regional School District’s proposed $32 million operating budget during a deliberative session this Saturday.The proposed 2024-2025 budget is around 3.2% higher than the current...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — The criminal case against a Dartmouth College alumnus who is charged with allegedly raping and strangling an 18-year-old woman on campus in 2022 is “likely” going to trial and the defense “may” argue that the encounter was...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Seeking to close what they say are “pay inequities” with other county employees, members of the Grafton County Sheriff’s Office have voted to join Teamsters Local 633 in Manchester.In doing so, the office has become the second...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

An infusion of federal funding is poised to help bring fiber optic internet to two dozen Grafton County towns, including in the Upper Valley.Nearly $12 million from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration will be combined with...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

EAST RYEGATE — A Woodsville man who maintained that he had been wrongfully accused of attempting to kidnap a juvenile at gunpoint was found dead at the residence where he was under court order to live while he was free on bail.Keith Teele died of an...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NORTH HAVERHILL — Administrators of Upper Valley nursing homes are balking at proposed changes to federal staffing requirements, which they say would be difficult for them to meet and could put beds offline, reducing the availability of long-term care...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Parents with concerns about Mascoma Valley Regional School District’s bus routes will have a chance to share them at Tuesday’s School Board meeting.While there have been difficulties with bus routes in the five-town district in past...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A 2021 Hanover High School graduate wanted on an arrest warrant in Kentucky was apprehended by Hanover police after he allegedly crashed his car into a utility pole near Thompson Arena and attempted to escape on foot early Friday morning,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Cornish man who was charged with firing a gun at another vehicle during a road rage incident near downtown Lebanon last year has been found incompetent and the charges against him dismissed.Donald Delisle, 51, of Harrington Road in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A 25-year-old Dartmouth College alumnus has been indicted and charged with raping and physically assaulting an 18-year-old woman at a campus fraternity house.Kyle Clampitt, a 2020 graduate and member of the men’s lacrosse team from New...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — The head of Grafton County’s delegation of state representatives said he would need a “formal recommendation” from the county’s Board of Commissioners before he could ask members to take up the issue of removing the county’s Register...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A former Grafton man who shot another man in the abdomen during a “road rage” encounter in 2019 has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges but will not spend any more time behind bars.Joseph A. Brown, who now resides in Maine,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Grafton County judge has dismissed a complaint by a county department head who was seeking a restraining order against the county’s register of deeds in an escalating workplace conflict that is roiling the county government complex...

GRAFTON — Ruggles Mine is no longer up for auction.The former tourist attraction in Grafton was scheduled to go on auction Friday, after Exciglow, the New York-based production company that purchased it in 2019, failed to pay its mortgage or taxes....

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

GRAFTON — Ruggles Mine is headed to auction after its current owners stopped paying the mortgage and halted tax payments.The former mineral mine — which includes around 235 acres spread over five mostly forested lots — was a popular Grafton tourist...

NORTH HAVERHILL — The Grafton County delegation on Monday, 18-1, approved a $53.8 million budget for the fiscal year beginning Saturday, according to state Rep. George Sykes, D-Lebanon, the delegation’s chairman. Though proposed spending overall is up...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH HAVERHILL — The delegation of state representatives from Grafton County are expected to vote Monday on a proposed $53.77 million budget.The proposal represents a nearly 8% increase in spending from the current fiscal year, which ends June...