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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...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Piermont man pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted a woman in West Lebanon this past winter and must submit to an evaluation by a licensed alcohol and drug addiction counselor in order not to have his bail...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Resilience, strength and perseverance were the main themes of Mascoma Valley Regional High School’s graduation ceremony Friday night in the school’s auditorium.The 73 members of the Class of 2023 entered high school in fall 2019 and in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Piermont man who is alleged to have gone on public groping sprees in Hanover and West Lebanon earlier this year now faces felony criminal charges in connection with one of the alleged attacks.William Menard, 18, was indicted by a...

NORTH HAVERHILL — A former Dartmouth College football player accused of robbery in Colorado Springs was extradited to Colorado earlier this week and is now free on bail, according to court records. Ahmir Braxton, 19, had been held from Grafton County...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

GRAFTON — Residents remain at odds over what do about the Grafton Public Library after a proposal that would have allocated $210,000 for the first phase of a new library was narrowly defeated on Town Meeting Day.The 182-175 vote was later reaffirmed...

GRAFTON — In Town Meeting Day ballot voting, voters rejected, 182-175, a petitioned article, not supported by the Selectboard or Budget Committee, that would have appropriated $210,000 for the first phase of a new library at 2 Library Road.Voters also...

WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Valley voters approved all articles on the Mascoma Valley Regional School District ballot.Every town in the district — Canaan, Enfield, Dorchester, Grafton and Orange — voted in favor of the $30.5 million operating budget, a new...

By JIM KENYON

Less than 24 hours before Friday morning’s court hearing to restart criminal proceedings against Scott Traudt for allegedly assaulting a Lebanon police officer in 2007, Grafton County Attorney Marcie Hornick ended the charade.It was the right...

Articles of note: The Selectboard recommends an article that would change the police chief’s position to an appointed post beginning in 2024. The board also recommends an article that would rescind an article from 2014 that gave the library trustees...

Article of note: An article asks whether voters support the cost of a new teachers contract, which is $542,000 in the first year.Contested races: Suzanne Suttie and Tamara Cederman are facing off for the position of district treasurer.Budgets and...

Staff Report

CONCORD — A 47-year-old Grafton man has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine, the fourth person to be sentenced in the case that involved a total of six co-defendants.Chad Rombow, a...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Valley residents will have an opportunity to weigh in on the Mascoma Valley Regional School District’s proposed school budget Saturday morning.The proposed 2023-2024 operating budget for the district — which includes Enfield...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Prosecutors have significantly narrowed charges against two individuals who were originally accused of abducting a woman and stealing a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash in broad daylight at the Lebanon Municipal...

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...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A former Keene State College professor and Hanover resident was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography late last month, the judge presiding in the case saying he was not persuaded by the defendant’s claim that he...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Nearly nine months after Brooke Goodrich was shot dead in her Orford home, a Grafton County grand jury has returned indictments against her cousin, Lance Goodrich, charging him with two counts of murder.Lance Goodrich, of Lyme, was...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Attorneys who led the Claremont school-funding lawsuits in the 1990s that established a constitutional right to an adequately funded education have filed a new lawsuit against the state, asking the court to direct the state to...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — An attorney for Joseph Brown, a Grafton man accused of shooting another driver in a road rage case last year, is requesting to withdraw from the case, saying Brown can no longer pay his legal fees.“I have been working pro bono for...