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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST LEBANON — Advocates are cheering a federal change that allows those with mild to moderate hearing loss to purchase hearing aids over the counter.The Food and Drug Administration approved hearing aids for over the counter sale to people age 18 or...

By PATRICK ADRIANValley News Staff Writer

LEBANON — The Lebanon School Board will hold a public hearing on Wednesday for a 2023-2024 school operating budget proposal and additional warrant articles that will go before city voters for approval in March. Last month the Lebanon School Board...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST LEBANON — Twin State educators say they are unsurprised by the National Assessment of Educational Progress scores released in the fall, which showed declines in reading and math scores between 2019 and 2021, before and amid the COVID-19...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — A $4 million city project to revitalize the West Lebanon Main Street corridor recently received a major funding boost in the form of a $2.3 million federal grant, which city officials said will speed the plan along significantly.In a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEWPORT — Former New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice John Broderick Jr. has spent the past several years speaking with students throughout northern New England to help bring awareness to the warning signs of mental illness in an effort to...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — A developer is looking to convert a former auto dealership on the Miracle Mile into a charitable gaming casino and restaurant.Jonathan Gengras, a Connecticut-based auto dealer, and Stefan Huba, a casino gaming developer, are seeking...

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By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — The City Council will consider tighter regulations for placing political signs on public property, in an effort to reduce aesthetic blight along roads and to contain the proliferation of signage during elections.The council has scheduled...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — City officials, residents and community support groups said the Upper Valley needs to have more emergency shelters and other temporary housing accommodations to combat homelessness, at a candlelight vigil this week.Over 60 people gathered on...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — About a month ago, Upper Valley Co-op Produce Manager Robert Lucas started noticing something strange about the price of lettuce.Yes, inflation had been causing food prices to rise. But this was different.“This is...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST LEBANON — Randy Purtteman, an Army veteran, and several of his neighbors received a letter on Veterans Day last month notifying them that the new owner of the apartments at 22 Maple St. would be evicting them on Dec. 12 to allow for...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Driven largely by staffing expenses, costs are outstripping revenues at Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s largest private employer, according to filings with bondholders last week.The Lebanon-based Dartmouth Health saw a $22.1 million loss,...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — A proposal to build a 436-unit apartment complex in a former brickyard on Hanover Street will need to address an array of public concerns, including the potential impact on wildlife and traffic congestion, according to city planning...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — City officials are preparing residents for the prospect of significantly higher property tax bills in November due to the surge in residential home values versus nonresidential properties during the last year.Single-family homes in the city...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — Energy costs, education and public health are among the top issues identified by New Hampshire Senate candidates in District 5, where state Sen. Sue Prentiss, D-Lebanon, will face Republican challenger John McIntyre, a neuroradiologist from...

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...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Listen Community Services Executive Director Kyle Fisher, who had been on leave since early September, resigned last week, according to the organization’s board chairman.Fisher had served as Listen’s executive director since 2016. He took...