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By Patrick O’Grady

Claremont — If the new owners of the shuttered waste-to-energy incinerator on Grissom Lane want approval to restart the plant, they will need to do more than have the Title V operating permit transferred from the previous owner, officials with the...

By John Lippman

West Lebanon — Fred and Kate Pearce, who started their West Lebanon jewelry store, Pearce Jewelers, 31 years ago, are retiring and selling their business to Lori Roy and her daughter, Jordan Schucart, owners of Jozach Jewelers in Claremont. The...

By Nicola Smith

Ten years ago, the Groveton, N.H. paper mill, which had been in existence since 1889, shut its doors for good, devastating the local economy and community.Groveton, in northern Coos County, is just one of many New England towns that, in the early- to...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

Lebanon — After exploring a potential partnership with a third party, officials at the nonprofit that runs Harvest Hill and The Woodlands now plan to bring the senior living facilities and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital back together under the...

By Josh Weinreb

Grantham — Robert MacNeil was supposed to be retired already.Owning and operating Grantham Indoor, an indoor recreation facility just off of Interstate 89, he said, was more of a labor of love than anything else. Nineteen years later, the Lebanon...

Staff Report

Lebanon — A 20-year-old Burlington woman faces several charges after police alleged she tried to steal a man’s vehicle at Lebanon Middle School on Monday morning while he and his children were in it.Sarah Pavia attempted to pull the 38-year-old man...

By David Corriveau

… I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return ... Robert Frost, — from Birches Growing up in North Conway, N.H., in...

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — Police apprehended a Warwick, R.I., man on Tuesday afternoon and alleged he killed his 70-year-old mother inside one of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s intensive care units, an incident that forced the medical center to evacuate its...

By John Lippman

Hanover — There was the overhead projector for Hartford High School’s Friday morning assemblies and the new roof for the Parish Players’ Eclipse Grange Theatre building in Thetford.There have been funds for restoration projects at the Enfield Shaker...

Hanover, N.H. — Vincent Evans Starzinger, a Dartmouth College government professor who shaped the careers of over a generation of graduates by inviting them to think critically, died on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, at Wheelock Terrace, Hanover. He was...

By David Corriveau

While hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 1948, Earl Shaffer followed a stretch of the old King’s Highway in North Pomfret, between a farmhouse and a barn, en route to the White River in West Hartford.Shaffer was the first person to...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

Lebanon — A former Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist accused of stealing powerful pain drugs and falsifying medical records may resume practicing medicine, as long as he abides by certain conditions, according to a state licensing...

Staff Report

Haverhill — Town officials have selected a 12-year veteran of the Haverhill Police Department to lead its force as chief starting Sept. 1.Brandon Alling, 33, will replace Byron Charles, who retired late last month.Town Manager Jo Lacaillade said the...

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — Two men employed at residential schools for at-risk children have struck plea deals on charges stemming from a single-vehicle crash last fall in Lebanon.Jeffrey Caron, 48, pleaded guilty on Monday in Lebanon Circuit Court to a violation of...

By EmmaJean Holley

It had not rained in Canaan for days leading up to June 3, 1923. So, when a barn on School Street went up in flames that windy Saturday morning, it took only two hours for the fire to leap from building to building until it had consumed most of the...

By Patrick O’Grady

Plainfield  — The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday night unanimously approved a special exception to the use of the former Home Hill Inn property, the first step toward allowing a residential treatment center for youth to operate out of the River...

By Tim Camerato

Canaan — Two mobile home parks in the Mascoma valley are now owned and operated by residents who recently formed cooperatives to purchase the properties.The former Daniels Acres Mobile Home Park in Enfield and former Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park...

John Lippman

The Upper Valley in summer is a paradise for fresh water swimmers. Fresh water — lots of it — flows everywhere: the Connecticut River, the White River, the Ompompanoosuc, the Ottauquechee, True’s Brook, Silver Lake, Canaan Street Lake, Storrs...

By Jordan Cuddemi

West Lebanon — Wildlife officials say a wild boar that was struck and killed on Interstate 89 on Tuesday morning likely was an escapee of Corbin Park, a game preserve that encompasses more than 20,000 acres in parts of Croydon, Grantham, Cornish,...

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — As he took to the podium outside Lebanon High School on Thursday night, English and social studies teacher Will Connell delivered some unusual news to the class of 2017.“My message to you today my dear graduates is a simple one and at first...