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By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

There was a time when interstate high school matchups were commonplace in the Upper Valley. The Connecticut Valley League, which featured schools from both sides of the river, pitted the likes of Hanover, Lebanon and Stevens against Hartford, Windsor...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford High boys hockey team won the 2022 Philippe Bouthillier Holiday Classic, which the Hurricanes hosted at Barwood Arena, with a 5-3 victory Wednesday over Burr & Burton.Hartford’s goals came from Lochlan Park, Joseph...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

On a January morning in 2019, after she got off her 24-hour shift as an in-home care assistant for an elderly woman in Pomfret, Jeannie Ayer got a call from owner of the agency she worked for. Her boss asked to meet at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

From the Thetford girls winning a state championship to the Hanover boys advancing to New Englands, 2021 was a welcome return to normalcy for high school cross country in the Upper Valley. This fall should bring just as much excitement, with new...

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DORCHESTER — A 26-year old Canaan woman was killed in an early Wednesday morning auto crash on Route 118 in Dorchester, New Hampshire State Police reported on Wednesday.Alexandra VanZandt, of Canaan, was pronounced deceased at the scene after New...

By PATRICK ADRIAN 

LEBANON — New state legislation will require New Hampshire schools to teach personal finance literacy and wellness education, including topics such as sexual abuse prevention and understanding child abuse, starting in the 2023-24 school year. Two...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT, N.H. — Two planned housing projects took small steps forward on the financing side at the Newport Selectboard’s meeting Monday night.The board first approved a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant application for Occom Properties, of...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

When Tim Winslow took over the Hanover High boys basketball program prior to the 2000-01 season, it was “unthinkable,” in rival Lebanon head coach Kieth Matte’s words, that the Marauders, as they were then known, would ever win a state championship.It...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

After winning its first NHIAA state championship since 2013, and the first since moving up to Division I, the Hanover High boys tennis team celebrated in style.“We went to Buffalo Wild Wings,” senior Alex Rockmore said. “Is there anything else high...

WORCESTER, Mass. — An extraordinary performance by the Hanover High School girls crew team on Saturday resulted in a silver and two bronze medals at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta.“This has never happened in Hanover High...

By JIM KENYON

When the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society announced it was looking for a new chief executive, Doren Hall was eager to apply.The opportunity to oversee the Co-op’s four grocery stores, two automotive service centers and a commercial kitchen was a...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Back after a yearlong absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Upper Valley softball squads had seasons to remember in 2021, with Oxbow winning the VPA Division III state title and Windsor and White River Valley in the mix as well. Lebanon may...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

Hanover Coach: Steve McConnell (9th year).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: 11th at state meet with Ella Maclean, now at Southern Connecticut University, winning the 100-meter dash.Boys’ returners: Seniors — Taj Bagnato, Aidan Peterson, Sebastian...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

LEBANON — There’s no shortage of swimming experience on the Hanover High coaching staff.Head coach Sean Uiterwyk competed at Boston College from 1992-96. Diving coach Carl Renshaw both swam and dove at Carlton College in the 1980s, and Linda Bedford,...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WEST LEBANON — A generation ago, a crowded field of Democrats were running in the 1992 New Hampshire presidential primary, hoping to unseat a Republican incumbent who many voters thought was out-of-touch on the domestic front, especially regarding the...

By PETER T. GLENSHAW

How did “Live Free or Die” become the New Hampshire state motto? You might think it has something to do with our Revolutionary War roots and stingy political culture, but the historical record says otherwise. To understand this strange tale, let’s...

By JARED PENDAK

CROYDON — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department last week finalized the purchase of nearly 3,200 acres on two parcels to be known as the William B. Ruger Wildlife Management Area.Spanning parts of Grantham, Croydon and Newport, the land will be...

By Nicola Smith

Beacons of Freedom- There are few eras in American history as shrouded in myth as the Underground Railroad, with its imagery of whites and blacks together forging a path to free African-Americans from slavery, women and men crossing rivers chased by baying hounds, or...