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Contested races: There are no contested races.Budgets and spending articles: The proposed budget is $21.4 million, which is up from the $19.76 million that voters approved last year. The proposed budget includes the $333,000 cost of a one-year...

By ALEX HANSON

Newspapers occupy a strange place in our material culture. Even in their diminished state, millions of them land on doorsteps and on newsstands every day, a blizzard of paper and ink. By dark, they’re out of date, standing by to help light the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

A building in Newport’s historic district will become the new — and permanent — home for the Newport Area Chamber of Commerce.Earlier this month, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust gifted the Depot Building, located at 19 Depot St. in downtown Newport, to the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Decades-old restrictions on how the location of a former hockey rink can be used by the school district won’t stand in the way of building a new agricultural center for students. But officials do have to identify another parcel in town for a...

WOODSTOCK — Turns out, Hartford High boys basketball coach Mike Gaudette had no reason to worry about a Saturday morning tip.The Hurricanes’ game at rival Woodstock was moved from Friday night to 10:30 a.m. Saturday due to a shortage of officials, but...

CLAREMONT — The Stevens High boys basketball team closed out a successful regular season in style, holding on to beat visiting Winnisquam on Friday night, 57-51, at Carr Gymnasium.Hunter LaRocque, Lucas Belisle and Jai-Lique Ribeiro each scored 13...

MONTPELIER — For the second time this week, a Woodstock High girls hockey player tallied her 100th career point.On Monday, it was senior Isabel Konijnenberg in a win over Brattleboro; on Wednesday, Kassidy Haley reached the century mark as a sophomore...

HOPKINTON, N.H. — The Mascoma High boys basketball team had the answers all night for host Hopkinton as the Royals rebounded from an early deficit to top the Hawks, 68-55, on Tuesday.The win marks seven in a row for Mascoma, now 11-3 and surging up...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

NEWPORT — Kayden LaClair only found out over the summer that he would not be spending his senior year at Stevens High.LaClair’s family, which includes his father Christopher and seven sisters, had lived in Claremont for Kayden’s entire life. But...

NEWPORT — Newport Police Detective Sgt. Stephen “Alex” Lee has been sworn in as Newport’s new interim police chief, taking over as head of the town’s police department from outgoing interim chief Barry Hunter, a veteran New Hampshire police officer...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — An Upper Valley orthopedic surgeon who is charged with sex assault against a patient and who has been held in jail on preventive detention since his arrest 13 days ago was ordered released into home confinement by a state court judge on...

BURLINGTON — Trailing for most of the afternoon, the Hartford High boys indoor track team surged late to overtake Fair Haven and win the VPA Division II state meet at the University of Vermont with a score of 101. Fair Haven finished second with 82.4,...

WEARE, N.H. — That’s three in a row for the road warriors that make up the Lebanon High boys basketball team. The Raiders boarded the bus south to John Stark on Friday night and emerged with a 59-50 victory for their third straight win, all away from...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Newport, N.H. man accused of shooting a hotel guest in the face last fall may not be competent to stand trial, a judge overseeing the criminal case in Windsor County Superior Court said Thursday.Nathan-Mikheal Fuller, who has...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

With Hanover and Windsor coming off state titles, it's shaping up to be another exciting year for girls basketball in the Upper Valley. Mascoma, Newport and Stevens are all poised to improve in NHIAA Division III, and White River Valley has a deep...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

No Upper Valley boys basketball teams brought home state championships last winter, but several came close — none more so than White River Valley, which dropped the VPA Division IV title game to Blue Mountain on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer. Rivendell,...

By BILL WILKINSON

 Alpine SkiingHanoverCoach: Gabi Formankova (17th season).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: Boys were state champions, girls were runners up.Returners: Seniors — Cam Forbush, Mack Levy, Lilly Clapp, Ashley Cotter, Maeve Crowley, Sadie Higgins,...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

All four Upper Valley wrestling programs are back this winter, with Mascoma aiming for a state title and Lebanon rising quickly. Newport has an entirely new group, while Colby Shepard will fly solo for Stevens.LEBANONCoach: Chauncey Wood (fifth...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

 While track and field competitors participated in cross country and outdoor events during COVID, the indoor track season was cancelled in New Hampshire and was limited in Vermont the last two years. With the pandemic in check, area teams are gearing...

SOUTH ROYALTON — Junior guard Tanner Drury scored 19 points, senior forward Ella Perreault added 16 and senior guard Jillian Barry had 15 as the White River Valley girls basketball team routed visiting Bellows Falls, 65-31, on Wednesday night."Another...