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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NORWICH — Phineas Soucy approached a display containing the innards of a Hokey Pokey Elmo toy at the Montshire Museum of Science.

NORWICH — After a town-wide reassessment, the total value of property in town is $1.26 billion.

By EMMIE FOSTER

NORWICH — John Sheldon, 11, of Norwich, has been birding for nearly half his life. It’s a fun hobby that gets him outside, he said, often into the woods around his home.

By MARION UMPLEBY

NORWICH — Activist and puppeteer Pati Hernández has always seen the power of storytelling.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NORWICH — The Norwich Farmers’ Market is making progress on plans to establish a permanent home across Route 5 from its longtime location.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — After receiving a “concerning phone call from a property owner,” the town’s Board of Listers has requested a “police presence” at upcoming public hearings for residents who want to contest the new appraised value of their properties.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NORWICH — For many years, Suzie Wallis sold sheep fleeces, raw wool and dyed yarn, as well as flowers and vegetables from her family’s garden at the Norwich Farmers’ Market.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — After three years of evaluating the danger of the chemical contamination in the Moore Lane Bridge, the Selectboard decided last week to continue efforts at containment, a move some residents are calling just another half measure.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — As the town’s proposed Animal Control Ordinance heads into its seventh revision, many residents continue to oppose a section that would ban off-leash dogs on Huntley Meadows.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — After eight years at the helm, the superintendent of the Hanover and Norwich school districts is retiring in the fall.

Mary Ryan, left, walks from her Norwich home with her grandson Leevy Appleby, 4, of Strafford, to the Norwich Public Library recently.

By MARION UMPLEBYand ALEX HANSON

Hartland author Jo Knowles has published 10 books for middle-grade readers since 2007. Half of them have found their way onto lists of banned books.

Toy Storey clears leaves away from a patch of squills in her front yard while wearing a hand-drawn “Go Harvard” sweatshirt, which she made in support of the school’s response to demands from the Trump administration, at her home in Norwich on Tuesday. Storey, who is in her 90s, has traveled around the world and stays active through gardening, biking and volunteering. “I don’t even have a bucket list,” she said, noting that she lives a very full life without one.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The town is considering a fenced-in dog park at Huntley Meadows in anticipation of a new animal control ordinance that would require dogs to be leashed at the popular recreation area.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — A proposed animal control ordinance that would further restrict where dogs can roam free in town has inspired debate among town officials, dog owners and other residents.

Rose Grenier hands pansies to her husband, Charles Grenier, of Lebanon, on Saturday in Norwich. The couple was at Honey Field Farm for its greenhouse opening. The farm welcomes people to its greenhouses on weekends in April. The couple took a drive with their beagles, wanting to get out of the house, saying they wished it felt more like spring.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The Selectboard approved an expenditure request from the Police Department for spike strips during Wednesday’s meeting, in spite of outcry from residents on the town’s Listserv.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — Voters rejected a $3,500 appropriation for the Norwich Lions Club for fireworks for the Norwich Fair at the polls on Tuesday, possibly ending a long-standing summer tradition.

By SEAN OGLE

There’s something about seeing an unfamiliar place that can reinvigorate your connection to things you see every day and give you a new appreciation for the ordinary.

Article of note: One article asks whether voters support funding a middle school athletics program at Frances C. Richmond Middle School at a cost of $201,000 for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Article of note: One article asks whether voters support allowing the election of Vermont residents who are not Norwich residents to be elected or appointed to town offices.