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By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — Bob Dean liked to ride his bicycle between his home in Norwich and work in Hanover and Etna. That wasn’t unusual — bike commuters are common around the towns.What was uncommon is that Dean was likely the only one-legged cyclist to pedal the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Six weeks since heavy flooding washed out Hemlock Road, owners of four homes are still unable to access their properties by vehicle.Town staff are negotiating a contract with Stantec, a Burlington-based consulting firm, for an engineering...

NORWICH — The Family Place has selected Stephanie Slayton as its new executive director.Slayton, who currently serves as executive director of TLC Family Resource Center in Claremont, will begin her new role Oct. 2, according to a news release from...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — As winter approaches, the ongoing town debate over heating upgrades at Tracy Hall has taken on new urgency as the building’s aged boiler system starts to show signs of failure.Residents generally agree that Tracy Hall’s oil heating system...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — Dan Fraser, whose warm smile, bright shirts and colorful shoes are familiar to customers of Dan & Whit’s General Store in Norwich, has stepped down from running the family-owned store, his father, George Fraser, confirmed to the Valley News...

WOODSTOCK — A 24-year-old Norwich man has been charged with impersonating a police officer after Vermont State troopers said they received a complaint of  a black Ford Explorer Interceptor stopping a vehicle between the Hartford and Wilder exits on...

By KAELI BENNETT

NORWICH — Laughter, music and the rumble of carnival rides were hard to miss and resist in downtown Norwich over the weekend.The annual fair is brought to town by the Lions Club and takes place on the green. This year’s festivities lasted from...

NORWICH — Former Norwich Police Chief Wade Cochran took a job at the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, according to a news release from the DMV.Cochran, a Waterford, Vt., resident, has been named DMV enforcement and safety director, the news...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The town announced this week the hiring of Matthew Romei, the former chief of Vermont’s Capitol Police Department, as the town’s new interim chief of police.Romei, who effectively took over the department on Thursday, is replacing former...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Three residents have had to vacate their homes due to an emergency closure of their only access road, after the embankment supporting the road was washed out by recent flooding.Town staff announced last month that Hemlock Road, a dead-end...

By JIM KENYON

NORWICH — Renee Manheimer’s husband and two children were aware that she had overcome great adversity and perilous situations early in her life. How much hardship was unclear.She spared them many of the details of what she endured growing up without a...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The resignation of a patrol officer just six months after being hired is rekindling the debate about staff and pay levels at the town’s police department.After the departure of two officers last week, the department is currently operating at...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Nine months after being hired, Norwich Police Chief Wade Cochran has tendered his resignation. Cochran, who took over the department last October, notified the community at Wednesday’s Selectboard meeting that he has accepted a position in...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — After several years of searching for a solution, the community is initiating a project to address a failing septic system at Marion Cross School that periodically causes wastewater to spill out onto the Norwich green. Last Thursday, the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The sea creature that Eli Hoen, 7, and Emma Woloshin were creating was slowly coming together.Woloshin held out a fuzzy pipe cleaner for Eli to divide into tentacles with a pair of scissors. Then she helped him attach to a cork...

NORWICH — The Selectboard voted 4-0, with one abstention, on Wednesday to give a one-year contract extension to interim Town Manager Brennan Duffy. The board hired Duffy, a former economic development leader in Rutland, Vt., as the interim manager...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Town officials will consider grant funding to study the feasibility of building affordable housing on a challenging parcel of town-owned property.On Tuesday the Norwich Planning Commission voted 6-1 to support a memo asking the Selectboard...