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Hartford Selectboard member resigns
10-31-2024 4:13 PM

HARTFORD — Sue Buckholz has resigned her position on the Selectboard. Her departure was announced at the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting by Selectboard Chairman Mike Hoyt. Hoyt did not offer an explanation for the resignation but thanked Buckholz for...

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Hartford Selectboard seat to remain vacant until Town Meeting
11-13-2024 6:15 PM

HARTFORD — The Selectboard Tuesday night decided to leave a vacant seat empty until voters elect a replacement at Town Meeting in March.Sue Buckholz was elected to a two-year term last March. In late October, she resigned her seat without...


Bradford Selectboard members cite prejudice among reasons for resigning
10-21-2024 6:00 PM

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

BRADFORD, Vt. — Two members of the Bradford Selectboard resigned earlier this month, citing the board’s resistance to change and alleging prejudice in the municipal government.Selectboard Chairman Ryan Lockwood, 44, and board member Nikki Stevens,...


Kenyon: Attorney steps in to temporarily halt Lyme property cleanup
10-19-2024 2:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

It took going to Grafton County Superior Court this week, but Jed Smith can keep his 1952 International Harvester farm tractor in front of his vacant home, where it’s mostly sat for the last few years.Smith and his mother, Martha, have been in a...


Parking meters coming to downtown White River Junction
10-04-2024 5:01 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the first time since the spring of 1975, parking meters are set to cast shadows over downtown streets after the Hartford Selectboard voted to bring them back, albeit in a more modern form.In a unanimous vote Tuesday night,...


Farm owners accuse Norwich Department of Public Works director of unfair treatment
09-12-2024 7:00 PM

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — Sweetland Farm’s owners are seeking town approval to grade and fill an approximately 400-foot stretch of slope on the east side of Route 132 by the intersection of Union Village Road in hopes that a more gradual hill from the road into their...


Kenyon: Cleanup continues on Lyme properties
09-06-2024 7:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

With the help of family and volunteers, Jed Smith and his mother, Martha, have made noticeable progress in cleaning up their two properties that Lyme officials have asserted for years violate the town’s zoning ordinance.The Smiths have removed five...


Hanover sticks with August forum date in spite of opposition
08-16-2024 6:46 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Community members voiced disappointment this week that a planned forum about the police department’s response to a May pro-Palestinian protest on the Dartmouth College Green is scheduled when many people are away and participants won’t be...


Kenyon: Is one man’s trash another man’s treasure, even in Lyme?
08-16-2024 6:32 PM

By JIM KENYON

LYME — At Town Meeting in March, Lyme voters approved spending $150,000 to “remove the materials,” which include two dozen unregistered vehicles, stored on two private properties owned by a working-class mother and son.The paper ballot vote in one of...


Dog bite sends Upper Valley jogger to hospital for preventative rabies treatment
08-07-2024 6:00 PM

SHARON — The Selectboard said it will decide within 30 days what action to take against the owner of a dog that bit a jogger as he was running past the dog owner’s home, causing wounds requiring the jogger to make multiple visits for medical...


Hanover Selectboard gives $130,000 severance package to departing town manager
07-18-2024 6:01 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Departing Town Manager Alex Torpey will receive more than $135,000 in severance from the town, according to a separation agreement between Torpey and the Selectboard. But the reason for the parting of ways remains unclear. Last week, the...


Plainfield Selectboard chairman’s abrupt resignation leaves questions unanswered
06-28-2024 6:30 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — In a decision that left residents with more questions than answers, the chairman of the town’s Selectboard unexpectedly submitted his resignation earlier this month, stating that he could no longer continue in the job for ethical reasons,...


Hybrid Selectboard meetings are not meeting everyone’s needs in Norwich
06-21-2024 6:44 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Residents are asking Selectboard members and town staff to resume attending meetings in-person, expressing concern about a decline in the quality of interpersonal interaction.For more than three months, Tracy Hall has been mostly empty...


Hanover to temporarily close portion of Allen Street to vehicles
06-13-2024 7:16 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — A downtown street will be closed to vehicle traffic for much of the summer so that town officials can determine the costs and benefits of converting it into a pedestrian plaza.From June 26 through Aug. 26, Allen Street will be closed to...


Hartford Selectboard narrowly rejects Gaza cease-fire resolution
06-12-2024 7:30 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard rejected, 4-3, a citizen-sponsored resolution in support of a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. support for Israel’s offensive on Tuesday. In addition to an immediate cease-fire between Israel and...


Citing hostility, Haverhill town administrator to resign
06-04-2024 7:31 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HAVERHILL — The town administrator announced this week she is parting ways with Haverhill, citing hostility from members of the community that have created a stressful and difficult work environment.Brigitte Codling resigned as town administrator at...


Norwich officials seek solution to bridge’s chemical leak
06-03-2024 6:01 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Hazardous chemicals appear to be leaking again from a town bridge that crosses Bloody Brook, driving town officials to consider new solutions to mitigate the continuing environmental threat.Petroleum-based chemicals have been dripping down...


Hartford residents seek Selectboard support of Gaza cease-fire resolution
05-29-2024 7:06 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford could be the next Upper Valley community to adopt a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. military aid for Israel’s offensive.The Selectboard will vote on June 11 whether to support an immediate...


Hartford Selectboard continues to mull banner policy
05-23-2024 7:01 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HARTFORD — A project to hang banners on municipal light poles to honor veterans and first responders remains in limbo as the Selectboard tries to find common ground on the parameters of a banner policy.Two months have passed since a group of residents...


State, community members differ on plans for bridge spanning river between Charlestown and Springfield, Vt.
05-16-2024 4:58 PM

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — State officials and area residents remain at odds over plans to fix the nearly 100-year-old Cheshire Bridge, which spans the Connecticut River between Charlestown and Springfield, Vt.The New Hampshire Department of Transportation had...


Four vying for one seat on Newport Selectboard
05-09-2024 6:01 PM

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — In the only contested race on the annual Town Meeting ballot, two former Selectboard members and the owner of a local business are challenging the incumbent for a three-year term on the Selectboard in Tuesday’s election.Also on the ballot is...

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