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By MARION UMPLEBY

SHARON — Being a town lister is not for everyone. The role entails determining the market value of residential properties, then compiling a “Grand List” that’s used to calculate property taxes. It’s complicated, time-consuming work, the kind few would willingly sign up for.

By ALEX HANSON

Voters in two White River Valley school districts went in opposite directions on improving their schools.

By ALEX HANSON

Voters in Strafford and Sharon opted to keep the status quo in how they make decisions at Town Meeting.

SHARON — In ballot voting Tuesday, voters approved a $7.1 million bond to renovate the Sharon Elementary School, 232-166.

By ALEX HANSON

As the fifth anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown approaches, ongoing debates about town and school district governance suggest that the seismic event is still reverberating.

Articles of note: An Australian ballot article on the school warning asks whether voters support a $7.1 million bond to renovate the Sharon Elementary School. An article on the town warning asks whether voters would like to move town meeting to the Saturday preceding the first Tuesday in March. Another town article asks whether voters would like to set the time of town meeting at 9 a.m.

By MARION UMPLEBY

SHARON — Firefighters found the body of individual in the basement of a home on Route 14 that was destroyed in a Thursday morning fire.

SHARON — The School Board has scheduled three meetings in January to address the school budget and a possible bond vote in March for school facilities improvements. The board announced Thursday that it is considering a possible renovation project for...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

SHARON — Kristin May Senger is doing her best to stock her shop in the former Tracy’s Midway Station with New England-made products.“It is really important to me to feature as many local people as I can, and there's just so many amazing makers around...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SHARON — Voters have approved the sale of retail cannabis in Sharon nearly two months after narrowly rejecting a similar measure.The vote was 295 to 196 in favor, according to results provided by Sharon Town Clerk Catherine Sartor after the polls...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

SHARON — Voters will take to the polls Tuesday for a second time in less than two months to decide whether to allow retail cannabis sales in town. Sharon voters rejected retail cannabis on Oct. 15 by just two votes, 135-137. A week later, the Town...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The town’s Board of Listers is attempting to solve a boundary dispute with the town of Sharon that has raised concerns for at least 20 years, but not everyone agrees that it’s a problem worth fixing.Nearly the entire length of the border...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

SHARON — Residents have reignited the effort to permit retail cannabis sales in town with a petition for another vote on the issue.Last week, voters rejected — by just two votes — a ballot measure that would have allowed the sale of recreational...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

SHARON — A proposal to convert a former diner into a marijuana dispensary has been snuffed out by voters.Residents took to the polls Tuesday and narrowly rejected an option to allow retail cannabis in town by a vote of 137 to 135.The result puts a...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

SHARON — Voters will take to the polls on Oct. 15 to decide whether to allow retail cannabis establishments in town, less than two weeks before the state stops issuing new retail licenses.In August, Sharon received a petition from Sean Trombly, a...

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...

By HALEY CLOUGH

SHARON — Four distinctive yurts used as classrooms at The Sharon Academy for nearly 20 years were relocated this summer to make way for a new 5,000-square-foot academic building, now under construction.The shift from circular cloth yurts, akin to...

The Sharon Academy Class of 2024Arya Hilliker, Sharon, gap year, Vermont State University in Randolph, nursing; Cecelia Goodwin, Tunbridge, EMT paramedic training; Diana Chapin-Parker, Hancock, University of Vermont; Elijah Huntington, Rochester, gap...

By BECKY MUNSTERER SABKY

Lois Moore doesn’t have an email address or any other mode of online communication. And while she does rely on her landline from time to time to talk to family, most of her information from family and friends arrives in the red, 100-year-old,...