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By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH THETFORD — Town clerks in small towns are often in the best position to know who may be struggling a bit because they see just about all the residents for one reason or another.Emily Hood certainly knew who had fallen on hard times as Thetford’s...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LYME — By 11:45 a.m. on Friday, about a dozen cars, one motorcycle and a bicyclist were lined up on both sides of the Lyme-Thetford bridge to cross as it opened at noon.About a dozen Thetford and Lyme residents were on hand to celebrate the reopening...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

THETFORD — The Selectboard approved a proposal to hire a part-time social services coordinator to help Thetford residents connect with resources.The plan calls for contracting with the Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction, where Mona Elliott...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

THETFORD — Two long-term infrastructure projects in Orange and Grafton counties are set to wrap up next month, to the relief of area residents and business owners.After more than 18 months and $9.4 million in construction costs, the bridge over the...

By JOSEPH DEFFNER

THETFORD — Despite a terminal cancer diagnosis, Scott Chapman was determined to do what he loved doing — anything related to track and field.So when his former coaching colleague at Thetford Academy, Emily Silver, visited him in the ICU at Dartmouth...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

THETFORD — When it comes to top programs among Upper Valley sports teams, few schools can boast better success than Thetford Academy’s track and field, which this year won its fifth straight VPA Division III boys state championship and its 12th since...

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — At Smith College in the 1950s, Gillian Lewis majored in visual art and minored in theater. Those studies presaged the direction her life would take after she moved to Thetford in 1960.Art was major, at least at first, as she made woodcuts...

By HALEY CLOUGH

THETFORD — Upper Valley proponents of a national movement to keep kids from using cell phones while in school made their case during a community forum Tuesday at Thetford Academy.Panelists at the forum, hosted by the Vermont Phone-Free Schools...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

THETFORD — They entered to pods and COVID and exited to pomp and circumstance: The past four years had not been easy for the senior class of Thetford Academy, but their graduation on cooling Friday evening was a time to remember, express gratitude and...

By BEN HOOKE

THETFORD — One game away from a return trip to the VPA Division III softball state championship game, are the Thetford Panthers feeling pressure? No, says Thetford coach Michelle Morgan: “Just hungry for more.” The young Panthers showed that hunger...

By ULLA-BRITT LIBRE

NORWICH — As the month of May draws to a close, it’s the job of Town Clerk Lily Trajman to turn over a list of delinquent dog owners to the Norwich Selectboard.It names those residents who have failed to re-register their dogs with the town. The...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

During 2017’s partial solar eclipse — when the moon obscured part of the sun — educator Rob Hanson set up a telescope at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock.He was impressed by the crowd.“There’s probably over 100 plus...

Before going to lunch, Chris Clemson, owner of Frost Gardens in Ely, waters hanging plants in one of their greenhouses on Friday. The business will open May 1.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

THETFORD — Two Upper Valley congregations are joining together to host an event that encourages people of different religions to discuss faith and the Holocaust.“Faith Among the Ashes: Lessons From Holocaust Survivors” is scheduled to take place...

THETFORD — In a contested races for a one-year term to complete a three-year term on the Selectboard, voters elected David Forbes.Forbes received 484 votes to John Piecuch’s 262 in ballot voting on Tuesday.In uncontested races, they elected Li Shen to...

By NICOLA SMITH

THETFORD — By a sizable margin, residents approved by voice vote a non-binding resolution, introduced on the floor by Duncan Nichols, calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and the West Bank and a halt of U.S. arms sales to Israel. The resolution...

THETFORD — Police arrested a 68-year-old Fairlee man in connection with the alleged firing of a gun out in the open in the village of East Thetford, 16 days after enlisting the public’s help in tracking down a suspect.Steven Duffy was charged...

Articles of note: The proposed appropriation for the fire department is $337,000 and the appropriation for the Thetford Library Federation is $130,000.Contested races: David Forbes and John Piecuch are vying for one-year to complete a three-year term...