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By ALEX HANSON

Since its founding in 1945, Post Mills Airport has changed hands only a few times, most recently in 1988, when Brian Boland acquired it.And since its founding, the small grass airstrip has been privately held.Boland’s death in a July 15 hot air...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

BRADFORD, Vt. — As the hot air balloon began to rise swiftly over the treetops, Roger Blake knew he had to make a decision.Just seconds earlier, in a freak accident, the pilot had become trapped under the balloon basket while it was on the...

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — The blue air mail envelope that Anne Cook picked up from the Thetford Center post office last week bore a familiar name.But it was a name from her past. Cook lived in Donegal, Ireland, in the early 1990s and visited with Judith Hoad...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Rural general stores, given the number that have closed across the Upper Valley, are generally not considered hot growth businesses.But several well-known general stores in the region recently have been taken over by new owners who apparently see a...

MILFORD, N.H. — Baseball math: six hits + three errors = a nine-run inning and a nice start to the season for the Lebanon High baseball team.After watching host Milford jump to a 4-0 lead after one inning, the Raiders gradually chipped away before...

By TIM CAMERATO

FAIRLEE — The Aloha Foundation is apologizing to former campers and their families after documenting allegations of sexual abuse involving a total of three counselors more than three decades ago at Lanakila, a summer camp for boys on Lake Morey.An...

By Nicola Smith

Le Lieu Browne brings bowls of pho, the national dish of her native Vietnam, to her dining room table. Pronounced “fuh,” it’s a meat broth with transparent rice noodles, onions, thin slices of beef, ginger, fish sauce, whole cloves and the faintly...

By Mike Donoghue

Bradford, Vt. — A former Orange County educator has voluntarily surrendered his licenses to work as a school superintendent and principal in Vermont.Keith A. Thompson is alleged to have engaged in inappropriate conduct with staff while employed as an...

Tim Camerato

Fairlee — The Aloha Foundation has notified parents and former campers that it failed to respond adequately more than 30 years ago when a counselor at its boys camp on Lake Morey “inappropriately touched” at least two campers in the 1980s.The...

By John Lippman

Post Mills — On the afternoon of May 8, Megan Naylor and Nicholas Berry exchanged wedding vows in the living room of their trailer home in Post Mills.That evening, the guests gone and the newlyweds alone, Berry died.They were married six hours.“Nick...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Thetford — Fish and Wildlife officials said a Thetford resident shot and killed a black bear last week after he caught the sow in the act of killing chickens inside his chicken coop.Fish and Wildlife District Supervisor Lt. Justin Stedman said a...