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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEATHERSFIELD — Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity is proposing to build up to eight affordable housing units on Route 5 in Weathersfield.The move marks a shift for the White River Junction-based nonprofit organization, which has historically focused...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — School-based dental clinics in the Upper Valley are ramping up again after hiatuses related to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing challenges.Upper Valley Smiles, a program operated by Lebanon’s Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, is poised to...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — Barnes & Noble is coming back to the Upper Valley.More than five years after Barnes & Noble College closed the Dartmouth Bookstore in Hanover, the national bookstore chain will open a new shop along the busy Route 12A commercial strip...

By FRANCES MIZE

WILDER — Henry Hazen’s family has owned Brookside Farm, which sits just where Dothan Brook crosses Christian Street, for seven generations. Previously a beef and vegetable operation, the farm is now used for boarding horses.From the farm’s 174-acre...

By RAY COUTURE

QUECHEE — In a warmly-lit downstairs room in the Upper Valley Waldorf School’s Roberts House, three early-education teachers dance and twirl marionette puppets on a cloth mini-stage to the awe and delight of a pack of small children and their...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The nonprofit HIV/HCV Resource Center is scheduled to hold a free Hep C and HIV testing clinic at the Upper Valley Haven on Wednesday, March 29.The event also will include free food and drink, and a doctor will be available to...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

Housing supply and how to increase it will be an issue at several Town Meetings as voters consider zoning reforms designed to encourage residential development.Lebanon, Enfield, Hanover, Charlestown and New London all are seeking voter approval of new...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WINDSOR — Upper Valley residents said they are puzzling over the outcome of a recent holiday gift drive, after learning that thousands of dollars in toys, clothing and other presents for children in need failed to reach their intended recipients.In a...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — Thousands of Upper Valley residents remained without electricity heading into Saturday evening, as utility crews across New Hampshire and Vermont continued to address widespread power outages that resulted from the recent snowstorm.A...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — William Harrington and Krystal Laundry are already looking forward to their new living arrangements, even though it will be roughly a year before construction is complete on a house in Lebanon they are purchasing through Upper Valley Habitat...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — This past summer, Nikkea Kimball, property manager of the new Treetops condominium complex on Etna Road, had a big cleaning job to put out to bid: A New York investor had purchased 32 units and wanted them ready for new tenants.Kimball, a...

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By JOHN LIPPMAN

Emily Landecker’s name is not a familiar one in the Upper Valley, and the legacy established in her honor has been shrouded in secrecy.But the Emily Landecker Foundation has had a profound impact in the region as the source of funding for the Upper...

By SARAH EARLE

Alden and Sarah Jones didn’t choose bagels. Bagels chose them.The Upper Valley wanted, nay demanded, an authentic New York-style bagel made by local hands, from local ingredients. And the recent closing of a couple of bagel enterprises had left a hole...

By Josh Weinreb

White River Junction — Upper Valley Nighthawks general manager Noah Crane is concerned about the future of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.Crane admits some of his anxiety is a matter of self-interest. His team belongs to a league that, in...

By John Lippman

Enfield — Gayl Pringle, general manager of Great View Roller Skating, walks across the rink’s floor as skaters glide past her under a canopy of blinking red lights. “This is my home,” she says on her way to the control booth, where she programs the...

By Josh Weinreb

White River Junction — It’s 8:15 a.m. on a Wednesday, and Noah Crane is holding an iPhone in one hand and a small camera in the other while sitting in his Ford Escape just in front of a small pavilion at the Maxfield Sports Complex. He is staring at...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Yes, Major Quakes Can Happen Here- Lebanon — It could happen off the shore of Cape Ann, Mass., as it did in 1755, and damage hundreds of buildings.It could happen in Charlevoix, Canada, as it did in 1663, and cause economic losses of $220 million.It could even happen in a populated...