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By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Quechee — Lake Pinneo, the manmade body of water owned by the Quechee Lakes Landowners Association, is not expected to open its beaches to the general public anytime soon.The continuing denial of public access — which dates to 2015 — could be all the...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Quechee — A 22-year-old Hartford man died by suicide over the weekend at Quechee Gorge, the first such incident there in more than a year, Hartford police confirmed on Monday.The suicide on Sunday occurred as state officials continue to brainstorm...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Windsor — There were evacuations and closures in Upper Valley communities including Newport, Windsor and Cornish on Saturday in response to flooding associated with a January thaw that began with Friday night’s rainfall.Emergency dispatchers used...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Pomfret — A week after signing the store away, Chuck Gundersen sat in his blue apron at the butcher block near the dry goods shelves, describing how others viewed him during his 30-year tenure as proprietor of the Teago General Store.“It always sounds...

By Rob Wolfe

Norwich — At least one member of the Selectboard is proposing that the town abolish its listers in favor of an assessor-only model that he says could improve valuations and minimize conflict between professional contractors and citizen...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

Wilder — A combination of medications including Tylenol and a muscle relaxant has enabled Shirley Griggs, an 89-year-old retired nurse educator, to manage her chronic back pain, which stems from a car accident more than two decades ago.Recently,...

INTERVIEW AND ILLUSTRATION BY SHAWN BRALEY

Corinth — Rarely has a newspaper headline been more wrong.Almost exactly 30 years ago, in the fall of 1987, 21-year-old Tania Aebi was on the final leg of her 2½-year solo circumnavigation of the world — a nonstop, 52-day, 3,000-mile push across the...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

White River Junction — The halls of Brookside Health and Rehabilitation Center on Christian Street are beginning to echo as residents find new homes and move out in advance of the facility’s planned closing on Nov. 29.As of Friday afternoon, just four...

By John Lippman

South Woodstock — It takes a village. And sometimes a family can help out, too.That is the situation unfolding in South Woodstock, where the family of Florida real estate developer and South Woodstock resident Pritam Singh has, in rapid succession,...

By Patrick O’Grady

Windsor — Southeast State Correctional Facility closed on Tuesday, putting a quiet end to the town’s 208 years of hosting a state prison, which was the first of its kind in the U.S.“It is sad to walk away from a very unique facility,” Superintendent...

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...

ILLUSTRATION AND INTERVIEW BY SHAWN BRALEY

Wilder — Brian Barthelmes is big guy with a big beard and several outsized talents. The 34-year-old Wilder resident was a standout offensive lineman at the University of Virginia and spent a couple of seasons with the New England Patriots before...

By David Corriveau

… I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return ... Robert Frost, — from Birches Growing up in North Conway, N.H., in...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Newbury, Vt. — Butch Spear built his own house. He raises his own beef. He trains his own dogs, and he uses them to help him shoot his own bear meat, right out of the tree.With this year’s bear season a week old, Spear eases out of his driveway and...

By Nicola Smith

Two weeks after being hospitalized on an American base in Japan for a severe injury sustained in a firefight in South Vietnam, Mike Heaney wanted to make sure he would remember what had happened to him, and where, and how.So he drew two maps: blue ink...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — A jury on Wednesday night exonerated a former Windsor police detective on criminal charges related to a shooting during a 2014 sting operation in Windsor.The panel of nine women and three men deliberated for nearly six hours...

By David Corriveau

While hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 1948, Earl Shaffer followed a stretch of the old King’s Highway in North Pomfret, between a farmhouse and a barn, en route to the White River in West Hartford.Shaffer was the first person to...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — A 30-year-old New Hampshire man pleaded not guilty on Monday to nearly a dozen counts of voyeurism and a felony charge of lewd and lascivious conduct in connection with several alleged incidents at a Wilder home in April and...

Quechee, Vt. — Sara Holcomb Dorman left this life peacefully in the early morning of Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, a date that in years past would have found her in Saratoga for the summer racing meet, one of her favorite sporting events. It was on a cold...

By David Corriveau

When he’s vacationing in Woodstock, Val McCallum spends a lot of time padding around his house in bare feet.On Friday morning, a couple of weeks after finishing a European tour with Jackson Browne, for whom he has played lead guitar for 20 years,...