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By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — An 18-year-old Piermont man who brazenly groped women in public last year will plead guilty and faces a 12-month jail sentence under a plea agreement struck between state prosecutors and his defense attorney.William Menard will plead...

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 45-year-old woman who told police that she was following God's commands when she was discovered hiding in a closet inside Chiplin Enterprises in West Lebanon last year will plead guilty or no contest to trespassing and other...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax disrupted an event at Northern Stage on Saturday, forcing families attending a drag story hour to evacuate the theater as a precautionary measure. The Hartford Police Department, with...

Valley News Staff WriterWEST LEBANON — The completion of an environmental assessment at the former Westboro Rail Yard moves the city closer to acquiring nearly 7 acres of state-owned land for creation a riverfront park.The study is a crucial...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST LEBANON — Randy Purtteman, an Army veteran, and several of his neighbors received a letter on Veterans Day last month notifying them that the new owner of the apartments at 22 Maple St. would be evicting them on Dec. 12 to allow for...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

On a January morning in 2019, after she got off her 24-hour shift as an in-home care assistant for an elderly woman in Pomfret, Jeannie Ayer got a call from owner of the agency she worked for. Her boss asked to meet at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — Energy costs, education and public health are among the top issues identified by New Hampshire Senate candidates in District 5, where state Sen. Sue Prentiss, D-Lebanon, will face Republican challenger John McIntyre, a neuroradiologist from...

By LUCY ROBACK

LYME — Dire labor shortages are being felt across the country and the situation is no different in the Upper Valley. Tami Dowd, owner of Dowd’s Inn and Latham Tavern in Lyme, is down to roughly 60 employees, a third of what her staff was last year,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — More than 12 years after it closed its Route 12A gas station, Irving Oil has submitted an ambitious plan to redevelop the derelict site with a large gas station and convenience store.If completed, the project would rehabilitate a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — A Boston commercial real estate company that acquired three shopping plazas four years ago has sold them off to different buyers, underscoring the ongoing demand for commercial real estate in the Upper Valley.The Davis Cos. purchased TJ...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — A new child care provider has stepped up to take over the after-school programs in Lebanon’s elementary schools after the previous organization providing the service announced last month it would close its program, according to a news...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — A Hanover commercial real estate firm believes — to adapt a misquote from Mark Twain — that reports about the death of bricks-and-mortar retail are greatly exaggerated.In fact, Connecticut River Capital is adamant that retail stores...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

For decades, Walmart had a hokey-but-warm tradition of greeting customers at the front door.The greeters have been phased out. Now the gates are being phased in.In a sign of our insecure times, Walmart’s West Lebanon store wants to install electronic...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The Lindt Chocolate Shop off Route 12A will close on Jan. 29.Sarah Luhmann, property manager at Powerhouse Mall, said Lindt’s closing coincides with the store’s lease expiring at the end of the month.Stratham, N.H.-based Lindt &...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — Every Friday afternoon, without fail, Ryan Wall would pull up in his car at the offices of J.A.S. Auto in White River Junction to personally deliver the company’s employee paychecks.Wall ran payroll services for TSBS, a West Lebanon tax...

By Jared Pendak

Etna — Nearly all of the wreckage from the airplane that smashed into the southeast side of Moose Mountain is gone, and the large swath of trees obliterated during the deadliest wreck in New Hampshire aviation history has mostly regrown in the five...

By David Corriveau

After about a decade of working for other people in the hospitality industry, brothers Josh and Joe Tuohy started an on-and-off, transcontinental phone conversation in 2001 about returning to their roots as hosts of their own family pub.Finally one...