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By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Voters will be asked at Town Meeting to elect three candidates to the Hartford Selectboard, two of whom will replace board members who did not seek reelection. Rocket, an incumbent who goes by a single name, and three...

By ALEX HANSON

Sometimes, a patron would come into the Polka Dot Restaurant and ask, “How much is coffee and a doughnut.”Mary Shatney knew what that question meant and would point to an open seat. Often, she’d make a plate of food — eggs, toast and home fries, maybe...

By FRANCES MIZE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Earl Parker left a free dental clinic in White River Junction on Friday having received fluoride treatment, and toting advice to seek out further medical attention. A flier advertising the clinic caught his eye during a visit to...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The U.S. Postal Service is evaluating whether to relocate mail sorting operations for Upper Valley communities from White River Junction to Hartford, Conn., as part of a nationwide restructuring plan aimed at improving cost...

HARTFORD - A crew from Ingram Construction Corporation works on building an 18-unit apartment building behind St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in White River Junction on Thursday. The Twin Pines Housing project, which broke ground in August 2023, is...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A vacant lot that was once the site of a dry cleaning business in White River Junction and has been leaching pollutants into the neighborhood will finally begin an environmental cleanup process after more than a decade of legal...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A free adult dental day is scheduled to take place on Friday, Feb. 9.Little Rivers Health Care, Red Logan Dental Clinic, Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center, volunteer providers and the Vermont Department of Health are...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Vermont Department of Mental Health is seeking input into the idea of implementing the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics model in Vermont. The clinics provide holistic care for people of all ages and aim to...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Evelyn Adams, who turns 69 this month, had hoped to fully retire by now. She has worked over 50 years in the customer service industry, beginning as a waitress at the age of 15 to her present job as a cashier at the Co-op Food...

By JUSTIN CAMPFIELD

SOUTH ROYALTON — Kristen Strong had worked in multiple food service industry jobs when she came to the realization that if she was going to work that hard, she wanted to work for herself.After using that motivation to buy South Royalton diner 108...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Grace Bourn’s family fostered a baby for a year before the baby was returned to his birth father.That experience is among those Grace, an 11-year-old Fairlee resident, plans to draw on as a member of the Vermont State Youth...

By JUSTIN CAMPFIELD

WILDER — A cornerstone of the Upper Valley youth sports scene has changed hands as longtime Northern Lights Gymnastics owner Jill Vanderpot recently sold the gym to a new ownership group comprised of two current employees and the parents of a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The last time Jason Smoller, Northern Stage’s next managing director, and his wife lived in the Upper Valley 10 years ago, they lived off Colburn Park in Lebanon.This time they’ll live with their child in White River Junction,...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — New zoning changes in Hartford are facilitating a proposal to convert a defunct hotel off Route 5 into affordable housing for people with middle to low income.Twin Pines Housing Trust, an affordable housing nonprofit based in...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEWPORT — Mark Murphy recalls once asking his supervisor at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan what was burning when he noticed a nearby cloud of smoke.Murphy, 38, who did two deployments with the Air Force between 2006 and 2010, said the supervisor...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 25-year old Newport man who allegedly told witnesses “I am sorry” has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a Massachusetts workman at the Comfort Inn in White River Junction on Friday morning.Nathan-Mikhail...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Rock Fortin and Mike Lamotte traveled up to the Upper Valley from Massachusetts on Thursday evening, two members of a six-man crew hired to lay down an artificial turf athletic field the next day at Cardigan Mountain School.The...

By ROSE TERAMI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A new 42-unit affordable housing project is slated for a lot right near Lyman Bridge, which carries traffic across the Connecticut River from Vermont to West Lebanon.The Riverwalk project, which will occupy the corner of Maple...

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

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION – A 22-year old Quechee man who was shot in the face at the Super 8 Motel in White River Junction on Friday is the same man who was shot by a state trooper during a pursuit after the man fired a shotgun in the direction of his...