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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A group of Windsor County residents is working to establish a local branch of the NAACP.As of Friday, the group was 70% of the way to the 100 members required to establish a new branch, said Pat Autilio, an organizer from...

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...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The driver in a rollover crash that garnered global attention for a rescue that was said to be aided by a dog had consumed an alcoholic drink commonly known as a “scorpion bowl” made from five different distilled spirits and...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 48-year-old Vermont woman was ordered held without bail Thursday after she was accused of entering a man’s parked car in Hanover and forcing him to drive her across state lines to White River Junction.Jennifer Fornwalt, of...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

After a silence of 64 years, the clack-clack-clack and rum-rum-rum of wool mill machinery is being heard again in Hartford.At 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, the picker, carder, pin drafter and spinner were switched on for the first time at Junction Fiber Mill, a...

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 JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When brothers Allen and Charlie Hall followed their father into the family’s Ford dealership business in 1975, Ford’s midsize Granada sedan was the hot new car on the market, gas was 57 cents at the pump and New England Ford...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

The first two times Jarvis Antonio Green featured works-in-progress by African-American playwrights, in February 2017 and 2018, he pitched them as one and then another small step for diversity in theater in the Upper Valley.Consider this weekend’s...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — Prosecutors have dismissed a sexual assault case against a former mental health and substance abuse counselor who had two offices in the Upper Valley, saying he is unfit to stand trial because he is cognitively impaired.A...