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By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The town one day might see fit to change its name to Foodstock.The farm-to-fork food movement that is a growing attraction in Vermont’s travel economy is poised to get a boost in Woodstock, with an agreement reportedly in place to allow a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A court hearing that was anticipated to address the fate of a former Lebanon police officer charged with cyberstalking an ex-girlfriend was upended Wednesday after prosecutors decided to take the case to trial, despite objections by...

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

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — While the theft of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center parking shuttle drew the initial headlines last week, that episode was just the tail end of a destructive crime spree, according to police.In one day, Mitchell Horton damaged...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — After sitting unoccupied for more than two years after an explosion damaged the building, the former Element Hotel on Route 120 will soon be perking back to life.A Massachusetts private equity company that specializes in residential housing...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, N.H. — A 35-year-old Charlestown man could remain in prison for more than two decades after a judge handed down a stiff sentence in state court on Friday, nearly 10 months after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting two minors.Ryan...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield, Vt.-area man who had been out on probation after he pleaded guilty for his involvement in the death of a man in Chester nearly 14 years ago will spend more time in prison for violating his probation...

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 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

HANOVER — In a no-brainer as obvious as selling hot dogs at a baseball game, a new ice cream parlor will be opening next door to the Nugget Theaters in Hanover, filling a void created two years ago when gelateria Morano Gelato closed early in the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Two men charged in a drive-by shooting that wounded a visiting college student near the Dartmouth College campus in 2018 each pleaded guilty in Grafton Superior Court on Wednesday and were sentenced to multiple-year prison terms. The...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BRIDGEWATER — After years clashing with each other, the majority owners of the Bridgewater Mill have thrown in the towel and sold their stake in the historic property to the family that owns Plymouth Artisan Cheese.Adriana Curutchet and her husband,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

I can’t count the number of stories I’ve written in recent years about longtime Upper Valley family businesses that have shut down because their owners retired and no one was interested in carrying them on.So it is heartening to see two well-known...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Elixir, after two years of struggling through the coronavirus pandemic and the wringer of inflation, is swallowing a bitter pill.The White River Junction restaurant, which has operated for 13 years in a historic freight house...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — One addresses the shortage in housing, the other a surfeit of paper.The Lebanon Planning Board has greenlighted two big construction projects, the first a 204-unit apartment building and the second a nearly 20,000-square-foot warehouse for...

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 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

The small-town general store is hardly thought to be a growth industry. The business in recent years, in both Vermont and New Hampshire, has been marked by closings and abandonments.In few Upper Valley towns was this more evident than in Tunbridge,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The former owner of a Brownsville outdoors school who had served prison time in Vermont for aggravated sexual assault against minors was sentenced in a North Carolina courtroom on Wednesday to 30 years in prison for similar offenses committed years...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A former South Royalton school principal serving a five-year sentence for secretly recording teenage girls at his Sharon home had his bid to be released early from prison turned down Friday, with the judge ruling that she was...

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CANAAN — A 29-year-old Canaan man suffered life-threatening injuries after he rolled his truck on Route 4 in Canaan on Tuesday morning and was ejected into a tree, Canaan police said in a news release Wednesday.Joshua White was reportedly driving...