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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Upper Valley voters were divided on short-term rental ordinances during New Hampshire Town Meeting voting.During floor meetings Saturday, Enfield and Haverhill residents turned back short-term rental ordinances.Haverhill residents “postponed...

SPRINGFIELD, N.H. — Voters approved all warrant articles unanimously at Saturday’s floor meeting.Among the items voters approved was an operating budget of $1.85 million; a separate article for $59,000, to come from the Unreserved Fund Balance, to...

NEW LONDON — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Arthur Bobruff beat out George B. Foley for a three-year term representing Springfield on the Kearsarge Regional School District School Board.Voters also approved an operating budget of $54.3 million, as well...

SPRINGFIELD — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Steven Duzbak won a two-year term on the Selectboard.He defeated George McCusker for the seat, 143-72.Also in ballot voting, voters supported an amendment to the town’s zoning ordinance relative to short-term...

Articles of note: Separate articles on the warrant for the Kearsarge Regional School District, which includes the Upper Valley communities of New London and Springfield, seek $100,000 each for the School Buildings Maintenance Expendable Trust Fund and...

Articles of note: One floor article seeks to establish a Pleasant View Cemetery Expendable Trust Fund, which would be used to maintain cemetery lots in town. A ballot article seeks to amend the town’s zoning ordinance relative to short-term...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST LEBANON — Products containing dry-cured pork that are sold at Upper Valley grocery stores are among those that have been recalled due to a nationwide Salmonella outbreak.The meat, called Coppa, is produced by Fratelli Beretta, and is sold at...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — The Cheshire Bridge linking Charlestown with Springfield will undergo extensive repairs that will require the bridge to be closed to traffic for more than eight months beginning next spring.The New Hampshire Department of...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Southeastern Vermont Community Action, known as SEVCA, is looking for volunteers to help people prepare their taxes.SEVCA’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program serves low and moderate income earners, people with disabilities...

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 PATRICK O’GRADY

Hanover Coach: Steve McConnell (9th year).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: 11th at state meet with Ella Maclean, now at Southern Connecticut University, winning the 100-meter dash.Boys’ returners: Seniors — Taj Bagnato, Aidan Peterson, Sebastian...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield, Vt., man who had been incarcerated for more than eight years for sex offenses against minors was set free from prison last week after pleading guilty to lewd and lascivious conduct with a 5-year-old girl that...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — An abandoned and sprawling machine tool factory at the gateway to downtown, long a ghostly reminder of the region’s economic decline, will finally be demolished and the site remediated thanks to a new funding program from the state...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The Village Butcher in Woodstock is in new hands.   George and Linda Racicot, owners of the Elm Street butcher shop and deli for decades, have sold their business to Alex and Cristy Beram, Upper Valley transplants from Massachusetts who promise to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

From 1938 to the early 1950s, the Valley Street Dam was the place in be in Springfield, Vt., in the summer.Constructed specifically to create a swimming hole, the dam was where families went to be together and where teenagers would hang out, where a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Kacey Knight says she typically hears two kinds of reactions from people when they learn she’s a supervisor on the “kill floor” at Vermont Packinghouse slaughterhouse in North Springfield, Vt.“It’s either ‘Oh, really?’ or ‘I don’t want hear about...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — It’s been almost 11½ years since Kyle Bolaski fired the shot that left Vincent Tamburello bleeding to death on a Chester, Vt., softball field in 2008. More than a decade of court appearances, some time in an out-of-state prison,...

By JORDAN CUDDEMI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Windsor Superior Court judge on Wednesday sentenced Gregory Smith to 13 to 15 years in prison for the fatal shooting four years ago of a Springfield, Vt., father who was upset about suspected drug dealing in the...