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By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — A downtown street will be closed to vehicle traffic for much of the summer so that town officials can determine the costs and benefits of converting it into a pedestrian plaza.From June 26 through Aug. 26, Allen Street will be closed to...

By ALEX HANSON

The line “Rock and roll can never die” lodges in the mind in Neil Young’s voice, but there are countless examples. Keith Richards, for one.Locally, the best measure of rock’s staying power might be the River City Rebels. The band celebrates the 25th...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — City officials are studying the feasibility of building a small, affordable housing development for public employees on a parcel of city-owned land near Interstate 89.On Wednesday, the City Council will hold a public hearing to consider a...

By MARION UMPLEBY

The first time Vicki Ferentinos pictured herself telling jokes on stage, she didn’t get too far.“I remember saying to a boyfriend when I was 17, ‘I want to be a stand-up.’ And he said, ‘I’m funnier than you.’ Then I didn’t think about it...

By FRANCES MIZE

LEBANON — A two-hour lockdown at Lebanon High School and Hanover Street School ended a little before 4:30 p.m. on Friday when police detained a man with four loaded weapons in his pickup truck parked in front of the schools.The 39-year-old Vershire...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — The City Council next month will consider whether to sell three city-owned properties on Main Street to a private developer — and whether to join the properties by closing Church Street, which intersects the parcels.The West Lebanon...

LEBANON — City officials are seeking input from residents and business owners on how to utilize three city-owned properties on Main Street in West Lebanon. The West Lebanon Revitalization Advisory Committee launched an online survey on Tuesday to...

By ALEX HANSON

The Western Terrestrials laid down the tracks for the band’s first two records in Nashville. That’s where country and Americana bands go to find the experts in their field.And those two records, “The Clearlake Conspiracy,” released in 2019, and “Back...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — City officials will seek new proposals to redevelop the former public works building at 20 Spencer St., after plans to build 94 apartments and street-level retail and commercial spaces collapsed.On Wednesday, the City Council recruited the...

By JIM KENYON

After the Windsor Selectboard voted in October to block advocates for the LGBTQ+ community from planting a “Pride” tree on the town common, Amanda Jordan Smith could have given up the fight. Instead, she dug in. Jordan Smith, a former Selectboard...

By ALEX HANSON

Dancer and choreographer Lucia Gagliardone grew up hearing stories about her paternal grandmother, Margaret, who died before Lucia was born. Like many 20th-century Margarets, she was known as Peggy, and to young Lucia she was “Angel Peg.” “Everyone...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — The summer brush fire season has begun — and the beginning of summer is still a month away.Unseasonably dry spring weather is helping to kindle wildfires around the Upper Valley that caused several town fire departments to spring into...

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — During the coronavirus pandemic, Ed Eastridge, who for the past two decades has been the Upper Valley’s most prolific guitar teacher, was forced to move his lessons online.This was a feature of the performing arts at the time. There weren’t...