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Family Buys Multiple South Woodstock Properties to Build Hospitality-Based Destination
By John Lippman
South Woodstock — It takes a village. And sometimes a family can help out, too.That is the situation unfolding in South Woodstock, where the family of Florida real estate developer and South Woodstock resident Pritam Singh has, in rapid succession,...
End of a Long Chapter in Windsor as Prison Closes
By Patrick O’Grady
Windsor — Southeast State Correctional Facility closed on Tuesday, putting a quiet end to the town’s 208 years of hosting a state prison, which was the first of its kind in the U.S.“It is sad to walk away from a very unique facility,” Superintendent...
Police Say Woman Tried to Pull Man Out of Car at Lebanon Middle School
Staff Report
Lebanon — A 20-year-old Burlington woman faces several charges after police alleged she tried to steal a man’s vehicle at Lebanon Middle School on Monday morning while he and his children were in it.Sarah Pavia attempted to pull the 38-year-old man...
Aloha Foundation Tells of 1980s Abuse at Lanakila Camp
Tim Camerato
Fairlee — The Aloha Foundation has notified parents and former campers that it failed to respond adequately more than 30 years ago when a counselor at its boys camp on Lake Morey “inappropriately touched” at least two campers in the 1980s.The...
Newbury Man Honors Vermont Hunting Legacy
By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling
Newbury, Vt. — Butch Spear built his own house. He raises his own beef. He trains his own dogs, and he uses them to help him shoot his own bear meat, right out of the tree.With this year’s bear season a week old, Spear eases out of his driveway and...
Quick, Easy Repairs To Vinyl Siding Holes
By John Nalley
A rock spits from your lawn mower, hurtling toward the side of your house. Someone overthrows a baseball during a game of catch, striking your home. No matter how it happened, you now have a nasty crack in your vinyl siding to fix. Now what?...
Jury Acquits Former Windsor Police Officer in 2014 Shooting
By Jordan Cuddemi
White River Junction — A jury on Wednesday night exonerated a former Windsor police detective on criminal charges related to a shooting during a 2014 sting operation in Windsor.The panel of nine women and three men deliberated for nearly six hours...
Police: Man Kills Elderly Mother at DHMC Before Being Apprehended
By Tim Camerato
Lebanon — Police apprehended a Warwick, R.I., man on Tuesday afternoon and alleged he killed his 70-year-old mother inside one of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s intensive care units, an incident that forced the medical center to evacuate its...
Byrne Family Philanthropy Has Given $72 Million Since 2003; Can It Continue?
By John Lippman
Hanover — There was the overhead projector for Hartford High School’s Friday morning assemblies and the new roof for the Parish Players’ Eclipse Grange Theatre building in Thetford.There have been funds for restoration projects at the Enfield Shaker...
Former D-H Doctor Who Diverted Pain Drugs Has License Reinstated
By Nora Doyle-Burr
Lebanon — A former Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist accused of stealing powerful pain drugs and falsifying medical records may resume practicing medicine, as long as he abides by certain conditions, according to a state licensing...
New Hampshire Man Pleads Not Guilty to Voyeurism in Wilder
By Jordan Cuddemi
White River Junction — A 30-year-old New Hampshire man pleaded not guilty on Monday to nearly a dozen counts of voyeurism and a felony charge of lewd and lascivious conduct in connection with several alleged incidents at a Wilder home in April and...
N.H. Town Recalls Deadly Shooting
By Kathy Mccormack
Twenty years ago, an angry loner with a gun murdered four people, two of them state troopers, in the New Hampshire town of Colebrook, wounded four other officers and was killed in a shootout with police in Vermont.Today, people still hesitate to...
Haverhill Hires New Police Chief
Staff Report
Haverhill — Town officials have selected a 12-year veteran of the Haverhill Police Department to lead its force as chief starting Sept. 1.Brandon Alling, 33, will replace Byron Charles, who retired late last month.Town Manager Jo Lacaillade said the...
Two Plead Guilty in Fall Crash
By Tim Camerato
Lebanon — Two men employed at residential schools for at-risk children have struck plea deals on charges stemming from a single-vehicle crash last fall in Lebanon.Jeffrey Caron, 48, pleaded guilty on Monday in Lebanon Circuit Court to a violation of...
N.H. Juvenile Lifers Await Resentencing
By Holly Ramer
Concord — The victims were four men and three women, shot or stabbed to death between 1991 and 2009. The crimes differed, but the outcomes were the same: Five men, convicted in homicides committed when they were 17, have been serving life sentences...
WRJ Man Held on Assault, Kidnapping
By Patrick O’Grady
White River Junction — A White River Junction man who is on parole for a 1999 second-degree murder conviction in Addison County is being held without bail after a Windsor Superior Court judge found probable cause to charge him with three felonies...
Orange Southwest Names Superintendent
By John P. Gregg
Randolph — The Orange Southwest School Board has voted to hire a Vermont native who most recently worked as a high school principal in Massachusetts to be the new superintendent of Randolph-area schools.Layne Millington, 49, is expected to start on...
New Use for Home Hill Inn Approved
By Patrick O’Grady
Plainfield — The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday night unanimously approved a special exception to the use of the former Home Hill Inn property, the first step toward allowing a residential treatment center for youth to operate out of the River...
A Change in Ownership: Canaan, Enfield Mobile Home Parks Now Cooperatives
By Tim Camerato
Canaan — Two mobile home parks in the Mascoma valley are now owned and operated by residents who recently formed cooperatives to purchase the properties.The former Daniels Acres Mobile Home Park in Enfield and former Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park...
Crowdsourced: Photos, Videos From the Flooding and Aftermath
By Maggie Cassidy
