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By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — An 83-unit apartment complex being built in the husk of a historic mill overlooking the Sugar River is in the home stretch after a complicated financing package came together for the $11 million construction project.Newmarket, N.H.-based...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — With one redevelopment of a historic downtown building underway, New Hampshire developer Eric Chinburg has now acquired his second landmark Claremont property.Chinburg recently purchased the Moody Building, the four-story Queen Anne-style...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Key Auto of Portsmouth, N.H., which owns the new Chevrolet dealership in White River Junction and the Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram dealership in Lebanon, has purchased the former Gateway Motors facility on Sykes Mountain Avenue in White River Junction,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Note to developers in the Upper Valley: It’s a risky idea to build a project without first getting the required permits, even when you think you are legally in the right.Otherwise you might wind up in the uncomfortable position of John Holland, a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Simbex, a Lebanon company known for technology that tracks impacts to athletes’ heads during contact sports, has been bought by a Canadian firm with U.S. headquarters in San Diego.Founded in 2000 by Rick Greenwald, who had earned a master’s...

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WOODSTOCK — Area residents no longer have to drive all the way to West Lebanon, Randolph or Rutland to pick up their prescriptions.Smilin Steve’s Ottauquechee Pharmacy recently opened in Woodstock, bringing a pharmacy back to the town after the...

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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...

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The smart money has just placed a big bet on the upscale Lebanon rental market.A Wall Street investment banker and Dartmouth alum, in a single swoop, snatched up 32 units in the new Treetops condo complex on Etna Road in Lebanon for a total of $10.5...

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Grantham and West Windsor, towns long viewed as on the outer banks of the Upper Valley, each posted double-digit percentage increases over the past 10 years, outstripping the growth rate in larger towns at the core of the Upper Valley, according to...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Outrage, bewilderment and unpleasant name-calling are roiling Woodstock this summer in a dispute over a proposal to open a “barn-style” restaurant and sell other farm products at a 194-acre property outside of the village.John Holland, who...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — A new daily bus service aimed at helping employees get to their jobs and patients to their medical appointments has opened between Claremont and Lebanon.Now all it needs is riders.After more than a decade of delays and false starts,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

No longer is it just a matter of time until an Upper Valley institution, business or town gets hit with a ransomware attack. It’s already happened. Cybersecurity experts say it will keep happening, and anyone who depends on a computer network to run...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

When Rajesh and Sheena Arora opened their Indian grocery and food market in Lebanon 20 years ago, they didn’t come across a lot of people in the Upper Valley like them.“There was not a huge Asian and Indian community in the Upper Valley in 2001,”...

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WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Inn & Resort, the luxury hotel and anchor of the village’s economy, has named marketing and business development chief Courtney Lowe as president, with management oversight over all operations.Lowe, a longtime hospitality...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Two familiar Vermont names are getting a cozy place together in Quechee.Glassmaker and restaurant operator Simon Pearce and craft distiller WhistlePig are joining forces in the reopening of the Parker House tavern, which Simon Pearce purchased last...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — A new chapter is in the works at the Norwich Bookstore.Founders Penny McConnel and Liza Bernard, who have owned and run the independent bookstore for nearly 27 years, are selling their business to a Seattle couple who will take over next...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A proposal by a biodiesel plant to increase production capacity is raising concerns among neighbors about its impact on health and the environment and raising complaints about lax enforcement of restrictions at Haverhill’s town-owned...

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When Brent Murray was a Lebanon paramedic, he frequently dealt with people in crisis and urgent need of help. He says that training is a good background for his newest venture.Murray and his wife and business partner, Cinnamon Murray, have completed...

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LEBANON — The high-profile building along Route 120 formerly known as the Element Hotel is assuming a new identity.It’s been closed since a Christmas Eve explosion and fire in 2019 crippled its mechanical system, and the owner of the building near the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

On the morning of March 9, Mark Young, owner of Costumania, erected a sign out front in LaValley’s Colonial Plaza in West Lebanon to announce the costume store was closing and everything was 75% off.“I never thought I’d have to hang up one of those...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The options for going out to get something to eat — or for eating in — will increase sharply come spring in Hanover.Nigel Leeming and Tony Barnett, owners, respectively, of mainstay Hanover restaurants Murphy’s on the Green and Molly’s, are each...