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By ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — The Woodstock High field hockey team runs a 400-meter all-out sprint at the end of every practice. It’s an exercise in physical endurance, sure, but it’s also an exercise in mental fortitude, one that happens away from the field to...

By ALEX HANSON

Sometimes there’s an obvious subject for this column, such as the three music festivals I wrote about last week.But sometimes there isn’t. Instead there are a bunch of art opportunities that run counter to the big event, which this weekend is the...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — A cacophony of noise descended upon Hanover High’s turf field in the waning minutes of regulation Friday night.Dozens of stomping feet rattled the bleachers. Parents’ voices clamored from the sidelines. The Hanover student section, glued to...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SHARON — A German Shepherd named Ziggy, now deemed to be vicious, must be confined inside “appropriate fencing” on his owner’s property, which Ziggy is not allowed to leave except for veterinary appointments and “appropriate boarding arrangements” —...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — Cyclists are enjoying the unpaved back roads of Vermont and New Hampshire in new ways, boosting rural businesses and shifting how residents and visitors experience the Upper Valley’s rural landscapes.Bike sales surged during the COVID-19...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — The Zoning Board of Adjustment declined to reconsider the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society’s request to turn its Lyme Road market into a commercial kitchen.The board stood by its July ruling denying the Co-op’s request for a variance to...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Six people are expected to move into a new home for the chronically homeless off of Route 5 in White River Junction by the end of the month.Their soon to be new home is a three-story, 18,000-square-foot building, with 18...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — The longtime Grafton County register of deeds whose tenure has been marked by acrimony with county commissioners and staff is facing a Democratic primary challenge from the sister of the assistant county administrator who promises if...

By ALEX HANSON

The music festival is a feature of the automobile age. Even before Woodstock, the massive 1969 concert in Upstate New York, the Newport (R.I.) Folk Festival dates only to a decade earlier and the Newport Jazz Festival to 1954. Cheap gas brings people...

ALEX CERVANTES

The Hanover and Lebanon boys soccer teams didn’t need any reminders of their opponents on Tuesday.Lining up opposite the maroon-clad Upper Valley squads were the two teams that had defeated them in last season’s D-I and D-II state title games, Bedford...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — More than 300 members of the Dartmouth community signed a petition submitted to President Sian Leah Beilock last week, urging her administration to keep the college’s child care center out of the hands of for-profit chains.The appeal comes...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — The heir apparent, the outside challenger and the inside veteran: when it comes to picking which one will be the Democratic nominee for Grafton County sheriff there are some distinct differences among the three candidates. But all...

ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — The Windsor football team, victors of the last three Division-III state championships, commenced another title defense Saturday hosting Division-II Fair Haven.But this offseason has been a period of transition for the Yellowjackets. Coach...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — Sarah Peters helped her three sisters move to college and, afterward, saw them settled in homes of their own.She wanted to do the same one day, to have her own apartment that she could decorate however she wanted. She wanted to be able to...

By ALEX CERVANTES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford High football is getting back to its roots this season.“We’re one of the few teams that still believe in running the ball,” coach Matt Trombly said. “Everybody wants to spread it and throw it around. We still believe in...

By ALEX HANSON

When this summer’s Bookstock literary festival was canceled, organizers were already looking ahead to next year.So it comes as no surprise that the Upper Valley’s biggest literary event is back on the calendar for 2025. The festival is scheduled for...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Amid a gaggle of white jerseys last November, Dartmouth College football coach Sammy McCorkle thrust his arms triumphantly toward the sky and clutched a gleaming silver trophy in his right hand.He had just overseen a dominant 25-point...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WEST LEBANON — In the race to represent New Hampshire’s second district in Washington, 13 Republican candidates filed for the chance to flip Democrat Annie Kuster’s congressional seat.The three GOP front-runners, Bill Hamlen, Vikram Mansharamani, and...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Martha Dupuis stepped up to home plate at Maxfield Sports Complex with swagger and some directions for Alec Struver.“I don’t want the ball next to my stomach,” Dupuis, of Wilder, told Struver, the administrator of the Bugbee...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Town officials faced sharp rebukes from residents who are irate over the handling of personnel issues in the police department that left the force with only one police officer and led the former Selectboard chairman to announce his...

By ALEX HANSON

Will Sheff had a cozy upbringing in Meriden. His parents were both teachers at Kimball Union Academy, the prep school at the heart of the village, and Sheff had the run of the campus, then was a student there.When he moved away, though, he struggled....