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By MARION UMPLEBY

BETHEL —When Kolleen Scaff worked a summer at the Bethel Drive-In back in the ’90s, her friends would often show up a couple hours before the film started to hang out and eat a dinner of fried food from the since-closed Onion Flats, the takeout spot down the road.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WEST LEBANON — Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a bill that slashes funding for social services such as Medicaid and food stamps to provide tax cuts. The tax breaks will mostly benefit the richest 20% of Americans, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the first time in franchise history, the Upper Valley Nighthawks will host the New England Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game on Sunday at Maxfield Sports Complex in White River Junction.

By MARION UMPLEBY

BARNARD — A special town meeting scheduled for next Wednesday will decide whether the town of Barnard should lease the old fire station to theater nonprofit BarnArts for 15 years with an annual rent of $1. 

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — The mayor of Laconia, N.H., will start work as Lebanon’s new city manager in early September.

By ALEX HANSON

For most of his nearly 67 years (his birthday is on Sunday), Gary Hamel was among the Upper Valley’s most prolific and committed visual artists.

By MARION UMPLEBY

HARTFORD — The Selectboard set the town’s property tax rate for the 2026 fiscal year in an emergency meeting last week.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

THETFORD — Ulysses Junker, a standout at Thetford Academy, was named Gatorade’s Vermont Boys Track and Field Player of the Year late last month, recognizing his record-setting feats as well as his work in the classroom and the community.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHARLESTOWN — An ultralight aircraft crashed in a field in Charlestown early Sunday evening, resulting in serious injury to the pilot and sole occupant, who was flown via helicopter to the hospital after rescuers extracted him from the wreckage.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Christopher Lane was among the people in 30 households staying at Shady Lawn Motel through Vermont’s motel voucher program before the state stopped funding emergency housing earlier this month.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

BETHEL — A fire Sunday night rendered a home uninhabitable, displacing the family who lived there, Bethel Fire Chief Paul Feeney said Monday morning.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — A public meeting called to review the job performance of the municipality’s top official was cut short barely five minutes into the session when the husband of Woodstock’s former police chief continued speaking beyond his allotted time.

By MARION UMPLEBY

LEBANON — For Dartmouth College professor and Shakespeare scholar Peter Saccio, lecturing was not just an obligation of teaching, it was an opportunity to perform.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

BRADFORD — Heidi Wright, who served as Oxbow High School’s activities and athletics director for three years, has departed from her role.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NORWICH — A nonprofit organization founded by volunteers to assist asylum seekers and refugees in the Upper Valley has hired its first executive director.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Phoebe Winters was set to start an internship last summer with the Bethesda (Md.) Big Train, a team in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League, when a bigger opportunity came knocking.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NORWICH — Phineas Soucy approached a display containing the innards of a Hokey Pokey Elmo toy at the Montshire Museum of Science.

By MARION UMPLEBY

America and hot dogs. A love story for the ages. This summer, two Upper Valley entrepreneurs with a passion for cooking are adding their own chapters.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

ROYALTON — Residents expressed frustration with the Selectboard this week following the board’s recent decision not to construct a temporary bridge at Fox Stand Bridge, also known as Royalton Hill Bridge.

By ALEX HANSON

Two Upper Valley educators with experience in reorganizing school districts are members of the task force charged with drawing a new school district map for Vermont.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A member of a Dartmouth College fraternity who was charged in connection with the hazing of a student last year has pleaded guilty.