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By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEW LONDON — A decision to have voters reconsider two items from Town Meeting means no votes taken during the session earlier this month are valid until the outstanding articles are reconsidered.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — From the outside, Hartford Memorial Middle School looked about as empty as expected on a Friday night. The building’s windows were dark, and only a handful of cars peppered the large parking lot.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST LEBANON — Water quality improvement and flooding mitigation projects along the Connecticut River and its tributaries are on hold due to a federal funding freeze.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — The repairs necessary to reopen a closed bridge on Route 12A will only take a few days to complete, but it could be a month or more before the work is done, as the city awaits approval from the owner of the railroad tracks that pass underneath it.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTFORD — After more than a year of uncertainty over district leadership, the School Board has chosen a permanent superintendent.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — Kayti True, who has been homeless for three years, lately has been couch surfing at friends’ homes in Wilder and White River Junction.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Upper Valley school districts will no longer receive funding through two federal programs meant to help districts purchase food from area farmers. 

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — The Selectboard is scheduled to hold a public hearing on Monday to discuss a proposed $39.1 million town budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

A package of proposed new laws from Gov. Phil Scott’s administration seeks to address the public’s concerns over crime by reining in some Democrat-led initiatives in recent years while at the same time recognizing that Vermonters would not accept a far-right lurch on law enforcement.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

CORNISH — At Saturday’s annual Town Meeting, residents rejected an effort to rescind a two-year-old decision to convert the former Cornish General Store into a new library.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — After more than two hours of debate, Rivendell voters approved a $15.8 million school budget, but defeated an article that would have moved future budget votes to an all-day Australian ballot format.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Residents voted to switch to an Australian ballot style of voting for Town Meeting during the annual floor meeting Saturday.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CLAREMONT — One day last month, Louisa and Darren Grindle arrived at the Claremont quilt shop they had purchased more than a year before to find that a drain pipe had burst in the bathroom, causing water — as deep as five inches in some places — to pool on the floor.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Sam Gregory said he worried that the investigation into the death of his daughter, Sammantha Cruger, would stall out after Woodsville Police Det. Wayne Fortier, who had been investigating the case, died in 2021.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

CANAAN — At the polls on Tuesday, voters supported allowing the Selectboard to appoint the fire chief and firefighters, after recommendations from the chief. The article takes effect in one year.

By MARION UMPLEBY

LYME — In a unanimous voice vote at Tuesday’s Town Meeting, Lyme residents approved the town’s operating budget of roughly $3 million, which includes an additional $20,550 to pay for highway winter materials and ambulance services.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — A new K-8 charter school focusing on literacy education plans to open its doors in the Upper Valley in the fall of 2026.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — While a decision to close a bridge over a railroad spur in West Lebanon came suddenly this week, concerns about the integrity of the bridge along a critical artery for Upper Valley traffic date back decades.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — While grabbing lunch at Listen’s community dining hall in on Thursday, David Reffitt wiped tears from his eyes as he remembered his friend, Rick Riff.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — In 2019, Kelsie Hogue put out a bubbly recording under her pop alter-ego Sir Babygirl, and seemed destined for stardom.

By ALEX HANSON

Voters in two White River Valley school districts went in opposite directions on improving their schools.