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By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council unanimously approved a $19.6 million budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1.The budget is projected to increase the municipal portion of the tax rate by 19 cents to bring it to $10.49 cents per $1,000 of assessed...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Sullivan County delegation of state representatives approved a $41.7 million budget at its annual convention on Tuesday.The budget, approved in a 9-3 vote, carries an increase of nearly 10% in the amount to be raised by taxes and,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH HAVERHILL — The Grafton County delegation of state representatives approved a county budget of $56.2 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.The budget, approved Monday in a 15-5 vote at the annual convention of representatives, represents...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — State Rep. Jon Stone, R-Claremont, who came under scrutiny earlier this year following the public release of disciplinary records that detail vile threats he made against fellow Claremont police officers 18 years ago, has filed to run for...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Some Washington Street property owners who received letters from the city earlier this month explaining the special assessment they may have to pay to cover a portion of the estimated $1.2 million it will cost to repave the four-lane road...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — After 38 years as Sullivan County’s first full-time prosecutor, Marc Hathaway will not seek re-election in November for another two-year term.Hathaway, 68, said Monday the time was right for him to step away and likely turn the office over...

By BEN HOOKE

CASTLETON, Vt. — If a softball team as special as the Oxbow Olympians were to make history, they just couldn’t do it in any ordinary way.In front of a loud and large traveling support section that made the nearly two-hour drive from Bradford to...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — A pile of debris from an early 19th century home that was demolished in late March does not contain asbestos, as first feared, Claremont Chief Building Official and Health Officer Leigh Hays official said Friday.The New Hampshire...

By ULLA -BRITT LIBRE

ORFORD — Hundreds of people flooded the Rivendell Academy gymnasium on Saturday morning to watch the school’s 34 seniors become graduates. The ceremony began with the graduates, who wore green and white robes, as they walked to the stage to the tune...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

WINDSOR — The Windsor High School Class of 2024 celebrated its commencement Friday inside Harry Ladue Gymnasium with plenty of thank yous, words of hope and encouragement for the graduates’ future, and a little rock 'n roll.Moved inside because of...

By BEN HOOKE

There’s something Devin Cilley and his White River Valley Wildcats really seem to like about playoff baseball games at their home field in South Royalton.Maybe it’s the walk-up music and on-site PA announcer, a rarity at the small-school level.Maybe...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Familiar graduation themes of gratitude, memories and a future full of opportunities to seize and challenges to overcome were expressed by speakers at the Newport High School graduation held on the football field Wednesday.The class of 51...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — For Gracie Williams, the River View Chartered Public School offered a new beginning in her educational path that she desperately needed.Stevens High School was not working for her, and Williams was falling behind in credit requirements for...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The town has been awarded $1 million by the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority from the Community Center Investment Program to help fund construction of a new community center on Meadow Road.Finance Director Paul Brown...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Developers of a proposed senior housing project in North Newport are asking a Superior Court judge to remove a condition imposed by the Newport Planning Board requiring them to apply again for two variances as part of the site plan...

By BEN HOOKE

FAIR HAVEN, Vt. — The constant headwinds blowing southward toward the facilities at Fair Haven High School slowed a number of athletes in their pursuits of individual state records in the final meet of the season.It couldn’t slow Thetford Academy’s...

By BENJAMIN HOOKE

White River Valley coach David Mattern knew that the improvement of teams across the division coupled with a decline in number of athletes in his own program would make retaining the Division III girls track championship a major battle. And what a...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

MANCHESTER CTR, Vt. — With just five team members, all sophomores, the Rivendell girls track team exceeded their coach’s expectation with a third place at the Vermont Division IV state meet on the strength of five first-place and three second-place...

By ULLA-BRITT LIBRE

NORWICH — As the month of May draws to a close, it’s the job of Town Clerk Lily Trajman to turn over a list of delinquent dog owners to the Norwich Selectboard.It names those residents who have failed to re-register their dogs with the town. The...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The city received a $2.15 million loan from the federal Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month that will fund continuing efforts to eliminate lead in the lines and connections of the city’s drinking water system.The money from...