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By David Corriveau

Jacob Slaughter was making a name for himself as a mathematician, an inventor and an athlete before he graduated from middle school.Turns out that the young Hanover resident also has a way with words, too: The national Association for Women in...

By Tris Wykes

Temperatures sank into the low 20s and the wind chill approached single digits, but Pat Lahey’s mind wasn’t on the cold. Standing atop Fenway Park’s famous Green Monster left-field wall, the former Dartmouth College football captain stared out of the...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Quechee — Lake Pinneo, the manmade body of water owned by the Quechee Lakes Landowners Association, is not expected to open its beaches to the general public anytime soon.The continuing denial of public access — which dates to 2015 — could be all the...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Claremont — A former Valley Regional Hospital doctor who self-reported a sexual relationship with a patient in May has been charged with one count of aggravated felonious sexual assault.Dr. Eric L. Knight, 50, of Derry, N.H., turned himself in to...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Windsor — There were evacuations and closures in Upper Valley communities including Newport, Windsor and Cornish on Saturday in response to flooding associated with a January thaw that began with Friday night’s rainfall.Emergency dispatchers used...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Canaan — A 26-year-old Enfield man was attempting to avoid being arrested on an outstanding warrant when he was shot by a state trooper in a field, according to his fiancee, who was a passenger in the car that police had tried to stop along Route 4 in...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

Lebanon — After exploring a potential partnership with a third party, officials at the nonprofit that runs Harvest Hill and The Woodlands now plan to bring the senior living facilities and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital back together under the...

By Josh Weinreb

Grantham — Robert MacNeil was supposed to be retired already.Owning and operating Grantham Indoor, an indoor recreation facility just off of Interstate 89, he said, was more of a labor of love than anything else. Nineteen years later, the Lebanon...

Tim Camerato

Fairlee — The Aloha Foundation has notified parents and former campers that it failed to respond adequately more than 30 years ago when a counselor at its boys camp on Lake Morey “inappropriately touched” at least two campers in the 1980s.The...

By Nicola Smith

Two weeks after being hospitalized on an American base in Japan for a severe injury sustained in a firefight in South Vietnam, Mike Heaney wanted to make sure he would remember what had happened to him, and where, and how.So he drew two maps: blue ink...

By David Corriveau

While hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 1948, Earl Shaffer followed a stretch of the old King’s Highway in North Pomfret, between a farmhouse and a barn, en route to the White River in West Hartford.Shaffer was the first person to...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

Lebanon — A former Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist accused of stealing powerful pain drugs and falsifying medical records may resume practicing medicine, as long as he abides by certain conditions, according to a state licensing...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — A 30-year-old New Hampshire man pleaded not guilty on Monday to nearly a dozen counts of voyeurism and a felony charge of lewd and lascivious conduct in connection with several alleged incidents at a Wilder home in April and...

By Josh Weinreb

White River Junction — Upper Valley Nighthawks general manager Noah Crane is concerned about the future of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.Crane admits some of his anxiety is a matter of self-interest. His team belongs to a league that, in...

By David Corriveau

When he’s vacationing in Woodstock, Val McCallum spends a lot of time padding around his house in bare feet.On Friday morning, a couple of weeks after finishing a European tour with Jackson Browne, for whom he has played lead guitar for 20 years,...

By EmmaJean Holley

It had not rained in Canaan for days leading up to June 3, 1923. So, when a barn on School Street went up in flames that windy Saturday morning, it took only two hours for the fire to leap from building to building until it had consumed most of the...

By EmmaJean Holley

At the corner of Hillcrest Terrace and Forest Hills Avenue in White River Junction, a shaded, wooded path winds down a leaf-covered slope. To the right of the path, a steep, forested bank rises up toward the houses above; to the left, another bank...

By Tim Camerato

Canaan — Two mobile home parks in the Mascoma valley are now owned and operated by residents who recently formed cooperatives to purchase the properties.The former Daniels Acres Mobile Home Park in Enfield and former Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park...

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — As he took to the podium outside Lebanon High School on Thursday night, English and social studies teacher Will Connell delivered some unusual news to the class of 2017.“My message to you today my dear graduates is a simple one and at first...

By EmmaJean Holley

Sometimes, when she needs to buckle down and write, Vievee Francis goes to the Tuckerbox Cafe in White River Junction and works as she watches the freight cars switch tracks across the street.“Their slow heaviness,” she said, over baklava, “stills...