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ENFIELD — Whaleback Mountain is seeking community support to help repair a mechanical failure that halted its chairlift service late last month and could threaten its ability to operate next season.

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 CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — With the search for a new school superintendent narrowed to two finalists, the public will have a chance to meet the candidates at meetings next week.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — Orange East Superintendent Randall Gawel will depart to take the helm of the Rivendell Interstate School District beginning July 1.

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 CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — In Australian ballot voting Tuesday, voters approved a new 1% sales tax to offset municipal taxes and settled two contested Selectboard races.

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ROYALTON — By the slimmest of margins, voters defeated a proposed 1% local option tax on meals, lodging and alcohol.

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HAVERHILL — Voters will consider a petitioned article requiring the school district to cap its budget at the state per-pupil spending average, which could result in millions of dollars in spending cuts if it passes.

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HARTFORD — Voters will elect candidates to four Selectboard seats at this year’s Town Meeting, with three of those contested.

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NEWBURY, Vt. — Voters will decide in March whether to approve a $700,000 bond to fund the construction of a new fire station at the same Chapel Road site as the current station.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — Facing rising costs of operation that are driving up property tax rates, two Upper Valley towns are asking voters to approve a 1% local options tax to augment municipal revenues.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — The school district faces extensive and costly remediation of several areas of the high school and career and technical center due to elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, commonly known as PCBs, according to recently completed environmental testing.

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s ski team has dominated the East Coast racing circuit this season as the Big Green prepares to host the NCAA ski championships next month.

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HARTFORD — The town has tapped a veteran officer from within its own ranks to serve as its new police chief.

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HARTFORD — A committee tasked with honoring veterans and first responders is reconsidering its vetting process after its selection of a veteran who was later convicted of embezzlement came under scrutiny during a Selectboard meeting last week.

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HARTFORD — The police chief and Selectboard this week grappled with how to uphold a 2020 town ordinance offering protections to Hartford’s immigrant communities, while also complying with state statutes and federal law.

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HARTLAND — Town Meeting voters next month will decide whether to allow the town to put the long shuttered North Hartland School building up for sale.

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WOODSTOCK — The Mountain Views school board has named the Woodstock Union Middle and High Schools’ interim principal to the permanent post.

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Enfield’s police department has a new cruiser, Hartford installed a lactation pod for nursing mothers in the town offices, and in Orford, 90% of the population will for the first time have access to reliable, high-speed broadband.

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WINDSOR — One person has died and several have been hospitalized due to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at the Cedar Hill Continuing Care facility, according to the Vermont Department of Health.

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HARTFORD — Firefighters battled blustery weather Monday evening as they responded to house fires in Hartland and Windsor that took the lives of several pets and displaced residents.