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MERIDEN — After the blood tests of a child of a Kimball Union Academy faculty member showed elevated levels of lead, subsequent testing of the building that housed the school’s child care center also revealed “trace” levels of the toxic heavy metal,...

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THETFORD — On Saturday, recycling services won’t be available at the Thetford Transfer Station.Trash and food scrap services will be available as usual, and Town Manager Brian Story expects recycling to resume next weekend.The suspension of services...

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SUNAPEE — A new heating system at Sunapee Elementary School is the “Corvette” of wood-burning operations, said Mathew Bouranis, the school district’s facilities director.But a “Prius” may be a more apt comparison.The burner rarely needs to fall back...

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CONCORD — A longtime waste management company based in Orange faces six felony charges for allegedly falsifying annual facility reports, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced last week.If found guilty, Hammond Grinding and Recycling,...

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SOUTH STRAFFORD — When Melvin Coburn takes Amtrak’s Vermonter train eight hours south to visit his son in New Jersey, he makes sure spend some time in Wegmans, a chain supermarket.“I say, ‘All you have to do, Craig, is take me down there in the...

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LEBANON — A fast-approaching federal deadline to identify lead piping in municipal waterlines, and create a detailed plan for replacement, has sent some Upper Valley public works departments scrambling. The task, as mandated by the Environmental...

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NEW LONDON — The New London Fire Department was on thin ice Sunday morning when it rescued a partially submerged deer from Pleasant Lake.Just before 7:30 a.m., with temperatures around freezing, the Fire Department received an emergency call from a...

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HARTFORD — Returning home from an errand run in a thunderstorm, Linda Wilson was stopped by a felled tree blocking the road. She got out of her car — where her young daughter Amy remained seated — slapped on some chaps and revved up a chainsaw, which...

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HANOVER — Speaking on the eve of the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and with just weeks until the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney came to Hanover on Friday with a...

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HANOVER — A $250,000 state grant will help conserve 140 acres of land on Moose Mountain.The grant, announced earlier this month, is one of the largest ever received by the Hanover Conservancy, said Adair Mulligan, executive director of the...

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A lengthy legal brouhaha that has pitted the owners of a former dairy farm against the Town of Tunbridge over the maintenance of public trails is headed to the Vermont Supreme Court.The case is set to be heard sometime this spring, either by a panel...

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CORINTH — What a .308-caliber rifle started during Vermont’s deer hunting season, a dog’s nose was called upon to finish.Last month, Corinth hunter Ron Pierce shot — but didn’t immediately drop — a 130-pound buck that then disappeared out of sight. He...

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LEBANON — Fuel assistance programs in New Hampshire and Vermont are starting up again for the heating season.With 25,000 applications already received, the New Hampshire Fuel Assistance Program opens Friday, Dec. 1.Known federally as the Low-Income...

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NORWICH — Martin Philip hunts deer on John Lamppa’s 40 acres of posted property in Norwich — with Lamppa’s permission.Philip, a burgeoning bow hunter who didn’t start hunting until adulthood, was looking to find land to practice on where deer were in...

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CHELSEA — Two Chelsea businesses found bullet holes in their windows on Monday morning, according to Vermont State Police.The initial investigation indicates that an unknown person fired three shots into Will’s Store and WRC Performance Products,...

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WOODSTOCK — The waters receded more than four months ago, but across the Upper Valley, residents are still recovering from July’s historic flooding event as winter nears.At Riverside Mobile Home Park in Woodstock, the impacts this go-around weren’t as...

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CLAREMONT — Hickory wood makes for durable floor boarding, ax handles and baseball bats. Whittled into narrow spokes, hickory once even propelled wagon wheels across the country.The wood is a good “shock absorber,” said Jesse Marksohn, who grows...

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CLAREMONT — While holding court for two-hours at Stevens High School on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said drug dealers should face the death penalty.The garish talking point has long been a standard of Trump’s campaign trail stump speech....

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ORANGE — Since July, scaffolding has surrounded the iconic fire tower at the summit of Mount Cardigan.In the past few months, sometimes a small portable speaker has sat at the base of the construction site. The kind of music that contractor Javier...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College had two student demonstrators arrested over the weekend in what activists are characterizing as a heavy-handed response to peaceful protest.Around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, the Hanover Police Department arrested the...