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SOUTH STRAFFORD — Jenny Joy’s has set up shop, literally, in the space of South Strafford clothing consignment store Agatha’s. But with diminutive raincoats and palm-sized slippers, the pop-up is aiming its sartorial eye at a younger clientele.Started...

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LEBANON — As a nonprofit energy supplier prepares to take over energy procurement for a handful of Upper Valley communities, a process designed to save residents money on their utility bills is also aiming to make it easier for them to go...

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LEBANON — When a nonprofit coalition takes over energy procurement for a handful of Upper Valley towns later this spring, it promises to offer big savings for consumers who have seen rates at the state’s largest utilities soar in recent years.But in...

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NEW LONDON — Asked to approve a bond to buy property for a new police station, a bigger-than-usual crowd at New London’s Town Meeting stuffed the ballot boxes with mostly “no” votes.The station has been housed in Whipple Hall since 1918. The town’s...

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Tuesday’s late winter storm, which saw 13 inches of snow pile up in Newport, N.H., by noon, also brought tall stacks of Town Meeting ballots from voters who were thinking ahead. On Monday, Cornish Town Clerk Paula Harthan handed out almost 90 absentee...

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CHELSEA — Chelsea and Tunbridge voters approved a prekindergarten program for the First Branch Unified District Monday night at the school district’s annual floor meeting.Voters also passed a $7.68 million school district budget by near-unanimous...

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CANAAN — For the second straight year, voters at Town Meeting will be asked to approve a tax exemption for solar panels. A similar proposal last year failed.This time, the exemption would apply to owners of “residential property which is equipped with...

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BETHEL — Bethel voters will have to wait to vote on a $2.5 million bond for capital improvements to the town’s water system. Initially scheduled to be decided by Australian ballot this Tuesday, the vote will now be non-binding, due to the town not...

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HARTFORD — The annual funding for libraries in Hartford has been handed directly to voters, and library advocates are concerned it has put the financial stability of the institutions at risk.On the warning at Tuesday’s Town Meeting, residents will be...

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BETHEL — Bethel voters will be asked to approve a $2.5 million bond for upgrades to the municipal water system at this year’s Town Meeting.The need is wide-ranging, including improvements to aging water mains, replacement of the Gaiko Well House, and...

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NORTH THETFORD — Three weeks ago, the Uladovskyi family landed in the United States among skyscrapers, their wheels touching down at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.But flying from Poland, they were bound for the...

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LEBANON — Wells in portions of Canaan and Enfield have a high chance of containing unsafe levels of radon, a radioactive gas, according to a new study from the United States Geological Survey. Areas of Hanover and Lebanon are also at an elevated risk,...

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HANOVER — With warm days invading the middle of February, Upper Valley towns are planning to post their seasonally treacherous roads earlier than usual.Among the communities that will begin prohibiting vehicles over six tons from driving on some or...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This week’s warmer weather might be welcome after an historic cold snap in the Upper Valley. But residences and businesses continue to suffer a deluge of burst pipes as temperature extremes take their toll on the area’s water...

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LEBANON — Fiercely cold temperatures will bear down on the Upper Valley starting Thursday night, an “arctic blast” that is forecasted to last into Sunday. Officials urge caution as strong, frigid winds will knock temperatures far below zero on...

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TUNBRIDGE — In a legal dispute turning into a legal saga, a second complaint has been filed against the Town of Tunbridge. Pitting landowners against a municipality, the filing follows the dismissal of a first lawsuit brought by the same plaintiffs...

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WINDSOR — As the mercury falls, Barby Shambo, a cook at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, has her rides to her job in the kitchen sorted for the week. Shambo normally treks to work 30 minutes by foot, but now she’s picked up right at her house...

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EAST CORINTH — The mid-December snowstorm was a head fake at Northeast Slopes, which bills itself as the “oldest continuously operating ski slope” in the country.“That snow groomed out nicely,” said Wade Pierson, ski program coordinator at the...

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LEBANON — Four Upper Valley communities are poised to be in the initial group of local governments receiving their electricity from the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire.The nonprofit is set up in a way to pool the buying power of...

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Dartmouth College junior Valeria Pereira Quintero grew up in Houston, where she rarely pursued outdoor recreational activities.But since coming to the Upper Valley, the 21-year-old Hispanic woman has made the outdoors another home, in large part...