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Two days after Sean Taylor opened his new barbershop in Hanover, customer appointments for haircuts already were double-booked, thanks to a glitch in the online software program.Taylor has been a barber in the Upper Valley for only four years. But in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The Bridgewater Mill has survived fire, the collapse of New England’s manufacturing economy, at least two devastating floods, insolvency and a misguided attempt to turn it into a shopping mall.Now it faces a new existential threat: warring tenants who...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Emily Landecker’s name is not a familiar one in the Upper Valley, and the legacy established in her honor has been shrouded in secrecy.But the Emily Landecker Foundation has had a profound impact in the region as the source of funding for the Upper...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ENFIELD — The Montcalm Golf Club has changed hands for the second time in less than a year after a West Lebanon native and his wife who owned half the property acquired the remaining 50% interest.Chuck Currier, a 1970 Lebanon High School graduate and...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A 5½-year-old Upper Valley digital startup that has become a major player in helping national employers find job candidates has sold a majority stake in the company to a German media giant for $79 million.Appcast, which employs 30 people at...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The dry spell in Upper Valley dry cleaning should soon be over.New London Cleaners will replace the former Kleen dry cleaners on Lebanon Street in Hanover across from the Black Family Visual Arts Center, filling the need for a dry cleaner...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Laundry service Kleen, which earlier this month closed its dry cleaning stores, will also shut down its commercial laundry service Friday, ending more than a century in Lebanon, leaving hospitals scrambling to find a replacement to process...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Randolph would appear to have all the basics a small town in central Vermont would need. With a population of only 4,700, it is home to at least three manufacturing companies, a college, a performing arts center, a downtown movie theater, a hospital,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — WinCycle, the Windsor nonprofit that sells refurbished laptops for a fraction of the cost, has been sold to a New Hampshire e-waste collector and will close its Main Street store this summer.But the service WinCycle provides is not entirely...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Anyone who has ever dreamed of running their own country inn can now pick up one — or both — of two luxury historic inns in the Upper Valley for bargain-basement prices.The Windsor Mansion Inn in Windsor, which last year was put up for sale...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — It probably doesn’t mean the New York Yankees are going to move spring training to the Upper Valley, but an executive with the team is tied to ownership of a historic inn and restaurant in town that is on the market.Tony Bruno, chief...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When brothers Allen and Charlie Hall followed their father into the family’s Ford dealership business in 1975, Ford’s midsize Granada sedan was the hot new car on the market, gas was 57 cents at the pump and New England Ford...