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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — Over the years, Linda Smiddy has eaten lunch many times at the Thompson Senior Center.

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FAIRLEE — When Lake Morey’s ice skating trail officially opened Wednesday, it was the same as it was every winter: a miles-long glossy loop plowed and smoothed into Fairlee’s main winter tourist attraction.

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ENFIELD — The Zoning Board of Adjustment in a vote Wednesday evening stuck by its November decision to approve an access road that will cross wetlands to serve a proposed 300-unit housing project.

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WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Valley residents will have a chance to weigh in on a proposed 1.2% school district budget increase during a public hearing at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium at Mascoma Valley Regional High School.

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EAST BETHEL — The Middle Branch Grange has always been part of Jillian Dean’s life.

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CLAREMONT — In Maureen Spilsbury’s year of volunteering at Changes Boutique & Thrift she’s enjoyed a lot about the experience, from working the register to sorting through donated clothes.

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NEWPORT — Students returned to Richards Elementary School Tuesday after a wildlife services business thoroughly inspected the building for signs of bats. The school was closed Monday to allow the company to inspect the building, Newport School...

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ENFIELD — Abutters have filed an appeal of the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s approval of an access road for a proposed 300-unit townhouse and apartment project off Route 4, which would be the largest in town.Trae and Gwyn Dessert filed a “motion for...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

As a reporter, one question I am regularly asked is: “Why don’t you report on anything positive?” My response is usually to insist that we do, but the stories that garner the most attention — and tend to stick most in people’s memories — are usually...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Since the start of the year, 137 first responders from Upper Valley communities have taken a new two-hour training program put together by the Special Needs Support Center.About two dozen of the Lebanon police department’s 35...

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CANAAN — The town has received a $74,000 grant to put toward much-needed repairs on its historic 1793 meeting house.The funding for the Canaan Meeting House, located on Canaan Street across from the Canaan Street beach and Canaan Historical Society,...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Listen will hold a sit-down Christmas Day dinner for the first time in five years.The newly named “Upper Valley Winter Holiday Dinner” will be held for the first time at Listen’s dining hall in White River Junction. The event is...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard will ask voters to approve a local option sales tax for the second time in two years at Town Meeting.The local sales tax would add a 1% tax on retail items — including cannabis — sold in the town’s five...

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SHARON — Voters have approved the sale of retail cannabis in Sharon nearly two months after narrowly rejecting a similar measure.The vote was 295 to 196 in favor, according to results provided by Sharon Town Clerk Catherine Sartor after the polls...

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LEBANON — Dozens of people gathered in the book room at Listen’s Miracle Mile Thrift Store, while more waited outside the store holding tight to reusable bags in Friday morning’s cold air.Dorothy Syme made her way to the front of the crowd inside to...

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ENFIELD — Two one-room schoolhouses in Enfield have been added to the New Hampshire Register of Historic Places.The State Historical Resources Council, part of the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, added Lockehaven School on Ibey Road...

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QUECHEE — For around a decade, Pat Tivnan has been volunteering at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science to help care for baby birds.During her four-hour shifts, she’d feed the tiniest patients at the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation and...

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Every year, dozens of volunteers and organizations make Thanksgiving special.This happens in various ways: there’s people who put together meal boxes for families in need, those who serve meals at Thanksgiving Day dinners and yet others who volunteer...

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ENFIELD — A plan to build a roughly 300-unit housing development near downtown is one step closer to fruition after the Zoning Board of Adjustment last week approved a request to allow an access road off Route 4 to cross two wetlands.The road — which...