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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Susan Cohen first moved to Mitchell Lane in Hanover in 1975 with her three children, having never previously owned a car or a house.“She just picked us up out of some sense that it would be better for us out of Manhattan and in Hanover,”...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

PIERMONT — For those who knew her, and most people in town did, there was a simple truth about Abby Metcalf: No one worked harder or enjoyed it more.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHELSEA — Robert “Bobby” Hutchinson’s perseverance and spirit as he slowly made his way around the center of town with his walker was an inspiration to many.

By MAGGIE CASSIDY

Just about every morning for decades, longtime Hartland Selectboard member Tom White woke up and drove the town’s roads. “Every day he was out in his Cadillac, whether it was rain, snow or shine, just driving around, noticing things that I hadn’t...

By MAGGIE CASSIDY

FAIRLEE — Paul Sargent, the longtime Fairlee businessman and civic leader, was well known for his love of old cars, particularly pre-WWII Fords like Model As and others with V-8 engines. He kept about 15 scattered across a few barns, was a regular at...

By ELLE MULLER

HANOVER — As a Dartmouth College professor, writer and father, James Heffernan inspired those around him with his love of literature and passion for life.Heffernan’s children, Virginia and Andrew, affectionately called their father’s lust for life...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

STRAFFORD — As a social worker and mental health counselor, Margaret Ruth Whybrow understood she could often help someone by listening well.Whybrow explained her approach in a Valley News profile in the 1970s in which she described her work with The...

By KATE ODEN

LEBANON — A longtime community volunteer and board member at Upper Valley organizations and a first grade teacher at Plainfield Elementary for 26 years, Betty Ann Heistad succeeded in “making a difference in the world” child by child, her son Sven...

By ULLA-BRITT LIBRE

ORFORD — Catherine Butman Eastburn would sit in a folding chair at Lower Baker Pond’s boat launch in Orford and watch the loons for hours at a time.As a community science observer for the New Hampshire Loon Preservation Committee and an amateur...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

GRAFTON — Many will say there is good in everyone but Janet Sullivan believed it, and searched for it, never giving up on anyone battling a crisis in their lives.Sullivan moved from Massachusetts to Grafton with her husband, John, and two sons in...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

WINDSOR — After years in nursing, Mary Louise Sayles had developed her own vision for care, but finding a place to make that vision a reality seemed a long shot.Sayles, in her early 50s, was administrator of the Sullivan County Nursing Home in Unity...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH POMFRET — When landscapers came to cut the grass for Lysle and Elaine Chase, Elaine saw it as another opportunity to do what she had done so often in her life: Share with others.“My mother was an amazing baker, and when my father could no longer...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH HAVERHILL — Richard “Dick” Fabrizio cherished, and often reread, a letter he received about 35 years ago one March from a family that was returning from a vacation in the White Mountains the previous fall. They were looking for a place to pick...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Elaine Frank knew when, where and how to do the right thing for others.She could establish an instant connection with a large, diverse audience when talking about firearms safety and suicide prevention, offer support and comfort to someone...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

THETFORD CENTER — From her early years at Norwich Elementary School to her ministry later in life, Bertha Brown lived her faith of service every day and never wavered from her principles of dignity, acceptance and compassion for all.Brown felt a...

By PATRICK O'GRADY

ASCUTNEY — Royal Houghton struggled in elementary school, left high school after his junior year to join the Navy as World War II was winding down and he never earned a degree.Still his artistic talents, engineering aptitude, volunteer work...

By FRANCES MIZE

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...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

ORFORD — For nearly 30 years, Tony Patterson was a fixture behind the counter at Patterson’s Grocery and Deli.In recent years, he put in as many as 80 hours a week and sometimes worked alone at the Orford store, which sits at the corner of Routes 10...