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CANAAN — A temporary bridge will be installed over Gristmill Hill Road near downtown Canaan.In July, the Selectboard voted to close the town-owned bridge over the Indian River that connects to Route 4 near Dollar General. At its August meeting, the...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CANAAN — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Charitable Trusts Unit issued a report last month that green lights a path forward for the Mascoma Community Health Center to stabilize the center’s finances.Under the plan, the clinic on Roberts Road near...

CANAAN VILLAGE — School Street is now a one-way road throughout the year.The street where Canaan Elementary School is located was previously only one-way during school hours, according to an announcement from the town. It could be accessed via Route 4...

CANAAN — Canaan officials will post a 3-ton load limit to Gristmill Hill Road bridge this week in anticipation of closing it later this summer.“A significant hole has developed in the bridge,” interim Canaan town administrator Jack Wozmak wrote in a...

By PATRICK ADRIAN, ALEX HANSON and LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — Heavy rain, flash floods and rising rivers closed roads, damaged infrastructure and forced evacuations around the Upper Valley on Monday, as the region was expected to see its worst flooding since Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. The worst...

WEST LEBANON — The town of Hartford issued an evacuation order for those who live and work along the White River Monday afternoon.“The White River will cover the entire valley in some areas, and there will be widespread, devastating damage,” town...

CANAAN — A longtime Mascoma Valley Regional School District employee has been named the interim principal of Canaan Elementary School.April Guinness, who is currently the associate principal and athletic director at Indian River School, will start her...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Resilience, strength and perseverance were the main themes of Mascoma Valley Regional High School’s graduation ceremony Friday night in the school’s auditorium.The 73 members of the Class of 2023 entered high school in fall 2019 and in...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CANAAN VILLAGE — On the evening of June 2, 1923, after a fire had taken out most of their town center, Canaan residents gathered at the one church still standing downtown to pray.One hundred years later, on Friday morning at 10:30 a.m., residents will...

CANAAN — Canaan's town administrator has informed the Selectboard that he is leaving, according to the Selectboard chairman.Stephen Freese, the board chairman, said in a Friday interview that Ned Connell recently gave the board notice that he’s moving...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CANAAN — A group of residents studying town buildings is asking for public feedback about establishing a community center in Canaan.The group was formed earlier this year, in part, to see if there are any town projects that could qualify for New...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CANAAN — Leaders of the Mascoma Community Health Center and a Franklin, N.H.-based federally qualified health center are dusting off a partnership plan that was shelved in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The plan would make the Mascoma clinic on...

Staff Report

CANAAN — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Canaan voters supported the adoption of an optional property tax exemption for solar energy systems, 303-211.A similar proposal had failed last year.Voters also approved a general fund budget of $4.64 million,...

WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Valley voters approved all articles on the Mascoma Valley Regional School District ballot.Every town in the district — Canaan, Enfield, Dorchester, Grafton and Orange — voted in favor of the $30.5 million operating budget, a new...

By FRANCES MIZE

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...

WEST LEBANON — Some Upper Valley towns are inviting voters to cast absentee ballots for Town Meeting voting on Monday, in advance of a winter storm predicted for Tuesday, when in-person ballot voting is scheduled for many New Hampshire towns and...

Articles of note: One article asks whether voters want to adopt a standard and optional veterans’ tax credit and an all veterans’ tax credit as allowed under recent legislation, RSA 72:28 and RSA 72:28-b. If adopted both would be set at $200 per year...

Article of note: An article asks whether voters support the cost of a new teachers contract, which is $542,000 in the first year.Contested races: Suzanne Suttie and Tamara Cederman are facing off for the position of district treasurer.Budgets and...

CANAAN — Firefighters rescued a cat from a structure fire caused by a candle that ignited curtains in a living room in a Canaan Street apartment Wednesday night.The town’s fire and EMS departments responded to a 911 hang up call after 10 p.m. where a...

Staff Report

CANAAN — A man died after being rescued from the Indian River off Route 4 near Lafortune Road in Canaan early Friday morning, according to news releases from the Canaan Fire and Police departments.After responding to an 11:40 p.m. call, Canaan Fire,...