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By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — As the school year comes to a close on Thursday, parents and students continue to express frustration with disruptions to learning at Hartford Memorial Middle School.The behavioral challenges continue even though the district has made...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Selectboard adopted a new policy on Tuesday that will allow banner displays on public street lights.The board’s 5-2 vote was a relief to organizers of a “Hometown Heroes” project, which plans to display up to 12 banners this...

The current controversy over the display of a politically-charged symbol at the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito comes at an opportune moment for the Hartford Selectboard as it continues to wrestle with the contours of a policy for...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Among the more than 500 people poised to collect their associate degrees from the Community College of Vermont on Saturday is Josh Cray, a first-generation college student and Fairlee native. Cray, 34, a father of two toddlers...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Traffic will be impacted next week on Route 5 in Hartford, where work has commenced to resurface about four total miles of roadway and to replace the traffic signals at the intersection of North Main Street and Hartford...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford could be the next Upper Valley community to adopt a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. military aid for Israel’s offensive.The Selectboard will vote on June 11 whether to support an immediate...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Upper Valley Haven’s temporary food shelf will close for around two weeks in June in preparation for a move to a new space.The nonprofit organization’s temporary food shelf, located at 608 N. Main St., will close Friday....

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — A Hartford man will be held without bail after police sealed off and issued a shelter-in-place advisory at a residential complex when the man allegedly threatened to shoot officers and burn down his condo building during a domestic incident...

By LIZ SAUCHELLIand JAMES M. PATTERSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Six Hartford High School students, and one home-schooled student who takes classes at the high school, walked out of class this week in protest of the treatment of Palestinians living in Gaza.After leaving the high school on...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HARTFORD — A project to hang banners on municipal light poles to honor veterans and first responders remains in limbo as the Selectboard tries to find common ground on the parameters of a banner policy.Two months have passed since a group of residents...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Planning and zoning officials have approved a plan to build more than 200 apartments off Sykes Mountain Avenue.A partnership of White River Junction-based Simpson Development Corp. and the Venezuela-based Pering Group has...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WILDER — The town’s Planning Commission will consider a proposal to convert a vacant former nursing home in a residential neighborhood into 38 apartments.Ledgeworks, a Lebanon-based real estate firm, is seeking to create 29 studio and nine one-bedroom...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This Memorial Day a new monument honoring the Hartford’s veterans will be unveiled, decades after the town’s World War I and II monuments disappeared from public view.A ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. Monday, May 27, at...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Green Mountain Power, an electric utility that services the majority of Vermonters, is scheduled to host an open house on Tuesday to discuss its next multi-year plan.The integrated resource plan, as it’s known, is updated every...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — A group of Hartford High School students think the adults around them are keeping mum on contentious topics such as the Israeli attack on Gaza for fear of getting in trouble, and it’s dampening their educational experience.At Wednesday...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The U.S. Postal Service will proceed with a plan to move mail sorting operations for Upper Valley communities from White River Junction to Connecticut, according to a USPS facilities study released this week.The plan is...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard’s crafting of a new regulatory policy for displaying banner on light posts is leaving a project aimed to honor military veterans in limbo. Selectboard members said at a meeting last week that their...

QUECHEE — The Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce needs volunteers to help out at the 44th annual Quechee Balloon Festival, which is scheduled to take place Father’s Day weekend in June.The festival begins Friday, June 14, and runs through Sunday, June...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — On a gray, drizzly Wednesday morning, George Miller, his son, cousin and brother pushed, pulled and cajoled 27 reluctant Jersey cows and six heifers out of the barn and onto livestock trailers that would take the animals to their new owner...