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By PATRICK ADRIAN

HAVERHILL — The town administrator announced this week she is parting ways with Haverhill, citing hostility from members of the community that have created a stressful and difficult work environment.Brigitte Codling resigned as town administrator at...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NORTH HAVERHILL — The Grafton County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on a proposed $56.3 million budget on Tuesday at the county administration building beginning at 6 p.m.The spending plan represents an increase of about 4.8%, or $2.5...

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 FRANCES MIZE

HAVERHILL — At last month’s Town Meeting, Haverhill voters were asked to appropriate $5,000 to a nonprofit that gives backpacks filled with school supplies to New Hampshire children entering foster care.“This is my charity,” said then-Town Manager...

HAVERHILL — SAU 23 has chosen a new superintendent, who will start July 1. Dolores Fox will replace outgoing Superintendent Laurie Melanson, who is retiring in June, according to a news release from the district, which includes the Upper Valley towns...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Upper Valley voters were divided on short-term rental ordinances during New Hampshire Town Meeting voting.During floor meetings Saturday, Enfield and Haverhill residents turned back short-term rental ordinances.Haverhill residents “postponed...

HAVERHILL — Police recovered fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, from the Haverhill Cooperative Middle School campus late last week. On Thursday, officers from the Haverhill Police Department were dispatched to the school grounds after a clear bag filled...

HAVERHILL — Voters passed all warned articles at the annual Haverhill Cooperative School District meeting.By ballot, voters approved a $2.29 million bond for renovations at the Woodsville Elementary School, 112-18, and to raise $57,230 from taxation...

By FRANCES MIZE

HAVERHILL — Voters in Haverhill rejected a proposal on Saturday that would have gotten rid of traditional Town Meeting in favor of so-called SB2 balloting.Under SB2 — short for New Hampshire Senate Bill 2, passed in 1995 — towns vote on all warrant...

HAVERHILL — Voters opted to no longer have a town manager in a ballot vote on Tuesday, 361 to 323.Voters’ approval of the petitioned article moves Haverhill toward a town administrative form of government.Also at the polls on Tuesday, voters elected...

Article of note: A petitioned article seeks to eliminate the position of town manager and move to a town administrative form of government. Separate articles would have voters adopt ordinances on short-term lodgings, false alarms and frivolous...

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 33-year-old Vermont man currently serving time for robbing a convenience store has pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a minor in Lebanon police sting operation.Joey Sherwood, formerly of Rutland, pleaded guilty to charges of...

NORTH HAVERHILL — Former SAU 6 Superintendent Michael Tempesta withdrew his name from consideration for the top post at SAU 23.Tempesta was fired from SAU 6, which includes Claremont and Unity, earlier this month. The SAU 23 School Board subsequently...

NORTH HAVERHILL — Michael Tempesta, who was fired last week by the SAU 6 School Board, has been named a finalist for the SAU 23 superintendent position.Tempesta had served SAU 6, which includes Claremont and Unity, since July 2019 before being...

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 45-year-old woman who told police that she was following God's commands when she was discovered hiding in a closet inside Chiplin Enterprises in West Lebanon last year will plead guilty or no contest to trespassing and other...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Attorneys who led the Claremont school-funding lawsuits in the 1990s that established a constitutional right to an adequately funded education have filed a new lawsuit against the state, asking the court to direct the state to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Multiple Upper Valley schools will be closed this week, some of them for multiple days, because of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases among staff and students.Schools in the Orange East Supervisory Union including Thetford Elementary, Bradford...

By TIM CAMERATO

WEST LEBANON — Support is building to extend New Hampshire’s statute of limitations for sexual assault after the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester this week released a list of priests credibly accused of abusing children. Meanwhile, attorneys...

By JORDAN CUDDEMI

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Chelsea man who was sentenced to 25 years to life for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors has withdrawn his request to get out of prison early following objections from the victims’ family.James...

By JORDAN CUDDEMI

NORTH HAVERHILL — After pleading guilty on Tuesday to misusing thousands of dollars of the Hanover School District’s money, former Bernice A. Ray School Principal Matthew Laramie said he looks forward to putting the recent past behind him.Laramie, who...