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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NEWPORT — Upper Valley municipalities and nonprofit organizations have received grant funding from the Northern Border Regional Commission for infrastructure and economic development projects.

NEWPORT — A minor sustained serious injuries in an ATV crash on a public road in Newport on Monday afternoon, New Hampshire Fish and Game reported in a news release.

NEWPORT — A Sullivan County jury has convicted a 42-year-old Newport man of multiple sexual assault offenses, including endangering the welfare of a child.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Class speakers at the 2025 Newport High School graduation touched on familiar themes of friendships formed, gratitude given and the inevitability of change that lies ahead, waiting to be embraced, not feared.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — Rite Aid pharmacies in Bethel, Randolph and Newport have joined the list of stores poised to shutter across the country following the company’s May 5 bankruptcy filing.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The School Board announced this week that Forrest Ransdell will be the next superintendent of Newport.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The developer of a proposed 55-unit housing project has changed plans due to updated floodplain standards.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NEW LONDON — Contracts had been signed and work was already underway on the New London Barn Playhouse’s new musical based on a children’s book by a local author when the email from the National Endowment of the Arts arrived earlier this month.

NEWPORT — In all-day balloting Tuesday, voters approved an $11.1 million budget, three-year contracts for police and public works and reelected two Selecboard incumbents.

JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A 38-year-old Grantham man who was behind the wheel of a dump truck when it struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk in Newport last week was arraigned in Claremont District Court on Monday afternoon on felony charges.

Articles of note: One article seeks $2.7 million for a lead service line inventory and repairs. Another article seeks $640,000 for the completion of the Unity Road Water Main Project. There would be no tax impact for either article as repayment of debt from the projects would come from the Water Fund. A petitioned article asks voters whether they will accept Lucinda Circle Way as a town road.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — A challenger is vying with two incumbent Selectboard members for two, three-year terms on the board in Tuesday’s election.

NEWPORT — A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a dump truck at the intersection of Central and Sunapee streets in Newport on Wednesday afternoon, according to a news release from Newport Police.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — When Larry Flint received a liver transplant in 1991, he was told he could expect to live another seven to nine years.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The process to evict a colony of bats from the attic in Richards Elementary School is scheduled to be completed while the students are on spring break, which begins April 28th.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

KELLEYVILLE — When Tim Fraser, Tony Grasso and Adam Bray opened Protectworth Brewing last May, they had a goal beyond producing craft beer.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Superintendent Donna Magoon announced her resignation in a prepared statement at Thursday’s Newport School Board meeting, citing the lack of support from one board member, whom she did not name.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — On a recent Sunday morning, a pickleball league had two games going at once in a 500-seat gymnasium, the centerpiece of the newly opened Newport Community Center on Meadow Road.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Selectboard is seeking public support for an $11.1 million budget this year, after voters rejected the board’s proposal last year.

NEWPORT — A 41-year-old Charlestown man who was behaving violently when he broke into a Newport home last year pleaded guilty and received an extended prison sentence due to already being out on bail while he was charged with a previous crime.

NEWPORT — The Library Arts Center is accepting submissions for its 14th annual Peeps Diorama Contest through Thursday, April 10.