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By ALEX HANSON

NORWICH — A change in how Vermont funds public education will lead to a big tax increase in Norwich.Act 127, approved last year, assigns greater weight to students in poverty or who are learning English as a second language.According to a study that...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Two Upper Valley towns, Woodstock and Norwich, will ask their voters at Town Meeting whether to eliminate the position of town lister, which is an elected office, and replace it with a professional assessor who is hired by the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Two Upper Valley libraries have started up programs that aim to help residents learn to mend clothing.Woodstock’s Norman Williams Public Library began hosting a Mending Circle on Jan. 11. The group will meet from 2 to 3 p.m. on the second and fourth...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The Norwich Selectboard will ask town voters in March to consider a nearly $6 million budget for next fiscal year, comprising a $5.5 million operating budget and $450,000 in additional articles. The total spending would result in a 12.5%...

By ALEX HANSON

In meetings Wednesday, officials with the Hanover, Norwich and Dresden school districts considered cuts to budgets that will come up for approval by the districts’ boards in the next two weeks.Those discussions revealed two communities facing very...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — As time dwindles to finalize a municipal budget proposal, Selectboard members finds themselves with a dilemma — whether to present voters with a costlier budget than they’d planned or to scramble for roughly $200,000 in cuts.The Selectboard...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — The premier hotel in the Upper Valley for business travelers on expense accounts and well-heeled parents visiting their kids at Dartmouth College has a new owner.The Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Lebanon has been sold to a Denver-based...

By JIM KENYON

With 2022 wrapping up, I figure it’s time to share my wish list for the Upper Valley in 2023. Here goes: Enough with the Norwich Farm Foundation’s $1.25 million fundraising campaign to “Bring the Cows Back.” The Upper Valley already has Billings Farm...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The town — still without an acting town manager — will now be without a zoning administrator as well, as Planning and Zoning Coordinator Aaron DeNamur has tendered his resignation.In a letter to the Selectboard earlier this month, DeNamur...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NORWICH — When Walter Chesnut lost a chess match to Alexander Collins at the Vermont Open last weekend, he was pleasantly amazed.“I had not been dismantled so efficiently that way in a very long time,” said Chesnut, who organizes the statewide...

By RAY COUTURE

NORWICH — After a four-month search, Norwich has a new police chief, one with experience serving as a police officer in Vermont.Town Manager Rod Francis announced in a news release published by the town Wednesday night that Wade Cochran, currently a...

By RAY COUTURE

NORWICH — For the past decade, Jay Rimmel could count on his roughly once-a-month trip to Diane’s Casual Cuts to double as both a much-needed trim and a therapeutic session.That’s because Rimmel’s stylist, Laura Fraser, would blast 1970s jams from the...

By JIM KENYON

Despite her recent appointment as Weathersfield’s first-ever “Open Meeting Law Enforcement Officer,” Olivia Savage doesn’t plan to start carrying a gun and badge.Savage might, however, put a set of flashing blue lights on her car, she told me in...

By JIM KENYON

Andy Sigler was a captain of industry who earned millions as the CEO of Champion International, once the largest forest products company in the U.S. that made everything from plywood to copier paper.In 1984, after he stepped in to save a competitor...

NORWICH — Andrew Sigler, a former Fortune 500 CEO who after retiring to the Upper Valley 25 years ago built everything from a state-of-the-art dairy farm to a nationally-recognized golf course, died Sunday at his home in Norwich.He was 89.Sigler, a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — A new chapter is in the works at the Norwich Bookstore.Founders Penny McConnel and Liza Bernard, who have owned and run the independent bookstore for nearly 27 years, are selling their business to a Seattle couple who will take over next...

By TIM CAMERATO

HANOVER — High School Principal Justin Campbell recently announced plans to step down in June, ending a nearly eight-year tenure in Hanover.Campbell, who is in his mid-40s, has accepted the principal’s position at Middlebury (Vt.) Union High School,...

By SARAH EARLE

When Jake Guest arrived at the old Norwich farmhouse where Valerie Woodhouse and Eli Hersh were planning their spring crops last Thursday morning, he did something that still feels a bit strange to him: He knocked on the door.For nearly 40 years,...

By TERESA ODEN

On a summer afternoon in the 1830s, Capt. Alden Partridge, founder of Norwich University, looked over the troops assembled before him. Even though the captain’s uniform jacket had grown a little tight over the years, he was still an impressive sight,...