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Jim Kenyon: Norwich group stands up for the upper crust
03-11-2023 9:52 PM

By JIM KENYON

The names Manu Tesone and Omer Trajman didn’t appear on Norwich’s Town Meeting ballot, but their fingerprints were all over Tuesday’s outcomes.Tesone and Trajman are the founders — and pied pipers — of a group called Stand Up For Norwich formed last...


Town Meeting: Dresden voters approve new contract for maintenance and custodial workers
03-10-2023 11:15 PM

HANOVER — Voters in the Dresden School District approved all articles on the warrant in ballot voting on Tuesday.They approved a $31.1 million budget to support secondary education for the towns of Hanover and Norwich. That is up from the $29.3...


Town Meeting: Norwich votes to keep electing town clerk and listers
03-10-2023 11:11 PM

NORWICH — At the polls on Tuesday, Norwich voters turned down a 10-year property tax exemption for the Norwich Farm Foundation, 942-323.They also rejected a proposal to eliminate the position of town lister and replace it with a professionally...


Town Meeting: Longtime Norwich town clerk retiring after 30 years
03-07-2023 8:18 PM

By JIM KENYON

For nearly 30 years, Norwich Town Clerk Bonnie Munday has issued dog licenses, recorded property transactions, handled election preparations and performed the other daily duties that come with the high-profile public office.As Munday, 65, heads into...


Residents will decide if Norwich Farm is granted property tax exemption
03-03-2023 5:08 PM

By FRANCES MIZE

NORWICH — Voters will be asked to approve tax-exempt status for property owned by the Norwich Farm Foundation during Tuesday’s Town Meeting ballot voting.The 6.2-acre parcel on Turnpike Road is valued at more than $1 million and is home to Norwich...


Audit faults Norwich for poor financial controls, unreconciled records
02-28-2023 5:12 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — An independent audit of town financial records last fiscal year identified a list of concerns with account management, including unreconciled discrepancies, incorrect account balances and town expenditures made without written consent of the...


Town Meeting preview: Full slate of decisions before Norwich voters
02-28-2023 12:40 PM

Articles of note: Voters will be asked to provide town leaders with advice on whether or not to add a fifth full-time police officer to the three budgeted officers and chief. They also will be asked to weigh in on whether to eliminate the office of...


Annual Meeting preview: Affirming renewable energy sources for school facilities and operations is on the Dresden ballot
02-27-2023 5:23 PM

Article of note: Voters will be asked whether to affirm that the Dresden School Board establish policies to move school facilities and operations to renewable energy sources for electricity, heating and cooling, and transportation.Contested...


One on one in Norwich
02-24-2023 4:22 PM


Ashes to go
02-22-2023 7:29 PM


Two seats contested on Norwich Selectboard in tumultuous period for town government
02-22-2023 12:46 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Police staffing, administrative vacancies and the stability of town leadership are among the key issues in the campaign for the Selectboard, where five residents are vying to fill three open seats in voting on March 7.Selectboard Chairwoman...


Feeding the herd in Norwich
02-08-2023 5:03 PM


With school tax bomb looming in Norwich, Dresden district scrambles for solutions
01-28-2023 11:28 PM

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...


Woodstock, Norwich among Vt. towns rethinking elected listers to decide property values
01-28-2023 11:19 PM

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...


Out & About: 2 library clothing repair programs lead to storybook mendings
01-21-2023 11:17 PM

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...


Norwich Selectboard cuts budget, then approves it
01-16-2023 7:49 PM

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%...


Taxes in Dresden school district towns of Norwich, Hanover vary in clarity
01-08-2023 6:25 AM

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...


Norwich Selectboard ponders steep budget increase or deep cuts
01-05-2023 7:14 PM

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...


Lebanon Courtyard by Marriott sold to Denver-based investment group
01-05-2023 6:25 PM

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...


Jim Kenyon: A wish list for 2023
12-31-2022 3:00 PM

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...

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