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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,...

By Tom Blinkhorn

Hanover — Rousing applause and a scattering of misty eyes greeted 169 Hanover high graduating seniors on Friday night.Dressed in maroon caps and gowns, they strode slowly onto the turf athletic field behind the school, as the band, directed by Ian...

By Rob Wolfe

Norwich — At least one member of the Selectboard is proposing that the town abolish its listers in favor of an assessor-only model that he says could improve valuations and minimize conflict between professional contractors and citizen...

By David Corriveau

… I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return ... Robert Frost, — from Birches Growing up in North Conway, N.H., in...

By David Corriveau

While hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 1948, Earl Shaffer followed a stretch of the old King’s Highway in North Pomfret, between a farmhouse and a barn, en route to the White River in West Hartford.Shaffer was the first person to...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Lebanon — A 32-year-old Randolph man is being held on $10,000 cash bail after police say he lured a teen to a secluded spot in West Lebanon this summer and assaulted and tormented him.Kristopher Locke allegedly duped the 17-year-old boy into thinking...

By John Lippman

Hanover— It was a tough year for mom-and-pop stores in the Upper Valley.At least nine longtime independent retail stores closed their doors in 2016, accelerating a trend that has been especially noticeable since the end of the 2008-09 recession. The...

By Rob Wolfe

Norwich — Grace Alden, a transgender woman and retired Lebanon police officer, described the daily struggle for survival she and others face and offered lessons for a society that still does not accept transgender people in remarks to the Unitarian...