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By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — With berry season underway, Upper Valley farmers said their pick-your-own patches could use more sunshine to offset June’s rainy days and cool temperatures. A mid-May freeze also killed or damaged many fruit blossoms.While the impact...

By JIM KENYON

An 18-year-old Pennie Armstrong had just started training to become a nurse in the early 1960s when she contracted polio, even though she’d been vaccinated against the debilitating, life-threatening virus.Armstrong spent the next few months at the...

Sydney Leggett, who has been serving as interim superintendent of the Plainfield and Cornish school districts, has been named to the permanent role. Leggett is also currently the superintendent of the Grantham school district and will leave that role...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

MERIDEN — During the nearly 18 months the Meriden Library was under construction, 5-year-old Mary Bae would often ask her mother, Nalee Bae, when it would be finished.“We used to drive and check on the progress of the library,” Nalee Bae said.That...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

PLAINFIELD — When Plainfield voters at Town Meeting approved a proposal to establish a police department in 1975, resident Steve Taylor, who supported the idea, remembers the words of the first chief, Terry Kelley.“He said, ‘Being police chief in...

PLAINFIELD — In voting at Saturday’s floor meeting, voters approved all articles on the warrant.That included a measure to direct the Selectboard to appoint a committee to continue to study the town’s relationship with Kimball Union Academy in...

PLAINFIELD — In uncontested races in Tuesday’s ballot voting, Plainfield voters elected town and school officers.With 96 votes, Christian Forman earned a three-year seat on the School Board and Ron. C. Eberhardt, with 93 votes, earned a three-year...

By FRANCES MIZE

Tuesday’s late winter storm, which saw 13 inches of snow pile up in Newport, N.H., by noon, also brought tall stacks of Town Meeting ballots from voters who were thinking ahead. On Monday, Cornish Town Clerk Paula Harthan handed out almost 90 absentee...

Article of note: One article on the town warrant asks whether voters want to direct the Selectboard to appoint a committee to continue to study the town’s relationship with Kimball Union Academy in Meriden.Contested races: There are no contested...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

PLAINFIELD — A developer looking to subdivide around 140 acres of land to build 11 single-family homes in Plainfield will go before the town’s Zoning Board on Monday night.Michael Venditto has appealed a Plainfield Planning Board decision that would...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

PLAINFIELD — Sydney Leggett will serve as interim superintendent for the Plainfield and Cornish school districts following the resignation of Cory LeClair late last month.In an email to the community, Plainfield School Board Chairman Chris Forman said...

By TIM CAMERATO

PLAINFIELD — The former home of Plainfield tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown is on the market for $1.59 million after a two-year renovation at the 100-acre compound on Center of Town Road.The turreted 7,500-square-foot home where the Browns waged a...

By Patrick O’Grady

Plainfield  — The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday night unanimously approved a special exception to the use of the former Home Hill Inn property, the first step toward allowing a residential treatment center for youth to operate out of the River...