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By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the first time since the spring of 1975, parking meters are set to cast shadows over downtown streets after the Hartford Selectboard voted to bring them back, albeit in a more modern form.In a unanimous vote Tuesday night,...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — Sweetland Farm’s owners are seeking town approval to grade and fill an approximately 400-foot stretch of slope on the east side of Route 132 by the intersection of Union Village Road in hopes that a more gradual hill from the road into their...

By JIM KENYON

With the help of family and volunteers, Jed Smith and his mother, Martha, have made noticeable progress in cleaning up their two properties that Lyme officials have asserted for years violate the town’s zoning ordinance.The Smiths have removed five...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Community members voiced disappointment this week that a planned forum about the police department’s response to a May pro-Palestinian protest on the Dartmouth College Green is scheduled when many people are away and participants won’t be...

By JIM KENYON

LYME — At Town Meeting in March, Lyme voters approved spending $150,000 to “remove the materials,” which include two dozen unregistered vehicles, stored on two private properties owned by a working-class mother and son.The paper ballot vote in one of...

SHARON — The Selectboard said it will decide within 30 days what action to take against the owner of a dog that bit a jogger as he was running past the dog owner’s home, causing wounds requiring the jogger to make multiple visits for medical...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Departing Town Manager Alex Torpey will receive more than $135,000 in severance from the town, according to a separation agreement between Torpey and the Selectboard. But the reason for the parting of ways remains unclear. Last week, the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — In a decision that left residents with more questions than answers, the chairman of the town’s Selectboard unexpectedly submitted his resignation earlier this month, stating that he could no longer continue in the job for ethical reasons,...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Residents are asking Selectboard members and town staff to resume attending meetings in-person, expressing concern about a decline in the quality of interpersonal interaction.For more than three months, Tracy Hall has been mostly empty...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — A downtown street will be closed to vehicle traffic for much of the summer so that town officials can determine the costs and benefits of converting it into a pedestrian plaza.From June 26 through Aug. 26, Allen Street will be closed to...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard rejected, 4-3, a citizen-sponsored resolution in support of a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. support for Israel’s offensive on Tuesday. In addition to an immediate cease-fire between Israel and...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HAVERHILL — The town administrator announced this week she is parting ways with Haverhill, citing hostility from members of the community that have created a stressful and difficult work environment.Brigitte Codling resigned as town administrator at...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Hazardous chemicals appear to be leaking again from a town bridge that crosses Bloody Brook, driving town officials to consider new solutions to mitigate the continuing environmental threat.Petroleum-based chemicals have been dripping down...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford could be the next Upper Valley community to adopt a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. military aid for Israel’s offensive.The Selectboard will vote on June 11 whether to support an immediate...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HARTFORD — A project to hang banners on municipal light poles to honor veterans and first responders remains in limbo as the Selectboard tries to find common ground on the parameters of a banner policy.Two months have passed since a group of residents...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — State officials and area residents remain at odds over plans to fix the nearly 100-year-old Cheshire Bridge, which spans the Connecticut River between Charlestown and Springfield, Vt.The New Hampshire Department of Transportation had...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — In the only contested race on the annual Town Meeting ballot, two former Selectboard members and the owner of a local business are challenging the incumbent for a three-year term on the Selectboard in Tuesday’s election.Also on the ballot is...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Three people are vying for two three-year terms on the Hanover Selectboard in Town Meeting voting next week.Voters will be asked to choose from a slate including Kari Asmus, Jarett Berke and incumbent Joanna Whitcomb, the acting Selectboard...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard’s crafting of a new regulatory policy for displaying banner on light posts is leaving a project aimed to honor military veterans in limbo. Selectboard members said at a meeting last week that their...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Voters will have an opportunity on Monday to discuss articles on the proposed town warrant, including new collective bargaining agreements for three employee unions, amendments to the town zoning ordinance and a petitioned resolution to...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

BRADFORD, Vt. — Voters have filed a petition for a revote on a Town Meeting article they say was confusing.The petitioners are seeking to revisit an article rejected at Town Meeting on March 2, which asked whether the town should “cease the scoping,...