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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Christopher Lane was among the people in 30 households staying at Shady Lawn Motel through Vermont’s motel voucher program before the state stopped funding emergency housing earlier this month.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

HARTFORD — Town officials are looking to a new 1% local option sales tax that took effect as of July 1 to help reduce the burden on property taxes, while business owners have conflicting opinions about it.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

WEST LEBANON — Fiber optic internet service is being made available for the first time to more than 26,000 homes and businesses in the Upper Valley.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The board of Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire has appointed a new chief executive officer. 

By MARION UMPLEBY

Three years ago, Elizabeth Kurylo, a choreographer living in Corinth, launched The Junction Dance Festival, a celebration of dance in the Twin States. What started as a three day event in White River Junction has been steadily gaining steam over the past few years.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Many of the nearly 40 farmers, consumers and organizers who attended a potluck and rally outside the Upper Valley Food Co-op on Thursday evening brought an usual prop with them: a long-handled spoon.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — After exceeding its fundraising goal of $10.2 million in just under nine months, Upper Valley Haven is preparing to open a new low-barrier shelter and resource center off Route 5 next spring.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Vermont State Sen. Joe Major, D-Hartford, hugged the Rev. Leon Dunkley of the North Universalist Chapel Society in Woodstock, while welcoming him to the podium during a Juneteenth Celebration at Lyman Point Park on Saturday.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — More than 4,000 protesters lined Maple and Bridge streets from Hartford Avenue to Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon on an overcast Saturday afternoon.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — Shelves at food co-ops in the Upper Valley were a little less stocked this week after a cyberattack on a distributor of organic foods reduced deliveries of certain goods.

By MARION UMPLEBY

HANOVER — Revolution, the boutique and consignment store on the corner of North Main Street in White River Junction, is slated to open a second location in Hanover, owner Kim Souza announced this week.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When I stepped into Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, an arts cooperative in the Tip Top Media Arts building, on Tuesday afternoon, it was clear that the work on display was not based on the Vermont landscape.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like most people who find themselves at the Filling Station, Anna Guenther and Jesse Pollard have been coming to the Gates Street watering hole for years to play pool and enjoy a couple beers.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — If there are playwrights whose work springs from a sense of contentment with the world, Marisa Smith is not one of them.

By MARION UMPLEBY

As the school year draws to a close, a group of six Hartford High School students prepare to display their work in a month-long exhibit at the Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Just as Alek Deva, his wife, Jess, and their two children were finishing dinner at about 6:15 Saturday, it started “raining sideways” into the house, Deva said, so Jess went upstairs to start closing windows.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Theater director and actor Jammie Patton confesses that she’s “always had an affinity for romance, especially the corny kind.” That preference is part of what drew her to “Maytag Virgin,” the romantic comedy that opened last Thursday under her direction at Shaker Bridge Theatre in White River Junction. 

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This week, two bedrocks of the Upper Valley, farming and theater, will meet in “The Vermont Farm Project,” a new musical generated by Northern Stage.

By NICOLE WINFIELD

VATICAN CITY — He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore South Sudan’s rival leaders to make peace.

GalileaAtencio, 9, and her brother Kingston Atencio, 12, wind twine around what will be roosting bars in the chicken coop they are helping to put together with their father on Tuesday in White River Junction. The family recently got nine chicks, which are living in Galilea’s bedroom under a heat lamp. This is the first time they have raised chickens, and the family is excited to be getting their own eggs.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As a broadcast news outlet and a community hub for burgeoning artists and filmmakers, JAM (Junction Arts & Media) traverses the space between the factual and the fanciful.