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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 ALEX HANSON

Growing up in Springfield, Vt., in a family in which nearly all the men were machinists, Jeff Thomas had no plans to go into education. He was more attuned to the hardwood of the basketball court than to the classroom blackboard, and graduated 170th in his class of 210 students.

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 BEN HOOKE

BURLINGTON — After waiting 37 years for their second baseball championship, a third took hardly as long for Thetford Academy.

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 TRIS WYKES

SOUTH ROYALTON — Dark storm clouds drifted over nearby hills to the west and dropped a watery deluge here early Tuesday evening. It soaked members of the White River Valley High baseball team, gathered in the outfield for a team picture after staging a late rally to beat BFA-Fairfax, 3-2, in the eighth inning of their VPA Division III semifinal.

By BEN HOOKE

BURLINGTON — What do you even do as a senior class that’s won everything you can win?

By BEN HOOKE

BURLINGTON — An afternoon that began with members of the White River Valley track and field team singing the national anthem did not end on quite the perfect note for the Wildcats dream of a fourth consecutive state title in girls track.

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 BEN HOOKE

WOODSTOCK — Riding a wave of fan support and a raucous energy, the White River Valley baseball team closed out a perfect regular season by downing upset-minded Woodstock, 3-2, in a nailbiter at the McLaughlin Athletic Complex on Friday night.

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 JAMES M. PATTERSON

SOUTH ROYALTON — Catherine Phillps, left, and Gemma Phillips, 6, of Poultney, Vt., and Kierra Rice of Granville, N.Y., walk back to White River Valley High School in South Royalton after Phillips had her class picture taken on the green on Tuesday.