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By PATRICK ADRIAN
HANOVER — Condominium owners at Gile Hill are facing steep increases in their monthly homeowner fees to cover the costs of insurance and long-term maintenance.Last month, the board of directors for the Gile Hill Condominium Owner Association notified...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
HANOVER — Dartmouth College has announced new plans to build “apartment-style units” with a total of 250 to 300 beds on West Wheelock Street close to the heart of campus and has pulled back from plans to house hundreds of undergraduate students on...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
HANOVER — With rental homes making up one-third of the town’s housing stock, Hanover is launching a rental housing inspection program to ensure that tenants are living in safe, sanitary and code-compliant homes.Planning and Zoning Director Rob...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
LEBANON — City Councilors said last week they would consider a multi-year tax abatement to support the development of a 196-unit apartment complex at the site of the former Woolen Mill building on Foundry Street.On Wednesday, the City Council had an...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
LEBANON — Over 40 city residents attended a community meeting on Monday to voice their questions, concerns or support for a proposed seasonal emergency shelter for unhoused individuals. Opponents who raised objections focused on public safety and...
By JIM KENYON
The Upper Valley’s housing crunch is making it nearly impossible for many employers to persuade workers from other parts of the country to move here.But Dartmouth College has come up with a remedy.Granted, it’s no magic bullet. Only an ultra-wealthy...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
HANOVER — Town officials are in early negotiations with nonprofit developer Twin Pines Housing Trust for the acquisition of 5 acres of town-owned land on which to build workforce housing.Town Manager Alex Torpey said the Selectboard is currently...
Vermont is trying to thread the policy needle by promoting, on the one hand, affordable housing and, on the other, land conservation. This experiment, in the form of two bills passed by the Legislature this year, will test the proposition that these...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
LEBANON — City officials will seek new proposals to redevelop the former public works building at 20 Spencer St., after plans to build 94 apartments and street-level retail and commercial spaces collapsed.On Wednesday, the City Council recruited the...
By LOLA DUFFORT, PATRICK CROWLEY, KEVIN O’CONNOR, EMMA COTTON and ERIN PETENKO
Sitting on a curb behind the Colchester Quality Inn on Thursday and surrounded by all of her belongings packed into grocery bags, Rebecca Bussard was crying. Her phone in her hand, she said she had been on hold for an hour and 20 minutes, waiting for...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
WEST LEBANON — After acquiring three commercial properties on Main Street, the city will continue leasing to the existing business owners until decisions are made for the land’s future use.On Wednesday city officials closed on the purchase of 14, 28...
LEBANON — Affordable housing nonprofit Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity is seeking a new executive director to replace Eva Loomis, who recently announced plans to leave the organization at the end of June. Loomis, who served six years as director,...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Developers are proposing an “extensive” apartment complex containing 240 residential units on Sykes Mountain Avenue, on an undeveloped 24-acre property sandwiched between existing single-family homes.The Hartford Planning...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
Housing supply and how to increase it will be an issue at several Town Meetings as voters consider zoning reforms designed to encourage residential development.Lebanon, Enfield, Hanover, Charlestown and New London all are seeking voter approval of new...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s request for a town zoning permit to build a 397-bed student residence on Lyme Road faced heavy opposition on Thursday from Hanover residents, who challenged the thoroughness of the college’s considerations for traffic...
By JIM KENYON
Lee Cutting and John Walsh were the best of friends. Whether they were good influences on each other is arguable.But they had a bond. His name was Jim Beam. “We put away a lot of bourbon,” Walsh told me.For 10 years, Cutting, 64, and Walsh, 72, lived...
By NORA DOYLE-BURR
VERSHIRE — Community members have launched a crowdfunding campaign in an effort to raise $60,000 to build a timber frame pavilion behind the Vershire Town Center building, according to a news release from the Vermont Department of Housing and...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Ongoing complaints by Hartford residents about old motor homes being stored on public and private lots has stoked community dialogue about the challenges of parking enforcement, as well as homelessness and obstacles to escaping...
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