
Former South Royalton Market manager to take helm at Coburns’ in South Strafford
SOUTH STRAFFORD — The nonprofit foundation overseeing the future of Coburns’ General Store has found a successor for the outgoing owners.

Theater Review: The music makes ‘The Vermont Farm Project’ worth seeing
Long a ripe subject for literature, farming is difficult to dramatize. How do you squeeze a farmer’s lifetime of daily toil into the length of a play or a feature film? The necessary decisions can’t help but leave an incomplete impression.
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Sports

Dartmouth Roundup: Football holds spring game
WEST LEBANON — After some rough weather, the festivities also known as the Dartmouth College football spring game were moved to the Graham Indoor Practice Facility.




Opinion

Editorial: Dartmouth should join the fight
The president of Dartmouth, home of the brave space, has been notably absent from the list of college leaders speaking out against the Trump administration’s all-out assault on academic freedom and free speech.





Your Daily Puzzles

An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."

A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.

Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.

Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.

Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.
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A growing fundraiser
Ledyard Charter School botany students, from left, Kiley Harvey, 18, Sabrina Lopez, 17, and RyaPospychala, 16, right, search for an information sheet on Morning Glories to give Timber Holmes, of Grantham, left, who bought starts of the flowers at their Mother's Day plant sale in Lebanon. The sale includes annual starts planted by the students and house plants they propagated. Proceeds from the sale, which continues through Friday, benefits the school as it prepares to install a lift between the first and second floors of its building.




Arts & Life

A Life: ‘They all remembered Becky’
LEBANON — Sometimes when Sarah Schneider was working as a server at Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery in Hanover, she’d look across the room to her mother, Becky, who was doing the same.



Obituaries

Brownsville, VT - David Michael DiFrancesco, 65, passed away on May 5, 2025, in Rutland, Vermont, with loved ones by his side, after a recent period of seizures and declining health. Born on February 7, 1960, in Portsmouth, New Hampshi... remainder of obit for David Michael DiFrancesco

Enfield, NH - Margaret Elizabeth Smith Trumbull, 81, of Enfield, New Hampshire, entered into eternal peace on May 1, 2025, holding her husband's hand, having received loving goodbyes from her family. She passed after a brief struggle wi... remainder of obit for Margaret Elizabeth Smith Trumbull

Burlington, VT - The Rev. Francis Edward Connors died peacefully early Wednesday morning, May 7, 2025 at Elderwood of Burlington; he was 85 years old. The Rev. Connors was a native of Brattleboro and was born on June 21, 1939, the s... remainder of obit for Rev. Francis E. Connors

West Lebanon, NH - Dwayne Morse of West Lebanon NH passed away at the age of 58 on May 8, 2025. He was born February 7, 1967 in St Johnsbury, VT to Robert and Irene Morse. He grew up in Wilder, VT and graduated from Hartford High School... remainder of obit for Dwayne Morse