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Ramp from I-93 to I-89 to be closed for repairs Tuesday
Incident that led to school lockdown in Haverhill was hoax, officials say
New London public works facility issues complicate revote on police station project
Dog dies when car rolls into Lake Fairlee
Dump truck driver faces charges in death of pedestrian in Newport
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.
‘You leave feeling healed’: Indigenous communities celebrate at Dartmouth’s Powwow
Hundreds of people gathered at Dartmouth College’s annual powwow Saturday to reconnect with friends, dance and sing. For many, it was also a time to celebrate a culture they say is too often unrecognized by non-Indigenous people.
Upper Valley Super Compost Project teaches schools how to manage waste
Kenyon: The power-to-the-people side of Woodstock
Editorial: Graduation wisdom from a legendary American
Uncertainty surrounds PCB contamination in Vermont schools
Sports
Local Roundup: Hartford and Hanover girls lacrosse teams win
Hartford 13, Brattleboro 4
High school lacrosse: Scoring outburst sends Lebanon girls past Pelham
Hartford softball coach ‘just wanted them to get excited about this sport’
Local Roundup: Hartford girls lacrosse remains undefeated
Local roundup: Hanover shuts out Manchester in girls lacrosse
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.
Editorial: Vermont judge defends free speech
Editorial: Free speech detentions reach into Upper Valley
Editorial: New Hampshire budget shortfall is a crisis of Republican design
Editorial: Time is running out for American democracy
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.
Photos
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.
A welcome home
Playdate
Full of energy
Front yard activism
e-Edition
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.
Art Notes: Northern Stage produces play about Vermont farm life
A Look Back: How the Connecticut River transformed from a polluted waterway to a scenic one 
Upper Valley DJs follow own passions while bringing life to the party
Fairlee Drive-in won’t open for season this summer
Obituaries
David Michael DiFrancesco
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
Marie Garneau
Hartland, VT - Marie A. Garneau, age 76, passed Saturday, May 10, 2025. A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition of the Valley News. Knight Funeral Home of White River Jct., has been entrusted with arrangements. ... remainder of obit for Marie Garneau
Kenneth H. Sensenig
Grafton, NH - Ken passed away Monday, May 5, 2025, at the age of 84. He grew up in Norwich, VT with his father Herbert and mother Mimi Sensenig on a peaceful farmstead. Ken last worked at Dartmouth College where he met his wife of 38 ye... remainder of obit for Kenneth H. Sensenig
Calista Ann Levakis
Hanover, NH - Calista Ann Levakis died unexpectedly on April 25, 2025, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. She was born to Kimberlee Collins and Gage Levakis on April 11, 2025. Though only here 14 days, her time here f... remainder of obit for Calista Ann Levakis
