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In Manchester, a funeral for an infant no one knew
New London names new town administrator
Local Roundup: Thetford’s Junker Boyce wins three events at CVL North qualifier
Upper Valley farmers markets 2025
Town Meeting 2025: Hanover voters encourage town officials to avoid contract with ICE
HANOVER — The item that prompted the most discussion at the annual Hanover Town Meeting on Tuesday night was an article brought by petition calling on the town manager and police chief not to enter any agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
Theater Review: ‘Maytag Virgin’ fails to rise above cliche
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.
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Bradford Selectboard members resign following fire department turnover
Former South Royalton Market manager to take helm at Coburns’ in South Strafford
Dog dies when car rolls into Lake Fairlee
Town Meeting 2025: Hanover voters encourage town officials to avoid contract with ICE
Dump truck driver faces charges in death of pedestrian in Newport
Heavy rains cause landslide, temporary closure of Pomfret Road
Editors Picks
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
A Life: ‘They all remembered Becky’
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.
Local Roundup: Hartford and Hanover girls lacrosse teams win
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
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
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.
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
Dr. Allen J. Dietrich
Hanover, NH - Dr. Allen J. Dietrich, age 77, passed Friday, October 18, 2024. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 2:00 pm, at The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, 40 College St, Hanover, NH. ... remainder of obit for Dr. Allen J. Dietrich
Floyd W. Van Alstyne Jr.
Floyd W. Van Alstyne, Jr. Barnard, VT - Floyd W. Van Alstyne, Jr., age 105, passed Friday, May 9, 2025. A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition of the Valley News. The Cabot Funeral Home in Woodstock Vermont is assi... remainder of obit for Floyd W. Van Alstyne Jr.
Beverly Patten
Charlestown, NH - Beverly (Moodie) Patten passed away peacefully surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren at her daughter and son in laws home in Charlestown on May 10, 2025, at the age of 79. Beverly was b... remainder of obit for Beverly Patten
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
