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Brenda Potter, left, of Sharon, Vt., helps Melanie Matulonis, of Lebanon, N.H., step out of a Cape Air Cessna 402C after a 20-minute scenic flight over Lebanon on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017, at the Lebanon Municipal Airport in West Lebanon, N.H. "It was really smooth," Matulonis says about the flight. "There are a lot of misconceptions about small airplanes." (Valley News - Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Lebanon Municipal Airport Offers Free Scenic Flights on Cape Air

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterDecember 10, 2017

Molly Hatch's grandmother Camilla Churchill was a painter herself. (Courtesy image)

Art Notes: Woodstock Native Writes About Her ‘Passion for China’

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterDecember 7, 2017

Elaina Cooper, 11, of Grantham, N.H., explains her drawing illustrating how panic takes over when she procrastinates on her school work during a coaching session with behavioral health specialist Dr. Linda Addante at the Alice Peck Day Multi-Specialty Clinic in Lebanon, N.H., Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. The session was part of the Rx for School Success program which identifies patients whose academic difficulties may be impacting their health, and vice versa, through a questionaire during their well-child visit. Those individuals are then given the option to meet with a coach to identify the patients strengths and challenges and help them self-advocate. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Lebanon-Based Program Eyes Learning Challenges Through Health Care’s Lens

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterDecember 4, 2017

Vermont author and activist Bill McKibben will be at the Norwich Bookstore for a reading and signing on Dec. 13.

Bill McKibben Pens First Work of Fiction About Community-Level Resistance

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterDecember 1, 2017

Gloria Durkee, a special education assistant, looks over the work of fourth-grader Grady Putnam, 10, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, during a spelling exercise at Westshire Elementary School in West Fairlee, Vt. Durkee said she has been working at the school for seven years and works with a group of about four or five students three times a week. (Valley News - Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Vermont Education Secretary Urges Shrinking Schools to Cut Staffing

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterNovember 28, 2017

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No One Injured in Newport House Fire

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterNovember 27, 2017

Ella Goodney, of Etna, leans into an RFID scanner on her way to the lift at Mount Sunapee Resort in Newbury, N.H., Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. The new lift ticket system uses plastic cards embedded with RFID chips. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Mount Sunapee Is Open for Season

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterNovember 26, 2017

Bise Wood Saint Eugene, of Lebanon, N.H., talks during an interview on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017, at his home in Lebanon, N.H. Saint Eugene is currently waiting for a hearing to be granted an asylum status in the United States from Haiti. (Valley News - Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Area Haitians Call for Action Before Mass Deportation

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterNovember 24, 2017

Tara Wray sits at her kitchen table with her dog, Nighthawk, and some of her photos laid out on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, at her home in Barnard, Vt. Wray has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund pre-sales for her hardcover photobook, "Too Tired for Sunshine." (Valley News - Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Barnard Photographer Searches for Light

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterNovember 23, 2017

Novelist and essayist Alexander Chee, an associate professor in the English and Creative Writing Department at Dartmouth College, received the Paul Engle Prize in August, 2017. The prize is awarded to an individual who "represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts," according to the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature website. Chee was photographed in Dartmouth College's Sanborn Hall in Hanover, N.H., Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Author Alexander Chee on Writing, Teaching and Gin

by EmmaJean Holley Valley News Staff WriterNovember 17, 2017