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By JOHN LIPPMAN

BURLINGTON — When it comes to a doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit against Dartmouth Health, legal fees could end up costing the state’s largest health system more than the financial judgment itself.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The owner of a nearly century-old furniture store confirms that a rash of complaints from customers over undelivered purchases has put him under investigation by police and state authorities, but he says he has done nothing illicit to cause the failure of his business.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Just as Alek Deva, his wife, Jess, and their two children were finishing dinner at about 6:15 Saturday, it started “raining sideways” into the house, Deva said, so Jess went upstairs to start closing windows.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

SUNAPEE — Two full-time town employees have lost their jobs and public services are being reduced in order to make the nearly $800,000 in cuts required for the municipality to operate under a default budget.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A Vershire man who sent Lebanon schools into lockdown after police intercepted him approaching the campus in his pickup with loaded firearms will have his criminal charges set aside, so long as he successfully completes a court-ordered diversion program.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — After failing to reach an agreement on a new contract during seven months of negotiations, Dartmouth student workers informed the college on Wednesday of their plan to strike.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NEW LONDON — Contracts had been signed and work was already underway on the New London Barn Playhouse’s new musical based on a children’s book by a local author when the email from the National Endowment of the Arts arrived earlier this month.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — The longtime proprietor of the Four Aces Diner has sold the restaurant, three years after putting it up for sale.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The trial of an Upper Valley man who faces child sexual abuse and child sex abuse image charges has been postponed.

By MICHAEL COUGHLIN JR.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION— The Lebanon High School Raiders girls tennis team, which came into the week having not played any matches since the first week of April because of weather and having a different week of April break than most other schools, squeaked out a victory over the Kearsarge Cougars in an NHIAA D-III match on Wednesday at Maxfield Sports Complex.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Any Vermont school districts planning to test for polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, contamination this year will have to do without financial support from the state.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

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.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

BRADFORD, Vt. — Two Selectboard members submitted resignation letters last week. The departures come amid hostility and public outcry following upheaval last month on the fire department that saw the majority of members quit.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

POMFRET — The Selectboard plans to request emergency assistance funding through the Vermont Agency of Transportation after a landslide triggered by last week’s rain temporarily closed a portion of Pomfret Road and reduced a portion of another street to one lane.

By MARION UMPLEBY

SOUTH STRAFFORD — The nonprofit foundation overseeing the future of Coburns’ General Store has found a successor for the outgoing owners.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Last year’s city budget drew more public scrutiny than any in recent memory as the City Council struggled to strike a balance between reducing the high tax rate and preserving city services.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEW LONDON — New concerns about the town’s public works facility are overshadowing longstanding plans for a new police station as voters prepare to vote this week on two police station-related articles rejected at Town Meeting in March.

JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A 38-year-old Grantham man who was behind the wheel of a dump truck when it struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk in Newport last week was arraigned in Claremont District Court on Monday afternoon on felony charges.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — David Millstone and Sheila Moran were looking for connections when the couple started attending Memory Cafe programs at the Howe Library in Hanover last August.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — As Upper Valley ice cream shops polish their scoops and rev up their machines in advance of the summer season, two new franchises offering frozen sweets prepare to join them.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — The town is considering a fenced-in dog park at Huntley Meadows in anticipation of a new animal control ordinance that would require dogs to be leashed at the popular recreation area.