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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SHARON — Every day after lunch, fifth graders at Sharon Elementary School take turns bringing cafeteria food scraps out to the school’s compost “palace.”

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HANOVER — Student activists at Dartmouth College are looking forward to a vote by an investment committee on a proposal that would have the college’s sizable portfolio divest from companies that support or profit from the Israeli war effort in Gaza.

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HANOVER — On Thursday night — one year after law enforcement officers from across the state made mass arrests on the Dartmouth Green during a pro-Palestinian protest — about 65 people gathered on the lawn in front of the college’s main administration building for a candlelight vigil.

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HARTFORD — The Selectboard voted Tuesday night to trash the town’s curbside recycling program starting July 1.

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WEST FAIRLEE — Town Fire Warden Will Ordway was driving home Monday afternoon when he noticed smoke and fire in the woods on Beanville Road near the border between West Fairlee and Vershire.

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CANAAN — One and a half years after the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services lowered the water level in Goose Pond to replace its dam, the state is preparing to begin refilling the 625-acre pond “within the next couple of weeks.”

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LEBANON — Since opening its doors in 1932, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital has been “Lebanon’s community hospital,” as outgoing CEO Sue Mooney described it.

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WOODSTOCK — The Vermont Public Utility Commission has approved the municipal purchase of the town’s water system, Municipal Manager Eric Duffy announced Wednesday.

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LEBANON — Civic Memorial Park has been without a playground since 2022, after the 40-year-old structure was removed for safety reasons.

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HARTLAND — Regulators are seeking public feedback on a 25-year plan that dictates how the North Hartland Lake recreation area can be used and its natural resources preserved.

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HANOVER — On a warm and windy Thursday afternoon, about 150 people gathered on the lawn in front Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College as part of a nationwide protest “in defense of higher education,” as English and Creative Writing Professor Patricia Stuelke described it.

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LEBANON — The Grafton County Attorney has declined to pursue charges against two Public Works employees accused of stealing from the city because of a lack of evidence.

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LEBANON — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital President and CEO Susan Mooney plans to retire as soon as her replacement is found, though the process is expected to take  months, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday.

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LEBANON — Two electrical fires Sunday displaced the occupants of two homes and left a cat dead.

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LEBANON — Public perception of Tesla vehicles is in flux, spurring at least one Upper Valley business owner to shift focus and some of the region’s owners of the electric vehicles to reconsider their purchases.