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

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Village trustees concluded that evidence of the town police chief’s lack of leadership was so “damning” that they were left with no choice but to uphold the municipal manager’s decision to demote him to the entry-level rank he held when joining the force as a rookie 25 years ago.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BETHEL — A high-profile police operation that involved officers outfitted in tactical gear and gas masks deploying rocket-launched tear gas canisters and stun grenades has won praise from town officials and residents, who have complained about a rise in drug-related crime in the area.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — More than seven years after he shot and killed his wife in front of her 5-year-old nephew at their South Royalton home, 77-year-old Frank Sanville was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison this week.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Former police chief Joe Swanson has filed a $5 million lawsuit against village trustees and the municipal manager that alleges he was unlawfully ousted from his job and “maliciously maligned.”

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The owner of a furniture store which has helped furnish Upper Valley homes for decades says a sharp drop in sales forced him to close his showroom.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A Chinese national Dartmouth College graduate student whose legal status had been terminated by the federal government is back on campus in Hanover after authorities reversed their decision.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Police Chief Joe Swanson has be demoted to patrol officer after a ruling by the Woodstock Village Trustees.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — A legal challenge over whether the sentence imposed on the convicted murderer of two Dartmouth College professors violates the state’s constitution has been sent back to a lower court by the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — The town’s firefighters responded to nearly simultaneous brush fires ignited by gusty winds over the weekend as officials urged the public to make doubly sure outdoor fires are thoroughly extinguished amid the spring wildfire season.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 74-year-old Newbury, Vt., man who shot and killed his 38-year-old daughter when she came to his home for a welfare check has been found insane and will not stand trial.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BURLINGTON — A former Grantham physician was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution for unlawfully distributing opioid medication to clients at drug rehabilitation clinics that he co-owned with another former Upper Valley doctor.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A state Superior Court judge has sentenced a Dartmouth College alumnus to 20 to 40 years in state prison for raping a woman at a campus fraternity house in 2022.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — State prosecutors are seeking a 30- to 60-year prison sentence for Kyle Clampitt, the Dartmouth College alumnus who was convicted earlier this year of raping an 18-year-old first-year student on the rooftop of a campus fraternity house in 2022.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The Trump administration’s promise to deport millions of foreign nationals who it says are in the U.S. illegally has reached into the Upper Valley as two individuals associated with Dartmouth College have had their visas terminated, leading one of them to sue the Department of Homeland Security to challenge his deportation.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, Vt. — A Hartford man who was serving dual federal and state prison sentences following his arrest in a high-profile police raid nearly two years ago died in a Vermont state prison over the weekend.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

In a few weeks Dave Kemp will be making his annual pilgrimage to the Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans, where he will tour the open houses of sugaring equipment manufacturers clustered nearby.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSVILLE — After 138 years as an independent bank — and the oldest in the Upper Valley — Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank is merging with a Maine bank that in recent years has made a push into New Hampshire and Vermont.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — After months of delays, back-and-forths and testy exchanges between the developers and city representatives, the Lebanon Planning Board recently approved a one-year extension for the site plan of River Park.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Forgoing a formal search, Windsor Town Manager Tom Marsh has tapped Weathersfield Police Chief Bill Daniels to be Windsor’s next police chief.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Festering tensions within the Woodstock Police Department spilled out into the open this week as the town’s police chief fought for his job at a marathon public hearing where the town manager and several department employees detailed their complaints about and lack of confidence in the chief’s leadership.