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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As Hartford school officials consider the drastic step of tearing down and rebuilding major portions of the town’s high school in order to address chemical contamination, other Upper Valley school districts have yet to find out if their buildings are plagued by now-banned toxic construction materials.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTFORD — Property values soared after the first town-wide reappraisal in eight years, leaving some homeowners baffled.

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 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.

Charlotte Lyman sweeps her steps and walkway last month in Hartford, her home where Lyman has lived for 49 years while raising her family. The farm originally belonged to her husband's grandparents.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — More than half of Hartford High School needs to be razed and rebuilt because of chemical contamination, and school officials are scrambling to find funding to begin addressing the problem.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

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

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

QUECHEE — A construction worker was injured after being trapped under a street sweeper on Quechee Main Street Friday evening as crews worked on a paving project.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLLS

HARTFORD — The Selectboard has canceled a special meeting scheduled for next week to consider adopting a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

QUECHEE — When Mick Maguire bought the Antiques Collaborative at Waterman Hill last year he envisioned revamping the store.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Michael Redmond, who has served as executive director of the Upper Valley Haven for seven years, will step down from his role later this year.

GalileaAtencio, 9, and her brother Kingston Atencio, 12, wind twine around what will be roosting bars in the chicken coop they are helping to put together with their father on Tuesday in White River Junction. The family recently got nine chicks, which are living in Galilea’s bedroom under a heat lamp. This is the first time they have raised chickens, and the family is excited to be getting their own eggs.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTFORD — In an effort to spur growth, the town has hired its first housing and development specialist.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Joan Ponzoni wasn’t feeling well when she arrived at the Bugbee Senior Center one day in January.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Bob Stange expected to be spending Monday morning in a courtroom, fighting his landlord for the right to stay in his apartment.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Upper Valley librarians are concerned that the proposed elimination of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services and the financial support it provides will limit patrons’ access to ebooks, audiobooks, interlibrary loan and other services that the agency helps support.

Will Spain, of South Royalton, uses a leaf blower to encourage a burn pile he and his employer Michael Wood, of West Hartford, are burning on Wednesday. Wood is in his excavator for the permitted job, cleaning up a section of his land along the White River in West Hartford. Wood uses the land in the summer for swimming and family reunions.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — From the outside, Hartford Memorial Middle School looked about as empty as expected on a Friday night. The building’s windows were dark, and only a handful of cars peppered the large parking lot.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Technology and career centers in White River Junction and Bradford, Vt., will offer women-only welding classes as part of a new training series aimed at recruiting more women into the welding field.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTFORD — After more than a year of uncertainty over district leadership, the School Board has chosen a permanent superintendent.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Bugbee Senior Center is looking for community members to volunteer their skills for a Repair Fair in April.