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NEWPORT, N.H. — The Newport Area Chamber of Commerce honored local community members both living and posthumously during their annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony at the Newport Moose Family Center

Entering its 49th year, Newports Apple Pie Crafts Fair is becoming as traditional as ... well ... apple pie.

NEWPORT — The Newport Library Arts Center has added a second mural to downtown Newport, in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce. During the next five years, the two associations

The Library Arts Center and the Newport Public Art Collaborative — a newly formed partnership with the Newport Area Chamber of Commerce — partnered to create a new vintage postcard-style

When taking stock of a year, it’s really easy to focus on the challenges. As the Valley News recently highlighted with the year’s top stories in the Upper Valley, the region has grappled with affordable housing, municipal vacancies and a...

It’s always interesting to me when events happen in pairs. Earlier this month, two public art projects came to a successful conclusion on opposite sides of the Upper Valley.Newport’s Library Arts Center coordinated a remaking of the Newport Heritage...

There’s something about images that can make expressing yourself feel a little more comfortable. Feelings can seldom be described in a few words. They’re often too messy and too complicated.That too applies to talking about difficult experiences with...

When Newport put up a huge mural in 1997, everything about the project was new to its participants.Meant to commemorate both the town and its hosting of the New England Artist Trust Congress, the 48-by-12-foot mural depicts Newport as it existed when...

Out & About: Sunapee Region Arts Atlas puts the ‘art’ in ‘cartography’ A work in progress of the Sunapee Area Arts Atlas that is being illustrated by Dana Saulnier. The map will feature arts and cultural assets in the Sunapee region. (Dana Saulnier photograph) Modified: 5/15/2021 10:47:25 PM Two towns and a little over 20 minutes away from the Library Arts Center is the Gibson Pewter Museum. But looking at an atlas or GPS, it might not occur to someone to tie the Newport. N.H.-based and...

1 of 2 At her home in Newport Tuesday, Jennifer Stark (above) looks over her materials while making mixed-media collages to contribute to a new artists’ CSA for the Library Arts Center in Newport. At right, she thumbs through several pieces she has prepared for the CSA. The artwork will be mounted on blocks before being distributed to shareholders. “Anything that would uplift people is something that I want to be involved in,” she said. James M. Patterson ...