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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Springfield Medical Care Systems has rebranded as North Star Health, according to a Sunday news release.The name change for the Springfield-based federally qualified health center comes after the organization exited Chapter 11...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — A shooting on Valley Street on Monday afternoon required that area buildings, including Springfield Hospital and the town’s schools and town library, be placed on lock down while police searched for the suspect.A man was “was hit by...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield, Vt., man who had been incarcerated for more than eight years for sex offenses against minors was set free from prison last week after pleading guilty to lewd and lascivious conduct with a 5-year-old girl that...

CLAREMONT — Upper Valley humane societies were among the many animal rescue and shelter groups that saw donations surge last week in honor of what would have been Betty White’s 100th birthday on Monday.The television star, who died Dec. 31, was known...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — All 472 employees of the Springfield, Vt.-based Health Care and Rehabilitation Services have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the organization said in a Thursday news release.The nonprofit community mental health agency,...

HANOVER — After reaching a high of more than 750 cases of COVID-19 at the end of last week, cases at Dartmouth College dropped substantially over the weekend.The college’s dashboard reported 616 active cases on Monday. Still, case counts remain higher...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Nurses and other support staff at Springfield Hospital and the associated Windham Center for Psychiatric Care in Bellows Falls, Vt., voted last month to unionize, according to a news release from the union.In a vote of 35-25 on Dec....

HANOVER — Spiking COVID cases across the Upper Valley are forcing schools, arts organizations and businesses to make tough decisions in hopes of preventing the virus from spreading.Dartmouth College has canceled all college-sponsored in-person...

FAIRLEE — Old buildings live multiple lives, and sometimes they need a bit of a push to move on to the next one.For instance, Fairlee’s former post office building dates to 1934, and was expanded in 1968. In recent years, the building on Main Street...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Springfield schools reopened on Tuesday after being closed the day before amid numerous cases of COVID-19 in the district.The day off on Monday, a “September snow day,” was necessary because a quarter of the district’s students were...