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 CLAREMONT — Two Upper Valley elementary schools have been awarded grants from the Children’s Literacy Foundation, known as CLiF.Maple Avenue School in Claremont and Union Street School in Springfield, Vt., are part of a group of 10 schools in the...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Two Upper Valley towns, Woodstock and Norwich, will ask their voters at Town Meeting whether to eliminate the position of town lister, which is an elected office, and replace it with a professional assessor who is hired by the...

Two Upper Valley libraries have started up programs that aim to help residents learn to mend clothing.Woodstock’s Norman Williams Public Library began hosting a Mending Circle on Jan. 11. The group will meet from 2 to 3 p.m. on the second and fourth...

WOODSTOCK — Two Upper Valley school districts have been awarded around $1.2 million each to electrify their school bus fleets.The White River Valley Supervisory Union and the Windsor Central Unified Union School District are among the recipients of...

ENFIELD — The Enfield Selectboard is requesting “in the strongest possible terms” that people wear face masks in public.The request came in the form of a resolution issued on Thursday and posted online.Specifically, the Selectboard asks that where...

HS notebook: Two baseball programs changing coaches "> Claremont coach Paul Silva watches the action from his dugout in Norwich, Vt., on July 2, 2012. (Valley News - Tris Wykes) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Valley News file — Tris Wykes "> Hartford JV assistant Dylan Spencer, left, and varsity assistant Bill Vielleux, right, look over a slow motion film of Vielleuxs son, varsity pitcher Colin Vielleux, wa...

HANOVER — Two Upper Valley residential colleges announced this week that they plan to require employees as well as students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before the next academic year begins.Dartmouth College plans to expand its current...

Lebanon, Mascoma seeking new girls basketball coaches Lebanon head coach Emily Kehoe and assistant coach Chris Boucher speak with the team during a timeout in their game with Hanover in Lebanon, N.H., on Feb. 23, 2021. Hanover won, 29-28. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 4/24/2021 10:23:38 PM Two Upper Valley high schools are looking for a new head girls basketball coach. ...

Two with Upper Valley ties will have jobs in Biden administration Then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and his chief of staff, Jon Finer, meet with members of a U.S. delegation in Vienna, Austria, in 2015. Finer, a Norwich native, has been named to a senior post in the Biden White House. ap file — CARLOS BARRIA Moran Published: 1/20/2021 5:15:26 PM Two Upper Valley natives will assume prominent posts in the White House when President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday. J...

COVID-19: More cases found at Sullivan County, Hanover nursing homes Modified: 1/12/2021 9:56:45 PM UNITY — COVID-19 cases at senior living facilities in the Upper Valley continue to climb. An outbreak at Sullivan County Health Care in Unity has grown to include 20 people, according to Ted Purdy, the nursing home’s administrator. Since Jan. 5, 11 residents and nine workers have tested positive for the virus, Purdy said in an email. Additional testing of both residents and workers took place...