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CROYDON — Nearly 60% of Croydon’s registered voters filled the vast dining hall at Camp Coniston to standing-room-only capacity on Saturday and reinstated the small town’s $1.7 million school budget.The vote count was 377-2, and its announcement by...

By ALEX HANSON

Childhood is a dreamy time. There’s too much coming at us to absorb all at once. Events blur together, a smear of colors, scents, song and cool evening air.In “Book of Sons,” an exhibition of photographs at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon,...

By ALEX HANSON

CROYDON — Voters have been asked to convene at 9 on Saturday morning to consider whether to overturn a drastic cut in education funding approved on March 12.New Hampshire law makes it a challenge to bring a school budget up for reconsideration. Below...

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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...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like any creature just getting its legs under it, electronic music had a wobbly start.Composers worked on cumbersome analog machines and recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. Concerts often consisted of composers placing a reel...

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SOUTH ROYALTON — A longtime law professor and higher education administrator will be the next president of Vermont Law School.The state’s only law school announced Thursday that Rodney A. Smolla will start work on July 1 and that the school’s board of...

By ALEX HANSON

CROYDON — Amid all the changes that have come to education in this town over the past decade, one thing has remained inviolable: Croydon Village School.Known in town as “Little Red,” the school dates to 1780 and is fondly thought of as one of the...

By ALEX HANSON

CROYDON — Around 50 residents met Friday night to talk about the proposed $1.7 million school budget that was tossed out on March 12 and how to get it reinstated.And after Friday night’s public hearing on the budget, the Croydon School Board discussed...

By ALEX HANSON

HANOVER — The renovated and expanded Hopkins Center for the Arts includes a new recital hall and a dance performance space between the existing arts center and the Hanover Inn, adding a new feature to the view from the green.The prominent new wing was...

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LYME — The Lyme School District has hired John D’Entremont to lead the Lyme School.D’Entremont, who has been principal of Lebanon Middle School since 2017, will take over in Lyme on July 1. The Lyme School Board voted to hire him on Saturday and he...

By ALEX HANSON

SHARON — Vermont’s Agency of Education has granted The Sharon Academy, and by extension other independent schools, the ability to receive public funding at whatever tuition rate it chooses to set.Currently, the school can set its tuition at whatever...

By ALEX HANSON

For years, David Fairbanks Ford knew a player piano was in his future.As the founder, proprietor and ringmaster of the Main Street Museum, Ford has spent most of the last three decades living on the border where material culture meets the fantastical....

By ALEX HANSON

Creativity isn’t something a person can just lock away, not without consequences.After recording an album when she was 25, Lisa Piccirillo had set aside writing music for a decade and a half for all the usual reasons: Other jobs paid the bills. She...

By ALEX HANSON

Between last year and this one, Enfield is slated to receive two payments of American Rescue Plan Act money totaling $474,349, Town Manager Ed Morse said.Town officials were unsure what they could use the federal coronavirus economic relief funding...

By ALEX HANSON

Though she remains in contact with friends who have fled Ukraine, Anastasia Rivet can take in only so much information about the war there.One family she knows has split up, with the husband staying to fight and his wife and two daughters enduring a...

By ALEX HANSON

ROYALTON — A metal building where residents of Bethel, Royalton and five other White River Valley towns dump their trash is in such desperate need of repair that it has been closed to the public.At the same time, the Bethel Selectboard has triggered a...

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When Filippo Ciabatti first came to the Upper Valley, to work as an assistant to Louis Burkot, the longtime artistic director of Opera North, he was already in the habit of following his career where it takes him.A native of Florence, Italy, who began...

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Paul Doton has been moderator in Barnard for 30 years, and his father was moderator before him.When he took up the gavel in the early 1990s, Doton said, Town Meeting was an event.“At that point in time, there were in excess of 100 people who came to...

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HANOVER — While Dartmouth College has put on hold its plan to build new undergraduate residence halls north of campus on Lyme Road, recent history suggests that if college officials see the project as a viable option, they will try to address...

By ALEX HANSON

For a long time, the focus on visual art in the Upper Valley has been on institution building.It’s worth remembering that the Hood Museum of Art opened in 1985, less than 40 years ago, and AVA Gallery and Art Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary...