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By JOHN P. GREGG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Labor Day marks the effective end of summer, though we still have a couple of weeks to go on the calendar.But it’s been a long, tough year for almost all, and there’s also a heated presidential election less than two months...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WEST LEBANON — I stopped by a friend’s woodworking shop the other day and his dog came out to greet me, holding a roll of tape in his mouth.My buddy was on the phone, so Rowan, a small Lab mix, kept me company for 5 minutes, proudly showing his bounty...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WEST LEBANON — If you were a New England baby boomer in 1975, there was a lot to be excited about that summer.Fred Lynn and Jim Rice, the Gold Dust Twins, roamed the Red Sox outfield in remarkable rookie debuts, with Lynn winning both the Rookie of...

By JOHN P. GREGG

CLAREMONT — Twenty-five years ago this month, Tori Vicsik took the stage at her Stevens High graduation ceremony and sang, “Letting Go,” which she had heard country singer Suzy Bogguss perform at a fair a year earlier.“I just thought it would be...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WINDSOR — Fifty years ago this spring, Gov. Deane Davis helped launch the first Green Up Day in Vermont, and the interstates even closed for three hours as volunteers picked up beer cans, cigarette butts, old tires and other debris from the...

By JOHN P. GREGG

Back in the 1930s, Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola grew up across the street from each other in a working-class St. Louis neighborhood known as The Hill, where they played baseball, football, soccer and other sports together.They both grew up to be Major...

By JOHN P. GREGG

ORFORD — Town Meeting has a familiar pattern to it.Debate about school budgets, a regional issue with an environmental hook, a little pie at lunch, then a squabble about trash fees.That was the case 45 years ago, at least.Hanover residents at the 1975...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WEST LEBANON — A generation ago, a crowded field of Democrats were running in the 1992 New Hampshire presidential primary, hoping to unseat a Republican incumbent who many voters thought was out-of-touch on the domestic front, especially regarding the...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WEST LEBANON — The end of a decade prompts introspection about hardships faced, friendships that bloomed, new places that were discovered, and jobs that fizzled out. But it also serves as a mark for contemplation about how much has changed, and how...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WEST LEBANON — The end of the 1960s were a turbulent time in the United States, as the weeks leading up to the Christmas holidays in December 1969 attested.With the war in Vietnam going badly, abroad and at home, the U.S. government changed its...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Drive-in theaters were a major feature of American life in the second-half of the 20th century, and some remain in operation, including in Fairlee and Bethel.Their hold was so strong that nostalgia is helping to drive the effort...

By JOHN P. GREGG

BETHEL — Forty-nine years ago this month, a 30.5-mile stretch of highway opened between Bethel and Montpelier, setting the stage for a transformation and modernization of Vermont.It was the last stretch of Interstate 89 to open between Concord and the...

By TIM CAMERATO

Lebanon Regional Airport saw its first 75-seat commercial plane land at a newly expanded 5,500-foot runway 59 years ago this month.About 25 passengers flew into Lebanon on a Northeast Airlines Douglas DC-6B to great fanfare from airline officials and...

By JOHN P. GREGG

Thirty years ago this month, headlines in the Valley News told of stories that have ramifications today.The Idlenot Farm Dairy announced it was closing its milk plant in Wilder, part of the long, regrettable decline in dairy farming in the...

By GEOFF HANSEN

The more things change, the more they stay the same.While looking through decades-old issues of the Valley News, I’m usually struck with how cyclical the news business is. Concerns about traffic on Route 12A, whether the weather is wreaking havoc on...

By MAGGIE CASSIDY

When photo editor Geoff Hansen and I started a throwback feature on the Valley News Instagram almost two years ago, we of course noticed the ways that the Upper Valley has changed visually.Geoff wrote about that last month, when we launched this new...

By GEOFF HANSEN

For 40 years, photographs have long been a way of keeping a journal of the milestones in my life. I have documented my friends and family with a camera, whether it’s a special occasion or just an everyday occurrence.Looking back on those images, they...