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By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The Zoning Board of Adjustment deliberated less than 10 minutes at its meeting Monday before unanimously approving a variance for a pig slaughtering operation at Granite State Packing on Sullivan Street, adjacent to the Claremont airport.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The School Board is proposing a 2025-26 budget with an increase of nearly 7% from the current budget.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CLAREMONT — In Maureen Spilsbury’s year of volunteering at Changes Boutique & Thrift she’s enjoyed a lot about the experience, from working the register to sorting through donated clothes.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — An application for a variance for a slaughterhouse operation at a pork processing facility on Sullivan Street adjacent to the airport will be discussed for the third time at the Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting on Monday.At the last...

CLAREMONT — A vehicle struck and injured multiple people in the parking lot of the Arrowhead Recreation Area late Tuesday evening, shortly after a fireworks display celebrating First Night had concluded.Five patients, including the driver, were...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

CLAREMONT — Dartmouth Health has partnered with the Early Childhood Education Association to increase the Upper Valley’s child care workforce. A total of $400,000 of congressionally directed funding will go toward the project, which aims to replicate...

CLAREMONT — The city announced Thursday that the Claremont Savings Bank Community Center will be open to the public as a warming shelter during extreme cold weather. The center is located at 152 South Street, across from the Arrowhead recreation...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

CLAREMONT — One resident of Marion Phillips apartments suffered non-life threatening injuries in a Wednesday evening fire at the 96-unit affordable housing complex.Golden Cross Ambulance transported the injured resident of the apartments located at...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council voted 9-0 this week to appropriate $1.24 million to repave Washington Street, a heavily traveled four-lane road that runs through the heart of the city’s commercial district.Wednesday’s vote came more than a year after the...

CLAREMONT — The City Council unanimously voted to purchase 20 parking spaces across from the brick building that until last year housed offices of two state agencies.The $45,000 purchase of the privately-owned spaces on Water and Crescent streets...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center and Valley Regional Hospital will be led by Dr. Matthew Foster, Dartmouth Health announced in a Monday news release.Foster began his role as the first permanent CEO and president of both hospitals Monday.The new...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The nonprofit that built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. has selected the city to host the “Wall that Heals,” a replica of the wall, next summer. The traveling exhibit, established by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — The planned opening of the emergency winter shelter this month has been delayed due to staffing shortages, leaving homeless community members with few warm places to stay at night.Upper Valley Haven, the nonprofit that operates the shelter...

By STEVE TAYLOR

Half a century ago the Upper Valley was ground zero for a battle between state power to compel citizens to display a message they disagreed with and determined dissenters willing to resist, even to the point of going to jail for their beliefs.Over a...

CLAREMONT — Officials are investigating after a man was found dead following an early morning box truck fire on Washington Street on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Office of the State Fire Marshal.The cause and manner of death of the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — It was “Creation Station” day in Sue Tuttle’s art class at Maple Avenue Elementary School and the excitement in the room was high.Seated around several tables, the 14 first graders from Julie VanInwagen’s class listened patiently as Tuttle...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — In a 5-4 vote, the City Council approved $75,000 capital spending for upgrades to bathrooms at two city parks but left out funding for a splash pad, which the Parks and Recreation Department and the city manager had proposed.Some...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council voted this week to move forward with the possible purchase of a vacant state office building at 17 Water St., which the city plans to resell for redevelopment.Ownership of the building will give the city control over its...

CLAREMONT — A planned 4.99 megawatt solar array off Grissom Lane that the Planning Board approved two years ago is expected to be operational by the end of next year, the owners of Power Investment LLC told the board Monday night.On Monday, the board...