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By STEVE TAYLOR

Sixty years ago, Hollywood great Katharine Hepburn called the Connecticut River “the world’s most beautifully landscaped cesspool.” She had an estate at the river’s mouth in Old Saybrook, Conn., and in 1965 narrated a documentary film that told of centuries of pollution of the stream and advocated for action to clean it up.

Members of the Hartford Fire Department Swiftwater Rescue Team pull inner tubes out of the Connecticut River after safely rescuing their occupants who were stuck in a current near Sumner Falls in Hartland, Vt., on Saturday.“It’s probably not safe to...

By ALEX DRIEHAUS

New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella and Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark participated in the 12th perambulation of the states’ border on the Connecticut River in Hanover on Friday. State law requires the attorneys general inspect the...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSVILLE — Slipping a canoe or dipping a toe into the Connecticut River got easier in Woodsville last week. To make the river more accessible, the village hauled slabs of granite to build steps leading into the water by the fields of the Woodsville...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — The summer brush fire season has begun — and the beginning of summer is still a month away.Unseasonably dry spring weather is helping to kindle wildfires around the Upper Valley that caused several town fire departments to spring into...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Rescue crews retrieved a man who was stranded on the roof of his vehicle after it plunged into the Connecticut River in Plainfield early Wednesday evening, according to Hanover Fire Department.Hanover Fire Chief Jim Wheatley said...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — When the Norwich Historical Society was burglarized last Thursday, the first person neighbor Priscilla Vincent called after notifying police was Roger Blake, whose dedication to meticulously looking after the 1807 clapboard federal house in...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

There was a time when interstate high school matchups were commonplace in the Upper Valley. The Connecticut Valley League, which featured schools from both sides of the river, pitted the likes of Hanover, Lebanon and Stevens against Hartford, Windsor...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A 24-year old Dartmouth College graduate who returned to Hanover to attend his delayed college graduation ceremony this past weekend died after rescue workers recovered his severely injured body near the Ledyard Bridge early Sunday morning,...