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By JOHN P. GREGG

Two top-tier Democratic presidential candidates at opposite ends of the age spectrum are about to pay campaign visits to the Upper Valley, including to the vote-rich campus of Dartmouth College.Former Vice President Joe Biden will be making his first...

By TIM CAMERATO

LEBANON — Bill and Lois Fitts can recall when Route 120 was quieter and less congested with cars making the daily commute between Lebanon and Claremont.The couple moved to Creamery Road — a roughly 500-foot side street south of Cornish Flat — about 38...

By EMMAJEAN HOLLEY

Under the shade of the big top tent at historic Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, opera singer Caitlin McKechney tuned her “banjolele” — a combination of a banjo and a ukulele — and hummed an aria, meant to woo her tap-dancing love interest. Meanwhile,...

CORNISH — Police have identified the individuals responsible for damaging several mailboxes in Cornish and Claremont on Tuesday night.Cornish Police Chief Doug Hackett said the suspects are an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old juvenile. The...

CORNISH — Police are investigating whether an improvised explosive device was used to detonate several mailboxes in Cornish and Claremont on Tuesday night.Police believe the device, possibly contained in a soda bottle, was used to destroy at least...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

PLAINFIELD — Cory LeClair, recently passed over for the SAU 6 superintendent position, has been hired to serve in that role for the Plainfield and Cornish school districts.LeClair, who spent nine years at SAU 6 and is a Stevens High School graduate,...

By JEANNE SHAHEEN, MAGGIE HASSAN and ANNIE KUSTER

In 1885, the world-renowned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens sought to escape the brutal heat of New York summers while he completed a commissioned sculpture of President Abraham Lincoln for the city of Chicago. Promised by a friend living in New...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — Back in the 1970s, Fred and Shirley Sullivan were struggling financially with the dairy farm off Route 120 they took over after Fred’s father had passed away.With 150 cows to milk, hay to cut and numerous other jobs to keep the farm running,...

By SARAH EARLE

CornishLibrary bathrooms get approval but equipment storage turned downCORNISH — Cornish residents moved one step closer to getting bathrooms in their library on Tuesday but voted down an addition to the highway garage that would have housed...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

CORNISH — With the student body continuing to grow at Cornish Elementary School, voters at the annual meeting for the town’s school district on Saturday found little to fault in a $3.56 million operating budget that adds a full-time teacher and a...

By SARAH EARLE

The annual Cornish School District meeting will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, in the Cornish School gymnasium. Town Meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12, in the gymnasium.CORNISH — Voters will consider a 3 percent raise for...

CORNISH — The U.S. House on Tuesday approved a measure to rename the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site as a national historical park, which backers said could help boost tourism.“Saint-Gaudens is a treasure in our state and serves as an important...

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LEBANON — A 20-year-old Newport man has been charged with second-degree assault and theft of a motor vehicle after allegedly choking his girlfriend early Tuesday morning and then driving away in her car without her permission, police said.Nickolas S....

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Police say a 22-year-old New Hampshire man who grabbed cash from a gas station clerk early Tuesday morning and fled the scene in a waiting vehicle was apprehended in Cornish.Four Upper Valley police departments and New Hampshire...

Cornish — New Hampshire’s congressional delegation introduced legislation on Thursday to redesignate Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site as a national historical park.The legislation, introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate by Democratic Sens....

Cornish — Nikki Annis and Dave Gabrault, of Morrisonville, N.Y., have announced their engagement.The bride-to-be is the daughter of Pam and Bob Annis, of Cornish. She graduated from Hartford High School in 2009 and earned a bachelor’s degree in...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

West Lebanon — Despite challenges from school-choice advocates, it appeared that Democratic incumbents would hold on to their seats in two New Hampshire House districts in northern Sullivan County on Tuesday.With seven of eight of the towns in the...