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By MARION UMPLEBY

LYME — In a unanimous voice vote at Tuesday’s Town Meeting, Lyme residents approved the town’s operating budget of roughly $3 million, which includes an additional $20,550 to pay for highway winter materials and ambulance services.

LYME — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters rejected a proposed zoning warrant amendment would have excluded propane and natural gas tanks from a provision that outlaws underground fuel storage tanks, 204-80.

LYME — Voters approved all articles at the annual school floor meeting on Thursday night.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Three towns on the New Hampshire side of the Upper Valley are asking voters to reconsider how or when they hold votes on municipal issues this year.

Articles of note: A proposed zoning warrant amendment would exclude propane and natural gas tanks from a provision that outlaws underground fuel storage tanks. A petitioned warrant article asks whether voters support having two sessions for town meeting, one for ballot voting for officers and the other at a date set by the Selectboard for other business.

LYME — The school district announced last week that it is accepting applications for a new part-time superintendent for the 2025-2026 school year. The district includes the Lyme School, which serves roughly 200 students in grades K-8, and about 100...

At the Woodstock Rotary Christmas Tree sale, Liv Bewick examines a tree using her phone while her father Gordon Bewick holds it and her mother Phyllis Bewick looks it over on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, in Woodstock, Vt. The family scrutinized a number of...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

LYME — For Allan Newton, teaching was not only a way to earn a living. It was a way of life.For more than 25 years before retiring in 1994 to Lyme — the town where he grew up and where his parents ran the popular Camp Pinnacle from 1946 to 1981 —...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LYME — By 11:45 a.m. on Friday, about a dozen cars, one motorcycle and a bicyclist were lined up on both sides of the Lyme-Thetford bridge to cross as it opened at noon.About a dozen Thetford and Lyme residents were on hand to celebrate the reopening...

By JIM KENYON

It took going to Grafton County Superior Court this week, but Jed Smith can keep his 1952 International Harvester farm tractor in front of his vacant home, where it’s mostly sat for the last few years.Smith and his mother, Martha, have been in a...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LYME — Edgell Bridge, a historic covered bridge on River Road in Lyme, will close next Wednesday, Oct. 23, for repairs that are expected to take about four months to complete.The closure comes as Lyme residents — and commuters — are already contending...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LYME — Long thwarted by zoning and infrastructure challenges, the town’s Planning Board will take yet another crack at addressing the regional housing crisis at a meeting on Thursday.The board has scheduled a forum to get clarification on Upper...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

THETFORD — Two long-term infrastructure projects in Orange and Grafton counties are set to wrap up next month, to the relief of area residents and business owners.After more than 18 months and $9.4 million in construction costs, the bridge over the...

Roy Knights stacks firewood at his home in Lyme on Friday. A bead of sweat formed on Knights’ brow as he hauled loads of wood in 80 degree heat. “You know the old saying about wood,” he said, “it heats you twice.”

By JIM KENYON

With the help of family and volunteers, Jed Smith and his mother, Martha, have made noticeable progress in cleaning up their two properties that Lyme officials have asserted for years violate the town’s zoning ordinance.The Smiths have removed five...

By JIM KENYON

For Blake Allison, whose wife was among the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11, it’s never been about seeking retribution against the men accused of planning the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.It’s about finding answers.How did the plan...

By JIM KENYON

LYME — At Town Meeting in March, Lyme voters approved spending $150,000 to “remove the materials,” which include two dozen unregistered vehicles, stored on two private properties owned by a working-class mother and son.The paper ballot vote in one of...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LYME — The New Hampshire Department of Safety has denied a petition to limit the use of motorboats on Post Pond in Lyme.Nearly 40 residents — many of whom are affiliated with Friends of Post Pond — submitted a petition this spring asking the...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LYME — The New Hampshire Department of Safety will hold a public hearing in Lyme next week in response to a petition to establish a no-wake zone on Post Pond. The hearing on Thursday will be at 9 a.m. at the Lyme School, where representatives from the...