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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

ORFORD — For nearly 30 years, Tony Patterson was a fixture behind the counter at Patterson’s Grocery and Deli.In recent years, he put in as many as 80 hours a week and sometimes worked alone at the Orford store, which sits at the corner of Routes 10...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Angela Ricker loved the sunshine and watching the trees move.While she delighted in the time she spent outdoors, it wasn’t always easy for her family to make it happen. Before her death at age 11 in 2015, Angela used a walker or wheelchair due to...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

ORFORD — When Jeff Smith was a young forester and new to the Upper Valley, John O’Brien was one of the first foresters he met and the two developed a close working relationship. As the years went by and O’Brien began doing scaling back, he suggested...

LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is scheduled to host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Wednesday.The clinic, which is set to run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., is slated to offer shots for children ages 5 to 11 and booster shots for ages 16 and...

LEBANON — COVID-19 walk-in vaccination clinics are scheduled to take place in Lebanon, Canaan and Orford this week.The first is scheduled to take place on Tuesday at the Upper Valley Senior Center in Lebanon from 8 a.m. to noon. Parking will be in the...

By JOHN LIPPMANand JOHN GREGG

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Lyme man was arraigned and pleaded not guilty on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing his cousin inside her home in Orford over the weekend.Lance Goodrich, of Pushee Falls Lane in Lyme, is being held without bail at Grafton...

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ORFORD — A Lyme man shot and killed his cousin in Orford on Saturday, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.Lance Goodrich, 35, of Lyme, is accused of killing Brooke Goodrich, 25, at a residence at 329 Route 10 in Orford, He is...

By TOM THOMSON

Over the years, the Thomson Family Tree Farm in Orford has hosted hundreds of tours, from school kids, international conservation organizations, elected or appointed state and national officials, along with many other groups.Recently we had the...

By TIM CAMERATO

LEBANON — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu criticized the Biden administration’s attempts to revive the economy during a stop in Lebanon on Wednesday, saying recent relief efforts passed by Congress tie the hands of governors looking for creative...

By JIM KENYON

The tire pressure warning light in her Toyota Prius popped up shortly after Sally Tomlinson had finished her shopping in Fairlee.The 80-year-old Tomlinson, who lives in Orford, drove to a nearby garage, where a mechanic found a razor blade in one of...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ORFORD — Road rage ran rampant at Orford’s Town Meeting on Saturday.The state of the town’s roads and issues over the equipment to maintain them dominated the three-hour meeting, with one tense moment as two attendees went face-to-face and exchanged...

ORFORD — Voters picked one candidate in a contested Selectboard race and wrote in three candidates for open seats on the Planning Board during the first part of Town Meeting on Tuesday. With 86 votes, Chase Kling was elected to a one-year seat on the...

 Hot topic: The Orford Selectboard is proposing the establishment of a broadband development capital reserve fund and adding $2,000 to it to develop plans or a business model for a town-wide broadband system.Budget: Voters will be asked to approve a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — Several schools in the Upper Valley moved to or continued remote learning on Friday due to cases of COVID-19.SAU 6 officials sent students at Stevens High School home on Friday morning after learning of a person in the school community...

The Valley News will update this page on election night with live results from Upper Valley towns via verified sources, including the Associated Press, the Secretary of State offices in Vermont and New Hampshire, and town/city clerks.Ahead of...

By TIM CAMERATO

HAVERHILL — Voters in Haverhill, Orford and Piermont are deciding three contested races for the New Hampshire House.Six people — including two incumbents — are running for seats that represent northern portions of the Upper Valley and stretches into...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

More than seven months after the novel coronavirus came to the Twin States, food pantries throughout the Upper Valley are preparing for a growing demand from needy families as winter approaches and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take an economic...

By TIM CAMERATO

HAVERHILL — Voters in New Hampshire’s Senate District 2 will decide a rematch of the 2018 election next month as Plymouth Democrat Bill Bolton once again takes on state Sen. Bob Giuda, R-Warren, for a seat representing part of the Upper Valley and...