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By MARION UMPLEBY

Hartford High School senior Macy Bettwieser was one of the many students undergoing the grueling process of applying to college last fall. Since she was applying to musical theater programs, she had to submit recordings of show tunes and classical works.

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut says he is now working with lawmakers to cover nearly $16 million unanticipated special education costs. Two months ago, Edelblut told school leaders they would be shouldering that expense.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WOODSTOCK — Some of Twin Pines Housing projects include dozens of affordable apartments, but another model seeks to make single-family homes affordable, one house at a time.

Oxbow 58, Hartford 52

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — Construction began last month on a $1.3 million project to add living and office space to Hartford Fire Department’s Station No. 2 in Quechee.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEWBURY, Vt. — The town Development Review Board has approved the first phase of construction at a sustainable teaching farm proposed by a Puerto-Rico-based nonprofit.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

NEWPORT — The personal information of students and staff in at least three school districts in the Upper Valley has been compromised by a nationwide cyberattack on a company that provides database software to K-12 schools.

By MARION UMPLEBY

LEBANON — Mounting financial troubles have forced the owners of Gusanoz Mexican restaurant, located on the Miracle Mile, to shutter two related restaurants and file for bankruptcy, in a move that impacts both employees and a South Royalton nonprofit that depended on one of the restaurants for a significant share of its business.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Valley residents will have a chance to weigh in on a proposed 1.2% school district budget increase during a public hearing at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium at Mascoma Valley Regional High School.

Woodstock 75, Springfield 47

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 LUKAS DUNFORD

LEBANON — The Storrs Hill Ski Area drew big crowds for its first season of free skiing over the weekend. The hill’s opening had been delayed from the originally scheduled Dec. 23 due to unseasonable weather.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — An Upper Valley nonprofit is renewing its efforts to build a residential substance use treatment center for mothers and their children in a new location near Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, though it may still have a long way to go.

WEST WEATHERSFIELD — The fire department responded to a house fire on Reservoir Road over the weekend.

By STEVE TAYLOR

Probably the most frequent knock on the Upper Valley heard these days is about the shortage of nightlife activities for young adults. Nothing much exists in the way of live music for dancing amid convivial beverage consumption and casual connections.

Essex 5, Hartford 4

Hannah Giguere has been named Lebanon High School’s January student of the month. Giguere, a senior, spends half of her school day at Lebanon High School and the other half studying forestry in the natural resources program at the Hartford Area Career & Technology Center, according to a news release from the Lebanon School District. This summer, she will represent New Hampshire at a bass fishing tournament in Florida.

By MARION UMPLEBY

LEBANON — As of November, AVA Gallery and Art Center is seeking a new executive director following the retirement of Shari Boraz, who served in the position since 2021.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

EAST BETHEL — The Middle Branch Grange has always been part of Jillian Dean’s life.

By JIM KENYON

In early January 1986 — four years after the first “test-tube” baby was born in the U.S. — news broke in the Upper Valley that Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center was starting its own in vitro fertilization program.

Oxbow 63, Randolph 33