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The Walpolean
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  • Date Change: Secrets of Salamanders and Spring Frogs at the Hooper Institute – 3/18/26
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  • “Connecting Spirit Through Music” at Walpole Unitarian Church – 3/1/26
    “Connecting Spirit Through Music”Eugene Friesen, celloLiz Rogers, voiceCliff Oster, planetary gongIn concert this Sunday,  March 110 AMWalpole Unitarian ChurchCorner of Main and Union Streets, Walpole NHAll are welcome!!! …
  • Hooper Institute High School Program Mentors
    The Hooper Institute is looking for local businesses interested in mentoring and employing a summer worker in the coming months. This would need to be an opportunity that aligns with the Institute’s subject areas of agriculture, forestry, botany, soil science, and environmental science. The Institut …
  • Selectboard Meeting Minutes – 2/12/26
    Town of Walpole, New Hampshire Meeting of the Selectboard February 12, 2026 Selectboard Present: Steven Dalessio, Chair, Carolyn Vose and Cheryl Mayberry Staff Present: Sarah Downing, Manager of Administration, and Sue Bauer, Recording Secretary Call to Order: Mr. Dalessio called the Selectboard mee …
  • Selectboard Meeting Minutes – 2/10/26
    TOWN OF WALPOLE MEETING OF THE SELECTBOARD FEBRUARY 10, 2026 Selectboard Present: Steven Dalessio, Chair; Carolyn Vose and Cheryl Mayberry Others Present: Sarah Downing, Manager of Administration; Steve Varone, Treasurer CALL TO ORDER: Mr. Dalessio called the Selectboard meeting to order at 5:36 PM …

Vermont Journal / Shopper
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  • How a ski area transformed Okemo Valley real estate
    LUDLOW, Vt. – As Okemo Mountain marks its 70th anniversary, the milestone offers a moment to reflect on how a modest community ski hill grew into one of Vermont’s premier resorts – and how its steady rise has shaped the real estate market and the identity of the entire Okemo Valley. Founded in 1955 …
  • Chester continues Class 4 road discussion
    Chester, Vt. CHESTER, Vt. – The Chester Selectboard continued their ongoing discussion of Class 4 roads at their Wednesday, Nov. 19, meeting, beginning by reviewing the process for discontinuance and reclassification of roads. The process is encompassed, according to Board Chair Lee Gustafson, by an …
  • Giving Tuesday at Grace Cottage
    TOWNSHEND, Vt. – After Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes Giving Tuesday, a worldwide day of philanthropy during the season of gratitude. This year, Giving Tuesday falls on Dec. 2. To aid in its longstanding commitment to providing exceptional care, Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital is seeking …
  • GFCJC coordinators present to Springfield Rotary Club
    Rahul Saksena and Polly Mahoney, coordinators for the Greater Falls Community Justice Center. Photo provided SPRINGFIELD, Vt. – The Springfield Rotary Club welcomed Rahul Saksena, reparative panel coordinator, and Polly Mahoney, reentry coordinator, of the Greater Falls Community Justice Center (GFC …
  • Mary H. Smith, 1922-2025
    Mary H. Smith, 1922-2025 BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. – Mary Helen (Bobrowski) Smith passed on peacefully on Nov. 21, 2025, at The Gill Odd Fellow Home in Ludlow, Vt, at the age of 103. Mary was born in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Feb. 1, 1922, to Walenty and Eva (Nizik) Bobrowski. She married Stanley (Staniszewsk …

Valley News
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  • Update: Driver strikes plow on I-91 southbound
    THETFORD — A Groton, Vt., man sustained serious injuries after he rear-ended his pick-up truck into a plow truck on Interstate-91 in Thetford Wednesday morning. Ronin Moulton, 20, totaled his 2009 Ford F150 when he collided with a 2017 International Plow Truck driven by a Vermont Agency of Transport …
  • Upper Valley authors release new books inspired by personal experiences
    Two Upper Valley authors have new works that pull from their lived experiences, though they’re set in very different locations. Ivy Schweitzer’s “Dividing Rivers: Poems” traces her life in Brooklyn and the decades she’s spent in the Upper Valley, while Ezzedine C. Fishere’s novel “Nightfall in Cairo …
  • Local roundup: Hurricane hockey rolls over Stowe
    To have your team’s results included in the Local Roundup, visit vnews.com/submit-a-high-school-varsity-sports-score. GIRLS HOCKEY Hartford 5, Stowe 0 Key athletes: Aubree Gramling (31 save shutout); Johanna Kissell (3 goals); Zoe Zanleoni, Grace Hayes (1 goal each); Maria Chaput (2 assists); Vivian …
  • Entertainment Highlights: Film festival aims to offer ‘something for everyone’
    WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For just over two decades, the annual White River Indie Film Festival has served as a gathering place to catch the latest independent projects from Upper Valley filmmakers and those working farther afield. In recent iterations of WRiF, programming has swelled to include not ju …
  • Health and safety concerns prompt proposal for new Charlestown fire station
    CHARLESTOWN — Voters at Town Meeting will be asked on March 10 to approve a $269,000 land purchase for the site of a new fire station, which is being proposed due to health and safety concerns for those in the current space. This property deal, recommended by the Selectboard but not by the finance c …

Brattleboro Reformer
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  • The Mindful Minute by Jon Heydenreich: Victimhood
    I am kind of a victim. I applied for a job and they said in so many words I was too old. Rejected. I think that is ageism. Another place said I was too qualified. My house was burned down by an arsonist. A few teachers treated me poorly. My spouse badgers me. The kids never call. Every soul can find …
  • Bellows Falls Woman's Club to meet March 10
    BELLOWS FALLS — Members of the Bellows Falls Woman’s Club will meet on Tuesday, March 10, at the United Church, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The program will be a review of essays on the topic “A Woman I Admire,” written by students at the Walpole (N.H.) Middle School. Sunday, March 8, is designated as In …
  • Donated car moves Brattleboro family forward
    BRATTLEBORO — With the average price of a used car at around $30,000, many families are unable to afford even the most modest of vehicles. For the Ealey family from Brattleboro, these high prices have pumped the brakes on their ability to get around safely and reliably. That was until a donor presen …
  • In-Sight Photography Project announces spring classes
    BRATTLEBORO — The In-Sight Photography Project will launch its latest session of youth photography programs and classes next month, offering opportunities for young artists to explore, experiment, and express themselves through the lens. Classes are open to students ages 11–18 and will be held Monda …
  • The Mindful Minute by Jon Heydenreich: The window
    I looked out the window and there was a path on this backside of the office. I suspect it was an emergency exit path. The snow was about a foot deep and the path was perfect. It was as if someone had cut the snow with precision. On the bottom the cement walk. On the side a sculpted, flat, smooth wal …

Chester Telegraph
chestertelegraph.org

  • What’s on Chester’s March 2 and March 3 ballots
    By Shawn Cunningham and Cynthia Prairie © 2026 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Tuesday, March 3 Australian ballot will contain more than just the contested races for Chester’s Select Board and for Chester seats on the Green Mountain School District Board. And on Monday, March 2, the Town Meeting, which …
  • Q&A: Ucci challenging incumbent Jonynas for three-year Select Board seat
    From left, Arne Jonynas and Jerry Ucci. The Chester Select Board is made up of five members voted at large — three are three-year terms, which are elected on a staggered, and two are one-year terms, which are, of course, voted on every year. This year, incumbent Arne Jonynas, who holds a three-year …
  • Q&A: Spaulding, Roper, Mancuso and Fierman compete for two Select Board seats
    From, left, Kelly Spaulding, Steve Mancuso, Lauren Fierman and Tim Roper. The Chester Select Board is made up of five members voted at large — three are three-year terms, which are elected on a staggered, and two are one-year terms, which are, of course, voted on every year. Those two one-year seats …
  • League of Women Voters lecture series on voting rights continues March 11
    Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland-Hanzas The League of Women Voters of Vermont, in partnership with Kellogg-Hubbard Library, presents the next installment of its 2025-2026 lecture series on Voting Rights and Access to the Ballot at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11. Vermont Secretary of State Sa …
  • Q&A: Miles & Bailey face off for an unexpired term on the Green Mountain district board
    From left, Randy Miles and Jesse Bailey The Green Mountain Unified School District Board has 11 members; six of whom represent Chester, the largest town by population within the school district. In addition to Chester, there are three representatives from Cavendish and one each from Baltimore and An …

Seven Days
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  • All the Vermont Media News You Can Use in 2026
    Vermont media outlets are typically the ones writing headlines, not featuring in them. But we turned the tables for Seven Days’ 2026 Media Issue, which delivers all the local journalism news you can use — and then some. As people get and share information in different ways, Vermont’s print,televisio …
  • VTDigger’s Contract Negotiations Highlight Fears About AI
    The journalists at VTDigger formed a union in 2020 to bring better pay and working conditions to Vermont’s pioneering online news site. The job was demanding, the wages paltry, and, by many accounts, founder Anne Galloway ran roughshod over her inexperienced workforce. “The model at Digger was to hi …
  • Vermont Public Navigates a Future Without Subsidies
    Last July, the U.S. Congress canceled $1.1 billion in funding for 1,500 public radio and television stations across the nation. In the blink of an eye, Vermont Public — the state’s nonprofit radio and television broadcaster — lost $2 million, or about 10 percent of its annual budget. The aftermath o …
  • From the Publisher: State of the Media
    The last time Seven Days published a Media Issue, a 112-pager in 2019, the Waterbury Record and the Brandon Reporter were still in business. The late Ken Squier was a regular presence at his radio station, WDEV-AM. Many of us local newspaper publishers were worried about the statewide expansion of a …
  • Vermont Media News: Developments You May Have Missed
    Vermont news outlets work hard to report on what’s happening around the state. They make less of an effort to cover themselves — or each other. Here are some changes you may have missed. 1. Good Sport Colchester Vermont Public’s Mitch Wertlieb started “The Sports Rapport” at just the right moment: f …

Concord Monitor
concordmonitor.com (Five-article monthly paywall)

  • Opinion: Addressing New Hampshire’s nursing home crisis
    In 1990, the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care recommended that the federal government pay for home care and the first three months of a nursing home stay. It was also recommended that the federal government pay for long-stay nursing home care where a resident would otherwise d …
  • State says it will ask Supreme Court to reverse Claremont school funding rulings
    For what is believed to be the first time, the state plans to ask the Supreme Court to overrule its foundational 1990s school funding rulings that established a constitutional duty for the state to fund public education. The state’s solicitor general indicated in a legal filing Tuesday that the requ …
  • Lawmakers weigh ending refugee resettlement program, face questions about who government should serve
    Sarah Zuech teaches her four kids that charity begins at home. A person’s first responsibility, the Salisbury mother tells them, is to care for their own family, friends and community. In that same vein, “so is it a government’s responsibility to prioritize its own citizens,” Zuech told a legislativ …
  • Arts Ahead: Live music, craft swap, English dancing
    In the past week, most of the conversations I’ve had have begun with snow — how many inches we’ve gotten, how cold it is, when the flakes will start again. Don’t get me wrong: I love winter. I relish the serenity of a world blanketed in white ice crystals, the way everything gets quiet and still. Bu …
  • Letter: Stand up. Step forward. Speak up.
    Stand up. Step forward. Speak up. The time has come in New Hampshire to make your beliefs known. Starting with our governor and ending with every resident who takes pride in our state and our way of life. Stand up. Step forward. Speak up. Add your name to the names of those who have already come for …

WCAX
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VPR
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NHPR
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Vermont state government
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New Hampshire Emergency Management
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VTDigger

  • Corporate requests for public records are weighing down already burdened town officials in Vermont
    The side entrance doors, as well as the center doors (not seen), were open at the Statehouse in Montpelier as temperatures rose into the low 50’s on Feb. 16, 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger COLCHESTER — In one of Vermont’s largest towns, most of the requests officials get for public recor …
  • Anya Schwartz: Pledges won’t bring peace
    Dear Editor, With Town Meeting Day around the corner on Tuesday, March 3, many of us will be asked to weigh in on pledges concerning Israel and Palestine.  I want the ongoing Israeli military occupation in the West Bank and the soul-shattering violence in Gaza to end. Yet I find the Apartheid-Free C …
  • Francine Miller: Why I’m voting for the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge
    Dear Editor, As a Jewish Vermonter supportive of the Apartheid-Free Communities (AFC) pledge — which calls on organizations to boycott and divest from Israel in response to its policies toward Palestinians — on the ballot in some of our towns on Town Meeting Day next Tuesday, March 3, I want to resp …
  • An inside look at Beta Technologies’ big plans for Vermont 
    Blain Newton, chief information officer at BETA Technologies, explains a detail of the cockpit of an electric aircraft at a manufacturing facility in South Burlington on Thursday, Feb. 12. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger SOUTH BURLINGTON — Beta Technologies opened its nearly 200,000-square-foot airc …
  • Connecticut man reaches plea deal on reduced charge in Northeast Kingdom fatal shooting
    The Vermont Superior Court building and the Orleans County Court House in Newport on March 18, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A Connecticut man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Derby woman two years ago in Vermont’s Northeast …

The Commons

The Commons