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Vermont

Women help one another through PTSD

They differ in age, hometown and life experience. Until last fall, they were strangers. But when they gathered for the first time in a room at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., the five veterans who make up the Branches Sisterhood felt an instant connection: All of them are women who have served in the military, and all of them have struggled with… 0

July 3, 2007

Grantham

This town has hog reeves . . . but not a hog in sight

Let the record show that in 2006 there was nary a pig to be found roaming in Grantham, except for a hapless hog named Hurley, who ended up on a freezer shelf. (More on that later.) Despite this dearth of swine, Grantham continues to hold fast to a venerable town office that harks back to the community's days as a farming village: Hog reeves. 0

March 22, 2007

Vermont

Victim 'convinced' attacker is dead

A woman who was assaulted in Swanzey 18 years ago is seeking information about the man who may have been her attacker - and possibly the killer of several women whose deaths shook the Upper Valley about the same time. 1

October 9, 2006

Hanover

Old houses find a new life - piece by piece

A ranch-style home off Lyme Road in Hanover was filled with the sound of pounding and prying last week as volunteers wrenched loose doors, cabinets and anything else that could be recovered from the home destined for demolition. It was an unusual project for COVER Home Repair Inc., whose mission involves fixing houses with problems rather than taking them apart. But the homeowners… 0

May 17, 2006

More people opting for cremation

NEWPORT - Nearly 40 years ago, John and Minnie Call moved from Stony Point, N.Y., to Newport, where they would spend the rest of their lives. They took over ownership of the Hilltop Motel in Newport, joined Episcopal Church of the Epiphany and bought a plot for two at a cemetery in town, intending one day to be buried there. But before John Call died in 1994 at age 77, they changed… 0

June 26, 2005

Hanover

Poet Eberhart, a 'great life force,' dies at 101

HANOVER - Richard Eberhart, among the foremost American poets of the 20th century and a longtime steward of the craft he loved, died Thursday at his home in Hanover after a short illness. He was 101. Eberhart enjoyed an international reputation and received nearly every major award that a poet can win, including the… 0

June 12, 2005

Hanover

Longtime clothing store shuts its doors

HANOVER - After outfitting three generations of Upper Valley children in everything from buntings to blazers, Churchs Childrens Clothes plans to shut its doors. Churchs (no apostrophe, please, and none in "Childrens," either, because that's the way it has always been), a Hanover institution for more than half a century, will close sometime this summer after conducting a storewide… 0

May 29, 2005

Catching up with the past

'What will her name be?" Kelly Hawes asked herself the question over and over as she made the hour-long drive from Hanover to Concord, where she would learn the identity of the woman who had given birth to her. Adopted as a baby, Hawes was headed to the New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records on a recent morning to claim a copy of her original birth certificate, which she had never… 0

February 6, 2005

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