Upper Valley

State officials want to clone Jonah Richard, an Orange County native who’s building housing at a clip in the town where his family has lived for generations.

Dartmouth was one of nine colleges and universities asked to sign the White House’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The compact offered schools preferential access to federal funding in exchange for adopting several Trump administration policies.

Vermont is in a drought, and the Upper Valley area is seeing some of the worst of it. Farmers there are wondering: Will they have enough water to last them through the winter?

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerful conservative law firm that has won several precedent-setting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Quechee school.

Randy Leavitt, whose family has been in East Barnard for 10 generations, is building an outhouse with a composting toilet outside the village church. It will be open to the public.

The Montshire Museum in Norwich has exhibits throughout its trails geared towards being present in the natural world and to process grief.

Federal lawyers bring out new allegations against Mahdawi, which he and his attorneys refute.

Developers are cheering the so-called CHIP program, which would finance infrastructure to support development, including in towns that weren’t able to take advantage of similar options in the past.

At a hearing Wednesday, a federal court judge said he would consider Mahdawi's potential release next week. Mahdawi is a student at Columbia University who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Colchester following a citizenship interview this month.

Mahdawi’s friends in the Upper Valley say he’s an extrovert who connected with people at Dirt Cowboy Cafe in Hanover and Dan & Whit’s in Norwich, at bonfires at his cabin, at seders and church services, and on hikes.