On Jan. 3, 1749, New Hampshire Gov. Benning Wentworth issued his first grant for a town in what we know today as Vermont but during the mid-1700s was widely known as the New Hampshire Grants.

The Connecticut River in West Lebanon, New Hampshire rose more than 14 feet on Monday, according to a U.S. Geological Survey gauge, then crested and began to fall. Vermont locations with most rainfall ...