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By Josh Weinreb

White River Junction — It’s 8:15 a.m. on a Wednesday, and Noah Crane is holding an iPhone in one hand and a small camera in the other while sitting in his Ford Escape just in front of a small pavilion at the Maxfield Sports Complex. He is staring at...

By Nicola Smith

After World War II, Dutch elm disease began its decimation of the American elm, a tree that was the glory of hundreds of Main Streets in the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. At the same time, it also affected the American elm’s lesser-known cousin,...

By Rob Wolfe

Hanover — The denial of a popular Asian-American faculty member’s application for tenure has set off a campuswide debate over Dartmouth College’s treatment of minority scholars.Despite the unanimous support of her senior colleagues in the English...

By Rick Jurgens

Hanover — Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon’s 2014 compensation package broke the million dollar barrier but his total of $1.1 million lagged behind Chief Investment Officer Pamela Peedin’s $1.2 million in the college’s pay hierarchy, according...

By Nicola Smith

What’s a parish to do when it owns a number of extraordinary paintings by a famous 20th century American modernist, but almost no one knows they’re there?In the case of St. Francis of Assisi church in Windsor, which has the distinction of holding...

By Amanda E. Newman

Former Hanover Principal Charged in Canaan Prostitution Sting- Canaan — Former Bernice A. Ray School Principal Matt Laramie has been charged in a prostitution sting.Laramie, 48, was arrested on Monday off Route 4 in Canaan on one count of prostitution, a Class B misdemeanor, Canaan Police Chief Sam Frank said in...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Hartford Christian Camp Eyed for Historic Designation- White River Junction — Just across the street from a gas station on a busy stretch of Route 5 along Tafts Flat, a largely unnoticed narrow strip of cracked blacktop descends a steep slope to a shelf of land above the Connecticut River, where a cluster...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Yes, Major Quakes Can Happen Here- Lebanon — It could happen off the shore of Cape Ann, Mass., as it did in 1755, and damage hundreds of buildings.It could happen in Charlevoix, Canada, as it did in 1663, and cause economic losses of $220 million.It could even happen in a populated...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Convict in Failed Murder-for-Hire Plot Wants to Have His Sentence Reduced- White River Junction —  Louis A. Fucci Jr., the one-time owner of Benning Street Bar and Grill who pleaded guilty in 2011 to hiring a hitman to kill his former business partner and his former girlfriend, is seeking to have his sentence reduced. A...

By Nicola Smith

Beacons of Freedom- There are few eras in American history as shrouded in myth as the Underground Railroad, with its imagery of whites and blacks together forging a path to free African-Americans from slavery, women and men crossing rivers chased by baying hounds, or...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Perkins Found Guilty- White River Junction — After deliberating for more than 10 hours, a jury on Thursday night found Emily Perkins guilty of voluntary manslaughter and attempted second-degree murder in the 2011 shootings of Scott Hill and Emma Jozefiak.Perkins held her...

By Josh Weinreb

Dartmouth Grad Otley Turns CVU Girls Into Powerhouse- Ute Bowman Otley laughs about it now, thinking back on how things could have gone differently. Believe it or not, she said, her decision to go to Dartmouth College came down to pronunciation.Now the girls basketball coach at Champlain Valley Union...