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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — The sun broke through the clouds as Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sandra Oh approached the podium to deliver the commencement address at Dartmouth on Sunday.

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College is among two dozen U.S. research institutions supporting Harvard in its legal fight against the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government’s freeze of $2.2 billion in research grants to Harvard “would negatively impact the entire research ecosystem.”

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LEBANON — Shelves at food co-ops in the Upper Valley were a little less stocked this week after a cyberattack on a distributor of organic foods reduced deliveries of certain goods.

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HANOVER — Over the course of the last year, Dartmouth College senior Evan McMahon applied to between 200 and 300 jobs, mostly in the public health field.

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LYME — A single mother and her two youngest children are in the process of moving out of town after the Selectboard decided not to renew the lease for the town-owned house where the family has lived for nearly a decade.

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NORWICH — After receiving a “concerning phone call from a property owner,” the town’s Board of Listers has requested a “police presence” at upcoming public hearings for residents who want to contest the new appraised value of their properties.

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ENFIELD — The Mascoma Valley Regional School District is fighting for reimbursement of half-a-million dollars it has already spent on ventilation improvements and professional development programs after the U.S. Department of Education declined to provide the district with the previously approved funds.

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HANOVER — As state and federal pressure on “sanctuary jurisdictions” intensifies, the future is uncertain for policies aimed at protecting immigrant communities in some Upper Valley municipalities.

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HANOVER — Campus cafes at Dartmouth are returning to normal operating hours this week after undergraduate student workers ended their strike amid plans to resolve contract disagreements with the college.

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NORWICH — After three years of evaluating the danger of the chemical contamination in the Moore Lane Bridge, the Selectboard decided last week to continue efforts at containment, a move some residents are calling just another half measure.

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NORWICH — As the town’s proposed Animal Control Ordinance heads into its seventh revision, many residents continue to oppose a section that would ban off-leash dogs on Huntley Meadows.

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LEBANON — A nonprofit that reviews hospitals across the nation based on safety has given Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center a grade of C, but hospital leaders said the grade is not reflective of the care patients are currently receiving.

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HANOVER — After eight years at the helm, the superintendent of the Hanover and Norwich school districts is retiring in the fall.

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HANOVER — When Scouting America, formerly known as Boy Scouts of America, opened troops to girls in 2019, scoutmaster Charleen Osborne, “didn’t know how to feel about it.”

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HAVERHILL — Amid fears of losing federal funding, a few school boards in northern Grafton County axed their anti-discrimination policies pertaining to transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

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HARTFORD — Property values soared after the first town-wide reappraisal in eight years, leaving some homeowners baffled.

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HANOVER — Student workers at Dartmouth College urged their classmates to boycott campus cafes on Monday, the first day of a labor strike after the union and college were not able to come to a contract agreement.

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SUNAPEE — Two full-time town employees have lost their jobs and public services are being reduced in order to make the nearly $800,000 in cuts required for the municipality to operate under a default budget.

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BRADFORD, Vt. — Two Selectboard members submitted resignation letters last week. The departures come amid hostility and public outcry following upheaval last month on the fire department that saw the majority of members quit.

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THETFORD CENTER — To the dismay of some residents, the Thetford Center Post Office suspended service earlier this month due to “safety concerns” of the building, according to a letter the United States Postal Service sent to customers.

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LYME — Residents made it clear to the Selectboard that they don’t want the town to sell its rental house next to the police station and town offices at a public meeting this week.