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Kenyon: Everyone on the Dartmouth Green on May 1 could have been arrested
10-26-2024 2:00 PM

By JIM KENYON

Christopher MacEvitt, who chairs Dartmouth’s religion department and lives on campus, was a late arrival to the pro-Palestinian demonstration on the college’s Green on May 1.Around 9:30 p.m., after attending a faculty dinner in White River Junction,...

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Kenyon: Questioning authority is no longer part of curriculum at Dartmouth
11-01-2024 7:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

While sitting in on the trial of two Dartmouth College student activists in Lebanon District Court this week, I was reminded of a comment that Laura Ingraham made on her Fox News program in 2018 about LeBron James after he dared to criticize...


Kenyon: Attorney steps in to temporarily halt Lyme property cleanup
10-19-2024 2:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

It took going to Grafton County Superior Court this week, but Jed Smith can keep his 1952 International Harvester farm tractor in front of his vacant home, where it’s mostly sat for the last few years.Smith and his mother, Martha, have been in a...


Kenyon: Scott endorses one of three Republicans running for Windsor County Senate seats
10-11-2024 7:00 PM

By JIM KENYON

At a recent League of Women Voters forum for the six candidates running for the three Windsor County seats in the Vermont Senate, Jonathan Gleason was quick to tout his endorsement by Gov. Phil Scott. Gleason bills himself as a moderate Republican,...


Kenyon: Hanover fights public scrutiny
09-20-2024 8:31 PM

By JIM KENYON

Delay, delay, delay. The time-tested legal strategy is a sneaky way to keep the public from gaining access to police information that under New Hampshire law should be easily available to anyone who asks for it.Hanover officials and their attorney...


Kenyon: Dismas founder’s efforts show how empathy can make a difference
09-13-2024 7:31 PM

By JIM KENYON

Fifty years ago, Rita McCaffrey placed her first call to a Vermont prison to ask about setting up a visit with an inmate. She didn’t have a particular inmate in mind — just someone who didn’t have family close by and might feel the outside world had...


Kenyon: Cleanup continues on Lyme properties
09-06-2024 7:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

With the help of family and volunteers, Jed Smith and his mother, Martha, have made noticeable progress in cleaning up their two properties that Lyme officials have asserted for years violate the town’s zoning ordinance.The Smiths have removed five...


Kenyon: Husband of 9/11 victim questions why plea agreement was rejected
08-23-2024 6:51 PM

By JIM KENYON

For Blake Allison, whose wife was among the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11, it’s never been about seeking retribution against the men accused of planning the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.It’s about finding answers.How did the plan...


Kenyon: Is one man’s trash another man’s treasure, even in Lyme?
08-16-2024 6:32 PM

By JIM KENYON

LYME — At Town Meeting in March, Lyme voters approved spending $150,000 to “remove the materials,” which include two dozen unregistered vehicles, stored on two private properties owned by a working-class mother and son.The paper ballot vote in one of...


Kenyon: How did Hanover police prosecutor decide who to charge with trespassing on the Dartmouth Green?
08-02-2024 4:31 PM

By JIM KENYON

Since Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore isn’t talking, it’s hard to figure out how she decided to file criminal trespass charges against some people but not others who were on the Dartmouth Green during a pro-Palestinian protest back in May....


Kenyon: How much do Upper Valley landlords have to raise rents to stay in business?
07-19-2024 8:00 PM

By JIM KENYON

With all of her wheeling and dealing this summer, real estate investor and developer Jolin Kish seems bent on turning Hanover into her personal Monopoly board.Kish started by selling four of her residential properties on West Wheelock Street to...


Kenyon: Why not keep Carter Country Club just the way it is?
07-12-2024 7:31 PM

By JIM KENYON

A day seldom passes this summer when Matt Malloy, collector of greens fees/scheduler of tee times/bartender at Carter Country Club, doesn’t have a golfer asking him what the future holds for Lebanon’s century-old course.“A lot of people still think...


Kenyon: Readers chip in so Claremont girls can attend summer camp
07-05-2024 7:30 PM

By JIM KENYON

During a visit to the summer day camp run by a southern Windsor County YMCA on Wednesday morning, I talked with Ashley Denofrio’s 11-year-old niece.I asked her what she’d be doing, if not attending camp.“I’d be home, probably sleeping,” she said....


Kenyon: Prosecutor’s approach to Dartmouth protesters’ cases raises more questions
06-28-2024 8:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

This week, Ian Struckhoff learned he won’t be prosecuted for standing on the Dartmouth Green during a peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstration one night last month.Forgive Struckhoff, 45, if he doesn’t feel like celebrating. The criminal trespass charge...


Kenyon: As Claremont woman stepped up for nieces, NH quickly stepped away
06-21-2024 6:46 PM

By JIM KENYON

In March, Ashley Denofrio agreed to become the court-appointed legal guardian for her two nieces in hopes of bringing much-needed stability to their lives.As Denofrio has learned, however, the state of New Hampshire isn’t big on providing the...


Kenyon: Common sense could yet prevail in Dartmouth trespassing cases
06-14-2024 8:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

In a way, I feel sorry for Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore. Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock has put her in a tough spot.The day is fast approaching when Pastore must declare whether she’s moving forward with criminal charges against 87...


A Life: Warren Johnston, a ‘true Southern gentleman,’ was ‘soft spoken and slow to anger’
06-09-2024 5:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

SOUTH ROYALTON — After four years of newspapering in Las Vegas, Warren Johnston was ready for a change of scenery.Scenery being the optimum word. Johnston and his wife, Sandy, had in mind a place with more trees than asphalt and a night sky not lit in...


Kenyon: Who Dartmouth considers worthy of honor
06-07-2024 7:01 PM

By JIM KENYON

I can think of 92 reasons why graduates at Dartmouth College’s 2024 commencement ceremony on Sunday might want to walk out in protest.The first 91 are easy to identify. It’s the number of people, including 67 students and five staff members, President...


Kenyon: By charging for after school program, CCBA loses sight of its mission
05-24-2024 7:30 PM

By JIM KENYON

In the end, what choice did Jim Vanier have, really? He could have continued drawing a paycheck by looking after and mentoring kids at the Carter Community Building in downtown Lebanon as he’s done for more than 50 years. But it would have meant...


Kenyon: Vermont’s leading Civil War historian finally gets his degree
05-17-2024 7:00 PM

By JIM KENYON

On a bitter cold February night in 1963, Howard Coffin packed his cardboard suitcase and walked to U.S. Route 5 in the village of Lyndonville, Vt., where he stuck out his thumb to hitch a ride home to Woodstock.“A trucker came by and picked me up,”...


Kenyon: Constitutional rights should trump Dartmouth’s private interests
05-10-2024 7:46 PM

By JIM KENYON

Andrew Tefft wasn’t inside a tent on the Dartmouth College Green. He hadn’t locked arms with protesters who had formed a circle around the short-lived encampment. The 45-year-old Hanover native didn’t have a pro-Palestinian sign.Still within 30...

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