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By JIM KENYON

Not wanting to burden her working-class immigrant parents who still had two kids at home, Hosaena Tilahun was only at Dartmouth College for a couple of weeks before she began looking for a part-time job to pay for living expenses not covered by her financial aid package.

HANOVER — The Selectboard, this week, adopted a resolution objecting to the Trump Administration’s freeze of federal grants that support residents.

By MARION UMPLEBY

HANOVER — Upper Valley residents took to the streets on Friday to protest the Trump Administration’s proposed budget cuts. 

HANOVER — At the polls on Tuesday, voters approved a school budget of $16.2 million, which is up from the $15.15 million operating budget voters approved last year.

Articles of note: Voters will be asked whether they support the cost of a new three-year agreement with the Hanover Support Staff Association, which is expected to be $156,000 in the first year. Another article asks whether voters support a new contract with the Hanover-Dresden Service Staff AFSCME, Local #1348 for a cost of $21,000 in 2025-26.

Article of note: One article asks whether voters support funding a middle school athletics program at Frances C. Richmond Middle School at a cost of $201,000 for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

HANOVER — Out of 22 applicants from across the country, Hanover chose its second-in-command as the town’s new chief of police.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Prosecutors are not moving forward a criminal case against a Dartmouth College sorority that was accused of hosting a party attended by a student who subsequently drowned in the Connecticut River last summer.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — A nearly decade-long effort by a Greensboro Road couple to block the construction of a church next to their home continues, following a ruling last month that allows their legal challenge to the constitutionality of a land use law to continue.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — Marcia Colligan did not let anything stop her from achieving what she wanted or needed to do. She wasn’t boisterous, but she got things done and never looked for credit, and she valued her family above all else.

By JIM KENYON

In mid-December, Rob Grabill, who has coached the Hanover High boys soccer team for 19 years, set up a meeting with his boss, Athletic Director Megan Sobel, to go over the previous season and plan ahead for the 2025 campaign.

By ADRIANA JAMES-RODIL

HANOVER — For now, at least, research activities at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Health officially continue as normal in spite of mixed messages from the Trump administration about the future of the federal grant programs that support much of the work.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Three people who interacted with a Dartmouth College student who said she had been raped at a fraternity house each told a Grafton County jury on Monday how the woman had reached out to them in the minutes and hours following the alleged sexual assault.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — In March, voters in Norwich and Hanover will weigh in on school budgets and decide whether to appropriate funds for a new middle school athletics program.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 21-year-old female Dartmouth College student recounted in graphic detail how she was allegedly raped and strangled by a then-recent Dartmouth alumnus on the roof of a college fraternity nearly three years ago.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Prosecutors are prepared to call more than two dozen witnesses, including the female Dartmouth College student who reported she was the victim of a brutal sexual assault on the roof of a college fraternity nearly three years ago, during the rape trial of a Dartmouth alumnus set to begin in a Grafton County courtroom on Friday.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Stacey Abrams, a former Georgia state representative, activist and author, offered suggestions about how to navigate Donald Trump’s second term as president to a crowd of Dartmouth community members at the Hanover Inn on Wednesday evening.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Two Dartmouth College students arrested for protesting outside an administration building in October 2023 were guilty of criminal trespass, a state judge has ruled.

By ADRIANA JAMES-RODIL

Longtime Hanover High School boys soccer coach Rob Grabill will not return next season after he was informed last month that his contract would not be renewed.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — An ongoing investigation into animal remains found this fall buried at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory has revealed high concentrations of a likely carcinogen, but no evidence of groundwater contamination so far.