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​​​​​​By ELLE MULLER

HANOVER — As a Dartmouth professor, writer, and father, James Heffernan inspired those around him with his love of literature and passion for life.Heffernan’s children, Virginia and Andrew, affectionately called their father’s lust for life,...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — Political strategists Donna Brazile and Kellyanne Conway discussed the 2024 election and the importance of fostering conversations across the political divide this week in the first in a series of debates hosted by the Dartmouth Political...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — The Selectboard appointed Robert Houseman to the permanent town manager position earlier this week.Prior to Monday’s appointment, which was effective immediately, Houseman had served as interim town manager since Aug. 1. He replaced former...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HARTLAND — Born in Hanover and raised on a family farm in Hartland, Victor Ambros said his early life prepared him for life as a scientist.“Farmers are do-it-yourself-ers,” said Ambros, now 70, in a phone interview on Monday. “I learned from my father...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s graduate student union is the subject of a religious discrimination complaint filed by a graduate student and teaching assistant opposed to the union’s support for pro-Palestinian causes.Benjamin Logsdon, a student in...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — Contractors digging a culvert at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory have unearthed animal carcasses and black trash bags. The origin of the carcasses are unknown; the property was formerly owned by Dartmouth College.So far,...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

HANOVER — Leah Farley had been a clinical social worker for 20 years, helping the vulnerable and voiceless, when four years ago she suddenly found herself in that same position.She was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The uncommon...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — A couple on Greensboro Road continues to oppose the Hanover Planning Board’s reluctant decision last year to approve Christ Redeemer Church’s (CRC) plan for a roughly 24,000-square-foot, two-story church near their home.Lara Acker, who was...

HANOVER — Bernice A. Ray School is one of two Granite State schools to receive a National Blue Ribbon Schools Award from the U.S. Department of Education.Throughout the country, 356 schools received the honor, according to a Wednesday...

By KATHY McCORMACK

NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. — A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it.Robert...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society’s Lyme Road market is closing next month after more than 15 years of serving the community.The co-op announced it is expecting to close its market location at 43 Lyme Rd. on Oct. 18, in a Monday...

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...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College reported a record number of low-income students in the Class of 2028, while the percentage of Black, Asian American, Native American, and white students declined slightly after a U.S. Supreme Court decision significantly...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — A new apartment-style residence building for Dartmouth undergraduate students on West Wheelock Street will be named in honor of Dartmouth alumni Gina and Tom Russo, who made a $30 million donation toward the building’s construction, the...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

CONCORD — A federal judge sentenced a former office manager of The Dartmouth student newspaper to the maximum possible sentence of 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Monday after the woman pleaded guilty to embezzling over...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — Robert Tulloch is serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole for his part in the murders of two Dartmouth College professors in 2001.For years, Tulloch, who was 17 years old when he murdered Half Zantop has been challenging...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — With less than a week to go before the start of Dartmouth College’s fall term, rising senior Matt Jachim-Gallagher, of Newport, worked on a friendship bracelet on a bench across from Tuck Mall, where freshman orientation was underway.As...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — The Zoning Board of Adjustment declined to reconsider the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society’s request to turn its Lyme Road market into a commercial kitchen.The board stood by its July ruling denying the Co-op’s request for a variance to...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — More than 300 members of the Dartmouth community signed a petition submitted to President Sian Leah Beilock last week, urging her administration to keep the college’s child care center out of the hands of for-profit chains.The appeal comes...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — Sarah Peters helped her three sisters move to college and, afterward, saw them settled in homes of their own.She wanted to do the same one day, to have her own apartment that she could decorate however she wanted. She wanted to be able to...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

HANOVER — Quilter extraordinaire, ski instructor, successful small business owner, business adviser, pig farmer, homemaker.That could be a list of occupations of several people but it was the resume of just one person: Rosalie Cutter.“My mother’s life...