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By JIM KENYON

What is Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock so afraid of? I thought she’d welcome the opportunity to enter into the public record her administration’s reasoning for having two student activists arrested for criminal trespass while peacefully...

Article of note: One article asks voters whether they support the cost of a new three-year collective bargaining agreement between the Hanover Education Association and the Dresden School Board. The cost of the new contract in the first year, 2024-25,...

Article of note: Voters will be asked whether to appropriate $75,000 from the Don S. Bridgman Fund in the 2024-25 school year “in order to afford additional advantages to the students of the District not provided by taxes.”Contested races: There are...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — For Matan Boltax and his friends, Oct. 7, 2023, started off as a pretty normal day.Boltax, 23, who was born in Great Neck, N.Y., and moved to Israel in 2009, and his friends arrived at the Nova Music Festival around 2 a.m. to set up camp....

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — On Monday, eight Dartmouth College students announced that they would begin a hunger strike. The move comes in opposition to the charges still standing against two students arrested while protesting in October, as well as what activists...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Boloco, a longtime destination for burritos and other Mexican fare, changed hands last week. Boloco’s owner and co-founder John Pepper, of Hanover, finalized a sale on Thursday of the restaurant at 35 S. Main St. to new owners — Conicia “CJ”...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — In 1966, trade workers at Dartmouth got fed up with their bosses picking favorites and pitting employees against each other.It was time to get organized.Now, Local 560 of the Service Employees International Union represents more than 500...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WINDSOR — Like most parents, Josh Compton wants to keep his children safe.To do so, however, Compton, who lives in Windsor with his wife, Laura, and their two sons, Henry, 10, and Truman, 8, must factor in Truman’s autism.“It just so happens that one...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — A Hanover man is seeking to have his conviction on child pornography charges overturned by the state’s Supreme Court, arguing that he was unaware the sexually explicit images were on his computer and the state lacked sufficient evidence to...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Sharon Nordgren, a longtime state representative who died on Saturday at age 80, is being remembered by friends and colleagues as a passionate and dedicated public servant and a highly effective political leader.Nordgren, D-Hanover, was...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A former corrections officer was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the April 29, 2023, death of a former Hanover man in the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the New Hampshire State Prison.The officer, Matthew Millar, 39, of Boscawen, N.H.,...

By JIM KENYON

The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team hasn’t won many games on the court this season, but the players scored a major victory Monday in their bid to unionize. Laura Sacks, director of the National Labor Relations Board’s regional office in...

By JANET LORIN

Dartmouth College said it would require standardized testing again for applicants to the Ivy League college, the second elite US university to reverse a trend about assessments that was halted during the pandemic.The school said the reactivation is...

By STEVE TAYLOR

Erling Heistad came to Lebanon from Norway in 1923 and in a matter of a few months he set off a half century’s worth of excitement that would eventually establish a local Golden Age of what had been an obscure Scandinavian sport, ski jumping. For...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — Talking about space with community members — especially children — helps Dartmouth College astronomy graduate students Keighley Rockcliffe and Stephanie Podjed reconnect with the passion and curiosity that brought them to their chosen field....

By JIM KENYON

A few updates of recent columns while waiting for the New Hampshire presidential primary to be over so network TV can get back to running mostly ads hawking wonder drugs and snack chips.On campus With students having returned to campus after a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — An 18-year-old Piermont man who brazenly groped women in public last year will plead guilty and faces a 12-month jail sentence under a plea agreement struck between state prosecutors and his defense attorney.William Menard will plead...

Asher Albrecht, 15, of White River Junction, right, scans a case of bottled water for Kathy Wyle, of Deering, N.H., left, at Dan and Whit’s in Norwich on Saturday. Wyle, who was visiting her mother-in-law in Lyme when the power went out, was picking...

By JIM KENYON

At around 1 a.m. on Oct. 28, Hanover police arrested two Dartmouth College students for criminal trespass on their own campus. After the student-activists were hauled away in handcuffs, cops involved in the encounter would have written a report with...