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By JIM KENYON

THETFORD — As an old-school newspaperman, Gene Cassidy was a masterful storyteller who could reel in readers with a simple opening line.

By JIM KENYON

I’m not aware that serving on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees requires an alum to sign a loyalty pledge to their institution, but openly questioning President Sian Leah Beilock’s hard-line approach to dealing with student activists appears off-limits.

By JIM KENYON

When a small group of the 1,400 registered nurses at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center embarked on a grassroots unionization drive in early 2024, they expected backlash from the hospital’s administration. Hostile bosses, they could handle. Petty moves by management, such as requiring pro-union fliers be on laminated paper, were minor inconveniences.

By JIM KENYON

Atop a forested ridge in West Fairlee, a mile off the main road passing through the village below, Mohsen Mahdawi was back this week — for a few hours, at least — where he feels most at home.

By JIM KENYON

They arrive at Tribou Park in Woodstock shortly before noon each day, rain or shine (mostly the former this week), with homemade signs.

By JIM KENYON

Around noontime Thursday, Dartmouth student activists set up two small camping tents in front of Parkhurst Hall, anchoring them with metal stakes pounded into the ground.

By JIM KENYON

In the Trump administration’s campaign to “reclaim” universities that conservatives see as too woke, it has moved to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding from schools across the country. The hit list includes Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Princeton.

By JIM KENYON

Money wasn’t all that Dartmouth Health lost last week when a U.S. District Court jury awarded a Norwich fertility doctor more than $1 million in damages for her unlawful firing in 2017.

By JIM KENYON

Long before he arrived at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a Colchester, Vt., office park Monday morning, Mohsen Mahdawi pretty much knew it was a setup. The chances of him leaving his scheduled meeting with an immigration officer as a free man were slim, at best.

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne Conroy’s testimony this week in a fertility doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit brought me back to the summer of 1973 and the U.S. Senate’s televised Watergate hearings where Republican Howard Baker, of Tennessee, famously asked: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

By JIM KENYON

How much money does it take for an elite private institution of higher learning — one with an $8 billion endowment — to keep in the good graces of the Trump administration?

By JIM KENYON

No matter which way the jury goes in the upcoming Misty Blanchette, M.D. v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center federal trial, the public has already won.

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.

By JIM KENYON

In a hotly contested Weathersfield Selectboard race, August Murray has the backing of the state’s lieutenant governor and the town’s sole House member, but what he doesn’t have — and his opponent does — is WOW power.

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 JIM KENYON

While taking in portions of this week’s rape trial of a Dartmouth College alumnus ahead of a Grafton County Superior Court jury rendering its guilty verdict on Friday, I jotted down assorted observations.

By JIM KENYON

In a high-profile Grafton County Superior Court case early on in his career, criminal defense attorney Charlie Buttrey resorted to an unorthodox legal strategy.

By JIM KENYON

Molly Myers and her husband, Rick Hatfield, had been trying for a couple of years to have their first child.

By JIM KENYON

In early January 1986 — four years after the first “test-tube” baby was born in the U.S. — news broke in the Upper Valley that Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center was starting its own in vitro fertilization program.

By JIM KENYON

When looking back at 2024, I can’t get past the scene that unfolded on the Dartmouth Green after dark on May 1st.I stared in disbelief as 20 New Hampshire police officers — in full riot gear — marched in military-style formation toward a few hundred...

By JIM KENYON

After undergoing another round of late-night hazing that involved wooden paddles this fall, Dartmouth College sophomore Ulysses Hill texted his mother.“I’m done,” Hill messaged. “Come get me.”Hill, 20, was fortunate that his mother resided 15 minutes...