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By JIM KENYON

In the late summer days following Tropical Storm Irene’s rampage through Riverside Mobile Home Park in Woodstock, Nelson Gilman and Al Pristaw loaded donated orange juice, bread and carefully placed cartons of eggs into a wheelbarrow.The two longtime...

By JIM KENYON

Andy Sigler was a captain of industry who earned millions as the CEO of Champion International, once the largest forest products company in the U.S. that made everything from plywood to copier paper.In 1984, after he stepped in to save a competitor...

NORWICH — Andrew Sigler, a former Fortune 500 CEO who after retiring to the Upper Valley 25 years ago built everything from a state-of-the-art dairy farm to a nationally-recognized golf course, died Sunday at his home in Norwich.He was 89.Sigler, a...

By JIM KENYON

A few years ago, Dartmouth no longer wanted students building a giant snow sculpture on the Green for Winter Carnival.The decision apparently arose out of fear the frozen artwork — a longstanding Dartmouth tradition — might topple over onto an...

After serving a little over 15 years for killing his mother and firing a second shotgun blast that nearly hit his father, Laird Stanard was released from prison in 2015.Tough-on-crime hard-liners might say that Stanard, who was 17 at time of the 1999...

A Dartmouth College graduate lives in a room on the Shady Lawn Motel’s ground floor. A 72-year-old who gets by on Social Security has been a guest since his release from prison four years ago. A grocery store worker and his wife share a room with...

By Jim Kenyon

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published Nov. 22, 2015.I’m fairly certain Andy Harvard’s story is one that Dartmouth College doesn’t want told. But it needs to be. The secrecy has gone on far too long.Seven years, and counting.So let’s...