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River Valley Community College Celebrates: More Than 250 Earn Degrees
Claremont — The crowd roared when River Valley Community College’s student guest speaker approached the podium at last night’s 45th annual commencement ceremony. Decked in a gold honors sash and teal cord, graduate Miriam Daffodil Mumuli, of Nairobi, Kenya — grinning ear-to-ear — spoke of the importance of faculty and family role models on a …
Breaking Down Social Barriers
They spoke of privilege and of anger. About bad choices, demons and false assumptions. Of freedom, family and hope. They were contractors, fathers, sisters, brothers, athletes and musicians. When inmates at the Sullivan County House of Corrections and Dartmouth College students came together recently for a pair of performances — the final piece to a …
Ex-Thetford Star Leaps High at UConn
The spring semester recently ended at the University of Connecticut, but junior track and field athlete Jesse Chapman is still hard at work. Handpicked by kinesiology professor Jeff Volek to assist with an on-campus lab study, Chapman, an exercise science major, is in the midst of testing how various sugar alcohols react to human blood …
Hartford Eighth-Graders Revel in Civil War History
Hartford — A group of students who have been researching Civil War soldiers from Vermont visited the Hartford Cemetery off Route 14 yesterday afternoon to dedicate a tree to the deceased veterans and place nearly 200 flags on gravestones in honor of Memorial Day. In conjunction with Valley Quest, an educational program that celebrates cultural …
Motorcycle Masterpiece
Ryan Olney, left, discusses the paint job for the gas tank of his Yamaha Maxim motorcycle with his fiance Lauren Colbeth, of Pike, middle, and his mother’s fiance Cal Newman at his Enfield home yesterday. Valley News - James M. Patterson …

Miriam Daffodil Mumuli raises a cheer during her address to her River Valley Community College classmates during commencement last evening. Mumuli graduated with an associate degree in nursing. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

River Valley Community College Celebrates: More Than 250 Earn Degrees

Claremont — The crowd roared when River Valley Community College’s student guest speaker approached the podium at last night’s 45th annual commencement ceremony. Decked in a gold honors sash and teal cord, graduate Miriam Daffodil Mumuli, of Nairobi, …

Haverhill Gets Fire Safety List

Haverhill — The state fire marshal has given the Haverhill Cooperative School District a to-do list of requirements following the rejection of a warrant article by voters in March that would have paid for necessary fire safety improvements at the high school. The $330,000 warrant article failed by …

Dartmouth Warily Eyes Spring Party

Hanover — Dartmouth College’s “frat row” was a scene of jubilation yesterday. Hundreds of students were dancing and drinking on Webster Avenue between Beta Alpha Omega’s red brick house and the live band planted in Phi Delta Alpha’s yard, celebrating the rite of spring known as Green Key …

Hartford Middle School teacher Jennifer Boeri-Boyce speaks to students at the Hartford Cemetery yesterday. The students were at the cemetery to help put flags on veterans’ graves and dedicate a tree to those who served during the Civil War. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

Hartford Eighth-Graders Revel in Civil War History

Hartford — A group of students who have been researching Civil War soldiers from Vermont visited the Hartford Cemetery off Route 14 yesterday afternoon to dedicate a tree to the deceased veterans and place nearly 200 flags on …

Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March

Woodstock — A Bridgewater woman died yesterday morning after the sedan she was driving collided with a box truck on Route 4. It was the third fatal accident on that road in Woodstock and Hartford this year. Norma …

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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Purchase photo reprints »
Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Purchase photo reprints »
Oxbow Union High girls lacrosse captain Dilan Clements leads her team in a cheer at the close of practice in Bradford, Vt., yesterday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Purchase photo reprints »
Lebanon High’s Emily Perryman (4) drives to the net against a pair of Kearsarge defenders yesterday. The host Raiders suffered their second narrow loss of the season to the Cougars, falling 7-6 in an NHIAA Division III game. (Valley News - Tris Wykes) Purchase photo reprints »
Volunteer firefighters from Ascutney and Weathersfield rip off siding during a house fire in Perkinsville yesterday afternoon. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Purchase photo reprints »
Route 4 has seen two fatal accidents in the past three months. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Purchase photo reprints »
Hanover’s Katie Irwin hits a return while playing with partner Kendra McGowan against Lebanon’s Brielle Giaccone and Ashley O’Keefe at Alexis Boss Tennis Center in Hanover yesterday. (Valley News - Libby March) Purchase photo reprints »
Anthony Jarvis takes a moment to say goodbye to his wife, Angel Jarvis, after being sentenced in Sullivan County Superior Court in Newport yesterday. Jarvis pleaded guilty to drug charges including destroying evidence stemming from a February incident when a probation officer and Claremont police came to his home to execute a search based on an anonymous tip. Jarvis’ attorney, Bob Morgan, is at right. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Purchase photo reprints »
Martha Solow raises her hand to ask a question about the use of reserve funds before voting during Town Meeting in the Hanover High School gym last night. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Purchase photo reprints »
Peter Chap, of Royalton, weeds his garden yesterday as his chickens scratch for worms in the soil. Chap said his family likes the hens’ eggs as much as the chickens enjoy the worms. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Purchase photo reprints »