Sunday, 1/29/2012
NEWS:
Free Clinic Marks 20 Years
White River Junction -- The economy was limping out of recession and the newly unemployed were skimping on medical care because they didn't have insurance to pay for it. See full story
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BUSINESS:
Foreclosures Drive Down Home Prices In Sullivan County
A year-end roundup of New Hampshire real estate sales statistics from 2011 showed bad news for Sullivan County homeowners, but the first month of 2012 offers a glimmer of hope that the worst of the market could be over. See full story
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SPORTS:
Hanover Boys, Lebanon Girls Continue Spotless Starts
Lebanon -- Nobody's perfect, but the Hanover boys and Lebanon girls basketball teams are making quite the argument. See full story
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EDITORIAL:
Maybe the Sky Is Falling: Super-PACs Alter the Campaign
The political resurrection of Newt Gingrich (we're pretty sure Newt himself would not object to the biblical allusion) has been variously attributed to his aggressive performance in recent debates; continuing conservative distaste for his chief rival, Mitt Romney; and Gingrich's campaign-deathbed conversion into scourge of “vulture” capitalism. See full story
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For complete story, see today's Valley News
Dartmouth Panel Launches Group Effort Vs. Sex Assault
Hanover -- More than 120 Dartmouth College students, faculty and staff gathered yesterday to discuss sexual assault on campus in what organizers called “the first event ever of its kind” at the school.
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Grange Is Focus of Orford Talk
Orford -- Steve Taylor, farmer, journalist and former commissioner of agriculture for the state of New Hampshire, will be the guest speaker this week at an Orford Historical Society program about the rise and fall of the New Hampshire Grange movement.
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Building Something That Matters
Springfield, Vt. -- Erin M. Hunter was reluctant to say that there's a good time for a disaster, something like, say, a flood of historic proportions that wreaks havoc on thousands of your neighbors in the state of Vermont.
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Opera House Director Loves ‘Magic of the Theater'
Lebanon -- Every year for her daughter's birthday, Heather Clow's mother would arrange a special treat. The pair would get dolled up, go out to dinner, and spend the rest of their night watching the North Country Community Theatre summer musical at the Lebanon Opera House, an Upper Valley performance landmark since 1924. At one time a movie theatre, the big brick building on the village green now hosts plays, musicals, concerts and community gatherings.
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AG Report Omits Key Accounts
Montpelier -- Earlier this month, Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell announced that a lengthy investigation did not turn up enough evidence to file criminal charges against a former Hartford police officer accused of using excessive force against a woman at the Shady Lawn Motel in September 2010.
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Claremont Chamber Hires Interim Director
Claremont -- Kelly Murphy, the former director of philanthropy, community relations and marketing at Valley Regional Hospital, has been named interim executive director of the Greater Claremont Chamber of Commerce.
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Lukoil Station Near VA Closes
White River Junction -- The Lukoil gas station on Route 5, across from the entrance the VA medical center, closed last week. A spokesman for the company that owns the business said it has plans to reopen the station, but he did not know when.
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