Tuesday, 8/23/2011
NEWS:
Scholar Warns Violence May Continue
Hanover -- The regime of Moamamar Gadhafi is crumbling, but the worst violence could be yet to come for Libya. See full story
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NEWS:
Tripoli Falls But Gadhafi On the Lam
Tripoli -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was nowhere to be found yesterday as his 42-year rule teetered on the brink of collapse. See full story
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SPORTS:
The Author Finds Life as a Goalie Is Far From Easy
Hanover -- During Sunday's preseason field hockey scrimmage between Dartmouth and visiting Harvard, I carefully watched Big Green goaltenders Jenna Stearns and Ellen Meyer. Their confident positioning. The way they charged into scrambles and sent the ball flying out of danger with swift and decisive kicks. How the two women popped easily to their feet after hitting the wiry, fake turf to make yet another save. See full story
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CLOSE-UP:
Finding the Source
Valley News Staff WriterSome days at lunch hour, I make my way through the belching diesel trucks and tight-lipped shoppers angling for position on Route 12A and head to the backside of the big box stores. There, a small clearing in the otherwise dense vegetation affords a glimpse of a great river easing by.That would be the Connecticut, of course. It is a marvel that, while sadly invisible along the West Lebanon retail strip, runs through the consciousness of most of us who call the Upper Valley home. See full story
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EDITORIAL:
Merit Pay On the Table
Can Lebanon Build a Fair System?
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Long at an impasse, the Lebanon School District and the Lebanon Education Association have now agreed to the terms of a two-year contract. After collective bargaining stalled back in January and mediation failed in April, the parties appointed a “fact-finder” to help resolve the dispute over pay and working conditions. That approach appears to have worked. The district and the union are finalizing the contract now, and voters will have an opportunity to approve it in March. See full story
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For complete story, see today's Valley News
NEWS: Couple Charged In Cemetery Thefts
Newport -- A Newport woman has been indicted on charges that she and her boyfriend stole bronze markers from three military veterans' graves and then sold the material at the Claremont Recycling Center.
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NEWS: Historic Dartmouth Elm Felled
Hanover -- Weakened by years of disease and threatening to become a safety hazard, the town cut down the stately Parkhurst Elm on the Dartmouth campus as onlookers cried and others walked off with pieces of the tree that had stood on the Green since the 1800s, surviving 11 college presidents, at least 141 graduations, 1960s anti-war protests and the daily trampling from an untold number of students and professors.
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NEWS: Martin Luther King Memorial Opens on Mall
Washington -- Some were locals who've watched for years as the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. took shape on the National Mall. Some were tourists who happened to be in Washington the day it opened. All felt honored to be a part of history as they gazed at a towering granite sculpture of the civil rights leader.
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