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Aloha Foundation apologizes after finding more past sexual misconduct by boys camp counselors
By TIM CAMERATO
FAIRLEE — The Aloha Foundation is apologizing to former campers and their families after documenting allegations of sexual abuse involving a total of three counselors more than three decades ago at Lanakila, a summer camp for boys on Lake Morey.An...
Business Notes: Hanover gets back taxes on Etna mansion
By JOHN LIPPMAN
ETNA — The fate of one of Hanover’s highest-assessed properties has been resolved.The owner of 5 Gates Road in Etna, the unfinished vacant mansion previously owned by former Claremont Ford chief Arrien Schiltkamp, has now paid the town of Hanover...
Small museum hopes for higher profile
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
WINDSOR — Throughout his lifetime, Edward Battison collected things.He loved clocks and pocket watches, machine tools and thermometers, scientific instruments and steam cars. But even more so than the items themselves, he loved to collect the stories...
Developer Plans Senior Community Next Door to New London Hospital
By Nora Doyle-Burr
New London — More than two years after New London Hospital shuttered its nursing home, a Maine developer is preparing to build a senior living community on land adjacent to the hospital.Though the new 139-unit community, to be named New London Place...
Former Dartmouth Outing Club Director Andy Harvard Dies at 69
Staff Report
Hanover — Andy Harvard, a world-class mountaineer who was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer's disease when he was 59, died Wednesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care in Lebanon. He was 69.A feature...
Claremont Man Who Robbed Pharmacy of Hundreds of Pills at Knifepoint Is Sentenced
By Jordan Cuddemi
Newport — A 42-year-old Claremont man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to theft and criminal threatening with a deadly weapon in connection with an armed robbery at Sugar River Pharmacy in Claremont last fall.Brian Mahoney was sentenced to a total of two...
Arrests Made in Robbery of Mascoma Bank in White River Junction
By Jordan Cuddemi
White River Junction — A 28-year-old former Windsor resident is facing charges in Vermont and Massachusetts after police alleged he robbed the Mascoma Bank branch off Maple Street in White River Junction on Monday and headed to southern New England...
Claremont City Manager Alleges Council Fired Him Over Tax Abatement Decision
By Patrick O’Grady
Claremont — The City Council resolution listing the reasons for the firing of City Manager Ryan McNutt earlier this week cited his “failure” to give the council advance notice of issues that could be of concern to the public and to communicate...
Claremont City Manager Ryan McNutt Fired; McNutt Vows to Appeal
By Patrick O’Grady
Claremont — Claremont City Manager Ryan McNutt was dismissed by the City Council in a 7-2 vote on Wednesday night, Mayor Charlene Lovett said following another nonpublic meeting on personnel that lasted about two hours.McNutt, who was hired in...
Three Sullivan County Men Face Charges After Gunshots Fired in Claremont
By Patrick O’Grady
Newport — Two brothers charged with first-degree assault for allegedly firing a gun in two locations on Sunday night in Claremont were ordered held without bail following their arraignment on Monday in Sullivan County Superior Court.A third suspect,...
Death of Dartmouth Medical Student in October Ruled an Accident
Staff Report
Hanover — A Dartmouth College medical student’s death in October has been ruled accidental, according to Vermont state records.Kyle Janeczek, a second-year student at the Geisel School of Medicine who grew up in New Jersey, was found dead at his Route...
Police: Women Tried to Snatch Purse at Store
By Jordan Cuddemi
Newport — A Vermont woman who already was out on bail on a robbery charge pleaded not guilty last week to her alleged role in an August scheme to steal a 93-year-old woman’s purse in Claremont.Jennifer Graham, who allegedly served as the getaway...
Vermont Officials Scrap Netting as Suicide Deterrent at Quechee Gorge Bridge
By Jordan Cuddemi
Quechee — The days when sightseers could lean over a waist-high railing at the Quechee Gorge Bridge and gaze down at the popular natural tourist attraction are officially over.State officials recently scrapped the idea of putting a net below the...
Ex-Dartmouth Professor Loses Appeal Of Conduct Violation
By Jordan Cuddemi
Hanover — A retired Dartmouth College professor who jokingly called out “ladies’ lingerie” in an elevator when asked what floor he wanted to be let out on has lost his appeal with the International Studies Association, which found he violated its code...
Driver in Fatal I-91 Crash Gets Suspended Sentence
By Jordan Cuddemi
White River Junction — A 38-year-old Charlestown man received a suspended jail sentence in connection with a crash on Interstate 91 in June that killed a 36-year-old mother of two from Perkinsville.Joshua Rondeau pleaded guilty on Oct. 23 to a...
Rules Protecting N.H. Residents From Winter Utility Disconnection Kick In Today
By Nick Stoico
Winter may be here by Friday with a few inches of snow in the forecast, and families struggling to keep up with their utility bills have options to avoid a shutoff.The rules surrounding utility disconnections change slightly in the winter months to...
Chinese Program Puts Pandas Back Into Wild to Save Them
By Robyn Dixon
Beijing — The panda cub snuffles, stretches out a tiny paw and snuggles with his mother, Cao Cao. She stirs, sniffs him gently and gives him a lick as they rest in her maternity enclosure at the Hetaoping Wilderness Training Base in the mist-wreathed...
Vermont State Police Retire Last Crown Victoria in SUV Upgrade
By Jordan Cuddemi
White River Junction — Motorists used to scanning their rear-view mirrors for telltale Ford Crown Victoria Interceptors as they speed down Vermont highways have some adjusting to do.Vermont State Police today are retiring their last in-service Crown...
Vt. Sex Assault Suspect Deemed Unfit for Trial
By Jordan Cuddemi
White River Junction — Prosecutors have dismissed a sexual assault case against a former mental health and substance abuse counselor who had two offices in the Upper Valley, saying he is unfit to stand trial because he is cognitively impaired.A...
Footage From the Moose Mountain Plane Crash, 50 Years Ago Today
Here is a compilation of scenes of the October 25, 1968, rescue and removal operation on Moose Mountain in Hanover after the crash of Northeast Airlines Flight 946. The original 24 minutes of footage was provided to former Valley News sports editor...
