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School Notes: Upper Valley Educators Institute Hires New Director

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

From across the country, the Upper Valley Educators Institute has hired a new executive director who has been focused on the same methods of training …

Rest, Yes, but Avoid Summer Brain Drain

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

It’s summertime. Breathe deeply, hear the splash in the pool. For a few sweet weeks, let the chaos of the school year recede; forget about …

To Your Good Health: Colon ‘Burned’ By Radiation

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Dear Dr. Roach: In 2008, I was treated for prostate cancer with radiation. A couple of months later, I started passing blood during bowel movements. …

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Randolph vs. BFA-Fairfax in the VPA D-III baseball championship in Burlington, Vt., on June 17, 2013. Randolph won, 3-2. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Photo Gallery: Randolph vs. BFA-Fairfax Baseball Championship
Sharon Academy senior Larkin Goode performs Miley Cyrus’ Butterfly Fly Away during her speech portion of Sharon Academy’s graduation at The Sharon Academy in Sharon, yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) ‘You’ve Got to Go For It’: 34 Sharon Academy Graduates Relate Learning From Experience
Thirty-four graduating seniors received their diplomas during The Sharon Academy's commencement in Sharon, Vt., on June 16, 2013. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Photo Gallery: The Sharon Academy Graduation
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Scientists Devise Tiny ‘Net’ to Catch Bedbugs

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Melville, n.y. — A team of Long Island, N.Y., scientists and entrepreneurs have developed a new way to kill bedbugs, using webs of tiny fibers that capture the bloodsuckers much like wire snares trap larger animals. The stress of being trapped kills the loathed pests faster, the developers …

Lebanon Teams Sweep

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Plainfield — Lebanon-Beverage King used a balanced attack to defeat Claremont Women 19-0 in a New Hampshire Soccer Conference Division I women’s game yesterday. Shannon Boisvert, Sarah Fittro, Trina Scheie, Georgia Houde, Amanda Klotz, Annie Pullen, Molly McManus and Jill Dion scored two goals apiece for Lebanon, and …

Newly Graduated? Here’s How to Start Your New Life Thoughtfully

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Many commencement speeches are peppered with cliches that spread a ripple of yawns throughout the crowd. Here’s some advice I wish someone had dished out years ago when it was my turn to teeter across the stage in those treacherously high heels: First, be deeply grateful for your …

‘This Is the End’ Is an Homage and Send-up of Stoner Films

Friday, June 14, 2013

The apocalyptic satire This Is the End was made for admirers of Seth Rogen and James Franco, who, the movie suggests, may be their own biggest fans. An alternately sly and wildly indulgent exercise in omni-referential humor, This Is the End is accidently true to its title: As …

Where’s Walter? A Good Name Deserves Our Respect

Saturday, June 15, 2013

The list of names American parents assigned to their babies in 2012, recently released by the Social Security Administration, shows the continued surge in popularity of old-fashioned, or at least old-timey sounding names. Here in the Twin States, …

Baby Names Divide Along Party Lines

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Republicans and Democrats don’t seem to agree on very much these days. They’re divided on the kinds of television shows they watch, cars they drive and beers they drink. And now new research by political scientists at the University of Chicago adds one more thing to that list: …

First Dads: Best and Worst

Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Washington Post Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley lists the best and worst first fathers. Best 1. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. “He’s in a league of his own,” Brinkley says. The elder Roosevelt took Young Teddy to the Amazon, instilling in him a love and respect of the outdoors. He …

Letters From My Father, and a Typewriter That Made the Journey With Me

Saturday, June 15, 2013

I blame a severe case of left-handedness for fouling my penmanship and pushing me toward the typewriter well before I could shave. I started on an aqua-green Olivetti Studio 44 whose “portable” description belied its weight. My father …

Four Golfers Join N.H. Amateur Field

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Enfield — Four more Upper Valley golfers added their names to the list of competitors for this summer’s New Hampshire Amateur, making the cut during yesterday’s 18-hole qualifying tournament at Montcalm Golf Club. Hanover Country Club’s Vince Kimball and Zach Pollard, North Sutton’s Kurt Wuenschel and Charles McNeeley, …

"I got a smile that kills," said Don Lance of his three decades using meth and other drugs. After getting off drugs two years ago and winning a dream home in a contest, his life is looking up. (Beau Cabell/Macon Telegraph/MCT)

From Drugs to God: Man Says His Life Has Turned a Corner

Friday, June 14, 2013

Macon, Ga. — Having once lived in a tent near the Ocmulgee River, Don Lance knows a good bit about lows. “When you have nothing, it’s hard to hit rock bottom,” he said. After nearly three decades of …