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Dartmouth senior Cooper Stimson is in the middle of making a film called Paddling Like the Dickens, a romantic comedy about two pairs of potential lovers that he is shooting around Hanover. (Amanda Granizo photograph)

Dartmouth Senior Shooting Feature Film in Hanover

Friday, May 17, 2013

San Luis Obispo, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, has at least three claims to fame. The first is that it is the home of the world’s first motel, built in 1925; the second is that in 2011, in one of those frequent polls about the best places to live, San Luis Obispo was named the happiest town in the United States. And for William Randolph Hearst, who was very rich and possibly quite happy as a result, it was a 40-mile drive south from San Simeon, his opulent Xanadu on the coast, to San Luis Obispo. This trivia is courtesy of Cooper Stimson, …

Parker C. Gilbert

Dartmouth Freshman Charged With Rape

Friday, May 17, 2013

Hanover — A Dartmouth College freshman has been accused of raping a female student inside her dorm room earlier this month, Hanover police said. Parker C. Gilbert, 20, has been charged with four counts of aggravated felony sex assault, police said. He appeared in Lebanon Circuit Court yesterday, police said, where a judge …

George Ostler, of Hartford, is shown while hiking in Italy in the 1990s. (Family photograph)

A Life: George Johann Ostler, 1925 — 2013; ‘He Loved It Up Here. It Was His Heaven’

Monday, May 13, 2013

Hartford — The tall German with a boyish smile was rarely more in his element than when he was gliding down the slopes at the Dartmouth Skiway, as a group of students watched, eager to emulate his style of skiing. As the founder and longtime director of the Dartmouth Ski School, George Ostler …

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