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Football helmet maker buys Lebanon’s Simbex
LEBANON — Riddell Sports, which makes the helmets worn by more than 75% of players in the National Football League, has purchased Simbex, a Lebanon-based company that revolutionized the monitoring of head impacts in athletics.The purchase price was...
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Through new school partnerships, CRREL seeks to educate young scientists
LYME — On a raw, not-quite-spring New England afternoon, four seventh and eighth graders in the New Hampshire Academy of Science’s (NHAS) after-school program clustered around a computer, choosing images of orchids for a poster they’re designing to...
Sports
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2024 HS boys lacrosse guide
Once you’ve finally been to the top of the mountain, what do you do for an encore?That’s the challenge facing the Hartford High boys lacrosse program this spring. After multiple attempts that came up short, the Hurricanes ran the table en route to...
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![Yale University's Peter Moynihan, left, is pursued by Dartmouth's Eli Goldstein during the Ivy League teams' April 13, 2024, meeting on Scully-Fahey Field in Hanover, N.H. Yale won, 20-13. (Valley News - Tris Wykes) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission.](/attachments/30/43390930.jpg)
Opinion
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A Yankee Notebook: An inevitable and terminal move
Living three and a half hours apart, as we do, my dear friend Bea and I get to see each other about every two weeks or so, on average. This is almost without doubt an ideal arrangement, as our lifestyles are quite different, and neither of us could...
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Photos
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Acoustic music jam in White River Junction
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Arts & Life
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Over Easy: Marvels in the heavens, and in the yard
It was Traffic vs. the Eclipse on Monday, a showdown of celestial proportions. Would I risk everything like Marco Polo who bravely set out to see the world, or follow the example of his brother Rocco, who said their hometown of Venice was “plenty good...
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Obituaries
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Newbury, VT - Lisa Marie Gurney, age 55, passed Thursday, March 7, 2024. There will be a graveside service on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at the New Oxbow Cemetery in Newbury, VT, at 10 AM. ... remainder of obit for Lisa Gurney
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Midland, TX - Megan Mattern, 44, passed away on March 15, 2024, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, after a valiant fight with cancer. Born December 6, 1979 to Wes and Susan Mattern, Meg... remainder of obit for Megan Mattern
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Leland, NC - James R. Thibodeau, age 75, passed Saturday, April 13, 2024. A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition of the Valley News. Ricker Funeral Home has assist... remainder of obit for James R. Thibodeau
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East Thetford, VT - Beverly Vaughan, 76, of East Thetford, VT, died unexpectedly on Sunday, April 14, 2024. She was born on December 18,1947, to Floyd and Bessie (Minor) Dexter. She gre... remainder of obit for Beverly Vaughan