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On Tap: A Good Kolsch is Hard to Find, but It’s a Fine Beer for Summer

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

A cruel irony of summer is that it is a season when beer consumption is perhaps at its highest, and yet the options become less interesting. Light lagers have never really appealed to me. Most are better for drowning slugs than drinking. And really, how many more wheat beers do we need? I like them every now and then, but there are so many on shelves it’s a wonder there’s enough grain leftover to keep the bread aisle stocked. There is no perfect beer for summer, but if I had to choose one, it would be light-bodied, clean, crisp, slightly fruity and served in a …

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 teachers that UVEI has long espoused. Page Tompkins, 42, starts work at the Lebanon-based nonprofit on July 1, and brings with him from northern California experience in leading …

Gregg, Lynch named Senior Tuck Fellows

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Hanover — Former U.S. Senator Judd Gregg and former New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch have been named senior fellows at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. The fellowships will be through Tuck’s Center for Global Business and Government and the positions will start July 1. Former White House speech writer Matthew Rees has also been appointed a senior fellow. Gregg, a republican, was …

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Mike Cotroneo, a barn restorer, sets up scaffolding around the lowered steeple of the Norwich Congregational Church in Norwich yesterday. Work to restore its rotted framing will take about two months. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Steeple Repair in Norwich

Randolph catcher Ross Caswell hugs teammate Alex Gilbert after the Galloping Ghosts won the Vermont Division III championship last night at Centennial Field in Burlington. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Motivation Works for Ghosts: Unusual History Lesson Lifts Randolph to Baseball State Crown

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

Other Local News

‘Another Perspective of the World’

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Hanover — Innocent Mpoki turned 22 on May 14, and the children in Rebecca Sexton’s fifth-grade class at the Ray School in Hanover wanted to give him a surprise party. Mpoki, who has been in the U.S. pursuing …

Foundation Aim: Self-Reliance

Sunday, June 9, 2013

The Zienzele Foundation has its headquarters in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. (In Shona, the native language of Zimbabwe, “zienzele” means “self-reliance”.) Working with Earthwatch, a nonprofit environmental research organization, founder Prisca Nemapare began looking at the issue of nutrition for women and children in Zimbabwe in the 1980s. Nancy Clark, …

Tyissha Childs wipes away tears while delivering her speech during the Ledyard Charter School commencement at the Richard W. Black Center in Hanover yesterday. The school awarded 13 diplomas during the ceremony. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

‘I Know We Can All Do It’: 13 Graduates Are Awarded Diplomas From Ledyard Charter School

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Hanover — Before the 13 graduates of the Class of 2013 filed in, Lynne Grigelevich, executive director of Ledyard Charter School, grabbed a basket of the only things more important to a graduation ceremony than diplomas. “Tissues!” she …

Mariah Tenney, right, straightens the tassle of her classmate Megan Brewer before filing off the bus and into Sunapee Middle High School commencement in Sunapee last night. Tenney is the salutatorian for the class of 27 students. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

‘We Did Everything Together’

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Sunapee — Not even dreary weather could dampen the spirits of 27 energetic Sunapee Middle High School graduates at their commencement ceremony last night. Heavy rain brought the graduation indoors and the just over one hour ceremony played …

Towers that will support the stage and awnings for Dartmouth commencement are erected on the green in Hanover Wednesday. Crews worked around Hanover preparing tents and seating for events leading up to Sunday’s commencement. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Dartmouth Prepares for Graduation

Friday, June 7, 2013

Towers that will support the stage and awnings for Dartmouth commencement are erected on the green in Hanover Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Crews worked around Hanover preparin tents and seating for events leading up to Sunday's commencement. Valley …

Lebanon Mulls 2nd School Cop

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Lebanon — The city is looking to hire a second police officer to monitor the halls of Lebanon schools. School Board Chair Jeff Peavey said yesterday that last December’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is the main reason the district is interested in …

Destination Imagination teammates Gavin Morgan of Grantham, Gergana Alteva, of Grantham, Julia Blike, of Grantham, and Ethan Ticehurst, of Lebanon, talk about their winning experience at the global finals. They gathered in Principal Nan Parsons’ office at Lebanon High School last week. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

World Beaters: Lebanon High Team Wins Destination Imagination Global Finals

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Upper Valley youth teams often go to and win state title games, and a few others might go all the way to a national competition. But only a very few (moguls skier Hannah Kearney of Norwich comes to …

Lebanon High teacher Deborah Springhorn is the next recipient of the McAuliffe Sabbatical, which gives an educator time to develop methods to improve classroom teaching. (New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - Cheryl Senter)

A Teacher Rewarded: Lebanon’s Deborah Springhorn Receives Sabbatical

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

The annual Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical has been good to Upper Valley teachers in recent years. Hanover High School math teacher Greta Mills was the 2010 recipient of the sabbatical, which provides an outstanding New Hampshire teacher with a …

Young Writers: Fairy Tales and Technology

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

This week, Young Writers Project publishes responses to the prompts, Fairy tale: Write a fairy tale that includes the phrase, “one thousand peas;” and Technology: Your cell phone is broken. What do you do? Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit that engages students to write, helps them …

Lebanon Mulls 2nd School Cop

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

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