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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 …