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Hanover Approves All-Day Kindergarten for Fall 2014 

Friday, May 17, 2013

Hanover — The Hanover School Board has approved full-day kindergarten for fall 2014. In the meantime, the district will develop a Ray School renovation proposal that could include an additional kindergarten classroom. The board’s unanimous decision this week came after a study committee recommended the full-day kindergarten program to the board in January. Expanded kindergarten has been under consideration for several years, and in August, the committee comprised of teachers, …

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 …

Martha Solow raises her hand to ask a question about the use of reserve funds before voting during Town Meeting in the Hanover High School gym last night. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Hanover Approves Tax Rise

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Hanover — The town’s municipal budget passed last night, but only after two attempts to decrease spending by about $145,000 were turned back. Ultimately, the $22.2 million budget passed as originally proposed by the Selectboard. In a rare move, the Hanover Finance Committee, an advisory board, came out against the budget, which left …

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Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Preparing for Prom
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