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Isaiah Kol, of Post Mills, 7, walks with his dad, Josh Kol and baby brother Judah Kol (in the stroller), during the Open Fields Medieval Festival in Thetford yesterday. (Valley News - Libby March)

Wet Weather Dampens Weekend Festivities

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Thetford — Under one of many tents on the Thetford green, a procession of children and adults circled a table, systematically lowering a wick into a can of hot wax, forming candles layer by layer. “Down; up,” said Jennifer Manwell, who was running the station, to a nascent candle maker. “Let it drip.” Rain dropped just outside, catching on all …

Letter: A Failed Strategy at Dartmouth

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: Dartmouth College’s recent actions on sexual assaults, gender discrimination and homophobia follow a longstanding strategy: See evil, hear evil, speak evil, but don’t actually do anything about it. It is doomed again to failure. We have long read about the usual suspects gathering, speaking out, declaiming on Dartmouth’s need to face up to these issues. Those demanding action — such …

Letter: A Particularly Malicious Column

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: I’ve come to expect a healthy dose of self-loathing in Jim Kenyon’s columns. After all, living in one of Vermont’s most affluent towns and sending his kids to well-funded schools is obviously something that he needs to atone for. And what better way to demonstrate that he is not one of those Norwichites than by constantly writing about how awful …

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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

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Letter: Sweet Smell of Money

Monday, May 6, 2013

To the Editor: The front-page Valley News article about the beverage industry’s considerable spending in Vermont to scuttle a proposed tax on sweetened drinks (“Sugary Drink Industry Spent Heavily in Vt.”) suggests that the newspaper finds the industry’s spending and lobbying efforts appalling. Yet, the Valley News, shockingly, …

While waiting in line in front of the Converse Free Library in Lyme, Lyme School First grader Rider Hayes, in blue at left, reaches to steady fellow first grader Carter Guerin’s book as he tries to keep it balanced on his head yesterday. Classmates watching the revelry are (from left) Eva Simpson, Espen Hutchins, Justin Dickson, and Brooke Allen. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Balancing Act in Lyme

Thursday, May 2, 2013

While waiting in line in front of the Converse Free Library in Lyme, Lyme School First grader Rider Hayes, in blue at left, reaches to steady fellow first grader Carter Guerin’s book as he tries to keep it …

Gibb Cornwell, in this 2002 photograph, served four years in the Air Force before going into medicine, and spent the 17 years after his medical career serving as an Upper Valley volunteer in many capacities. (Jon Gilbert Fox photograph, courtesy of Geisel School of Medicine)

A Life: Gibbons Gray Cornwell III, 1933 — 2013; ‘He’s What I Want to Be When I Grow Up’

Monday, April 15, 2013

Lyme — For the first dozen years of his retirement from medicine in the mid-1990s, Gibb Cornwell shared much of what he learned about computers with pupils at the Lyme School. Little did the youngsters know how he’d …

Gorham, named for the town in New Hampshire where he was found, peeks out of his box at the home of bear rehabilitator Ben Kilham in Lyme yesterday morning. Caretaker Phoebe Kilham, of Thetford Center, said it was the first time she had seen him awake since he went into hibernation last fall. The Kilhams have been caring for 27 orphaned cubs over the winter. (Valley News - Libby March)

‘They Play and Play and Play’: Bear Cubs at Lyme Sanctuary Get Ready for Spring Release

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Lyme — At first, all that was visible inside the rectangular hole in the insulated, wooden box was darkness. Ever so slowly, a nose appeared. A brown snout then emerged, followed by a pair of unblinking, dark eyes …

Listservs Celebrate Central Role in Upper Valley Conversation

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Thetford — They’re home to everything from civic debate to offers of piles free stuff. How much does it cost to run the recycling center on Route 113? Why do you oppose the VTel Tower? I found a dead porcupine. Does anybody want it? They’re the listservs, the …

Loulou Voelkel, 10, of Norwich, skis at Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme Center yesterday. Forecasters are predicting 8-12 inches of snow locally from today’s storm, giving a late season boost to ski areas on the last day of winter. (Valley News - Libby March)

Winter Fades to White: End-of-Season Snow Storm Forecast to Leave 12 Inches

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Lyme — Larry Hunt traveled with his family from Mattapoisett, Mass., to the Dartmouth Skiway for a two-day vacation. Now he’s hoping that a surprise late winter storm will drop enough snow on the region to trap his …

Special education teacher Tracy Flickinger creates a visual aid for multiplication as residents vote during Lyme’s Town Meeting at the school last week. Flickinger was able to work and participate in voice votes while her class was taking a test. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

Audio Slideshow: Town Meeting Multitaskers

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Not long into Tuesday’s town meeting in Lyme, Elizabeth Glenshaw put down her town report and took up her knitting. She’s working on a bright pink sweater for a baby due in May. “It keeps you relaxed, but …

William Town, of Norwich, looks towards his family in Grafton County Superior Court in October 2010. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

Prosecutor Drops Charge In Rape Case

Saturday, March 16, 2013

North Haverhill — Prosecutors plan to drop a rape charge against a Lyme man who spent two years in prison before his conviction was overturned last year. William K. Town, 37, was scheduled to stand trial in April …

Tom Toner speaks in support of electing a road agent yearly during Lyme’s Town Meeting yesterday. An article that would have made the position appointed to a term of three years by the Selectboard was defeated in favor of keeping the position elected for a term of three years. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Lyme: Condition of Roads at Issue

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Lyme — Residents at Town Meeting yesterday approved a town operating budget of just under $2 million but turned back a proposal that would have let the Selectboard appoint the road agent. Voters also turned down a bid …

Letter: A Different Kind of War

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

To the Editor: There has been considerable discussion of the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki by an American drone. We have seen a typical objection to this “extralegal” killing in a letter by John Karol in the Feb. 28 Valley News (“The Value of McCoy Cartoons”). If an American …

Lyme

Wet Weather Dampens Weekend Festivities

Man Hospitalized in Enfield Fire That Destroys Garage

Hartford Seeks Healing After Suicides

Hanover Buddies Planning a Unique Wiffle Ball Field

Chasing the Dream, Welch Detours Back to Morey

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