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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 as the ubiquitous Ivy Schweitzer and Tom …

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 …

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, ran full-page ads paid for by the very same beverage industry. C’mon, guys. In the …

Edna R. Stearns

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Lyme, N.H. — Edna R. Stearns, age 82, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, after a brief illness. She was born Oct. 30, 1930, in East Pepperell, Mass., the daughter of John Hutchins and Ruth Beard. She lived most of her life in Lyme. In 1949, Edna …

Dr. Gibbons Gray Cornwell III

Friday, February 8, 2013

Lyme, N.H. — Dr. Gibbons Gray Cornwell III died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. The son of Gibbons G. Cornwell, Jr. and Eva Parke Cornwell was born Jan. 17, 1933, in West Chester, Pa. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1950 …

Raiders Line Them Up and Hold Off Hanover

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Lebanon — Every day at practice, as his Lebanon High boys basketball teammates take a water break, junior Nic Shepherd heads in the other direction. He heads for the nearest free-throw line. He takes foul shots. He won’t go to the H2O until he makes at least two. …

Letter: You Made My Teeth Hurt

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

To the Editor: It’s clear that the editors of the Valley News did not have Miss Noel for 11th-grade English, as I did. If they had, they would know the correct usage for the words “lay” and “lie.” Twice in the Sunday edition — once in a caption …

An Afternoon Away From School

Friday, January 18, 2013

Lyme Elementary school students (left to right) Ellie Knaus, 5, Sadie Ross, 5, and Ryhs Rountree, 6, cross East Thetford Road in Lyme with their chaperones, Laurel Ross (teal hat) and Rose Knaus, both of Lyme, yesterday. The …

School Budgets Shape Up

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Hanover — Norwich and Hanover school boards are in the home stretch of finalizing their budgets, which they plan to adopt by the end of the month. Along with the budgets, residents will also be asked to approve teacher contracts for all three districts, which in some cases …

Lyme Parent Charged With Disorderly Conduct at School

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Lyme — The parent who allegedly became verbally abusive toward two Lyme School officials was arrested yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, police said. Jedediah Smith, 33, had a “seizure-type” episode while resisting arrest on Thursday morning, Lyme Police Chief Shaun O’Keefe said in an …

Parent Hospitalized After Being Removed From Lyme School

Friday, January 11, 2013

Lyme — A parent was escorted out of the Lyme School by police yesterday after he allegedly became verbally abusive while speaking with the principal and special education director. The father of a student entered the school, which is located on Union Street, at 9:30 a.m. yesterday and …

With New Coach, Hartford Has High Hopes

Sunday, December 23, 2012

After a six-year stint as coach of the Hartford girls basketball team, which culminated with the program’s first state championship last winter, defensive specialist Steve Landon brings his skills and dedication to the Hurricane boys this season. While …

From Lyme to Prime Time

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Mikaela Shiffrin may not be the youngest American woman to ever win a World Cup ski race. But the 17-year-old former Upper Valley skier is the youngest in more than 40 years. On Thursday, under the lights at …