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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 …

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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March

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

Oxbow Union High girls lacrosse captain Dilan Clements leads her team in a cheer at the close of practice in Bradford, Vt., yesterday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Oxbow Scoring Aces Get Help From Their Friends

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Letter: For a More Nuanced View of Crime

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

To the Editor: What was the point of Nov. 29 front-page headline — “Prison Next for Lyme Swindler”— regarding Josephine Rich’s sentencing? This is sad, not important, news. Rich did swindle, but she is a person first and doubtlessly far more than the label you attached to her …

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Young Writers: A Favorite Place

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Each week, Young Writers Project receives several hundred submissions from students in Vermont and New Hampshire in response to writing prompts and selects the best for publication here and in 20 other newspapers and on VPR.net. This week, …

Syracuse tight end Carl Cutler, of Norwich, paces the sidelines during pre-season practice in Syracuse, N.Y., in August. (The Post-Standard - Frank Ordoñez)

Keeping His Head High

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Hanover — The Heisman Trophy will be presented next weekend to the young man chosen as the country’s best NCAA Division I football player. If there were a similar award given for perseverance, Syracuse tight end Carl Cutler …

Hanover High Announces Honor Roll

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Grade 12, High Honors: Ricardo Addante, Rachel, Alibozek, Elise Austin-Washburn, Sophia Bartels, Brendan Barth, Matthew Beach, Monica Bedford, Aurora Berger, Katherine Bradley, Chloe Brisson, Genevieve Bristol, Alex Brown, James Brown, Katherine Chen, Jacqueline Coyle, Morgan Danna, William DeLucia, Bethany Denton, Eloise Dietz, Harry Dwinell, Sarah Fall, Samuel Finley, …

Letter: Obama’s Real Agenda

Friday, November 30, 2012

To the Editor: The president’s unrelenting drive to deny extension of the Bush tax cuts to wealthier Americans makes little sense from the standpoint of economics. Under the most favorable of assumptions, it would raise tax revenues by about $80 billion a year. Even if every cent of …

Letter: The Jodie Rich I Know

Friday, November 30, 2012

To the Editor: Obviously, staff writer Mark Davis has never met Jodie Rich or spoken to any of the organizations or people she has helped and supported (“Prison Next for Lyme Swindler,” Nov. 29). If he had, he would see what others know about her — that she …

Lyme Insurance Agent Headed to Prison for Financial Crime

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Lyme — A former insurance agent will soon head to federal prison to begin an 18 month sentence for bilking her elderly mother-in-law out of nearly $500,000. Josephine Rich, 57, whose family has long operated Everett Rich Insurance Agency, was found guilty of bank fraud and other federal …

Young Writers: Winter Tales

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Letter: Raise the Journalistic Bar

Saturday, November 24, 2012

To the Editor: Come on, Valley News, raise your bar a little, and use experienced human eyeballs and brainpower to proofread your text. The latest case in point is two errors that wouldn’t sneak through freshman English — and I mean “freshman” as in “high school.” The lead …

Letter: Heroes of the Upper Valley

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

To the Editor: On behalf of the CHaD Hero Half volunteer race committee and CHaD staff, I write with heartfelt appreciation for the critical role our community played in the success of the CHaD Hero Half Marathon & Ripcord 5K on Oct. 21. In case you haven’t heard, …

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Letter: A Failed Strategy at Dartmouth

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Ex-Thetford Star Leaps High at UConn

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