With Classes Canceled, Dartmouth Students Gather to Address Campus Strife

Hanover — With a picturesque backdrop of warm air and sunny blue skies, scores of Dartmouth College community members gathered today to talk about some of the uglier aspects of life at the school. It was not your typical springtime scene: College officials took the unusual step last night of canceling today’s classes and replaced them with a daylong series of programs to address a simmering campus climate related to complaints of racism, homophobia, sexual assault and intolerance. Their hope, officials said, was to bring

Job Shadow Students Learn the Art of the Interview While Upper Valley Residents Combat Cabin Fever

With reporting by Thetford Academy student Ian Mitchell and Lebanon Middle School student Jillian Mitchell. Lebanon — Tom Read has a solution for cabin fever: Get out of the house, no matter the weather. “My suggestion is if you have cabin fever, then get out,” said Read, a sales representative at Omer and Bob’s in downtown Lebanon. “It’s beautiful. My favorite time of the year is when the snow’s almost gone in the woods and the buds are coming out, and you can just feel

Audio Slideshow: Tunbridge Civic Club Show

Valley News photographer James M. Patterson and audio correspondent Liz Faiella were at the annual Tunbridge Civic Club Show last month, capturing its sights and sounds in an audio slideshow. Follow the link to take a look and a listen.

In Case You Missed It: Multitasking at Town Meeting

Follow this link to explore the sights and sounds of Town Meeting throughout the Upper Valley in recent weeks, when Valley News photogprahers and audio correspondent Liz Faiella captured residents using a variety of techniques to pass the time.

Audio Podcast: Sherlock's Surest Fans

Follow the link under the related stories section below to listen to a podcast from Liz Faiella, who visited the Sherlock Holmes Club at Hanover's Howe Library last week.

Did You Hear It? Loud Noise Thursday Morning May Have Been Sonic Boom

Full Text: The Adam Lanza Profile

In today’s newspaper, we ran a profile of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old Connecticut man who killed 20 young children, six adults and his mother during the Newtown, Conn., tragedy in December before killing himself. The piece was reported by The Hartford Courant in partnership with the PBS investigative news program Frontline. Read the extended version of the story online at the link below.

Audio Podcast: Singing Valentines Surprise

Have you listened to our first-ever audio podcast?      Podcaster Liz Faiella captured a quartet from the North Country Chordsmen yesterday delivering a surprise singing valentine to Dartmouth College student Blake Osborn at the Collis Center for Student Involvement.  It was one of nearly 90 performances delivered by six quartets of the chordsmen around the Upper Valley.  Listen to the podcast above, and read the full story under the "Related Stories" section below.  (Pictured in the photos accompanying the podcast, from left to right, are tenor David

Notebook Scraps: Reactions to the Post Office Canceling Saturday Mail Delivery

Did you see today’s article about the United States Postal Service ending Saturday mail delivery? When photographer Jennifer Hauck and I were out reporting the story yesterday, we spent some time talking to Betty Abbott, an 89-year-old Rogers House resident who adamantly opposes any cut to postal services. She gave a nice description of the morning scene at Rogers House in Lebanon, when the local mail carrier arrives and residents eagerly gather in the lobby to see what they’ve received: “It’s a big event when

Updated: Stella’s Restaurant in Hartland To Be Replaced by Diner

Stella’s Restaurant in Hartland will open its doors for the last time on March 10, as the owners announced via Facebook today that they have sold the space to another Hartland resident who plans to open a diner there April 1. Read Jon and Stracy Capurso’s full announcement at this link. The Capursos said they are “in the process of installing a new restaurant in the historic Windsor Train Station,” assuring fans that that “we don’t plan on being out of your lives forever.” Opened