After the Windsor Selectboard voted in October to block advocates for the LGBTQ+ community from planting a “Pride” tree on the town common, Amanda...

Kenyon: It’s not working out

5/27/23

Before turning in for the night, Dave Gifford wedges wax plugs into both ears and cranks up the white noise machine next to the bed in his studio...

For almost a decade, Kyle Fisher was able to keep his money troubles hidden in plain sight.By 2014 — two years before he was selected to head...

By all accounts, Daniel Diaz, at age 29, was getting his life together. He’d stopped drinking. He joined a church. He moved into a new apartment in...

As delectable as the fresh breads and sweets are that come from the ovens at King Arthur Baking in Norwich, the company’s never-ending campaign to...

Jim Kenyon: Dog daze in Hartland

5/3/23

It’s been public knowledge for a while that Hartland Town Manager Dave Ormiston and Town Clerk Brian Stroffolino aren’t exactly office pals.But who...

The day after Keith Gokey was hospitalized in December with third-degree burns over 40% of his body, a Hartford police officer wrote in her...

Kenyon: Underpaid at Gifford

4/23/23

In late December, two longtime respiratory therapists at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph discovered an unexpected bonanza — roughly $100,000...

Jim Kenyon: Digging his way up

4/16/23

On paper, Ben Goodwin doesn’t seem like a safe bet as a new employee. He’s been in and out of jail since he was a teenager. Until about four years...

With Dartmouth graduate students voting this week on whether to unionize, college officials likely believe their efforts to defeat the initiative...

Coke or Pepsi? Then again perhaps Mountain Dew is your soft drink of choice. And there’s always an oldie but goodie like Orange Crush.Compared to...

Ben Goodwin found the one-page letter — in essence an eviction notice — under the door of his room early last week. He had until Sunday morning to ...

Almost a year ago, David backed his 30-year-old travel trailer into the corner of a large vacant lot behind a fast-food restaurant on Route 12A in...

Last month, the state of Vermont finalized a $4.5 million out-of-court settlement with youths who alleged they were victims of “obscene abuse...

The distance between Cornish’s public library and the town’s shuttered general store is only about 200 yards.But when it comes to whether the town...

The names Manu Tesone and Omer Trajman didn’t appear on Norwich’s Town Meeting ballot, but their fingerprints were all over Tuesday’s outcomes...

For nearly 30 years, Norwich Town Clerk Bonnie Munday has issued dog licenses, recorded property transactions, handled election preparations and...

Less than 24 hours before Friday morning’s court hearing to restart criminal proceedings against Scott Traudt for allegedly assaulting a Lebanon...

On two occasions in the last 15 years, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center nurses have initiated union drives only to see the efforts fizzle out...

In an “internal” message sent out to thousands of employees last month, Dartmouth Health declared belt-tightening measures were a must as it tries...

Lee Cutting and John Walsh were the best of friends. Whether they were good influences on each other is arguable.But they had a bond. His name was...

Paul Karp, who grew up in Lebanon and raised a family here, was looking for a way to help needy kids in his community. In 1987, Karpy, as he’s...

After more than 14 years of legal wrangling to erase his conviction for assaulting a Lebanon police officer during a late-night traffic stop, Scott...

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Grafton County Superior Court judge recently set aside Scott Traudt’s 2008 conviction for assaulting a Lebanon police officer...

When Pete Stever, who trapped his first muskrat at age 12 on his family’s farm in West Fairlee, heard about what had happened in East Corinth last...

Jim Kenyon: A wish list for 2023

12/30/22

With 2022 wrapping up, I figure it’s time to share my wish list for the Upper Valley in 2023. Here goes: Enough with the Norwich Farm Foundation’s ...

Jim Kenyon: Mean streets of Norwich

12/23/22

I get why many Norwich residents are clamoring for beefing up the town’s police force. It’s difficult to sleep at night knowing that after more...

A new sign next to the parking lot for a business that will soon open off Route 5 heading into downtown White River Junction is a bit of a head...

As a teenager in the early 1970s, Doreen Keith pumped gas at a filling station outside Worcester, Mass., for a $1.35 an hour.Her parents were...

As Lebanon’s city manager for nearly five years, Shaun Mulholland is accustomed to fielding requests from the public for information under New...

They have only been at it for a month, but the “weird trunk ladies” — as the four women jokingly call themselves — have already synchronized their...

What is it about some New Hampshire cops — even after they’ve relinquished their guns and badges — that make them think the state’s right-to-know...

When a criminal defendant files an appeal after losing a jury trial, the prosecutor will often argue that since the people have already spoken, the...

After retrieving an electric leaf blower from the manager’s office at the Sunset Motor Inn, Steven Dupont headed across the parking lot on a warm...

Who doesn’t want more trees? Judging by what transpired at its most recent meeting, three-fifths of the Windsor Selectboard. For the record, Tera...

The distance between Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is only a few miles. But for some workers who aren’t paid a lot of...

Before its 24/7 mobile crisis response team hit the road in January, West Central Behavioral Health reached out to schools, police departments and...

For the latter part of summer and into early fall, Jamie Shue lived an easy walk to her job as a hostess at a West Lebanon restaurant.It wasn’t as...

Jim Kenyon: Leveling the field

9/24/22

A 196-unit apartment complex in downtown Lebanon, a “farm outlet store” near Interstate 91 in Hartland and a cluster of “tiny homes” for tourists...

As a small-town New Hampshire cop in his early 20s, Zack Brock responded to a 911 call about a man who was threatening suicide by jumping into rush...

After leaving a weekly session with her mental health therapist, Nicole Cremo checked her cellphone.The threatening emails and Snapchat messages...

The arrival of a Dollar General discount store in Royalton, which has been rumored for months, is now on hold. That’s either good news or bad...

It’s nice, I guess, that Dartmouth officials are at least pretending to care what Hanover residents think about the college’s plan to bulldoze a...

In Vermont, the nine regional environmental commissions have a major say in proposed development projects that fall under the purview of Act 250...

It says a lot about the work environment at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center when a registered nurse who runs an innocuous Instagram page is so...

The hilltop barn where Jimmy and Tina Spaulding milked up to 49 cows for the last 28 years sits empty this summer. The Royalton couple sold off...

Any hopes the Lebanon School Board had of this being a quiet, uneventful summer ended last week when the American Civil Liberties Union of New...

The three Hartford police officers sent to Bob Little Tree’s home on a late June afternoon were well aware the 75-year-old had done nothing wrong...

Early on during Hartford Selectboard meetings, the seven members are each given a few minutes to talk about whatever is on their minds.At the most...

Like many Strafford residents, retired school teacher Joey Hawkins was taken aback when she read on the town Listserv this spring that Coburns...

In the end, former Hanover police officer Mark Ridge not only voted with his feet, he spoke his mind.At the Hanover Selectboard meeting on Monday...

For better or worse, Hartland has always been a town — unlike many of its neighbors — that didn’t see a need for zoning regulations.As long they...

As they have done on Memorial Day for the past 17 years, Patti and Scott Holmes will make their way to the Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery in...

When the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society announced it was looking for a new chief executive, Doren Hall was eager to apply.The opportunity to...

There’s an old saying in the legal world about criminal defendants who enter a courtroom without a lawyer: He who represents himself has a fool for...

I’m not surprised an internal investigation cleared former Canaan police officer Sam Provenza of using excessive force during a 2017 traffic stop...

As a new deputy with the Grafton County Sheriff’s Department, Jill Myers was issued a stun gun, pepper spray and a 9 mm Glock.But when Myers is...

Some stories that come my way are so off the wall, I immediately put them in the you-must-be-joking category. Josh Manheimer has one of those...

Part of me thinks it’s too early to be writing about an election that’s still more than six months away. Particularly when it’s not a statewide...

For anyone who supports the public’s right to see and scrutinize the outcomes — good or bad — of investigations into alleged police wrongdoing, a...

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