HANOVER — On a late September evening, the 15 players on the Dartmouth men’s basketball team were summoned by their coaches to Berry Sports Center...

It was bad enough that Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock and her administration overreacted by having Hanover police arrest two...

LEBANON — As an underclassman at Hanover High School, Chris Carroll was fairly certain when he got called to the associate principal’s office early...

State Rep. Jonathan Stone isn’t the only one who has a great deal riding on the outcome of his lawsuit against the city of Claremont, which the New...

Jim Kenyon: A legal quest continues

11/12/23

After a New Hampshire Superior Court judge vacated his 2008 conviction in January for assaulting a Lebanon police officer during a late-night...

Jim Kenyon: Razed right in Norwich

11/5/23

In a town with as much wealth as Norwich, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that a $700,000 house built in the early 1990s is considered...

On his re-election campaign website, Claremont City Councilor Jonathan Stone says he’s working to “hold the city administration accountable” to...

Fenced-off flood relief

10/29/23

A recently constructed 10-foot high solid wooden wall runs the length of the property facing the highway. A private security force brought in from...

Mohsen Mahdawi was looking forward to a break from city life and spending a long holiday weekend at the hilltop cabin he built a few years ago in...

About a week ago, I got a call from Raelene Lemery, who had bittersweet news. The nonprofit thrift shop on South Royalton’s main street that she’s...

The parade of white men chosen to serve as town manager in Vermont’s wealthiest community marches on. Brennan Duffy makes seven. For his sake, I...

More Upper Valley communities — big and small — could use a public meeting like the one that Hartland held last week.The topic was policing. How...

On the way out of his first-floor apartment in Lebanon one afternoon early last month, 67-year-old Jesse Keenum came across a letter on the...

Jim Kenyon: A school cut short

9/24/23

I tend to lump hair salons into the same category as funeral homes. No matter how the economy is doing, their services are always in demand.With...

When I stopped by the Carter Community Building in downtown Lebanon unannounced Friday, Jim Vanier had just finished sweeping the linoleum floor...

Although we probably don’t need more examples of how adults can mess up youth sports and kids are left to pay the price, here’s a recent one that...

The Upper Valley’s housing crunch is making it nearly impossible for many employers to persuade workers from other parts of the country to move...

When the nonprofit Carter Community Building Association, or CCBA as it’s known, launched a fundraising drive last October, the good name of Jim...

I never thought a price tag could be put on reading, but the Vermont Department of Corrections has found a way.On Aug. 1, the DOC implemented a...

When Lebanon High School teachers and administrators gathered in June to recognize their colleagues who were retiring or leaving for new jobs, one...

NORWICH — Renee Manheimer’s husband and two children were aware that she had overcome great adversity and perilous situations early in her life...

Busy, busy, busy. New Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock anticipates being so busy, in fact, that the college is advertising for someone to pick...

After losing her home and many of her belongings to Tropical Storm Irene’s floodwaters 12 years ago, Ethel Davis braced for worst as she made her...

When Hartford Dismas House needed someone to tell its story, the nonprofit that provides affordable lodging and meals for people coming out of...

Jim Kenyon: Playing catch-up

7/1/23

With the first half of 2023 in the books, it’s time to catch up on what’s happening with some Upper Valley residents whose stories I’ve shared in...

Jim Kenyon: Finding the words

6/20/23

An 18-year-old Pennie Armstrong had just started training to become a nurse in the early 1960s when she contracted polio, even though she’d been...

The choice was hers.Sanna McAuliffe could have the three-page victim impact statement that she’d written entered into the court record and left it...

Kenyon: The working class

6/10/23

After this upcoming Friday, school will be out for the summer in Hanover and Norwich. For students, that is.Teachers and educational assistants...

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...

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