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By DAN MACKIE

The Valley News was born in 1952 and so was I. This is probably coincidence, but I like to think there is more to our association than the fact that we are both from the year of the water dragon in the Chinese calendar.According to the Internet,...

By NARAIN BATRA

In the fall, Dartmouth College will bring to its campus a student body of 1209 young strangers, men, women, genderqueer/nonbinary/trans, including first-generation college-goers, international students, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native...

By MICKI COLBECK

The two little brown dogs and I crossed over our river, the West Branch of the Ompompanoosuc, a couple of weeks ago for a hike up into the rich woods nearby. We headed uphill to the fir swamp where my favorite liverwort— handsome woolywort grows. How...

By WILLEM LANGE

Tom’s Taxi, of Lynn, Massachusetts, has been faithful as the sun for us. If you tell them that one of you uses a cane, they usually send a van. Which I do, and which they did. About half an hour later we pulled up in front of Portugal Airlines, paid...

By WAYNE GERSEN

As a retired public-school administrator I have tremendous empathy for Dartmouth College President Sian Beilock. Throughout my career I faced many contentious and complex decisions that I knew would be popular with some constituent groups but...

By MARY OTTO

Books fall open You fall inDelighted where You’ve never been.D McCord, Norwich Bookstore complimentary bookmarkIt’s spring in Vermont. Maple trees are red, robins have returned and my neighbor has planted peas. Trout lilies and trillium bloom along...

By WILLEM LANGE

This is written in the last days of April. From my office window, the yard and the field and the woods beyond seem to be catching their breath before tackling what’s always come next. Out back, the air on this sunny day is alive with birdsong. So far...

By RANDALL BALMER

I wish I could say that the death of Beverly LaHaye on April 14 signaled the end of an era, but I’m afraid that’s not the case.Please understand that I’m not reveling in her demise (or anyone else’s), but she together with antifeminist Phyllis...

By WILLEM LANGE

The dying day breeze stirs only the treetops, and an evening stillness descends upon the woods. I sit on a bench in the park, as quiet myself as our surroundings. Kiki, restless as ever, alternates between the bench and my lap and short sniffing...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

The Democratic National Committee will welcome New Hampshire’s delegates to its nominating convention this summer in Chicago after the state party conducted a very small party-run presidential primary this weekend.An official vote bringing New...

By BRANDON SMITH

I’m one of three newer members of the Hartford Selectboard. I’m going to explain why I voted last month against posting a dozen or more banners featuring veterans on poles in downtown White River Junction for six months out of the year.This is my...

By JANET WARD

On April 11, at the State Board of Education’s second public hearing on Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s revisions of the 306 Rules which govern New Hampshire’s public schools, Board Chairman Drew Cline gave all those present an amazing...

By WILL LANGE

Many of us are familiar with archy and mehitabel (more of us ought to be), a collection of essays, stories, and poetry written by archy, a cockroach with literary instincts and talents who’s been condemned to a life as a cockroach for the crime of...

By WILLEM LANGE

Living three and a half hours apart, as we do, my dear friend Bea and I get to see each other about every two weeks or so, on average. This is almost without doubt an ideal arrangement, as our lifestyles are quite different, and neither of us could...

By MICKI COLBECK

The dogs and I walk out along the West Branch of the Ompompanoosuc every morning through hayfields and riparian forests. A few days ago, I felt like yelling, “Wake up, wake up,” at every living thing. It looked like the snow might really be gone....

By WAYNE GERSEN

As April 15 approaches, many of us are preparing to pay our taxes. On some level, all voters realize that taxes help underwrite government services they value, that they are “the price we pay for a civilized society.” However, unlike our monthly...

By DAN MACKIE

It was Traffic vs. the Eclipse on Monday, a showdown of celestial proportions. Would I risk everything like Marco Polo who bravely set out to see the world, or follow the example of his brother Rocco, who said their hometown of Venice was “plenty good...

By WILLEM LANGE

The sky has always been a source of wonder for us earthbound folks. For some of us who are, shall we say, more earthbound, it’s a source of portents, omens, and myths. What we call thunderstorms and explain as electrically charged clouds used to be...

By JONATHAN STABLEFORD

How many times have I heard someone say, “Books are dead, no one reads anymore”? It may be true that reading habits have changed (I’d argue that young people who spend a lot of time online are actually reading a lot.) and that there has been a steady...

By WILLEM LANGE

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s...

By DOUG WHITTLESEY

The new fire station project in downtown Lebanon is a long time coming and the city has been discussing the need to replace the 70 year-old building since 2019. The current station was originally built in 1954 and is severely in need of modernization...