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By Tris Wykes

Hanover — Bob Gaudet is not, by his own admission, a natural salesman. Gregarious? Yes. Respected? Absolutely. Ready to ease you into the latest model, ultra deluxe? Not so much.“It was awkward, but I had to do what was best for the program,” the...

By Dave Bailey

Earlier this season, the Dartmouth College men’s hockey team unveiled a snazzy new alternate jersey that might be unlike any in college hockey: green-and-white, horizontal barber-pole stripes with a classy “Dartmouth College 1769” crest across the...

By Alex Hanson

A few years ago, I bought an old car.Even though I’ve bought a few old cars over the past several years and ought to have known better, the old car in this case had some rust. Actually, a lot of rust.But since I hadn’t paid much money for it, and...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Lebanon — A 32-year-old Randolph man is being held on $10,000 cash bail after police say he lured a teen to a secluded spot in West Lebanon this summer and assaulted and tormented him.Kristopher Locke allegedly duped the 17-year-old boy into thinking...

By Rob Wolfe

New London — In announcing the layoffs of 18 employees this week, Colby-Sawyer College is the latest small private school to make a difficult choice in response to national trends that have put pressure on institutions with its profile.Before

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — The co-owner of historic inns in Windsor and Hartland is being held without bail after he allegedly shot a bullet through a former employee’s truck and smashed the windows out of another vehicle earlier this month.Kenneth Lucci,...

By Tim Camerato

West Lebanon — After 23 years in the craft brewing business at a high-profile spot off Route 12A, Seven Barrel Brewery will soon close its doors to make room for a new Salt hill Pub.The brewery’s owners broke news of the sale on Tuesday in a Facebook...

By Rob Wolfe

Norwich — Grace Alden, a transgender woman and retired Lebanon police officer, described the daily struggle for survival she and others face and offered lessons for a society that still does not accept transgender people in remarks to the Unitarian...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Lebanon — Two employees at residential schools for at-risk youths have been placed on leave following their arrests in connection with a single-vehicle car crash on Wednesday on Route 4 in Lebanon.The driver, Jeffrey Caron, 48, is the executive...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Every metal detector owner in the Northeast has heard about the Silver Madonna, a lost artifact some think could be buried in the Upper Valley, says George Streeter.Streeter is 75, the kind of guy whose proud Yankee accent comes on strong when he...

By Tris Wykes

Hanover — An alumnae group affiliated with the Dartmouth College women’s lacrosse program has charged the school with conducting a “grossly unfair” investigation that led to the departure of longtime coach Amy Patton earlier this month after 26 years...

By Rob Wolfe

Hanover — Over the years unsettling rumors, the kind that sounded like ghost stories told around a campfire, surrounded the Rennie Farm. In hushed tones, somewhere between horror and humor, the people who lived at the bottom of the wooded hill spoke...

By John Lippman

The Upper Valley in summer is a paradise for fresh water swimmers. Fresh water — lots of it — flows everywhere: the Connecticut River, the White River, the Ompompanoosuc, the Ottauquechee, Trues Brook, Silver Lake, Canaan Street Lake, Storrs...

By David Corriveau

Orford — Almost as soon as the lupines begin painting a matrix of deep purple alongside the logging roads through his tree farm in early June, Tom Thomson can count on his phone to start ringing.“A lot of people in the last week have been calling,”...

By Josh Weinreb

White River Junction — It’s 8:15 a.m. on a Wednesday, and Noah Crane is holding an iPhone in one hand and a small camera in the other while sitting in his Ford Escape just in front of a small pavilion at the Maxfield Sports Complex. He is staring at...

By Nicola Smith

After World War II, Dutch elm disease began its decimation of the American elm, a tree that was the glory of hundreds of Main Streets in the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. At the same time, it also affected the American elm’s lesser-known cousin,...

By Rob Wolfe

Hanover — The denial of a popular Asian-American faculty member’s application for tenure has set off a campuswide debate over Dartmouth College’s treatment of minority scholars.Despite the unanimous support of her senior colleagues in the English...

By Rick Jurgens

Hanover — Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon’s 2014 compensation package broke the million dollar barrier but his total of $1.1 million lagged behind Chief Investment Officer Pamela Peedin’s $1.2 million in the college’s pay hierarchy, according...

By Nicola Smith

What’s a parish to do when it owns a number of extraordinary paintings by a famous 20th century American modernist, but almost no one knows they’re there?In the case of St. Francis of Assisi church in Windsor, which has the distinction of holding...

By Amanda E. Newman

Former Hanover Principal Charged in Canaan Prostitution Sting- Canaan — Former Bernice A. Ray School Principal Matt Laramie has been charged in a prostitution sting.Laramie, 48, was arrested on Monday off Route 4 in Canaan on one count of prostitution, a Class B misdemeanor, Canaan Police Chief Sam Frank said in...