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By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER – Less than a month after prosecutors dropped a criminal charge against a former Dartmouth College student for allegedly vandalizing a menorah display on the college campus in 2020, a Grafton County grand jury has handed up an indictment...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like any creature just getting its legs under it, electronic music had a wobbly start.Composers worked on cumbersome analog machines and recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. Concerts often consisted of composers placing a reel...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Gab Smith understands both sides of the conversation surrounding legacy students and Black students at the nation’s elite colleges and universities.A senior at Dartmouth College, Smith is a Black legacy student. Her mother, Tracey...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A former Dartmouth College student has been indicted by a Grafton Superior Court grand jury for allegedly shooting out the lights on a public menorah display and college building windows with a BB gun during Hanukkah last year.Carlos Wilcox,...

By JIM KENYON

When Peter Fahey reached the top steps of the subway station in New York’s financial district shortly before 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, letter-size sheets of paper had already begun to rain from the sky.“The first thing I remember seeing was all the...

By JIM KENYON

Andy Sigler was a captain of industry who earned millions as the CEO of Champion International, once the largest forest products company in the U.S. that made everything from plywood to copier paper.In 1984, after he stepped in to save a competitor...

NORWICH — Andrew Sigler, a former Fortune 500 CEO who after retiring to the Upper Valley 25 years ago built everything from a state-of-the-art dairy farm to a nationally-recognized golf course, died Sunday at his home in Norwich.He was 89.Sigler, a...

By JIM KENYON

In January 2005, then-Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper announced that Buddy Teevens had agreed to return to his alma mater as football coach. When asked, Harper wouldn’t go into the specifics of Teevens’ contract, such as how long it was for,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

Dartmouth College freshman Elizabeth Reimer received an email May 19 from an assistant dean warning her of a looming deadline for a non-recording grade option. The administrator explained that she could withdraw from the course, a first-year seminar,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College officials on Friday said they are rolling back some COVID-19 restrictions in dorms to allow students more opportunities to socialize with each other following the third unexpected death this school year of a member of the...

By JOHN P. GREGG

CONCORD — Two former Dartmouth College students who accidentally started a fire that gutted a 67-bed dormitory in 2016 do not have to reimburse the college’s insurance company for the resulting $4.5 million claim, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled...

By PETE NAKOS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity...

HANOVER — Friends and former colleagues of Half and Susanne Zantop lit candles and lay flowers at a garden named for the couple to honor their memory on Wednesday, 20 years to the day since the two Dartmouth College professors were murdered in their...

By JIM KENYON

When I saw a construction crew toiling away this summer on the facade of the Black Family Visual Arts Center in Hanover, my spirits soared.Could Dartmouth actually be removing the Black name from one of its leading downtown buildings?No such luck.On...

By ALEX HANSON

HANOVER — Varujan Boghosian, the puckish artist who mined the castoffs of material culture to assemble works both powerful and whimsical, died Monday at his home in Hanover. He was 94.He had suffered a broken hip last week and died of complications...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon’s compensation totaled $1.5 million in 2018, an increase of 5% over the prior year, according to the college’s most recent tax filing.Hanlon, however, was not the college’s highest-paid employee that...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — More than 900 members of the Dartmouth College community are calling on the school to “dissociate itself” from The Dartmouth Review and to compel the conservative student newspaper to stop using Dartmouth in its name.In a July 20 letter to...

By ALEX HANSON

Stories don’t always follow an easy trajectory from beginning to middle to end. Life doubles back on itself and what might look like a conclusion turns out to be just another plot point.Here’s an example: In October 2016, Jeff Sharlet was in a small...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — While some faculty, alumni and students say Dartmouth College’s ongoing efforts to eliminate sexual harassment are important and should continue, they also say more needs to be done before they can move past a scandal in the Department of...

By SARAH EARLE

In the new Netflix movie, Dolemite Is My Name, inspiration strikes the young black comedian Rudy Ray Moore, played by Eddie Murphy, while he’s watching a movie in the theater. It’s not that the film sparks his imagination. Quite the opposite. It bores...