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By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — A $250,000 state grant will help conserve 140 acres of land on Moose Mountain.The grant, announced earlier this month, is one of the largest ever received by the Hanover Conservancy, said Adair Mulligan, executive director of the...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Quietly, and for nearly a decade, Hanover Director of Public Works Peter Kulbacki had been keeping the town’s energy costs low — at calculated risk — by buying it directly on the wholesale energy market.Hanover was the only Upper Valley...

By JIM KENYON

Overcharging, as it’s known in the legal world, is a ploy that prosecutors use to coerce criminal defendants into accepting a plea bargain.By tacking on multiple charges from a single incident, the prosecution gains all-important leverage. In exchange...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ETNA — In the 1850s, famed portraitist Ulysses Dow Tenney painted a likeness of his father, Hanover resident John Tenney.Where the portrait traveled in the roughly 175 years since, is anyone’s best guess. But now, it’s returned and at 6 p.m. Monday...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Despite their own concerns, members of the town Planning Board this week approved a proposal to build a two-story, 21,500-square-foot church for up to 415 worshipers in a residential neighborhood on Greensboro Road.Because of a new state law...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — A new state law shielding religious institutions from certain land-use regulations is limiting the town’s authority to review a proposed church for up to 400 congregants on Greensboro Road, according to town staff.On Tuesday, the Planning...

By JIM KENYON

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.With the first game of the season still almost six weeks away, it wasn’t to practice, work on...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — The Hanover Selectboard is considering giving conservation easements it holds on 150 acres and six recreation trails in Lebanon to the city.The easements and trails include the 130-acre Indian Ridge, which abuts the city-managed Boston Lot...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — The Selectboard will consider a proposal to allow “natural burials,” or burials that allow the body to naturally decompose into the soil, in the town-owned Pine Knolls Cemetery.The inclusion of natural burials in Pine Knolls is being...

By JIM KENYON

It was bad enough that Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock and her administration overreacted by having Hanover police arrest two students who were peacefully protesting on the lawn outside her office last month.Now it appears the...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Students in an intensive Ukrainian course at Dartmouth College concluded the term last week by sharing their translations of poems.That in itself might not be so special for a language class, but they did so in partnership with students at...

HANOVER — Dartmouth College is scheduled to host a first annual international vaccine conference next month. The conference on Dec. 6 is to focus on vaccines for COVID-19, tuberculosis, respiratory syncytial virus, HIV, polio and herpes.Organized by...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Consumers should avoid eating Wilcox Ice Cream with certain best by dates, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. The ice cream is sold at New Hampshire retailers including the Hanover and Lebanon Co-op Food...

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On Friday, Members of the Dartmouth Army ROTC lowered the American flag as freshman Jacob Crawford played “To the Colors” during a retreat ceremony for Veterans Day on the Dartmouth College green. After being folded, the flag was presented to Dean of...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — As Dartmouth College leaders consider a large-scale organizational change to the departments of Arts and Sciences, members of the faculty have made their own voices heard in a show of support for the college’s staff who fill non-academic...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — There are a couple words that come up repeatedly when people describe what they’re looking forward to the most about the completion of Oak Hill Outdoor Center: consistency and predictability.That’s because when the cross country ski center...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Dartmouth College had two student demonstrators arrested over the weekend in what activists are characterizing as a heavy-handed response to peaceful protest.Around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, the Hanover Police Department arrested the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — After nearly four decades, this season’s Christmas Market with a Difference will be the last.The market — which features handmade items from around the world — was started in 1987 by members of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College in...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Monday afternoon, travelers to and from Hanover might have encountered a scene they’ve grown accustomed to: sign-holding activists on Ledyard Bridge.It’s a site where demonstrators regularly meet to raise awareness of political and social...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Housing, transportation and downtown vibrancy rank high among community priorities in a new town master plan — the first update to Hanover’s planning and development goals since 2003.Over 20 Hanover residents attended an open house on...