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By JIM KENYON

Fifty years ago, Rita McCaffrey placed her first call to a Vermont prison to ask about setting up a visit with an inmate. She didn’t have a particular inmate in mind — just someone who didn’t have family close by and might feel the outside world had...

By JIM KENYON

Delay, delay, delay. The time-tested legal strategy is a sneaky way to keep the public from gaining access to police information that under New Hampshire law should be easily available to anyone who asks for it.Hanover officials and their attorney...

By JIM KENYON

With the help of family and volunteers, Jed Smith and his mother, Martha, have made noticeable progress in cleaning up their two properties that Lyme officials have asserted for years violate the town’s zoning ordinance.The Smiths have removed five...

By JIM KENYON

For Blake Allison, whose wife was among the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11, it’s never been about seeking retribution against the men accused of planning the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.It’s about finding answers.How did the plan...

By JIM KENYON

LYME — At Town Meeting in March, Lyme voters approved spending $150,000 to “remove the materials,” which include two dozen unregistered vehicles, stored on two private properties owned by a working-class mother and son.The paper ballot vote in one of...

By JIM KENYON

Since Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore isn’t talking, it’s hard to figure out how she decided to file criminal trespass charges against some people but not others who were on the Dartmouth Green during a pro-Palestinian protest back in May....

By JIM KENYON

With all of her wheeling and dealing this summer, real estate investor and developer Jolin Kish seems bent on turning Hanover into her personal Monopoly board.Kish started by selling four of her residential properties on West Wheelock Street to...

By JIM KENYON

A day seldom passes this summer when Matt Malloy, collector of greens fees/scheduler of tee times/bartender at Carter Country Club, doesn’t have a golfer asking him what the future holds for Lebanon’s century-old course.“A lot of people still think...

By JIM KENYON

During a visit to the summer day camp run by a southern Windsor County YMCA on Wednesday morning, I talked with Ashley Denofrio’s 11-year-old niece.I asked her what she’d be doing, if not attending camp.“I’d be home, probably sleeping,” she said....

By JIM KENYON

This week, Ian Struckhoff learned he won’t be prosecuted for standing on the Dartmouth Green during a peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstration one night last month.Forgive Struckhoff, 45, if he doesn’t feel like celebrating. The criminal trespass charge...

By JIM KENYON

In March, Ashley Denofrio agreed to become the court-appointed legal guardian for her two nieces in hopes of bringing much-needed stability to their lives.As Denofrio has learned, however, the state of New Hampshire isn’t big on providing the...

By JIM KENYON

In a way, I feel sorry for Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore. Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock has put her in a tough spot.The day is fast approaching when Pastore must declare whether she’s moving forward with criminal charges against 87...

By JIM KENYON

I can think of 92 reasons why graduates at Dartmouth College’s 2024 commencement ceremony on Sunday might want to walk out in protest.The first 91 are easy to identify. It’s the number of people, including 67 students and five staff members, President...

By JIM KENYON

In the end, what choice did Jim Vanier have, really? He could have continued drawing a paycheck by looking after and mentoring kids at the Carter Community Building in downtown Lebanon as he’s done for more than 50 years. But it would have meant...

By JIM KENYON

On a bitter cold February night in 1963, Howard Coffin packed his cardboard suitcase and walked to U.S. Route 5 in the village of Lyndonville, Vt., where he stuck out his thumb to hitch a ride home to Woodstock.“A trucker came by and picked me up,”...

By JIM KENYON

Andrew Tefft wasn’t inside a tent on the Dartmouth College Green. He hadn’t locked arms with protesters who had formed a circle around the short-lived encampment. The 45-year-old Hanover native didn’t have a pro-Palestinian sign.Still within 30...

By JIM KENYON

Under the cover of darkness, 20 New Hampshire State Police storm troopers in full riot gear marched in a single row across the Dartmouth Green, where hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters were peacefully chanting their opposition to the war in Gaza...

By JIM KENYON

Under sunny skies and (slightly) warmer temperatures, Dartmouth students flocked to the college’s quintessential campus Green this week. They left their camping gear behind, though.They didn’t join the masses of students at other elite colleges across...

By JIM KENYON

The town of Hanover’s website says its police reports are available to the public, but the chief “reserves the right to control the release of all department records.” That’s not the way the New Hampshire Right-to-Know law is intended to work.Under...

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock has made it clear the college views its men’s basketball players — and their recent historic vote to unionize — as a threat to ….Fill in the blank.The college’s bottom line? The status quo? The misconception that...

By JIM KENYON

Over the last decade, more than 150 men have found their way to the two-story, early 1900s clapboard house with a wrap-around front porch in Hartford Village. Some stay only a few months. Others for a year or longer.But their reasons for wanting to...