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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEW LONDON — Starting next fall, Colby-Sawyer College will reduce its tuition to $17,500, it announced Wednesday.The new price will be 62% less than the current list price of $46,364. The actual difference for students and families will be less, as...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

From the Thetford girls winning a state championship to the Hanover boys advancing to New Englands, 2021 was a welcome return to normalcy for high school cross country in the Upper Valley. This fall should bring just as much excitement, with new...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

PLAINFIELD — Sydney Leggett will serve as interim superintendent for the Plainfield and Cornish school districts following the resignation of Cory LeClair late last month.In an email to the community, Plainfield School Board Chairman Chris Forman said...

By PATRICK ADRIAN 

LEBANON — New state legislation will require New Hampshire schools to teach personal finance literacy and wellness education, including topics such as sexual abuse prevention and understanding child abuse, starting in the 2023-24 school year. Two...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Attorneys who led the Claremont school-funding lawsuits in the 1990s that established a constitutional right to an adequately funded education have filed a new lawsuit against the state, asking the court to direct the state to...

By ROSE TERAMI

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Union High School’s Class of 2022 received their diplomas in green and gold gowns on Friday night in “the bowl” behind the school — a grassy natural amphitheater — where about 400 guests sat on blankets and in chairs overlooking...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — Lebanon High School’s graduating seniors stressed the importance of community and building relationships in their parting words to classmates at the school’s commencement ceremony for the Class of 2022 on Thursday.Over 1,000 people gathered...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NEWPORT — The list of resignations of Newport school officials continues to grow, as residents and educators try to restore civility and cooperation to the relationship between school officials and outspoken School Board member Bert Spaulding.On...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Time and light.Those were the themes expressed by Stevens High School 2022 Salutatorian Olivia Churchill and Valedictorian Sarah Wood during Thursday’s commencement ceremony in the school gymnasium.The graduation, Stevens’ 150th, was a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Joanne Roberts, who has served as superintendent of Lebanon schools for eight years, announced Wednesday that she will be leaving the district at the end of the 2022-23 school year.She offered no specific reason for her departure in her...

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 NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — A new child care provider has stepped up to take over the after-school programs in Lebanon’s elementary schools after the previous organization providing the service announced last month it would close its program, according to a news...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Police and school investigations are ongoing after three Hanover High School students were hospitalized after taking pills that school officials believe they acquired from another student.All three students who were hospitalized reported...

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BRADFORD, Vt. — Two co-principals are set to become leaders of Oxbow High School on July 1, according to a Wednesday announcement from the Orange East Supervisory Union.Ken Cadow and Ashley Youngheim are slated to share leadership of Oxbow. They will...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — A group of artists, educators and parents is proposing a new private high school, the New England School of the Arts, for a location on the downtown pedestrian mall.The Lebanon Planning Board is slated to hear an application from the group...

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 ALEX HANSON

HARTFORD — Doug Heavisides wasn’t looking for a new job.He’s nearing the end of his ninth year as the director of the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center, where he’s hired much of the staff during his tenure. He’s currently serving as the...

By ALEX HANSON

WOODSTOCK — A proposed new middle and high school for Woodstock and six surrounding towns would cost an estimated $73.3 million, a figure that a committee studying the project thinks will not pass muster with taxpayers without other funding sources.At...

By JULIA STINNEFORD

For Barbara MacLeod and her daughter, Lane, testifying before the New Hampshire Education Committee last week felt like more of an obligation than a choice.“If I don’t do it, then who else is going to do it?” Lane said afterward.Lane is a transgender...