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By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — High school senior Tomas Kennelly wasn’t particularly interested in aviation, but when his school began taking applications for a new airplane-building program beginning in the fall, he was all in.“I was like, man, building a plane just...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — The planned opening of the emergency winter shelter this month has been delayed due to staffing shortages, leaving homeless community members with few warm places to stay at night.Upper Valley Haven, the nonprofit that operates the shelter...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Residents painted a grim picture of the future if the City Council approves a proposed 11.9% tax rate increase for 2025.Packed into the City Council Chambers and online for nearly four hours of discussion during a Wednesday night City...

WEST LEBANON — Lane closures at the interchange of interstates 89 and 91 are expected to cause traffic delays on Tuesday. The right lane on southbound I-89 and the Exit 10A off-ramp on northbound I-91 will be closed from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m., or until...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — A team of Dartmouth engineering students are helping bring public electric bicycle charging to Lebanon. Dartmouth seniors Avery Moorhead, Nathan McAllister, Gannon Forsberg and Grace Connolly paired up with Lebanon Energy and Facilities...

By TRIS WYKES

Alex Felix was a bit nervous but mostly filled with excited anticipation as he waited to substitute into the St. Olaf (Minn.) College men’s soccer game against visiting Concordia-Moorhead on Nov. 2.The 2021 Lebanon High graduate’s emotions were...

By ALEX CERVANTES

It was a banner fall season for the bass fishing programs at Mascoma Valley Regional High School and Lebanon High School. Mascoma, led by its senior tandem of Tanner Moulton and Peyton Sargent, successfully defended its crown at Lake Winnisquam in...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — City taxpayers are facing an unusually high 11.9% municipal property tax rate increase next year, the first of what is expected to be multiple years of the double-digit increases, while lowering tax increases would require widespread cuts to...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — Thomas Kurtz, a Dartmouth math professor, legend in the field of computer science, and founder of a local bridge club, died at the age of 96 last week.Kurtz is most well known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the first...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — The city has launched separate criminal and administrative investigations into allegations of illegal activity involving public money by multiple employees within the city’s Department of Public Works.Theft has been the “main focus” of the...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ENFIELD — A documentary called “Mountains Not for Profit,” tackles the scrappy and creative efforts of Whaleback and three other nonprofit mountains to remain sustainable in an era of resort consolidation that has seen the closure of many small,...

WEST LEBANON — Lane closures due to construction on the southbound Interstate 89 bridge connecting Lebanon and Hartford may cause delays next week.The right lane on I-89 in Lebanon and Hartford will be closed during daytime hours from Tuesday,...

By ALEX CERVANTES

EXETER, N.H. — It took 11 seconds and a couple passes for the Campbell High boys soccer team to clinch the goal that would end Lebanon’s season on Tuesday night at Bill Ball Stadium.When the Cougars’ Zach Dean knocked a lofted pass down in his own...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — On Monday, Sam Harper and Sara Burgess, who both live in Lebanon, spent the afternoon alternating between working in The Notch climbing gym’s work area and “playing” on the climbing walls.Both said they have so far enjoyed the climbing and...

By JIM KENYON

While sitting in on the trial of two Dartmouth College student activists in Lebanon District Court this week, I was reminded of a comment that Laura Ingraham made on her Fox News program in 2018 about LeBron James after he dared to criticize...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Citing safety concerns for city residents and fire department staff, the Lebanon Firefighters Union is mounting a public information campaign and calling on the City Council to authorize eight new positions in next year’s budget.City Manager...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — A grassroots community group is working to create a 3-mile, vehicle-free path connecting West Lebanon and Hanover.The West Lebanon and Hanover Greenway Community Group, or WaHG, presented the project to the Lebanon Planning Board on Monday...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — After several days of nonviolent pro-Palestinian protests last October, a tent erected on the lawn outside Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock’s office was the “red line” that led to the arrests of two students, Beilock testified in...

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health will use a $14 million estate gift to establish new centers for pancreatic care and digestive health at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, as well as a professorship in general surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine. The...