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Jim Kenyon: Store manager accuses Hanover Co-op of racial discrimination
When the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society announced it was looking for a new chief executive, Doren Hall was eager to apply.The opportunity to oversee the Co-op’s four grocery stores, two automotive service centers and a commercial kitchen was a... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Store manager accuses Hanover Co-op of racial discrimination
When the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society announced it was looking for a new chief executive, Doren Hall was eager to apply.The opportunity to oversee the Co-op’s four grocery stores, two automotive service centers and a commercial kitchen was a... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Tennis tiff goes from one court to another
Some stories that come my way are so off the wall, I immediately put them in the you-must-be-joking category. Josh Manheimer has one of those stories — except he’s not laughing. In January, Manheimer received a certified letter from Our Court Tennis... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Dartmouth Health rebranding is a loose weave
As we say in the newspaper biz, Joanne Conroy buried the lead. The CEO of newly rebranded Dartmouth Health could have easily launched her Facebook live video performance last Friday by letting rank-and-file employees know how they stand to benefit... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: No telling where Dartmouth-Hitchcock ‘brand journey’ ends
Only a few hours to liftoff! Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health — or at least that is what the mega health care system has called itself for more than a decade — will be “launching a new brand” come Tuesday.“The brand launch is the beginning of a new and... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Norwich road crew hits rough patch and town paves over private eye probe
The Upper Valley’s back roads are taking more of a beating than usual this mud season. Still they’re in better shape than Norwich’s highway department.None of the eight people who were working out of the town’s highway garage as recently as mid-2021... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Lyme floor meeting shows how voters are truly heard
Every so often, particularly during these trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic, I need to be reminded why Town Meeting still matters.On Tuesday, Lyme voters did that.The 125 or so residents who gathered in the Lyme School gymnasium made sure their... → Read More
Canaan police transparency case reaches NH Supreme Court
The fight for greater transparency and accountability in police matters reached the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Wednesday.The five justices heard oral arguments in Provenza v. Town of Canaan, a case that could determine whether the public under the... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Town Meeting without the meeting is a strange sight
A small, plain sign at the bottom of the hill leading to the historic Strafford Town House says “Town Meeting has been held here every March since 1801.”Until Tuesday.In Strafford and many other towns across Vermont, Tuesday was the Town Meeting Day... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Checking in at year’s end
Before we get too far into 2021, I wanted to check in with a few people who I wrote about last year to see how they’re doing.In the good news department, Oxbow High School senior Sierra Longmoore is back home in Newbury, Vt., after suffering a... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Tax time triggers a tempest in Lebanon
About 230 Lebanon residents have signed a petition calling for the city to “mandate vigorous fiscal restraint going forward in 2021.”In other words, folks are steamed about their rising property tax bills — the second biannual installment for 2020... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Piercing the shield to force police transparency
Why am I tough on cops? I hear the question a lot. For starters, police have the ultimate power in our society. They can take away a person’s freedom or even life. This by itself is enough reason to hold police officers to a higher standard of... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Hanover waitress gets serving of money, side of love after cancer diagnosis
Becky Schneider didn’t have much time to talk when I called her apartment on Monday. She was on her way out the door to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for cancer treatment before picking up her two granddaughters when they got off the school bus... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Cutting through rhetoric on the cost of cops
Believe it or not, the opposing sides in the heated debate over how much Lebanon taxpayers spend on policing — way too much or just about right — have something in common.Both groups could benefit from reality checks.To suggest the city halve its $6.3... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Lebanon schools don’t need an in-house cop
Last month, a half-dozen Lebanon High School football players stood up for racial justice by kneeling during the national anthem before a game against visiting Newport. After a picture of the players surfaced on Facebook, “there was a lot of backlash,... → Read More
Jim Kenyon: Even Without Drug DUI Charge, a Long Legal Road Lies Ahead for Scott Pixley
White River Junction — Scott Pixley, the Strafford man who was stopped by Hartford police in July on his way to a pharmacy to pick up medications for his disabled parents, will not be charged with driving under the influence of drugs, Windsor County... → Read More