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Strafford Takes a Stand on Climate Change, OKs $1M Proposal
Strafford — In theory at least, most voters at Town Meeting Tuesday morning supported an article that would urge state legislators to prioritize the development of renewable energy in Vermont, since the state is behind on its goal to achieve 90... → Read More
Area Haitians Call for Action Before Mass Deportation
Lebanon — Aroma-wise, it was a typical Thanksgiving at the Saint Eugene household, in Lebanon: The air was warm and well-seasoned with the smell of roasting turkey, which drifted out from where Mertichela Saint Eugene was cooking up a storm in the... → Read More
Author Alexander Chee on Writing, Teaching and Gin
“Do you know how to make a white Negroni?” asked the author Alexander Chee on a recent Monday evening. He’d just taken a seat at the bar in Pine, the restaurant at the Hanover Inn, where he likes to go at the end of the day.“Um,” the bartender said.... → Read More
Mascoma High Holds First Intersectionality Day
Mid-morning Wednesday, when other high schoolers in the Upper Valley were busy solving algebra equations and taking vocab quizzes, students at Mascoma Valley Regional High School were unpacking the kinds of questions that many adults would be... → Read More
In New Hampshire, Upper Valley Schools Struggling With State Testing
New Hampshire students who took the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium standardized tests in the 2016-17 academic year demonstrated a decline in proficiency in virtually every grade and both subjects — results that have state education officials... → Read More
Church Program Offers Frank Lessons on Sexuality
In a small and sunny room, a stuffed snowy owl sits nestled between two enormous bean bag chairs, a nod to the room’s purpose. A few feet away a “question box” — actually a large can wrapped in rainbow duct tape, with a slot cut into its lid —... → Read More
Thetford Academy and Lyme Seek to Renew Old Agreement
It’s the same drill every few years: The Lyme School Board and Thetford Academy renew the partnership agreement that grants Lyme high school students open enrollment to the independent school across the Connecticut River, in return for the Lyme School... → Read More
His Own ‘Planet’: Cartoonist Liniers Revels in His Creative Freedom
To those who know him from the endearing, often experimental comic strips he’s published the world over, he’s Liniers, the noted Argentine cartoonist and artist-in-residence at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction.But in person, he’s... → Read More
White River Valley Considers Benefits of Consolidation
Rebecca Paige graduated from South Royalton School in 2014, with a class size of 35. Now that she’s just wrapped up her junior year at the University of Vermont, she’s grateful for the opportunities her education at South Royalton afforded her,... → Read More
Hartland-Based Seed-Saving Catalog to Change Hands
Hartland —The ancient art and science of seed saving relies on knowledgeable people passing on the basic elements of plant life, often from one generation to the next.Similarly, the Hartland-based Solstice Seed Catalogue will pass on to the next... → Read More
From the Olympic Track to the Big Screen: Dartmouth’s Alexi Pappas Off to a Fast Start in Film
Alexi Pappas ran the 10,000-meter race at last summer’s Rio Olympics in 31 minutes and 36 seconds, the Greek national record for women.Five years out of Dartmouth College, she still owns the school record of 9:55.89 seconds for the women’s... → Read More
Book Notes: Graphic Novel Greets a New Era
Viewed from some angles, the desire to “Make America Great Again” also entails whitewashing a history marred by violence and hate, creating a simple “good old days” far more pristine than the actual messy past.This nostalgia extends, regardless of... → Read More
At Dartmouth, Poet Talks About ‘Dividing Lines’
Hanover — The Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye has long been thinking about the nature of “dividing lines,” she said at a reading at Dartmouth College on Wednesday. “These days more than ever.”Until this past year, she’d thought the... → Read More