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By JOSEPH DEFFNER

THETFORD — Despite a terminal cancer diagnosis, Scott Chapman was determined to do what he loved doing — anything related to track and field.So when his former coaching colleague at Thetford Academy, Emily Silver, visited him in the ICU at Dartmouth...

By MICKI COLBECK

The equinox has come— 12 hours of day and 12 of night— as if Vermont were in the tropics. The little brown dogs (LBDs) and I sit on the old velvet couch, which in an earlier life, was red, but has since faded to mauve, and is slouching towards the...

By KELI’I OPULAUOHO

I bleed Green. Like many of you reading this, I have been a Dartmouth College alum longer than I have been or done anything else. It’s not something I assess in terms of trips to Hanover, although there have been many – most recently for Lu’au, Pow...

By ARTHUR HOLCOMBE

Israel is at the most dangerous period of its short modern history. One can say that its very survival is at stake. Since the tragic events of Oct. 7 when about 1,200 Israelis were killed in a surprise Hamas attack, Israel has been engaged in ever...

By RANDALL BALMER

Faithful America, the activist organization associated with mainline Protestantism, has issued what it calls its “most important list of top Christian-nationalist False Prophets ever.” What is Christian nationalism? After hearing the refrain about the...

By NARAIN BATRA

About a month before President Joe Biden ended his bid for a second term, Rodney Smolla, a constitutional scholar and president of Vermont Law and Graduate School, gave a fascinating lecture at the United Church of Strafford about the 2024 election....

By MICKI COLBECK

Years ago, I lived in southern Missouri, on the ancient, weathered-down, pink granite hills of the St. Francois Mountains. In my extended family were some serious campers and fly fishermen, with well-prepared gear and routines. Southern Missouri is...

By MICHAEL J. CADUTO

I recently completed a month of trips to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, serving as one of the educators and performers working with the dedicated staff of the Kingdom East School District to share with youth during the annual summer enrichment programs....

By MIRIAM VORAN

Every fall, parents write out their back-to-school lists: New clothes, new school supplies, new backpack, good sleep hygiene — on and on.You’ll easily find advice for the comprehensive checklist that helps your children start the new school year...

By DAN MACKIE

Everyone is worrying about phones in schools. They are a powerful distraction, like slot machines for gamblers, or Cheetos for people addicted to enriched cornmeal and the color orange.If you’d been in a high school lately, you would have noticed that...

By RANDALL BALMER

After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the candidate declared, “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.”Trump’s acolytes agreed. Franklin Graham credited “God’s hand of protection” to spare the life of the former...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who was a top surrogate for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, says his blockbuster announcement that he was ending his 2024 bid came as a complete surprise.“By the same token, I think it was the...

By MIRIAM VORAN

Floodwaters ripped through Vermont and New Hampshire, one year to the day after the 2023 devastation. Surely Nature’s screaming: you’ve blown past environmental limits! That’s the message of Earth Overshoot Day. This year it falls on Aug. 1. That’s...

By CAROL MULLER, MARIA CHRISTINE COLE, STEPHANIE A. WESTNEDGE, CHRISTINE BENALLY PERANTEAU, HOLLY LYNN PATTERSON and RACHEL PEREZ

In 2004, consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton named Dartmouth College one of the world’s 10 most enduring institutions, along with Oxford University, the American Constitution and the Modern Olympic Games, for their abilities to adapt and change.Among...

By MICKI COLBECK

Why are the orchids here? I park my car along the Class 4 road by a kiosk on Hemenway Road and walk up the trail into our Strafford Town Forest, which had been donated in the 1960s by a local doctor. I feel comforted by the presence of tall old trees...

By DIANE ROSTON

“Two boys, one hour each, 10 bucks apiece.” This was the agreement I struck with my neighbor about hiring his 5th grade son and his friend to weed my garden. Although my own children have long since left the nest, I hadn’t forgotten the raggedy...

By MARION UMPLEBY

As art forms go, opera, with its opulent venues and complicated storylines, can often risk intimidating and alienating all but its most avid fans.Since Evans Haile became the general director of Opera North 10 years ago, the company has been expanding...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Retiring six-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster was long known on the campaign trail for her fundraising prowess.And Colin Van Ostern and Maggie Goodlander, the two candidates running for the Democratic Party nomination in New Hampshire’s Second...

By RANDALL BALMER

As someone who was reared as an evangelical, I resisted for decades the charge that white evangelicals were racist. Sure, I knew about segregation academies and places like Bob Jones University, but I was also aware that many evangelical megachurches...

By DAN MACKIE

I don’t know if I can say that liberals are superior, but we really are superior at panic. We are world-class, first-rate, top-shelf, unrivaled. Squirrels in the road have nothing on us. A chipmunk staring down a cat is relaxed by comparison.I did not...

By STEVE TAYLOR

It once was a skill every man and boy over age 10 in rural Vermont and New Hampshire mastered, an activity absolutely vital to sustaining animal agriculture with antecedents tracing back thousands of years. Watching someone doing it today seems like...