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By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne Conroy’s testimony this week in a fertility doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit brought me back to the summer of 1973 and the U.S. Senate’s televised Watergate hearings where Republican Howard Baker, of Tennessee, famously asked: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

By JIM KENYON

Long before he arrived at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a Colchester, Vt., office park Monday morning, Mohsen Mahdawi pretty much knew it was a setup. The chances of him leaving his scheduled meeting with an immigration officer as a free man were slim, at best.

By JIM KENYON

How much money does it take for an elite private institution of higher learning — one with an $8 billion endowment — to keep in the good graces of the Trump administration?

By JIM KENYON

No matter which way the jury goes in the upcoming Misty Blanchette, M.D. v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center federal trial, the public has already won.

By JIM KENYON

Not wanting to burden her working-class immigrant parents who still had two kids at home, Hosaena Tilahun was only at Dartmouth College for a couple of weeks before she began looking for a part-time job to pay for living expenses not covered by her financial aid package.

By JIM KENYON

WEST LEBANON — While teaching at Richmond Middle School in Hanover for more than 20 years, Judy Collishaw was often the first on the staff to arrive each morning.

By JIM KENYON

In a hotly contested Weathersfield Selectboard race, August Murray has the backing of the state’s lieutenant governor and the town’s sole House member, but what he doesn’t have — and his opponent does — is WOW power.

By JIM KENYON

In mid-December, Rob Grabill, who has coached the Hanover High boys soccer team for 19 years, set up a meeting with his boss, Athletic Director Megan Sobel, to go over the previous season and plan ahead for the 2025 campaign.

By JIM KENYON

While taking in portions of this week’s rape trial of a Dartmouth College alumnus ahead of a Grafton County Superior Court jury rendering its guilty verdict on Friday, I jotted down assorted observations.

By JIM KENYON

In a high-profile Grafton County Superior Court case early on in his career, criminal defense attorney Charlie Buttrey resorted to an unorthodox legal strategy.

By JIM KENYON

Molly Myers and her husband, Rick Hatfield, had been trying for a couple of years to have their first child.

By JIM KENYON

In early January 1986 — four years after the first “test-tube” baby was born in the U.S. — news broke in the Upper Valley that Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center was starting its own in vitro fertilization program.

By JIM KENYON

After undergoing another round of late-night hazing that involved wooden paddles this fall, Dartmouth College sophomore Ulysses Hill texted his mother.“I’m done,” Hill messaged. “Come get me.”Hill, 20, was fortunate that his mother resided 15 minutes...

By JIM KENYON

VERSHIRE — Donna Goldberg stopped in her tracks to gaze skyward at a single 100-foot white pine that towered over smaller hardwood trees on a forested embankment.“It’s a beauty,” she said, estimating the pine’s age at about 80 years old.Trees such as...

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 JIM KENYON

It took going to Grafton County Superior Court this week, but Jed Smith can keep his 1952 International Harvester farm tractor in front of his vacant home, where it’s mostly sat for the last few years.Smith and his mother, Martha, have been in a...

By JIM KENYON

At a recent League of Women Voters forum for the six candidates running for the three Windsor County seats in the Vermont Senate, Jonathan Gleason was quick to tout his endorsement by Gov. Phil Scott. Gleason bills himself as a moderate Republican,...

By JIM KENYON

With the help of family and volunteers, Jed Smith and his mother, Martha, have made noticeable progress in cleaning up their two properties that Lyme officials have asserted for years violate the town’s zoning ordinance.The Smiths have removed five...

By JIM KENYON

With all of her wheeling and dealing this summer, real estate investor and developer Jolin Kish seems bent on turning Hanover into her personal Monopoly board.Kish started by selling four of her residential properties on West Wheelock Street to...

By JIM KENYON

During a visit to the summer day camp run by a southern Windsor County YMCA on Wednesday morning, I talked with Ashley Denofrio’s 11-year-old niece.I asked her what she’d be doing, if not attending camp.“I’d be home, probably sleeping,” she said....

By JIM KENYON

This week, Ian Struckhoff learned he won’t be prosecuted for standing on the Dartmouth Green during a peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstration one night last month.Forgive Struckhoff, 45, if he doesn’t feel like celebrating. The criminal trespass charge...