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By JIM KENYON

When looking back at 2024, I can’t get past the scene that unfolded on the Dartmouth Green after dark on May 1st.I stared in disbelief as 20 New Hampshire police officers — in full riot gear — marched in military-style formation toward a few hundred...

By JIM KENYON

On Nov. 19, a Tuesday, Hanover police served Dartmouth student-athlete Q. Jones with an arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in hazing incidents that occurred at a college fraternity in August and September.Four days after being handed a court...

By JIM KENYON

WINDSOR — For the summer and fall of 2000 — a year and a half after moving to the Upper Valley from Florda — Kerrie Ramsey and her three sons, ages 5, 11 and 17, lived at a Hartford campground.Before moving to Maple Leaf Camp Grounds and leaving most...

By JIM KENYON

Christopher MacEvitt, who chairs Dartmouth’s religion department and lives on campus, was a late arrival to the pro-Palestinian demonstration on the college’s Green on May 1.Around 9:30 p.m., after attending a faculty dinner in White River Junction,...

By JIM KENYON

Delay, delay, delay. The time-tested legal strategy is a sneaky way to keep the public from gaining access to police information that under New Hampshire law should be easily available to anyone who asks for it.Hanover officials and their attorney...

By JIM KENYON

Fifty years ago, Rita McCaffrey placed her first call to a Vermont prison to ask about setting up a visit with an inmate. She didn’t have a particular inmate in mind — just someone who didn’t have family close by and might feel the outside world had...

By JIM KENYON

For Blake Allison, whose wife was among the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11, it’s never been about seeking retribution against the men accused of planning the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.It’s about finding answers.How did the plan...

By JIM KENYON

LYME — At Town Meeting in March, Lyme voters approved spending $150,000 to “remove the materials,” which include two dozen unregistered vehicles, stored on two private properties owned by a working-class mother and son.The paper ballot vote in one of...

By JIM KENYON

Since Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore isn’t talking, it’s hard to figure out how she decided to file criminal trespass charges against some people but not others who were on the Dartmouth Green during a pro-Palestinian protest back in May....

By JIM KENYON

A day seldom passes this summer when Matt Malloy, collector of greens fees/scheduler of tee times/bartender at Carter Country Club, doesn’t have a golfer asking him what the future holds for Lebanon’s century-old course.“A lot of people still think...

By JIM KENYON

In a way, I feel sorry for Hanover police prosecutor Mariana Pastore. Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock has put her in a tough spot.The day is fast approaching when Pastore must declare whether she’s moving forward with criminal charges against 87...

By JIM KENYON

Under the cover of darkness, 20 New Hampshire State Police storm troopers in full riot gear marched in a single row across the Dartmouth Green, where hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters were peacefully chanting their opposition to the war in Gaza...

By JIM KENYON

The town of Hanover’s website says its police reports are available to the public, but the chief “reserves the right to control the release of all department records.” That’s not the way the New Hampshire Right-to-Know law is intended to work.Under...

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock has made it clear the college views its men’s basketball players — and their recent historic vote to unionize — as a threat to ….Fill in the blank.The college’s bottom line? The status quo? The misconception that...

By JIM KENYON

Over the last decade, more than 150 men have found their way to the two-story, early 1900s clapboard house with a wrap-around front porch in Hartford Village. Some stay only a few months. Others for a year or longer.But their reasons for wanting to...

By JIM KENYON

In less than two weeks, Jim Parker should know whether the state of New Hampshire agrees that after 23 years of incarceration he’s earned the right to re-enter society.Parker’s hearing before the state Adult Parole Board is scheduled for April 18 at...

By JIM KENYON

The trial of two Dartmouth College student-activists arrested on campus while peacefully supporting the plight of Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war isn’t expected to resume for a couple of months.Still the case is far from dormant.Both sides —...

By JIM KENYON

It’s mud season and Paul Karp is back where he belongs: In the far corner of a basketball gym with his “bible,” watching hundreds of kids play in the end-of-winter recreational tournament that bears his name. After a two-year hiatus due to the...

By JIM KENYON

WOODSTOCK — Al Pristaw was the ultimate doer.After Riverside Mobile Home Park was swamped by Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011, Pristaw and another park resident, Nelson Gilman, pushed a wheelbarrow filled with donated orange juice, bread and eggs...

By JIM KENYON

What is Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock so afraid of? I thought she’d welcome the opportunity to enter into the public record her administration’s reasoning for having two student activists arrested for criminal trespass while peacefully...

By JIM KENYON

Jennifer Kahn is a school secretary by day and a server by night. Four afternoons a week, she leaves Mascoma Valley Regional High School after the final bell and drives to downtown Lebanon, where she works the dinner shift at Three Tomatoes...