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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WEST LEBANON — Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a bill that slashes funding for social services such as Medicaid and food stamps to provide tax cuts. The tax breaks will mostly benefit the richest 20% of Americans, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Dartmouth undergraduate student workers have accepted a contract from the college despite it not including key points the union spent months fighting for.

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Christopher Lane was among the people in 30 households staying at Shady Lawn Motel through Vermont’s motel voucher program before the state stopped funding emergency housing earlier this month.

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HANOVER — After eight hours of mediation, the union representing undergraduate student workers on campus claims Dartmouth College is not negotiating in “good faith” on a new contract.

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WINDSOR — First responders recovered what is believed to be the body of a missing 14-year-old girl from Kennedy Pond on Wednesday evening.

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NORTH HAVERHILL — The Grafton County legislative delegation has approved a $57.7 million spending plan for the fiscal year that begins Tuesday.

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Many of the nearly 40 farmers, consumers and organizers who attended a potluck and rally outside the Upper Valley Food Co-op on Thursday evening brought an usual prop with them: a long-handled spoon.

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The installation of parking kiosks the town has purchased is on hold while the Selectboard continues to debate an amended traffic and parking ordinance.

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HAVERHILL — The Grafton County sheriff appears reluctant to provide information about her department’s collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Even other county officials say they’re in the dark.

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College is among two dozen U.S. research institutions supporting Harvard in its legal fight against the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government’s freeze of $2.2 billion in research grants to Harvard “would negatively impact the entire research ecosystem.”

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HANOVER — The sun broke through the clouds as Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sandra Oh approached the podium to deliver the commencement address at Dartmouth on Sunday.

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LEBANON — Shelves at food co-ops in the Upper Valley were a little less stocked this week after a cyberattack on a distributor of organic foods reduced deliveries of certain goods.

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HANOVER — Over the course of the last year, Dartmouth College senior Evan McMahon applied to between 200 and 300 jobs, mostly in the public health field.

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LYME — A single mother and her two youngest children are in the process of moving out of town after the Selectboard decided not to renew the lease for the town-owned house where the family has lived for nearly a decade.

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NORWICH — After receiving a “concerning phone call from a property owner,” the town’s Board of Listers has requested a “police presence” at upcoming public hearings for residents who want to contest the new appraised value of their properties.

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ENFIELD — The Mascoma Valley Regional School District is fighting for reimbursement of half-a-million dollars it has already spent on ventilation improvements and professional development programs after the U.S. Department of Education declined to provide the district with the previously approved funds.

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HANOVER — As state and federal pressure on “sanctuary jurisdictions” intensifies, the future is uncertain for policies aimed at protecting immigrant communities in some Upper Valley municipalities.

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HANOVER — Campus cafes at Dartmouth are returning to normal operating hours this week after undergraduate student workers ended their strike amid plans to resolve contract disagreements with the college.

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NORWICH — After three years of evaluating the danger of the chemical contamination in the Moore Lane Bridge, the Selectboard decided last week to continue efforts at containment, a move some residents are calling just another half measure.

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NORWICH — As the town’s proposed Animal Control Ordinance heads into its seventh revision, many residents continue to oppose a section that would ban off-leash dogs on Huntley Meadows.

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LEBANON — A nonprofit that reviews hospitals across the nation based on safety has given Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center a grade of C, but hospital leaders said the grade is not reflective of the care patients are currently receiving.