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By ALEX HANSON

LEBANON — A brief tour and meeting Thursday between U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and officials from Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth Cancer Center and Dartmouth College put into stark relief the many ways in which the Trump Administration is disrupting health care and medical research.

By ALEX HANSON

At first look, “The Fierce Females Project,” a sharp, concentrated installation of portraits by the Sharon artist Finnie Trimpi that went on view Tuesday at Artistree Gallery in South Pomfret, reads like its exterior, a grid of small square frames painted a metallic gold.

By ALEX HANSON

Voters in two White River Valley school districts went in opposite directions on improving their schools.

By ALEX HANSON

Voters in Strafford and Sharon opted to keep the status quo in how they make decisions at Town Meeting.

By ALEX HANSON

SOUTH ROYALTON — Bethel and Royalton voters approved a $15.2 million budget for the White River Unified School District with a minimum of conversation about it at Monday night’s annual meeting.

By ALEX HANSON

As the fifth anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown approaches, ongoing debates about town and school district governance suggest that the seismic event is still reverberating.

By ALEX HANSON

Two school districts in the White River Valley are bringing slimmed down versions of school construction plans defeated by voters last year back to the ballot box at Town Meeting.

By ALEX HANSON

John Masko has been involved in orchestral conducting in a variety of forms since graduating from San Francisco Conservatory in 2018.

By ALEX HANSON

How sad a thing must male friendship seem, held together as it so often is by professional sports. It’s a question worth considering as the Super Bowl bears down on us in all its feathered glory.

By ALEX HANSON

Jackie Rocha’s longest job was a 14-year stint at the history center of The Statue of Liberty — Ellis Island Foundation.

By ALEX HANSON

Revels North, an arts nonprofit that celebrates and performs traditional music from around the world, has had a tough go since the coronavirus pandemic.

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the past couple of years, it seemed like the Main Street Museum had something going on several nights a week.Movie clubs screen offbeat films on weeknights. A slate of bands, both local and from around the region, might fill...

By ALEX HANSON

CORINTH — It might not seem this way at first, but Vermont Almanac is the product of an uneasy time.The annual publication’s fifth volume reached store shelves in late November. Weighing in at nearly 300 pages full of writing and imagery about rural...

By ALEX HANSON

When I think about how education is changing in Vermont and New Hampshire, and particularly in the Upper Valley, I’m reminded of a Noel Perrin essay from 1980 titled “The Rural Immigration Law.”Perrin, a Thetford Center resident and Dartmouth College...

By ALEX HANSON

After building a music career in Portland, Ore., Hunter Paye moved back to the Upper Valley in 2018. His mother, Tish Paye, who had raised him on her own, needed his help.Paye had made regular trips back here to play shows. “I told her one time, ‘You...

By ALEX HANSON

Halloween is upon us, and in the Upper Valley that means that all eyes that aren’t watching over children in search of candy are on White River Junction.And for good reason. As Halloween enthusiasts have come to expect, this year’s Gory Daze events,...

By ALEX HANSON

CORINTH — When she first came to Vermont, in 1972, Suzanne Opton didn’t really know what to expect.She had grown up in Portland, Ore., one of three children of parents who had escaped the Holocaust. She’d gone to Smith College, and had worked as a...

By ALEX HANSON

If political partisanship worked the same way in Vermont as in much of the rest of the country, the state Legislature’s Democratic supermajority could be expected to face tough races this fall. An average homestead property tax increase of 14% would...

By ALEX HANSON

Two years ago, Lisa Piccirillo was at an intermediate stage in a musical journey.She’d written a suite of songs during the pandemic, a process that had helped her work through some dark days and find a ray of light. She was ready to make a record and...

By ALEX HANSON

Thanksgiving has always seemed to me the greatest of our holidays. The idea of a harvest festival, where families or tribes gather to celebrate their agricultural labors with a generous feast, might be outdated in the era of factory farming, but the...

By ALEX HANSON

This space has already taken note of Lebanon Opera House’s 100th birthday, in part because it’s kind of a rolling celebration.The dedication of the building took place on Oct. 29, 1924, so it seems fitting that the opera house’s fall season is perhaps...