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HANOVER — Students who are seniors now at Dartmouth College began their matriculation in the fall of 2020, amid strict COVID-19 protocols.Few of the college’s typical welcome traditions took place. Fall First-Year Trips were canceled, gatherings were...

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CLAREMONT — To adapt to a teacher shortage this year, Bluff Elementary School will have two multi-grade classes and larger class sizes than usual.The Claremont school has been unable to fill third- and fifth-grade teacher positions since it began...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s new president has announced a series of leadership changes, including the creation of the position of chief health and wellness officer, and a September event focused on mental health.The college has launched a national...

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LEBANON — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital began requiring employees to wear masks again earlier this month, amid an increase in COVID-19 infections.“Patients and visitors will see the implementation of universal masking (masking at all times except...

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HARTFORD — The Selectboard has interviews scheduled this week with finalists for the permanent town manager position, which has been filled on an interim basis for 10 months.The interviews, scheduled to take place in executive sessions on Wednesday...

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WEST LEBANON — For Amy Allen, taking the reins of the Lebanon School District is a homecoming of sorts.A 1991 graduate of Mascoma Valley Regional High School, Allen has been staying with her mom in Enfield when she needs to be in the Upper Valley....

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WEST LEBANON — Middle and high school students in the Lebanon School District are expected to receive their grades for the academic year that ended in June next week. The delayed release comes after some of the district’s key systems were taken...

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LEBANON — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., has become the newest member of the Dartmouth Health system, according to a DH news release.The agreement, formalized on July 1, makes the Bennington hospital the sixth to join the...

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LEBANON — Emergency responders rescued three people aboard a pontoon boat that was caught amid high waters on the Mascoma River dam on Wednesday morning.The boat’s owner, Leroy Hawksley, 79, of Windsor, said the group put the boat in the water at...

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WINDSOR — In spite of Jill Lord’s retirement earlier this year following three decades at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, her influence on the Windsor community is ongoing.She retired from her position of director of community health at the...

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WOODSTOCK — Dressed in green robes inside Union Arena, 62 Woodstock Union High School seniors became graduates Friday night.In their remarks, the class’s co-salutatorians used natural themes to encourage their fellow graduates to be like trees and to...

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LEBANON — The financial picture for Dartmouth Health appears to be improving a bit, according to a recent filing with bondholders.While the Lebanon-based health system continued to lose money in the third quarter of its fiscal year, which ended March...

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CLAREMONT — Attendees at a recent public hearing on a proposed union between Dartmouth Health and Valley Regional Hospital had a fundamental question: Should an affiliation occur, who would make decisions about the Claremont hospital’s future?“After...

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LEBANON — The city is among the state’s largest communities without a homeless shelter, according to a report the Human Services Department presented to the Lebanon City Council at its meeting this week.But that may soon change.On Wednesday, the City...

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LEBANON — Amid the ongoing housing crunch in the Twin States, people were cleared out earlier this spring from the eight rooms in the front portion of a building on Bank Street in downtown Lebanon, which is slated for demolition.The demolition of 14...

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LEBANON — The City Council on Wednesday is holding a public hearing on a request for the council’s support of two grant applications from an organization seeking to establish a residential addiction treatment facility for mothers and their children in...

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LEBANON — School-based dental clinics in the Upper Valley are ramping up again after hiatuses related to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing challenges.Upper Valley Smiles, a program operated by Lebanon’s Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, is poised to...

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HANOVER — Maynard House, a home-away-from-home for patients and families in Hanover, reopened last week, according to the house operations manager.The house on South Street had been closed since August to allow for a capital needs assessment and...

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LEBANON — Masks are coming off within days at several health care facilities across the Upper Valley.As of Monday, April 10, masks will be optional for people at Dartmouth Health facilities who don’t have respiratory symptoms, according to DH’s...

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RANDOLPH — Despite increased costs and a longer timeline, a new child care center off Route 66 near Exit 4 on Interstate 89 is moving forward.The White River Junction-based Green Mountain Economic Development Corp. took ownership on March 7 of the...