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By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Gab Smith understands both sides of the conversation surrounding legacy students and Black students at the nation’s elite colleges and universities.A senior at Dartmouth College, Smith is a Black legacy student. Her mother, Tracey...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Police and school investigations are ongoing after three Hanover High School students were hospitalized after taking pills that school officials believe they acquired from another student.All three students who were hospitalized reported...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — After 25 years, the annual Occom Pond Party has been canceled indefinitely due to unreliable weather conditions.The event, which includes ice skating, ice sculptures, a snow castle, sleigh rides and cold weather-based activities, is hosted...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Hanover has never been a town known as a destination for nightlife, but an ambitious project now underway in the basement of the former Dartmouth Bookstore on South Main Street may change that.Hanover developer Jay Campion is building a...

By JIM KENYON

When Peter Fahey reached the top steps of the subway station in New York’s financial district shortly before 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, letter-size sheets of paper had already begun to rain from the sky.“The first thing I remember seeing was all the...

By JIM KENYON

In January 2005, then-Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper announced that Buddy Teevens had agreed to return to his alma mater as football coach. When asked, Harper wouldn’t go into the specifics of Teevens’ contract, such as how long it was for,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

Dartmouth College freshman Elizabeth Reimer received an email May 19 from an assistant dean warning her of a looming deadline for a non-recording grade option. The administrator explained that she could withdraw from the course, a first-year seminar,...

By AMANDA GOKEE

HANOVER — When April Salas set out to acquire information about energy usage in Hanover, she was in for an uphill battle.Salas is the sustainability director of the town, population 11,500, which has the resources to consider such a project. In 2018,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College officials on Friday said they are rolling back some COVID-19 restrictions in dorms to allow students more opportunities to socialize with each other following the third unexpected death this school year of a member of the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — If you live in the Upper Valley, you’re probably well-acquainted with ticks and the risks they pose.Images of the parasites at various stages in their lifespans — larva, nymph and adult, including male and female — taken using a scanning...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 48-year-old Vermont woman was ordered held without bail Thursday after she was accused of entering a man’s parked car in Hanover and forcing him to drive her across state lines to White River Junction.Jennifer Fornwalt, of...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

HANOVER — On a warm morning some three decades ago, Sean McManamy was waiting for the school bus to kindergarten when he turned to his mother with revelation.“Mom, I am never going to work in an office,” Barbara Fildes remembers her son telling her....

By ANNA MERRIMAN

HANOVER — The Hanover High School student council has voted to remove the Marauder team name and mascot after months of debate. But, if approved by school officials, how the removal would work and what the new mascot would look like, are still up in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The options for going out to get something to eat — or for eating in — will increase sharply come spring in Hanover.Nigel Leeming and Tony Barnett, owners, respectively, of mainstay Hanover restaurants Murphy’s on the Green and Molly’s, are each...

HANOVER — Friends and former colleagues of Half and Susanne Zantop lit candles and lay flowers at a garden named for the couple to honor their memory on Wednesday, 20 years to the day since the two Dartmouth College professors were murdered in their...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Nick Heyl gives his new digs, a studio apartment on the third floor of the new Summer Park Residences situated between Park, Summer and Lebanon streets, “a rave review.” “I’m close to everything and it’s just absolutely quiet here,” Heyl...

By JIM KENYON

When I saw a construction crew toiling away this summer on the facade of the Black Family Visual Arts Center in Hanover, my spirits soared.Could Dartmouth actually be removing the Black name from one of its leading downtown buildings?No such luck.On...

By ALEX HANSON

HANOVER — Varujan Boghosian, the puckish artist who mined the castoffs of material culture to assemble works both powerful and whimsical, died Monday at his home in Hanover. He was 94.He had suffered a broken hip last week and died of complications...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon’s compensation totaled $1.5 million in 2018, an increase of 5% over the prior year, according to the college’s most recent tax filing.Hanlon, however, was not the college’s highest-paid employee that...

By JOHN P. GREGG

LEBANON — Mink, the black bear sow who roamed, charmed and at times chewed through neighborhoods in Hanover and Lebanon with several litters of cubs, has died, authorities said on Tuesday.Her body was found Tuesday morning near the Mascoma River in...