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HANOVER — Alexis Abramson, who has served as dean of Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth since 2019, announced Monday she will leave after the fall term to begin a new role at Columbia University. Abramson, a mechanical engineer who specializes...

HANOVER — Duane Compton, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, announced Monday that he plans to leave that post at the end of June 2025.Compton, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology, has held the leadership position for...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Community members voiced disappointment this week that a planned forum about the police department’s response to a May pro-Palestinian protest on the Dartmouth College Green is scheduled when many people are away and participants won’t be...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — A team of Dartmouth College researchers studying prostate cancer surgery has been awarded a $31.3 million grant as part of the federal government’s Cancer Moonshot program.The funding for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College...

By MARION UMPLEBY

There’s something uncanny about performance spaces just before the first visitors arrive. A room that will soon be filled with bodies and sound is eerily quiet. The unused props are the only hint of what is to come. This is how it felt at 7:45 on a...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

HANOVER — Though his name is next to the title New Hampshire High School Boys Track and Field Coach of the Year for 2024, Hanover head coach Steve McConnell said the award recognizes the work of the entire coaching staff.“We are fortunate to have a...

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 CAROLINE FROST

HANOVER — Citizens Bank is closing its downtown branch on South Main Street in early October, leaving the Rhode-Island based financial institution with only two remaining locations in the Upper Valley.Citizens customers were recently notified by mail...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — The Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously denied the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society’s request to convert its Lyme Road market into a commercial kitchen space to make prepared foods for its other locations.The Board denied the variance...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — The Hanover Police prosecutor filed charges on Thursday in Lebanon District Court for the last batch of the 89 people arrested on May 1 during a pro-Palestinian protest on the Dartmouth Green.Prosecutor Mariana Pastore charged 20 additional...

By JIM KENYON

With all of her wheeling and dealing this summer, real estate investor and developer Jolin Kish seems bent on turning Hanover into her personal Monopoly board.Kish started by selling four of her residential properties on West Wheelock Street to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — Upper Valley emergency service agencies, health care providers and businesses felt the impact of a global internet outage that started early Friday morning.Around 9 a.m., Dartmouth Health reported that its “locations are experiencing a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — The number of cases in a multistate outbreak of measles linked to an international traveler to Hanover in June has grown to five, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.The fifth case in the outbreak is a...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Departing Town Manager Alex Torpey will receive more than $135,000 in severance from the town, according to a separation agreement between Torpey and the Selectboard. But the reason for the parting of ways remains unclear. Last week, the...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The ACLU of New Hampshire on Wednesday called on the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College to drop trespassing and disorderly conduct charges against pro-Palestine protesters arrested on May 1.In a letter to the presidents of the two...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — The town will host a public forum next month to hear the community’s feedback on the role the police department played in the arrests of scores of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the Dartmouth College Green on May 1.The listening session is...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

At Sophia’s Candy Corner in West Lebanon, owner Sophia Lowe believes the adage “like a kid in a candy store” applies equally to adults.“I find the adults come in and they are so excited because they remember what it was like to go to an old-time candy...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

HANOVER — There are countless stories of businesses — large and small — whose humble beginnings were a room in the entrepreneur’s house such as the basement, garage or spare bedroom. Think Apple and Amazon.But the kitchen likely trumps them all. From...

HANOVER — In what he called a “bittersweet announcement,” Town Manager Alex Torpey revealed Wednesday that he will leave his position at the end of the month, one year before the end of his three-year contract.Planning, zoning, and codes director Rob...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Acting swiftly, Dartmouth College has suspended two Greek organizations involved in a social event where heavy drinking was reported, after a student who attended the party is believed to have died by drowning in the Connecticut River on...