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By JIM KENYON

HANOVER — On a late September evening, the 15 players on the Dartmouth men’s basketball team were summoned by their coaches to Berry Sports Center.With the first game of the season still almost six weeks away, it wasn’t to practice, work on...

By JIM KENYON

It was bad enough that Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock and her administration overreacted by having Hanover police arrest two students who were peacefully protesting on the lawn outside her office last month.Now it appears the...

By JIM KENYON

LEBANON — As an underclassman at Hanover High School, Chris Carroll was fairly certain when he got called to the associate principal’s office early one morning that he was in big trouble.Although it was almost 50 years ago, bringing a firearm to...

By JIM KENYON

State Rep. Jonathan Stone isn’t the only one who has a great deal riding on the outcome of his lawsuit against the city of Claremont, which the New Hampshire Supreme Court heard last week.The public does as well.Stone, a Republican who was elected to...

By JIM KENYON

After a New Hampshire Superior Court judge vacated his 2008 conviction in January for assaulting a Lebanon police officer during a late-night traffic stop, Scott Traudt vowed to go on the legal offensive against the city and cops he claims were...

By JIM KENYON

In a town with as much wealth as Norwich, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that a $700,000 house built in the early 1990s is considered tear-down material.Still, when a caller told me Andy and Peggy Sigler’s former house on Beaver Meadow Road...

By JIM KENYON

On his re-election campaign website, Claremont City Councilor Jonathan Stone says he’s working to “hold the city administration accountable” to taxpayers.Now if Stone, a former Claremont police officer, only held himself to the same standard.For three...

By JIM KENYON

A recently constructed 10-foot high solid wooden wall runs the length of the property facing the highway. A private security force brought in from New York patrols the grounds 24/7 with holstered sidearms.After commandeering the former rest area on...

By JIM KENYON

Mohsen Mahdawi was looking forward to a break from city life and spending a long holiday weekend at the hilltop cabin he built a few years ago in West Fairlee.With foliage season nearing its peak, Mahdawi expected to do some leaf peeping. He...

By JIM KENYON

About a week ago, I got a call from Raelene Lemery, who had bittersweet news. The nonprofit thrift shop on South Royalton’s main street that she’s run for 40 years is closing later this month.I say bittersweet because Lemery has been a one-person...

By JIM KENYON

The parade of white men chosen to serve as town manager in Vermont’s wealthiest community marches on. Brennan Duffy makes seven. For his sake, I hope seven is a lucky number.Since Norwich switched — with voters’ approval — to a town manager form of...

By JIM KENYON

More Upper Valley communities — big and small — could use a public meeting like the one that Hartland held last week.The topic was policing. How many cops, if any, does the town need? Can police serve as an effective deterrent to crime? Other than...

JIM KENYON

On the way out of his first-floor apartment in Lebanon one afternoon early last month, 67-year-old Jesse Keenum came across a letter on the weathered deck leading to his front door.“This notice is to inform you of your landlord’s intent to evict you...

By JIM KENYON

I tend to lump hair salons into the same category as funeral homes. No matter how the economy is doing, their services are always in demand.With that in mind, it’s surprising to hear the New England School of Hair Design is shutting down next...

By JIM KENYON

When I stopped by the Carter Community Building in downtown Lebanon unannounced Friday, Jim Vanier had just finished sweeping the linoleum floor and tidying up before 25 kids were due to arrive for the free after-school program that he’s served for 50...

By JIM KENYON

Although we probably don’t need more examples of how adults can mess up youth sports and kids are left to pay the price, here’s a recent one that deserves public scrutiny.Since before she entered elementary school, 12-year-old Annabella Gordon has...

By JIM KENYON

The Upper Valley’s housing crunch is making it nearly impossible for many employers to persuade workers from other parts of the country to move here.But Dartmouth College has come up with a remedy.Granted, it’s no magic bullet. Only an ultra-wealthy...

By JIM KENYON

When the nonprofit Carter Community Building Association, or CCBA as it’s known, launched a fundraising drive last October, the good name of Jim Vanier and his half-century of service to Lebanon kids was used as a major selling point. “Following in...

By JIM KENYON

I never thought a price tag could be put on reading, but the Vermont Department of Corrections has found a way.On Aug. 1, the DOC implemented a policy change that in upcoming months will increase the cost of purchasing new books, among other items, by...

By JIM KENYON

When Lebanon High School teachers and administrators gathered in June to recognize their colleagues who were retiring or leaving for new jobs, one person was conspicuous in his absence.Kieth Matte, who spent 24 years at Lebanon High as a physics...