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By DAVID BROOKS

A motorized wheelchair designed to clamber over rocks, roots and mud is opening up hiking trails in our biggest state park to many more people, including some who weren’t in the target audience.“We expected it would be people with mobility challenges....

By DAVID BROOKS

The bald eagle who had been marveled at and enjoyed by thousands of people over the past quarter century, acting as one of New Hampshire Audubon’s most popular ambassadors at the Concord facility and in school trips, has died. He was 36.The eagle,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Town officials faced sharp rebukes from residents who are irate over the handling of personnel issues in the police department that left the force with only one police officer and led the former Selectboard chairman to announce his...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Parker Tirrell went down after a hard foul in front of goal in the second half of a girls soccer scrimmage on Tuesday night, and she drew a much-needed penalty for her team while down 1-0.Tirrell played for Plymouth Regional High School in a friendly...

LEBANON — The Upper Valley community is to get a rare glimpse inside law enforcement when the Lebanon police hosts an “open house” that will feature demonstrations, activities for the family and a chance to witness on-site landings of the Dartmouth...

BY PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — A public forum this week to discuss the police response to a May 1 pro-Palestinian demonstration on the Dartmouth College Green left participants with unanswered questions, including about the college’s handling of the situation and the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A state court judge has denied the town of Hanover’s petition to reconsider a court order for the police department to release arrest reports pertaining to the detention of two Dartmouth College student protesters in October.Judicial...

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...

CORINTH — An early morning fire that destroyed a mobile home on Limlaw Road was the town’s second catastrophic house fire in a five-day period, according to the Corinth Fire Department. Firefighters responded to 76 Limlaw Road just after 3:40 a.m. on...

A fawn watches two chickens on a Poverty Lane lawn in Lebanon on Aug. 14.

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 O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Noah Conrad loves an opportunity to build something. Olivia Sartwell sees the fun in learning how to cook.Both got to explore their interests during one-week camps in early July at Sugar River Valley Technical Center in Claremont. Noah,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — The family of a donor to the Stowell Library alleges the money was misused by a committee seeking to renovate the former Cornish General Store into a new library for the town.Brian Meyette is asking the Cornish Library Trustees to return...

By ULLA-BRITT LIBRE

ORFORD — Catherine Butman Eastburn would sit in a folding chair at Lower Baker Pond’s boat launch in Orford and watch the loons for hours at a time.As a community science observer for the New Hampshire Loon Preservation Committee and an amateur...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — New and improved learning spaces will greet students and staff at Hanover Street and Lebanon High schools when the school year begins later this month.The Hanover Street School, which serves 320 students in grades K-4, has four new...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

At the end of the month, Edmund McGahey plans to load up his U-Haul with the American flag neatly rolled behind his front door, take his wind chimes down from his front porch, pack his eight potted Christmas cacti, and leave for Texas.With an...

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 JIM KENYON

LYME — At Town Meeting in March, Lyme voters approved spending $150,000 to “remove the materials,” which include two dozen unregistered vehicles, stored on two private properties owned by a working-class mother and son.The paper ballot vote in one of...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Residents will have to wait another year before voting on a petitioned amendment to add a citizen referendum provision to the city charter.The City Council did not take a vote at Wednesday’s council meeting, but did agree to leave in place...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

LEBANON — Jaden Poirier has joined an elite club — a very elite club.A hole-in-one in golf is a rarity. A double eagle, also called an albatross, which is three shots under par, is even rarer. There is a greater chance of being struck by lightning...