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By ALEX HANSON

How sad a thing must male friendship seem, held together as it so often is by professional sports. It’s a question worth considering as the Super Bowl bears down on us in all its feathered glory.

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Kelly Ayotte admits that in today’s market, it would have been unlikely for her and her husband to have afforded their first home.They were in their 30s, newly married and buying a condominium. From there, they purchased their first house. Nowadays,...

As the calendar prepares to turn over, it’s an opportunity to look at the Valley News stories that most captured the attention of our readers.As usual, it’s an eclectic mix, including dairy cows, the trials and tribulations of Dartmouth College and...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

As a reporter, one question I am regularly asked is: “Why don’t you report on anything positive?” My response is usually to insist that we do, but the stories that garner the most attention — and tend to stick most in people’s memories — are usually...

By JIM KENYON

When looking back at 2024, I can’t get past the scene that unfolded on the Dartmouth Green after dark on May 1st.I stared in disbelief as 20 New Hampshire police officers — in full riot gear — marched in military-style formation toward a few hundred...

The Valley News photo staff — Alex Driehaus, Jennifer Hauck and James M. Patterson — tirelessly work throughout the year to document life in the Upper Valley. Here are a few of their favrotes from 2024, with the story behind the picture.An inevitable...

By ALEX HANSON

Thanksgiving has always seemed to me the greatest of our holidays. The idea of a harvest festival, where families or tribes gather to celebrate their agricultural labors with a generous feast, might be outdated in the era of factory farming, but the...

By MARION UMPLEBY

Between college dorm living and the house shares that are often part and parcel of a person’s 20s, tales of unsuitable roommates abound in most friend groups.Shaker Bridge Theatre’s production of “Ripcord,” up through May 26 in the Briggs Opera House,...

By ALEX HANSON

Like any art form, theater can carry a lot of ideological freight. Mercifully, sometimes it just entertains and amuses.And sometimes, it entertains so thoroughly that you forget everything but the present spectacle. That’s what Northern Stage’s...

By ALEX HANSON

Having spent untold hours in selectboard and city council meeting rooms around the Upper Valley, I’ve often joked that it would be more fun to write about the meetings held in them as if they were theater, rather than just the mostly humdrum work of...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

Oscar Wilde wrote in his play “A Woman of No Importance” that “after a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” Replace “dinner” with “dessert,” and you’ve nailed down the sentiment of Shaker Bridge Theatre’s newest showpiece,...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

From the Thetford girls winning a state championship to the Hanover boys advancing to New Englands, 2021 was a welcome return to normalcy for high school cross country in the Upper Valley. This fall should bring just as much excitement, with new...

HANOVER Coach: Rob Grabill (17) Last year: 15-2-1 League: NHIAA Division 1 Returnees: Seniors — Ty Nolon (G), Becket McCurdy (D/M), Jack Gardner (F), Jack McGrath (M), Owen Smith (D), Juniors — Carter Guerin (M), Will Guerin (M), Ryder Hayes (M),...

HANOVER Coach: Doug Kennedy (15) Last year: 5-10-2 League: NHIAA Division I Returnees: Seniors — Casey Havrda (F), Mia Madden (M), Riley McGuire (F), Emilia Torresani (F). Juniors — Maeve Lee (M), Sydney McLaughlin (F), Emma Campfield (M), Kiran Park...

HANOVER Coach: Sam Cavallaro (8) Last year: 6-4 League: NHIAA Division II Returnees: Seniors — Cam Bonner (TE/DL), Patrick Elder (OL/DL), Montana Hanchett (OL/DL), Matt Brock (RB/LB), Thomas Mosdal (OL/DL). Juniors — Roger Lucas (QB/DB), Jeffrey Vidou...

By DARREN MARCY

HARTFORD — Weeks after her job performance became the subject of a divisive public kerfuffle, Town Manager Tracy Yarlott-Davis is receiving a formal performance review, which the Selectboard admits is long overdue.According to her three-year contract,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

Hanover Coach: Steve McConnell (9th year).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: 11th at state meet with Ella Maclean, now at Southern Connecticut University, winning the 100-meter dash.Boys’ returners: Seniors — Taj Bagnato, Aidan Peterson, Sebastian...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — More than 900 members of the Dartmouth College community are calling on the school to “dissociate itself” from The Dartmouth Review and to compel the conservative student newspaper to stop using Dartmouth in its name.In a July 20 letter to...

BY ALEX HANSON — VALLEY NEWS STAFF WRITERThe Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont’s Past; photographs and text by Richard W. Brown; David R. Godine; 133 pages; $40Vanishing Vermonters: Loss of a Rural Culture, by Peter Miller; Silver Print Press;...