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By Tris Wykes

Temperatures sank into the low 20s and the wind chill approached single digits, but Pat Lahey’s mind wasn’t on the cold. Standing atop Fenway Park’s famous Green Monster left-field wall, the former Dartmouth College football captain stared out of the...

By Rob Wolfe

Hanover — Dartmouth College this week rolled out a new, simplified logo as part of a branding redesign that administrators say will standardize the school’s “visual identity” and present a unified message to the world.Visitors to Dartmouth’s website...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Pomfret — A week after signing the store away, Chuck Gundersen sat in his blue apron at the butcher block near the dry goods shelves, describing how others viewed him during his 30-year tenure as proprietor of the Teago General Store.“It always sounds...

By Nora Doyle-Burr

Wilder — A combination of medications including Tylenol and a muscle relaxant has enabled Shirley Griggs, an 89-year-old retired nurse educator, to manage her chronic back pain, which stems from a car accident more than two decades ago.Recently,...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Canaan — A 26-year-old Enfield man was attempting to avoid being arrested on an outstanding warrant when he was shot by a state trooper in a field, according to his fiancee, who was a passenger in the car that police had tried to stop along Route 4 in...

INTERVIEW AND ILLUSTRATION BY SHAWN BRALEY

Corinth — Rarely has a newspaper headline been more wrong.Almost exactly 30 years ago, in the fall of 1987, 21-year-old Tania Aebi was on the final leg of her 2½-year solo circumnavigation of the world — a nonstop, 52-day, 3,000-mile push across the...

By Josh Weinreb

Grantham — Robert MacNeil was supposed to be retired already.Owning and operating Grantham Indoor, an indoor recreation facility just off of Interstate 89, he said, was more of a labor of love than anything else. Nineteen years later, the Lebanon...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — A jury on Wednesday night exonerated a former Windsor police detective on criminal charges related to a shooting during a 2014 sting operation in Windsor.The panel of nine women and three men deliberated for nearly six hours...

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — Police apprehended a Warwick, R.I., man on Tuesday afternoon and alleged he killed his 70-year-old mother inside one of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s intensive care units, an incident that forced the medical center to evacuate its...

By EmmaJean Holley

It had not rained in Canaan for days leading up to June 3, 1923. So, when a barn on School Street went up in flames that windy Saturday morning, it took only two hours for the fire to leap from building to building until it had consumed most of the...

John Lippman

The Upper Valley in summer is a paradise for fresh water swimmers. Fresh water — lots of it — flows everywhere: the Connecticut River, the White River, the Ompompanoosuc, the Ottauquechee, True’s Brook, Silver Lake, Canaan Street Lake, Storrs...

By Maggie Cassidy

By Jordan Cuddemi

Hanover — The owner of Everything But Anchovies opened up on Wednesday about the reasons behind the abrupt closing of the landmark pizza shop, saying the business hadn’t been profitable since November.Maureen Bogosian said changes in the restaurant...

Photographs by Jovelle Tamayo

Lebanon — When Sheena and Rajesh Arora opened the Asian Super Store 17 years ago on Hanover Street in Lebanon, it was to provide a place for the Upper Valley’s growing Indian population to find groceries.What started as a place to purchase food,...

By John Lippman

Enfield — Gayl Pringle, general manager of Great View Roller Skating, walks across the rink’s floor as skaters glide past her under a canopy of blinking red lights. “This is my home,” she says on her way to the control booth, where she programs the...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — Emily Perkins has had years to consider what she might say, if given the chance, to the woman she shot and left for dead in a Bethel trailer in 2011.On Wednesday, at her sentencing hearing for the shooting, Perkins was to have...

By John P. Gregg

Lebanon — Officials at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Elliot Health System said on Friday they had ended formal affiliation talks, a setback for the state’s only academic medical center as it seeks to establish a hub among the bigger cities of southern New...

By Dave Bailey

Earlier this season, the Dartmouth College men’s hockey team unveiled a snazzy new alternate jersey that might be unlike any in college hockey: green-and-white, horizontal barber-pole stripes with a classy “Dartmouth College 1769” crest across the...

By Alex Hanson

A few years ago, I bought an old car.Even though I’ve bought a few old cars over the past several years and ought to have known better, the old car in this case had some rust. Actually, a lot of rust.But since I hadn’t paid much money for it, and...

By Rick Jurgens

White River Junction — Recent ownership changes at two large nursing homes in the heart of the Upper Valley have had opposite effects on the conditions and quality of care for dozens of residents, according to observations and ratings from regulators...