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By JIM KENYON

As revolts go, the one staged by a small band of Windsor County Republicans against Chairman John MacGovern last Saturday was tame and orderly.That’s not to say the GOP renegades, however, still don’t pose a threat to democratic norms.The 50 or so...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — City schools are proposing a 7% increase in the operating budget for the next school year to cover the rising costs of special education and employee health insurance.The School Board will hold a public hearing on Wednesday to consider a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — In a blow to state prosecutors, a New Hampshire District Court judge has dismissed the stalking charge against a former Lebanon police investigator involving messages to a woman with whom he once had been romantically involved, determining...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — The new school building project for Woodstock’s middle and high school now has a price tag of $99 million, according to an announcement last month by the Mountain Views Supervisory Union.That number is a significant increase from the $80...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — The criminal case against a Dartmouth College alumnus who is charged with allegedly raping and strangling an 18-year-old woman on campus in 2022 is “likely” going to trial and the defense “may” argue that the encounter was...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax disrupted an event at Northern Stage on Saturday, forcing families attending a drag story hour to evacuate the theater as a precautionary measure. The Hartford Police Department, with...

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 68-year-old Lebanon man will plead guilty to criminal charges of possessing child pornography and is scheduled to be sentenced to state prison later this month.Michael Collins filed a notice of intent to plead guilty to six counts...

CHELSEA — A Strafford man who punched a dog in the face and wielded a gun at people during an argument outside his home last September has pleaded guilty to a single count of criminal threatening while a charge of aggravated cruelty to animals against...

STAFF REPORT

With no snow on their home hill on which to practice, Hanover High ski jumping coach Tom Dodds and his Bears have been getting in time on the Blackwater Ski Area jump at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H., lately. 

By JON MARKS

PHILADELPHIA — There’s not a whole lot you can say when your opponent makes 13 straight shots — nine of them 3-pointers — and 15 of 16, especially when there seems to be a lid on the basket on your end of the floor. Still Dartmouth coach David...

By BEN HOOKE

HANOVER — The last few seasons have not been kind to the Dartmouth men’s hockey program. After pandemic disruptions and middling results, the Big Green appeared to bottom out last season, winning just 5 of 30 games and finishing in the basement of the...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Speaking on the eve of the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and with just weeks until the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney came to Hanover on Friday with a...

By STEVE TAYLOR

It was 36 years ago, back when Lebanon was largely a moderate Republican bastion, and Karen Wadsworth was an up and coming figure in New Hampshire GOP politics. One day she hosted a good-sized gathering of the GOP faithful at her home on Bank...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

HANOVER — This winter there will be another outdoor rink for ice skaters to visit in the Upper Valley: the Dartmouth Green.Dartmouth College is opening the rink to the public. The last time there was a rink on the Green was winter 2021. During the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — Shortly after Jillian Rafter arrived to work as a primary care nurse practitioner at Valley Regional Hospital in the winter of 2022, she noticed that a certain subset of patients was showing up in the examination room.“They told me they...

By JIM KENYON

When I met 16-year-old Hudson Ranney at the Boston Dreams coffee shop in Windsor, it was 10 in the morning and he was munching on a Moose Tracks ice cream cone while checking messages on his Apple Watch between bites.A stereotypical teen? No...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — Sometimes when one coffeehouse drive-through window closes, another one opens.On Friday, Lebanon coffee bar Lucky’s opened a second location on Mechanic Street, in the space previously held by Jake’s Coffee Co. — which closed in October to...

NORTH HAVERHILL — A former New York City man who threatened a Hanover public works department employee with a screwdriver and launched a police manhunt for him around the Dartmouth’s athletic facilities on the day Sian Beilock was being inaugurated...

HARTLAND — Selectboard member Mandi Potter has resigned her position on the board.Selectboard Chairman Phil Hobbie made the announcement at Tuesday’s Selectboard meeting, thanking her for her years of service. Potter joined the board in March of 2022...

WOODSTOCK — The Selectboard will discuss March’s Town Meeting formats during a special meeting on Monday at 6 p.m.The meeting will be held in person at Town Hall and can also be streamed via townofwoodstock.org/town-selectboard/. Currently, residents...