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By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s graduate student union is the subject of a religious discrimination complaint filed by a graduate student and teaching assistant opposed to the union’s support for pro-Palestinian causes.Benjamin Logsdon, a student in...

Kimball Union Academy employee Fabio Sobrinho cleans up debris left after a driver accelerated from the parking lot into the building shared by the school’s College Advising Office and the Meriden Post Office in Meriden on Tuesday. Gunnar Olson, KUA...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WINDSOR — Hartford’s former superintendent will serve as associate director of student support services in the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union beginning in mid-August, according to an email announcement to Windsor Southeast staff last week.Tom...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — After nearly a year of negotiating and a 60-day strike, Dartmouth College and its graduate student union have reached their first contract agreement.Union members voted Friday evening to ratify the contract.The contract marks the conclusion...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — For the third time since 2008, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center nurses have ended a unionization campaign before holding an election.The Dartmouth Nurses Alliance, the organizational face of the organizing effort, announced on social media...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — With a unionization campaign by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center nurses making more headway than two previous attempts, the hospital’s administration has hired a prominent California anti-union consultant to resist organizing efforts.Union...

By JIM KENYON

For everyone who thinks college athletes deserve to get paid for the work they do on behalf of their schools, the 13-2 vote by Dartmouth men’s basketball players to unionize Tuesday was cause for celebration.Unfortunately, Dartmouth President Sian...

By ALEX HANSON

Two White River Valley school districts that canceled their annual budget votes will resume discussions at school board meetings in the coming days.Both the Strafford and First Branch Unified school districts opted to call off their planned budget...

By JIM KENYON

A few updates of recent columns while waiting for the New Hampshire presidential primary to be over so network TV can get back to running mostly ads hawking wonder drugs and snack chips.On campus With students having returned to campus after a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — The future of a science and math lab at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School is uncertain after an arbitrator found earlier this month that the person running the lab must be a school employee, not a contractor.Since 2017, the...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — The sourcing strategy behind the sloppy joes served to students in the Mountain Views Supervisory Union is anything but disorganized.They’re made with beef from Cloudland Farm in Pomfret, carefully selected for the students with the Upper...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — To adapt to a teacher shortage this year, Bluff Elementary School will have two multi-grade classes and larger class sizes than usual.The Claremont school has been unable to fill third- and fifth-grade teacher positions since it began...

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Union High School is serving as a location for people affected by last week’s flooding to receive assistance, according to Vermont Emergency Management.The site is open Tuesday through Thursday, July 18-20, from 9 a.m. to 5...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Free summer meals for children will be available in some parts of the Upper Valley this summer, but not all.The Orange East Supervisory Union, which includes Bradford, Vt.-area schools, will not be offering summer meals this...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — Dressed in green robes inside Union Arena, 62 Woodstock Union High School seniors became graduates Friday night.In their remarks, the class’s co-salutatorians used natural themes to encourage their fellow graduates to be like trees and to...

BRADFORD, Vt. — A small turnout of voters in the Oxbow Unified Union School District approved an $18.4 million budget for the coming year at Tuesday night’s annual meeting.The 75 or so voters from Bradford and Newbury, the district’s two towns, also...

By ALEX HANSON

BRADFORD, Vt. — So far, this has been a straightforward year for approval of Vermont school budgets.With the state education fund providing more per pupil funding, many districts have been able to increase spending without corresponding tax rate...

RANDOLPH — Federal and state prosecutors and the Rutland NAACP want Vermont residents to know how they can report incidents of bias to police and will host a forum in Randolph to talk about ways to reduce hate in the community.The Randolph meeting,...

By JIM KENYON

With Dartmouth graduate students voting this week on whether to unionize, college officials likely believe their efforts to defeat the initiative at the ballot box are doomed.But that doesn’t mean they’re not going to great lengths — and expense, I...