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NEW LONDON — The New London Fire Department was on thin ice Sunday morning when it rescued a partially submerged deer from Pleasant Lake.Just before 7:30 a.m., with temperatures around freezing, the Fire Department received an emergency call from a...

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HANOVER — With less than a week to go before the start of Dartmouth College’s fall term, rising senior Matt Jachim-Gallagher, of Newport, worked on a friendship bracelet on a bench across from Tuck Mall, where freshman orientation was underway.As...

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For weeks, the Dartmouth community has debated President Sian Leah Beilock’s decision to call in police on May 1 to arrest 89 protesters who were in violation of the college’s “time, place and manner” policy that guides demonstrations.On Monday...

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HANOVER — Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have voted to censure Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock, publicly rebuking her handling of a pro-Palestinian protest on campus earlier this month.The resolution passed narrowly — 183 to...

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HANOVER – By a slim margin, Dartmouth undergraduate students have voted “no confidence” in President Sian Leah Beilock’s leadership in the wake of a controversial crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters earlier this month, Dartmouth Student Government...

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HANOVER — Dartmouth President Sian Beilock and college administrators faced pointed criticism at a meeting with faculty regarding the arrest of 89 students, staff, faculty and community members by police in riot gear at a protest on the college Green...

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After eight years at the helm of Colby-Sawyer College, Sue Stuebner will depart in June to take up the mantle as president of Marietta College in Ohio.Under Stuebner’s tenure, Colby-Sawyer’s endowment doubled — from $36 million in 2016 to $72 million...

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In February, unionized graduate student-workers at Dartmouth decided that if they continued to feel that the college was stalling on contract negotiations, they’d walk off the job.They weren’t bluffing.On Wednesday at noon, more than 150 graduate...

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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...

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PIERMONT — The U.S. Forest Service is moving ahead with plans to log in the Lake Tarleton area. The project has drawn opposition from residents and advocacy groups since it was introduced to the public in 2019.Management actions for habitat,...

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Since July, scaffolding has surrounded the iconic fire tower at the summit of Mount Cardigan.In the past few months, sometimes a small portable speaker has sat at the base of the construction site. The kind of music that contractor Javier Arias plays,...

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Persistent rain over the last month has set the stage for the dangerous flood conditions that are expected to continue across parts of New Hampshire and Vermont. The deluge has so far wiped out roads, taken down bridges and forced the evacuation of a...

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HANOVER — Along with May flowers, April showers bring about roadkill of the amphibious variety.The evening time trill of spring peepers — a type of small “chorus” frog — marks for many the turn of seasons in northern New England, and it also puts...

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LEBANON — There’s no sheet music for navigating the world of international trade controversy, but the musicians at the Upper Valley Music Center are trying their best to sight-read.The sale and possession of the Brazilian red wood that is used to...