19+ hour, 37+ min ago   (788+ words) I am not a sociologist — or ologist of any kind — but I may be on to something. Lately I’ve been wondering where all the local characters have gone. As a flatlander who sputtered his way here in 1982 in a green…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (846+ words) Education funding, property taxes and a deep unease over national politics dominated conversations outside polling places from Lebanon to Newport as Upper Valley voters headed to the polls Tuesday for New Hampshire’s primary elections. Lois Rowland, 82, of Etna, summed up…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) I was all shook up when I read Hany Farid, a digital forensic and deepfake expert at Dartmouth, telling The New York Times that he doesn’t trust anything and that he “no longer trusts his own eyes.” In a few…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (692+ words) In his three years as state treasurer, one of Mike Pieciak’s proudest moments started with a list of names and allegations of a scam. He’d planned to attend the Putney Town Meeting two years ago, and part of his usual…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (532+ words) Children who don’t read proficiently by the end of third grade are four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma, according to an Annie E. Casey Foundation study. And nationally, about 28% of U.S. adults scored at or…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (259+ words) We’re approaching the bittersweet end to lazy summer days: Children’s laughter as they finish a last game of croquet, the buzzing bees on goldenrod and the thrush’s evening song all heighten our wistful mood. Children also move into more complex…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (462+ words) Twenty-one people were sexually, physically, or emotionally abused in New Hampshire’s state-run disability care system in the first half of 2026. During that time, 30 people died within the system. At least one choked to death, several died of cancer or other…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1036+ words) LEBANON — There was a time years ago, if you were out and about in the Upper Valley and lucky enough to cross paths with Adele Patch, it was likely you would be going home with some of her homemade jam…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (834+ words) LEBANON — Dartmouth Health and the Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine will use millions of dollars to study rural health-care access for older adults. Last month, the health system announced it would use an $11.8 million federal grant to establish a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1038+ words) Every summer, a small island in Newfound Lake in Bristol, N.H., plays host to a group of boys ages 10 to 12. Camp Mayhew serves boys in New Hampshire who are living below the poverty line, in foster care, or who otherwise face…...