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Child care extraordinare: Meet the resident helping kids with mental health

It takes a village to raise a child — but when mental health issues are in the mix, sometimes it takes a bit more. Enter Erin McAlonan, Dartmouth Youth Commission member and Program Director for the Community Service Agency at the nonprofit Child...

For the birds: Hawk talk from local birding expert

Dartmouth’s Paskamansett Bird Club kicked off 2021 with a well-attended virtual presentation all about some of our most popular predators: hawks. Over 40 residents and friends signed in to Zoom for two hours on Jan. 13 to hear Woods Hole naturalist...

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Longtime Lloyd Center researcher retires

After nearly 35 years of serving at the Lloyd Center, longtime Research Director Mark Mello has retired. First hired as research coordinator in 1986, Mello’s start at the center actually began three years prior. Mello said it all began after his...

DPW director retires after more than three decades

The end of this year also marks the end of an era, of sorts: On Jan. 1, longtime Director of Public Works David Hickox will be retiring after 34 years working for the town. Hickox got his start working as a civil and environmental engineer at...

New plans, new ownership for Davoll’s

A Dartmouth icon could soon see food service — along with books, clothing, and alcohol — added to its inventory, as brothers Ben and Will Shattuck hope to turn Davoll’s General Store into a cafe-style gathering spot. The pair were granted a liquor...

The kids are alright: Meet Dartmouth’s new Youth Advocate

Won’t somebody please think of the children? Now, somebody is: Deloris Joseph has taken up the town's long-vacant position of youth advocate this week after the job was funded at last Spring Town Meeting. Dartmouth’s youth advocate works to support...

Local historian chronicles escaped slave's story in the South Coast

Seven years. That’s how long former slave and author Harriet Jacobs hid underneath a porch before she could seek freedom in the North. According to Dartmouth resident and historian Peggi Medeiros, Jacobs thought that if her slave master believed she...

Former DPW Superintendent Fred Hanack dies at 94

Former Department of Public Works Superintendent and memoirist Fred K. Hanack of Dartmouth died at the age of 94 on Nov. 28, 2020. Born in Lenin, Germany on April 19, 1926, Hanack became a Wehrmacht soldier in World War II at the age of 17, fighting...

Young ‘rock stars’ raise money for local animal hospital

At only seven years old, Dartmouth resident Julia Franzese already knows she wants to spend the rest of her life making sure pets are properly cared for. Worried about any dogs potentially unable to get vet care because a family can’t afford it, she...

Travel journalist gives talk on extreme adventures

Ever wonder what it’s like to fish for piranha in the Amazon’s Rio Negro, swim in a thermal-heated sea in Antarctica, or try to crash an airliner? Nearly fifty people signed in to Zoom on Thursday night to hear travel journalist Peter Mandel...

Veterans remember: Dartmouth man looks back on service

Honore Bessette is a veteran who claims he isn’t a veteran. “I never went to Korea,” he said. “They sent me to Japan instead.” While modestly downplaying his own service, Bessette was quick to point to the many other war veterans he believes should...

Meet the World War II soldier who saw Japanese occupation

At 93 years old, longtime Dartmouth resident and World War II veteran Gerald Franklin can look back on his service during the US occupation of Japan with humor and humility. “I came in at the end of the war,” said Franklin, who was just 18 when he...

Meet the original Head of the Charles: Dartmouth resident D’Arcy MacMahon

But for Covid, this weekend would have marked the 55th annual Head of the Charles rowing regatta — the largest event of its kind — in Boston. Luckily, according to Dartmouth resident and regatta co-founder D’Arcy MacMahon, athletes around the globe...

Celebrating a centenarian: Dartmouth resident turns 100

How many people alive today can say they remember when electricity came to town? Dartmouth resident Marie Andrade — who turned 100 years old on Sept. 25 — said that she remembered electricity being installed in her New Bedford neighborhood when she...

Painting through a pandemic: Meet artist Marianne Boucher

Dartmouth resident Marianne Boucher has been painting ever since she was 12 years old. She was introduced to her passion for painting after stumbling into the art studio of her childhood friend’s father. At that moment, she knew she wanted art to be...

Former war prisoner celebrates book release

Anyone who has enjoyed a beach day at Round Hill this year might be surprised to learn that they have a former World War II Wehrmacht soldier and Russian prisoner of war to thank in part for the experience. Longtime Dartmouth resident Fred Hanack...

Dartmouth Development Director says a fond farewell

Former Director of Development Deborah Melino-Wender is saying goodbye to Dartmouth after spending the past decade helping shape the town. Melino-Wender defined the role for the new position when she took charge ten years ago, fresh from a job as...

Dartmouth resident rides 89 miles for a cure in 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge

While most people tend to be asleep at 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday, Dartmouth resident Heather Mickool was beginning an 89-mile bike ride as part of this year’s virtual Pan-Mass Challenge cycling fundraiser for cancer research. “This was actually the...