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A life time of leadership founded in Dartmouth

As a student in the 1980s, Peter de Silva noticed, while working at Cinema 140, the rise of the VCR and guessed that the movie theater industry would not prosper forever. Selecting a post-college career, he picked an always relevant field; finance...

Meet Erica Morency

The race is on for two open seats on the Dartmouth School Committee, and five local residents have declared their candidacy for the posts. Among those running is Erica Lyn Morency, a holistic practitioner and mother of two Quinn School students...
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Meet Troy Tufano

The race is on for two open seats on the Dartmouth School Committee, and five local residents have declared their candidacy for the posts. Among those running is Troy Tufano, the former chairperson of Dartmouth’s Democratic Town Committee and a...

Meet Elizabeth “Bess’’ Coughlin

The race is on for two open seats on the Dartmouth School Committee, and five local residents have declared their candidacy for the posts. Among those running is Elizabeth “Bess” Coughlin, a 25-year Dartmouth resident and frequent volunteer at...

Meet Lynne Turner

The race is on for two open seats on the Dartmouth School Committee, and five local residents have declared their candidacy for the posts. Among those running is Lynne Turner, a second-time candidate and former elementary school teacher. Turner ran...

Meet Kathleen Amaral

DARTMOUTH — The race is on for two open seats on the Dartmouth School Committee, and five local residents have declared their candidacy for the posts. Among those running, Kathleen Amaral is the only incumbent. Amaral has sat on the committee for...

St. Peter's nonprofit helps bring 'hope and healing' to 'underserved' part of state

When Rev. Scott Ciosek started “The Bridge: A Center for Hope and Healing, ”a nonprofit based out of St. Peter’s Epsicopal Church in 2015, he hoped to expand mental health into a region he found had “less access” compared to other areas of the...

Medal for honor: Resident recognized by military for community service

One of the core values of the United States Air Force is “service before self” — something Dartmouth airman Chris Pereira has always taken to heart. “I just try to always remember that and live it,” he said In that spirit, Pereira has volunteered...

Police department mourns loss of longtime clerk

The Dartmouth Police Department is mourning the loss of its longtime clerk Lorie Vieira, who died on Christmas Eve after a prolonged period of declining health. She was 55 years old. Vieira, a graduate of Dartmouth High in 1985, worked at the police...

Dartmouth High alum details her journey from South Coast to Scandinavia

Dartmouth High alum Jennifer Riley is the first to admit that her first time playing in net for the girls lacrosse team was less than ideal. “I played terribly,” she said, “absolutely terribly.” The day after her first game, her teacher Scott...

In ninth book, UMass professor archives first-person histories of 20th century notables

To UMass Dartmouth French professor Mel Yoken, there are few things in life that compare to the beauty and personality of a hand-written letter. “They just flow,” he said. Over the years, Yoken estimates that he’s received around 400,000 letters — a...

Dartmouth singer picked from audience to perfom with his musical idols

If there are two musicians Dartmouth resident and singer Jordan Paiva especially reveres, they are 2006 “American Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee and her husband, Grammy Award-winning composer and producer David Foster. “I always loved her voice,”...