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Drinking Problems at Dartmouth College Going Up

Matthew McDonald

Drinking-related incidents at Dartmouth College increased almost 13 percent last school year, according to the school.

The number of encounters campus security and residential advisers had with students having problems with alcohol went from 388 during the 2016-2017 school year to 437 during the 2017-2018 school year, according to a study reported by The Union Leader.

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Cape Selectman Was Involved in Vermont Secession Attempt

Matthew McDonald

The current chairman of the Yarmouth Board of Selectmen on Cape Cod was also a selectman in the town of Killington, Vermont when the town tried to secede from that state and join New Hampshire about a dozen years ago.

In 1997, a change in state law by the Vermont legislature shifted the burden of paying for public schools in the state partly onto the backs of property owners in Killington, a town in central Vermont that generates huge tax revenue to the state because of ski resorts there.

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