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May 13, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Druffle's paintings brighten Hop

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"Landscapes of Spokane," a collection of about 40 recent works by painter Christine Druffel, adds a certain vibrancy to the Upper Jewett Exhibition Corridor in the Hopkins Center, where the pieces are presently on display. Color is definitely Druffel's forte.



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Challenging Panda: 'Madame Ou' to open new Chinese eatery

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After spending 20 years fantasizing about running her own restaurant, the owner of a cramped Chinese carry-out in the basement of the Dartmouth Medical School finally has the chance to make her dreams come true. Cynthia Ou, who is well-known among students and faculty alike for her Thursday special of fried dumplings, is expanding to a sprawling Main Street location that will seat almost as many patrons as Panda House, which is the largest Chinese restaurant in Hanover. The new restaurant, which does not yet have a name, will seat 120 people and provide take-out service, Ou said.





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Wheelock travels downstairs

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Wheelock Travel, Inc. will move downstairs from its current location on Main Street to a street level space above Peter Christian's Tavern by the end of this month. Wheelock, now located on the second floor of the building, signed a year-long sublease with Redpath & Co. Commercial Realtors approximately three weeks ago, Wheelock Travel Co-owner Nancy Johnson said. A gift shop, Trillium, occupied the space until about a month and a half ago, a representative of Redpath Realtors said. Wheelock, one of four travel agencies in Hanover, outgrew its 400 sq.



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David's House joins hospital's location

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David's House, a non-profit home-away-from-home for families with children receiving treatment at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, announced it will build a new facility within walking distance of the hospital. "David's House in Hanover is no longer close enough.



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Breakfast vendors compete on the street

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In a town as small as Hanover, businesses do everything they can to compete for customers, even if it means going out on to the street. For the last five years, Lou's table of fresh baked goods and coffee outside its store on Main Street has been a common sight for morning and afternoon passersby, but since the opening of Chez Francoise in July behind the Dartmouth Bank, Lou's has had competition. Both bakeries set up tables at 7 a.m.


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Town considers building parking garage

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The Hanover Board of Selectmen appointed a Parking Task Force Committe to investigate the possibility of creating an estimated $3 million parking garage to ease overcrowding in the downtown area. The proposed garage would hold an estimated 200 to 250 cars and would be for the use of town patrons, according to College Assistant Director of Business Affairs William Barr, a task force member. The current parking problem in downtown Hanover results from the limited number of public parking spaces -- there are 838 metered spaces and 64 leased spaces.


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From Hanoi to Hanover

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NEW YORK CITY, August 10 - Her Vietnamese name is Thi Thanh Nga, but throughout a career that has taken her from Bruce Lee's training gym and low-budget films she became Tiana Alexandra and sometimes Tiana Banana.



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'Much Ado' calls for passion in love and life

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"Much Ado About Nothing" is about everything that makes one happy to be alive. Set in the Italian countryside in the 16th century, the film appropriately begins with Beatrice, played by Emma Thompson, reading in the fields to a group of women and men about how "men were deceivers ever." She implores them to convert their sounds of "woe into hey nonny, nonny." The duplicity is first noted when Beatrice closes the book.


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Camera shop moves uptown

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The Camera Shop of Hanover will move up the street early next month into the space between Murphy's Tavern restaurant and The Dartmouth Co-Op. Owner Oscar Romero '69 said the new location at 15 South Main Street has two advantagesover its current location at 47-51 S.


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Exhibit inspires discussion

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Fact or fiction. Documentation or art. These dualities are common issues in a discussion of photography because, although the process is a mechanized way to creating images of the physical world, the photographer's subject choices and methods of depiction render the outcome subjective. "To Image and To See: Crow Indian Photographs by Edward S.