Police officials found the body of Brooke Bennett, the missing 12-year-old from Braintree, Vt., on Crocker Road in Randolph, Vt., on Wednesday. The discovery stemmed from information police gathered during a search of nearby property owned by Bennett’s uncle, Michael Jacques, who was arrested on unrelated sexual assault charges on Sunday and has been called a “person of interest” in the case, police reports say. More »
Five days after Vermont initiated its first Amber Alert, Brooke Bennett, a 12-year-old resident of Braintree, Vt., remains missing. Bennett was last seen at a Cumberland Farms convenience store in Randolph, Vt. on the morning of June 25, where, she told relatives, she was planning to meet a friend to travel to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The investigation into Bennett’s disappearance currently focuses on the Randolph property of Bennett’s uncle, Michael Jacques, who drove Bennett to the convenience store before her disappearance and was arrested on unrelated sexual assault charges on Sunday, according to a Vermont State Police press release. More »
Following Friday’s confirmation that the Grafton County Superior Court had approved the dismissal of the Association of Alumni’s lawsuit against the College, new information has come to light about the funding of the suit and the involvement of The Hanover Institute, a non-profit organization that has traditionally sponsored causes critical of College policies. The court action brings to an end the eight-month legal saga in which the Association attempted to bar the College’s Board of Trustees from adding eight members not elected by alumni to its membership. More »
UNITY, N.H. — This small town was thrown into the national spotlight on Friday as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former rival for the nomination Sen. Hillary Clinton D-N.Y. made their first joint public appearance after an unusually protracted nomination battle. More »
Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series focusing on the rising cost of fuel and its effect on the College. More »
A group of sophomore students who decided to put the stripping in “Strips” this weekend by skinny dipping in the Connecticut River had their nude foray unexpectedly interrupted by a family of canoers. The group escaped detection by quickly diving underwater, but upon reemerging found that all of their clothes had been stolen by a fellow trippee, said Averil Spencer ‘10, co-director of this year’s Sophomore Trips program. More »
Caryl Phillips didn’t always see himself as a writer. As an undergraduate at Oxford University’s Queen’s College, Phillips passed much of his time with the theater society. More »
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