People look up to Steve Gordon, and not just because of his commanding height. He has turned part of his second career – massage – into a service for cancer patients, the Hand to Heart project, which sends massage therapists on home visits to cancer patients. Though more acquainted with dying than most people, he radiates a serene calm that perhaps grows from spending so much time thinking about and dealing with death and our journey to it.

“All I ask is that you not be afraid,” the woman from his massage class said to Steve, as they discussed practicing on each other.… Read More

Roster: #1 Meredith Melendy, #2 Isabelle Fabry, #3 Madeline Hastings, #10 Leah
Mayes, #12 Kassidee Rogers, #14 Zoë Soule, #15 Anna Wolke, #20 Josephine Brown,
#22 Megan Gradijan, #23 Rebecca Wright, #24 Caroline Borger, #25 Joslin Wainwright,
#30 Isabel Peress, #32 Olivia Greeley, #34 Caroline Laramie, Head Coach Tim Kehoe,
JV Coach Matt Dancosse, Managers Annabelle Stott and Clara Cole

Lebanon High School has a long-standing tradition of producing simply outstanding student-athletes. That should go down as an uncontested statement. However, this past winter sports’ season those student-athletes who wear the maroon and gold on the basketball court have reached the apex of success.… Read More

At 65 years young, the Lebanon High School Alumni Association is among the City’s oldest community service organizations. If you’ve been anywhere near Colburn Park in mid-June, you’ve likely come across the association’s multi-faceted and colorful alumni parade weaving through downtown Lebanon, dating back to its founding in 1952.

Like many social and civic organizations around the country, the LHS Alumni Association is eagerly seeking out the next generation of leaders to sustain its community service activities, and finding ways to navigate alumni recruitment in the digital age. With more than 1,400 members on its Facebook page, the LHS Alumni Association is an extensive and active network of Lebanon High School graduates from around the country.… Read More

It’s just like Ben and Jerry’s! exclaimed a cellist at the Upper Valley Music Center, “starting in an old garage.” The musician was looking at Roy’s Garage, diagonally across Colburn Park from the Music Center’s new home. The garage is soon to be the home of Lucky’s Coffee Garage. Creative dynamo, Deb Shinnlinger, aims to develop a community meeting spot, a home away from home. And you don’t have to be the barista or the baker.

Deb has been working on the idea of opening a coffee shop for over a year. “A series of fortunate conversations put Mike [Davidson, who owns the property] and me together,” she explains.… Read More