Category Archives: Community

In Progress: Dartmouth Organic Farm Master Plan

In November 2012, the College kicked-off a planning process for the Dartmouth Organic Farm at the Fullington property.  Proposals were solicited from five firms.  Maclay Architects were selected by the project’s steering committee.  Numerous listening sessions were held with the steering … Continue reading

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What do you know about Chevy Volt?

Ken Kaliski talked about his experience with Chevy Volt in this detailed presentation (Kaliski TMA September 2012) during the UVTMA September meeting. 

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September UVTMA presentation

Upper Valley Transportation Management Association met in September and talked about energy efficient vehicles. Check out the attached presentation: UVTMA presentation  

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Tour of the Trescott Company lands

The Hanover Conservancy recently organized a tour of the Trescott Company lands with foresters John O’Brien and Jeffrey Smith. The tour was extraordinary – an amazing Saturday afternoon.  The Conservancy prepared a short slide show of scenes which may be … Continue reading

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Visit our Healthy Transit Booth at the Dartmouth Employees’ Wellness fair!

Dartmouth Parking and Transportation office along with our partner organizations Vital Communities, Advance Transit, Zimride and Zipcar Dartmouth will provide you with healthy transit information at the Wellness fair. You could also sign up for our green commuter incentive program … Continue reading

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Riverfront Master Plan

Click image below to access the pdf file for Dartmouth College Riverfront On Connecticut master plan    

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Safe Routes to School efforts

More news to come on the Safe Routes to School efforts.

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Residential zoning changes in Hanover Town

Hanover Town’s policy paper on residential zoning changes (PDF) The first public information meeting on the Residential Zoning Project will be on the October 13th at 9:30am in Ray School Music Room.

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Benefits of Walkable Neighborhoods (Reuters)

Interesting article on Reuters about the connection of walkable neighborhoods to lower diabetes risk. (Reuters Health) – People living in communities that lend themselves to walking had a significantly lower risk of developing diabetes than those living in the least … Continue reading

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Utility Undergrounding Project on Lebanon Street continues

The Town of Hanover has a new & improved website with the ability to sign up for town updates, Selectboard minutes and agendas and other happenings.  I received the following message today.  Some day soon we hope to have good … Continue reading

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