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Tuesday, 11/9/2010


NEWS:
Stone Arch Baker, 29, Dies in Storm-Related Accident on Route 120

Cornish -- Justin Towle started baking when he was 12 years old, after his mom opened Stone Arch Bakery out of their Claremont home. He would sit across a table from her and whip up batches of his specialties, peanut butter cookies and carrot cake; he baked, she frosted. See full story

NEWS:
Conn. Killer Gets Death In Grisly Case

New Haven, Conn. -- A man was condemned to death yesterday for a night of terror inside a suburban home where a woman was strangled and her two daughters were tied to their beds and left to die in a gasoline-fueled fire. See full story

SPORTS:
Focus at High Speed

In a sport sometimes jokingly referred to as “checkers or wreckers,” North Haverhill's Mike Olsen finds little time to joke around. See full story

CLOSE-UP:
Windsor Starts to See Progress

This fall, the Vermont Department of Education released the results of 64 state high schools' performance on the science portion of the 2010 New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP). The test, given annually in May, measures students' proficiency in basic science. See full story

EDITORIAL:
Now Is the Time to Start Thinking Big

The conventional wisdom is that last week's Republican rout will mean President Barack Obama has to stop thinking big and begin compromising where he can. That's only half right. To get anything done over the next two years, Obama will have to compromise with the GOP. But that doesn't mean the time for thinking big is over. It means it’s finally beginning. See full story

OTHER HEADLINES
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NEWS: Hanover Inn to Start Makeover in Spring

Hanover -- A $13 million renovation of the Hanover Inn, which will add 16 guest rooms, consolidate conference space at street level and relocate a restaurant to the most visible part of the building, is set to begin this spring.

NEWS: Squalls Blast Through Upper Valley

Lebanon -- Many Upper Valley residents woke to the sound of sleet rattling their windows yesterday morning. The powerful winds and rains that passed over New England affected the region to varying degrees.

NEWS: Obama: Put India On U.N. Council

New Delhi -- President Obama ended his three-day trip to India yesterday with a call for raising the world's biggest democracy to global power status by granting it a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

NEWS: Unemployed Slip Down Social Ladder

Hackensack, N.J. -- For months after she lost her job as a customer-service representative at a Wayne paper tube manufacturer, Kathy Canova was convinced she would soon find another.

 

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