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Co-op, Residents Discuss Mascoma

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Enfield — By the end of yesterday’s meeting with representatives from the Co-op Food Stores, organizer Dorothy Heinrichs had the names of more than 100 residents who supported her cause. She’ll need them all and more for her goal of opening a Co-op store in the Mascoma Valley to become a reality. Although Co-op Food Stores Finance Director Tony Alongi said they will re-evaluate the Mascoma Valley market numbers, he …

Haverhill Gets Fire Safety List

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Haverhill — The state fire marshal has given the Haverhill Cooperative School District a to-do list of requirements following the rejection of a warrant article by voters in March that would have paid for necessary fire safety improvements at the high school. The $330,000 warrant article failed by just two votes. If it had passed, the money would have completed the final phase …

Mascoma Officals Wait For N.H. Fire Marshal

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Canaan — Administrators at Mascoma Valley Regional High School are still waiting to hear from the state Fire Marshal’s Office after a renovation plan that would have added a sprinkler system failed in March. In March, a $21.8 million proposal to renovate the 50-year-old high school failed. It was the third renovation bond to fail since 2008. The high school received a letter …

Appetites Grow in Mascoma Valley; Residents in Enfield, Other Towns Signal Interest in Co-op Market

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Enfield — Could the Co-op Food Stores open a location in the Mascoma Valley? A group of area residents are curious enough in the idea that they signaled their intention to attend an informational meeting at the Enfield …

School Notes: Mascoma Valley Schools Will Showcase Student Work in May

Friday, May 17, 2013

When schools assemble public displays of student work, they tend to focus on the accomplishments of a select group of young artists, scientists and performers. The Student Showcase that will be held at Mascoma Valley Regional High School …

Life in Canaan and a Canine’s Life

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Sandra Pierce coos to her daughter’s dog, Angel, on her way inside after hanging out on the porch with her husband, Freeman Pierce, at their home in Canaan, N.H. on Monday, April 15, 2013. The Pierces have lived …

Their First Speed Machine

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Chappy Kilgore, of Canaan, helps his employee and friend Brandy Baron, of Canaan, assemble an electric Jeep while her daughters, Krystin Baron, 3, and Joslynn Baron, 4, watch at the Canaan Speedway earlier this week. Assembly took longer …

Police Cleared In Shooting Grafton Man

Thursday, April 18, 2013

New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney yesterday ruled that police officers in Walpole, N.H., were justified in fatally shooting a Grafton man after he committed an armed robbery, initiated a high-speed chase and brandished a weapon that turned …

‘I Looked Back and Saw Two Plumes of Smoke’

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Boston — Twenty minutes before the deadly explosions near the finish of the Boston Marathon, Jim Burnett, of Canaan, was trotting down the Boylston Street homestretch in bright sunshine and a cool breeze, and basking in the glow …

Upper Valley Reacts to Marathon Explosions: ‘Too Close' to Home  

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A world that has grown increasingly dangerous and frightening came close to home yesterday, as hundreds of Upper Valley residents worried about friends and loved ones running or attending the Boston Marathon, including some who wound up near …

Charles Leroy Elliott

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Hernando, Fla. — New England Racing Hall-of-Famer Charles LeRoy Elliott had a creative 75 year career. He built three new speedways with his own hands and refurbished three more. Some of the greatest drivers in auto racing history thrilled hundreds of thousands of fans on those race tracks, …

Young Writers Share A Life Lesson

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Each week, Young Writers Project receives several hundred submissions from students in Vermont and New Hampshire in response to writing prompts and selects the best for publication here and in 21 other newspapers and on vpr.net. This week, …

New Hampshire Investigating Grafton Voting

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Grafton — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is investigating a complaint of potential voter fraud during Town Meeting in Grafton, an attorney with the office confirmed yesterday. Assistant Attorney General Stephen LaBonte declined to go into specifics, but said a complaint of voter fraud led him to …