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By FRANCES MIZE

LYME — From a regulatory standpoint in Lyme, solar panels are no different from a garden shed. A set of zoning amendments on this year’s Town Meeting warrant will ask voters to consider making a distinction.Three municipal buildings already have solar...

GRANTHAM — The School Board has hired Lisa Walker as the school district’s new superintendent.Walker most recently served as superintendent of the Monadnock Regional School District and will start her role in Grantham “later this spring,” according to...

GRANTHAM — Peter Garland was elected to a three-year Selectboard seat in an uncontested race on Tuesday.Also by ballot Tuesday, voters approved five separate articles amending the town’s zoning ordinance, including one that would allow solar energy...

GRANTHAM — Voters at Grantham’s school meeting on Tuesday night approved a $11.57 million budget as proposed.There were fewer than 100 people present for the unanimous vote, according to Brenda Molloy, executive assistant for Grantham SAU #75.Ballot...

Article of note: One article on the town warrant asks whether voters will adopt the Grantham Community Power plan, an opt-out program that offers more flexible electricity procurement. Another would modify the elderly property tax exemption. There are...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

GRANTHAM — A 28-year-old Grantham man has a long recovery ahead after suffering severe burns in a house fire last week.Zachary Beaulieu remains in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was taken following the Jan. 15 fire and has...

GRANTHAM — The Grantham School Board will host a superintendent candidate forum from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Grantham Village School.Members of the public will have the opportunity to meet and interact with three superintendent candidates;...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

GRANTHAM — Firefighters battled a blaze Monday night that injured two people, one critically, and gutted a home.Grantham Fire Department’s engine arrived at 505 Route 10 South, a mostly-wooded area across from a public park and about two miles from...

By RAY COUTURE

GRANTHAM — Clayton Smith heard the sirens before he saw the parade.Wanting a better view of the convoy of fire engines and police cruisers, Clayton, 6, dressed in shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt emblazoned with the American flag, broke free from his...

GRANTHAM — The Grantham School Board has selected Dean S.T. Cascadden as SAU 75’s interim superintendent.Cascadden takes over from Sydney Leggett, who has led the district since 2017. Leggett will lead the Plainfield and Cornish school districts,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — A former chief medical officer at New London Hospital has pleaded guilty to health care fraud over his role in a scheme to bilk Medicare by prescribing unnecessary medical devices for beneficiaries, with whom in most cases he had not...

Sydney Leggett, who has been serving as interim superintendent of the Plainfield and Cornish school districts, has been named to the permanent role. Leggett is also currently the superintendent of the Grantham school district and will leave that role...

GRANTHAM — In ballot voting on Tuesday, G. Warren Kimball beat Erin Zagadailov for a three-year term on the Grantham Selectboard, 181-137.

GRANTHAM — Community members will have an opportunity to meet with two Grantham School District superintendent finalists at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 15, at Grantham Village School.The finalists to lead SAU 75 are Steven Nilhas and Lisa Scolaro,...

Article of note: One article asks whether voters will support contracting with the Lebanon Fire Department for a part-time community nurse at a cost of $45,000.Contested races: There are two people running for a three-year term on the Selectboard:...

GRANTHAM — Voters approved the $10.79 million operating budget for the Grantham School District during Tuesday night.The town is scheduled to hold its Town Meeting on March 14 at 5:30 p.m. at the Grantham Town Hall, lower level, 300 Route 10 South.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — In her Claremont home, Sophia Sushailo carefully unfolds an embroidered linen runner, rushnyk in Ukrainian, that was stitched by her great-grandmother nearly 80 years ago.The embroidery is of traditional dark colors but upon closer...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

GRANTHAM — Those who are facing food insecurity in Grantham no longer have to travel to other towns for nonperishable goods.Last month, the Grantham Food Pantry opened at the Grantham United Methodist Church, at 418 Route 10. It is open from 9 to 11...

By NICOLA SMITH

Jane Carlton Verdrager was 3 years old when her father vanished.Douglas Carlton was a butcher and meat salesman who worked for the City Packing Co., in Wayne, Mich., 30 miles west of Detroit. On the day he disappeared, he’d been doing his regular...

By JARED PENDAK

CROYDON — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department last week finalized the purchase of nearly 3,200 acres on two parcels to be known as the William B. Ruger Wildlife Management Area.Spanning parts of Grantham, Croydon and Newport, the land will be...

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North Haverhill — A 43-year-old Grantham man is facing several additional charges that allege he broke into a woman’s Upper Valley home in May and raped her.Michael Chamberlain recently was indicted by a Grafton County grand jury on two counts of...