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BY LAURA KOES

LEBANON — The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend renewing Cape Air’s Essential Air Service contract at Lebanon Municipal Airport.After hearing public testimony and reviewing information on competing proposals from Cape Air, the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — The Lebanon Planning Board will consider a proposal to create a 196-unit apartment complex at the former Kleen laundry facility and dry cleaner business on Mechanic Street, which project developers say will help address the region’s housing...

By LAURA KOES

LEBANON — The City Council is slated to decide next week which air carrier will hold the Essential Air Service contract through the U.S. Department of Transportation at the city’s airport starting on Dec. 1.Cape Air has held the contract since 2008...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — About once a week since May, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department has assisted area emergency responders using drones for search and rescue operations and other circumstances.The department purchased the drones last December and put them...

By RAY COUTURE

NORWICH — For the past decade, Jay Rimmel could count on his roughly once-a-month trip to Diane’s Casual Cuts to double as both a much-needed trim and a therapeutic session.That’s because Rimmel’s stylist, Laura Fraser, would blast 1970s jams from the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The recently completed revaluation of town property resulted in an astonishing increase of 81% in the total value of residential property and 41% in commercial/industrial property, which includes apartment complexes and multi-family...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — To paraphrase an overused line from a popular movie: They built it; now will they come?As construction crews put the finishing touches on the nearly $5 million project to rebuild the city center portion of Pleasant Street, businesses that...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT, N.H. — Two planned housing projects took small steps forward on the financing side at the Newport Selectboard’s meeting Monday night.The board first approved a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant application for Occom Properties, of...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — After hearing residents speak for and against privatizing the city’s transfer station, the City Council voted, 5-4, on Wednesday to authorize interim City Manager John Bohenko to begin negotiations with DeCamp Waste Services to operate the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — Lebanon High School’s graduating seniors stressed the importance of community and building relationships in their parting words to classmates at the school’s commencement ceremony for the Class of 2022 on Thursday.Over 1,000 people gathered...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NEWPORT — The list of resignations of Newport school officials continues to grow, as residents and educators try to restore civility and cooperation to the relationship between school officials and outspoken School Board member Bert Spaulding.On...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Time and light.Those were the themes expressed by Stevens High School 2022 Salutatorian Olivia Churchill and Valedictorian Sarah Wood during Thursday’s commencement ceremony in the school gymnasium.The graduation, Stevens’ 150th, was a...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Disenchanted with the direction of the Republican Party under Donald Trump and appalled by the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, former Claremont Mayor Charlene Lovett has switched her party affiliation and is seeking the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

CLAREMONT — Driver Tyler Lescord appears to be recovering well from injuries he sustained three weeks ago in a crash during a race at Claremont Motorsports Park, according to Lescord’s family and friends.On April 29, Lescord, 36, was driving in the...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — Gab Smith understands both sides of the conversation surrounding legacy students and Black students at the nation’s elite colleges and universities.A senior at Dartmouth College, Smith is a Black legacy student. Her mother, Tracey...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Some kidney dialysis patients in the Claremont area face a one-hour round trip a few times a week on top of their hourslong treatment at the closest clinic in Lebanon. That commute could change soon after the approval of a new clinic that...

By MIKE DONOGHUE

BURLINGTON — A 34-year-old Claremont man known for his child mentoring efforts in the Twin States has been arrested on a felony charge of production of child sexual abuse material, aka child pornography, in Windsor County, according to federal...

By ADAM BOFFEY

MERIDEN — Cory McClure is off to a good start at Kimball Union Academy.The new boys basketball coach has the Wildcats sitting at 15-3 with 10 games left in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class AA regular season. KUA extended its...

By MATT GOLEC

HANOVER — In 1776, the year the United States declared its independence, the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock wrote a letter to discuss purchasing two items: a wheel of cheese and a human being.“I understand the money must be paid down for the cheese,” wrote the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Jeff Sessions, the CEO of Claremont-based Red River computer company, was killed along with his wife in a boating accident in Maryland early Wednesday morning.According to the Capital Gazette newspaper, Sessions, 53, and Elizabeth Howle,...