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CLAREMONT — The school district is working to have as many families as possible complete the application for free and reduced-price meals because each student who qualifies can mean more in state financial aid to the district.SAU 6 Business...

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CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital is waiting for a decision on a proposed affiliation with Dartmouth Health before beginning construction on a planned 23,800-square-foot medical office building.The Claremont hospital also will embark on a capital...

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CLAREMONT — The City Council wants some details ironed out before deciding whether to approve operating agreements for use of the city-owned Arrowhead property.On Wednesday, the council delayed action on proposed deals between the city and two...

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NEWPORT — The town is facing a second legal challenge to its water and sewer connection fees, which developers say are opaque and onerous.One real estate executive is pointing the finger directly at Newport’s municipal government, led by Town Manager...

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CLAREMONT — The City Council unanimously approved a $19.5 million budget for the fiscal year beginning Saturday after adding $250,000 to the line item for paving.The additional paving money came after the council rejected a proposed 10-year bond for...

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NEWPORT — The Newport Class of 2023 waited out a day of rain for graduation and was rewarded with sunny skies to celebrate their achievement before family and friends on the high school football field on Thursday evening.The ceremony’s speakers...

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CLAREMONT — A month after the City Council reversed course and reinstated a city councilor who was removed from office for alleged city charter violations, another councilor will face of removal hearing over alleged interference with municipal...

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CLAREMONT — The City Council is poised to approve increases in membership fees and other rates for the community center, with the expectation that the additional revenue will make a dent in the city-owned center’s annual operating deficit.The council,...

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CLAREMONT — The City Council has reinstated a member who was expelled earlier this year after being accused of misleading fellow councilors.The attorney for James Contois, who was removed from office in February and reinstated on Wednesday, said in a...

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HANOVERCoaches: Steve McConnell (10th season), Dorcas Den Hartog (third season), Meg McGuire (15th season), Patrick Kelly (sixth season).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: Girls were ninth and boys sixth at the Division II state meet.Girls’...

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PLAINFIELD — When Plainfield voters at Town Meeting approved a proposal to establish a police department in 1975, resident Steve Taylor, who supported the idea, remembers the words of the first chief, Terry Kelley.“He said, ‘Being police chief in...

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NEWPORT — At the annual Town Meeting on May 9, voters will be asked to approve two bonds for the town’s water and sewer systems for projects to address a couple of long-standing problems.A $10 million bond authorization is part of an estimated $29...

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CORNISH — In a Town Meeting that drew a standing-room-only crowd at the Cornish Elementary School gymnasium on Saturday, voters narrowly approved a petitioned article that clears the way for renovating the town’s former general store and making it the...

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WINDSOR — Both candidates in the lone contested Selectboard race want more funding for amenities such as recreation and the arts, but only one of the candidates has been forced to fend off allegations of having participated in the Jan. 6, 2021,...

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NEWPORT — Decades-old restrictions on how the location of a former hockey rink can be used by the school district won’t stand in the way of building a new agricultural center for students. But officials do have to identify another parcel in town for a...

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 While track and field competitors participated in cross country and outdoor events during COVID, the indoor track season was cancelled in New Hampshire and was limited in Vermont the last two years. With the pandemic in check, area teams are gearing...

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HANOVERCoaches: Head swimming Trent Staats (first season as head coach, second on staff); assistant swimming Linda Bedford (eighth season); assistant swimming Sean Utierwyk (fifth season); head diving Carl Renshaw (fifth season).League: NHIAA Division...

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CHARLESTOWN — A town board has rejected an appeal of a building permit issued to a landowner who has plans for a 10,000-square-foot home on Perry Mountain accessed by a Class VI road.The Zoning Board of Adjustment, acting in its capacity as the...

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CLAREMONT — The city’s Zoning Board of Adjustment is seeking expert testimony on the potential impact of a substance misuse recovery home before it decides on whether to approve a variance.The board continued its review of the application for a...

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NEWPORT — When Ella Casey arrived in Newport in the mid-1960s, she hit the ground running and rarely stopped for the next 50-plus years, involving herself in more town and community endeavors than anyone can recallCasey, who died at age 92 on October...