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CLAREMONT — A proposed Claremont School District budget of $35.86 million budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 represents an increase of more than $1.1 million, or 3.1%, from the current year.Most of the increase is for the first year of a...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — The town Zoning Board of Adjustment is seeking guidance from the town’s attorney after outcry from a group of residents raised questions about the authority to rescind certain building permits.The residents are hoping to nix two building...

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CLAREMONT — The City Council did not vote Wednesday on whether to remove Councilor Jim Contois for alleged misconduct but instead voted, 7-2, to hold a hearing at a later date, as was its original intent.The council also defeated a motion by Councilor...

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CLAREMONT — Another solar array is being proposed for the River Road area, the third such project since 2019.On Jan. 16, the Zoning Board of Adjustment will consider a variance request for a 1 megawatt array covering about 4.6 acres on a 12-acre...

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NEWPORT — A tax relief program aimed at spurring redevelopment of qualifying structures has been approved for the developers who plan to convert the former Ruger Mill on Sunapee Street into 70 housing units.The Selectboard’s unanimous vote Monday...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...