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By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council voted 6-2 against pursuing removal of Councilor Andrew O’Hearne following a hearing this week when the public works employees who had accused O’Hearne of interfering with their work didn’t attend.Wednesday’s vote came...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CLAREMONT — Three residents have organized the city’s first Juneteenth celebration.Whitney Skillen, Jonathan Nelson and his mother, Jen Nelson, have planned a bicycle parade and community picnic at Broad Street Park for Monday.“My goal for this year...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

The towns of Hartford and Lebanon are joining together for a multi-day Juneteenth celebration.The first event will take place from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday at Lyman Point Park at 167 Maple St., in White River Junction. The second event, a movie and...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — Two New Hampshire men pleaded guilty to their involvement in the shooting in the parking lot of Walmart in Claremont, where they had traveled last fall in a failed attempt to rob the man of marijuana.Denzil Bruce, of Keene, and Xzavier...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Never forget the positive roles, both big and small, others play in life and put aside fears when new challenges come along were messages from the valedictorian and salutatorian of the Stevens High School graduating Class of 2023.The 153rd...

CLAREMONT — Two people were injured in a motorcycle accident on Main Street in Claremont on Thursday afternoon, according to a news release from the fire department. The city’s fire and police departments, as well as Golden Cross Ambulance, responded...

CLAREMONT — The City of Claremont has received $800,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency to rehabilitate previously developed areas now characterized as polluted, known as “brownfield sites.”The funding will be directed at...

BY RAY COUTURE

CLAREMONT — Over-hunting and loss-of-habitat doomed the Passenger Pigeon to extinction in 1914, but you can still see what one looked like — auburn-chested, beady, red eyes and massive in size compared to today’s pigeons — in a glass display case on...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — On the tee pad at the first hole of the Moody Park Disc Golf course, Bret Sorter took careful aim then flung his disc and watched it slice through the air, curve around a couple of large trees and hit the metal chains above the basket and...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

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...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — Attendees at a recent public hearing on a proposed union between Dartmouth Health and Valley Regional Hospital had a fundamental question: Should an affiliation occur, who would make decisions about the Claremont hospital’s future?“After...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

CLAREMONT — A steering wheel hangs on a wall of the garage used by 37-year-old race car driver Tyler Lescord.The once-circular wheel — one of the few parts salvaged from the wreckage of his serious crash a year ago at Claremont Motorsports Park — is...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Despite membership declining for several years at the 10-year-old community center, the City Council supports raising rates with an eye toward increasing revenue and lowering the center’s annual tax subsidy, which is projected at $570,000...

CLAREMONT — A 64-year-old Charlestown woman has been charged with criminal threatening with a deadly weapon for allegedly using a gun to threaten another woman in the parking lot of Walmart in Claremont on Tuesday.Almeda Sprinkle also has been charged...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — A Claremont attorney and former president of the New Hampshire Bar Association has been suspended from practicing law over mishandling clients’ money.The New Hampshire Supreme Court suspended the law practice of Lisa Wellman-Ally, stating...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council will begin review of City Manager Yoshi Manale’s $18.72 million budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 at its May 10 meeting The operating budget represents a decrease from the current $19.16 million budget but only...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

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,...

CLAREMONT — A Claremont man who has previously been convicted of bank robbery is being held in preventive detention following his arrest on charges of robbing a Claremont gas station and convenience store at knifepoint last month.James Oberfeldt, 39,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

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...

CLAREMONT — The New Hampshire Charitable Trusts Unit is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the proposed affiliation between Dartmouth Health and Valley Regional at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 18 in Claremont.The Lebanon-based health system, the...