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By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The School Board unanimously approved a new two-year contract for Claremont teachers that includes a special incentive for newer teachers to remain with districtSAU 6 Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations Richard Seaman and...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

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...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

CLAREMONT — Two state representatives from the Upper Valley are hoping this term to increase New Hampshire’s pay for lawmakers, which ranks as the lowest in the country.Since 1889, New Hampshire has paid its 400 state representatives and 24 state...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — With memberships at the city’s community center down about a third from its peak several years ago, the City Council has turned to a professional consultant for a business plan to bring back members and increase revenues.The council voted,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — Three New Hampshire men were ordered held without bail as they face charges in an alleged attempted robbery and shooting of a fourth man in the parking lot of Walmart in Claremont on Wednesday afternoon, according to officials.The three men...

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 NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital is one of just five hospitals in New Hampshire that are not yet a part of larger health systems, but that may be about to change.Late last month, Claremont’s Valley Regional announced it had signed a letter of...

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CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital and Dartmouth Health have signed a letter of intent to affiliate, the two institutions announced on Wednesday.If the affiliation is approved, Valley Regional would join the ranks of other small Upper Valley...

CLAREMONT — Since Friday, three women have died in separate motor vehicle accidents in or near the Upper Valley.On Friday morning near the Claremont/Cornish town line on the Windsor Road, Kim L. Fontaine, 63, was driving a Chevy Cobalt that collided...

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

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 O’GRADY

It was almost never built and came perilously close to being torn down.Now, after musical and theatrical performances of every kind imaginable, including one featuring an elephant, Claremont Opera House will host a 125th anniversary party with a stage...

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 PATRICK ADRIAN

CLAREMONT — A funeral home director who was facing multiple allegations of illegal operating practices was found dead on Monday by police officers after he failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing. James Roy, 65, longtime operator of Roy Funeral...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Police Chief Mark Chase, who began his policing career as a patrolman in the city in 1990 and has served as chief since January 2017, will exit his post this summer.Chase, 54, recounted some milestones in his life including graduation from...

By ALEX HANSON

Though she remains in contact with friends who have fled Ukraine, Anastasia Rivet can take in only so much information about the war there.One family she knows has split up, with the husband staying to fight and his wife and two daughters enduring a...

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 JIM KENYON

When her best friend — in her late 20s, married with three children — was battling cancer, Johanna Stone searched for a way to help.What did Stone come up with? Yard sales.Stone set about raising a few dollars at a time to ease the financial burdens...