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By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The New Hampshire Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing on a draft of its 10-year transportation plan at the Claremont Community Center on Monday beginning at 6:30 p.m.The draft plan for 2025-2034 lists a number of...

CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital is hosting a drive-up flu vaccination clinic on Saturday.The clinic, slated to run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., is for people ages 18 and older. It will take 20 minutes or less to participate. It is scheduled to take...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — The 29-year-old man who died in a motorcycle crash in Charlestown on Tuesday night spent his own life saving people in vehicle collisions and other life-threatening situations, colleagues and friends recalled this week.Ian Pierce, a...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The City Council on Wednesday will consider a change in the ordinance governing the use of special assessments to pay for a portion of infrastructure repairs. If approved, the change would give the city manager more control over when and...

CLAREMONT — This week’s heat has inspired several cancellations and closures across the Upper Valley.Stevens High School sent students home at 11 a.m. on Thursday due to heat, with temperatures rising into the 90s in the afternoon. A meeting the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

CLAREMONT — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley touted her ability to speak “hard truths” during a town hall event on Tuesday at the Claremont Senior Center. In a 45-minute speech, the former South Carolina governor and former U.S....

CLAREMONT — The Zoning Board of Adjustment has approved a special exception for a proposed Abenaki cultural and educational center on Elm Street.The Ko’asek of Turtle Island, based in Alstead, N.H., now must obtain site plan approval from the Planning...

NORWICH — The Family Place has selected Stephanie Slayton as its new executive director.Slayton, who currently serves as executive director of TLC Family Resource Center in Claremont, will begin her new role Oct. 2, according to a news release from...

CLAREMONT — The Claremont School Board is holding an informational meeting about draft public school standards on Thursday.The meeting is scheduled to take place at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium at Stevens High School, 175 Broad Street.The 306 Minimum...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CLAREMONT — Two hundred years ago, Virgil Barber decided to build a church down the street from where his father had been a pastor.This wouldn’t be unusual, except that Virgil Barber built a Catholic church and the one his father, Daniel Barber,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — On Tuesday, the Zoning Board of Adjustment will hear a request for a special exception to establish an Abenaki cultural center on about 11 acres on Elm Street.The center, proposed by the Ko’asek of Turtle Island, based in Alstead, N.H.,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Three different development and revitalization projects in the city have been awarded more than $1 million in combined grants from the Northern Borders Regional Commission’s Catalyst Program.Melissa Richmond, founder and executive director...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — At Stevens High School, the administration is instituting a complete ban on cell phones during the school day for the upcoming academic year.In Newport, cell phones will be banned during the school day at the middle school and the policy...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — With the city’s approval of two separate operating agreements, one with the Arrowhead Recreation Club and one with The Wheel House bike shop, the shop’s owners said they are eager to start work in the lodge to prepare for their move.The...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — To adapt to a teacher shortage this year, Bluff Elementary School will have two multi-grade classes and larger class sizes than usual.The Claremont school has been unable to fill third- and fifth-grade teacher positions since it began...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — It’s good to be back. That’s the feeling among members of Twin State Derby, the Upper Valley’s roller derby league, which is nearing the end of its first season back since the COVID-19 pandemic.“We have tons of new rookies who are training...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — For a second time, the City Council has postponed a vote on two separate operating agreements between the city and Arrowhead Recreation Club and the city and The Wheel House bike shop for the use of the Arrowhead lodge and property on...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CLAREMONT — When it came time to build a new church in the 1940s, members of Claremont’s Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church and Rectory looked to Berlin, N.H., for inspiration.They borrowed the plans from that city’s Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — A storage warehouse sustained significant damage in a fire that broke out west of downtown just after 6 p.m. Saturday and drew a response from more than 20 area fire departments. When the first crews arrived, the building was heavily...