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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...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The Arrowhead Recreation Club board has scheduled a public meeting for Tuesday to formulate a response to a letter from the city advising the club that the current lease, which expires in two years, will not be renewed in its present...

 CLAREMONT — Two Upper Valley elementary schools have been awarded grants from the Children’s Literacy Foundation, known as CLiF.Maple Avenue School in Claremont and Union Street School in Springfield, Vt., are part of a group of 10 schools in the...

CLAREMONT — The Water Street office of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services will remain closed through April 28, according to a news release.The office, located at 17 Water Street, Suite 301, first closed in early February due to...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Reconfiguration of grades at the middle school and high school has been put on hold until at least the 2024-25 school year, Superintendent Mike Tempesta said.At last week’s School Board meeting, Tempesta said while administrators are...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Parks and Recreation Director Nick Lawrence said the decision by the Arrowhead Recreation Club to start over on a possible operating agreement between the club and city is a logical step in the process that he believes ultimately will be...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CLAREMONT — Johnathan Stuart and Joe Paduda walked up the trail at Moody Park, intent on reaching the summit, last month.The two have known each other since last fall, when they were paired through Windsor County Mentors. Nearly every week, they spend...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — There does not seem to be enough room at the city-owned Arrowhead lodge to accommodate the needs of the Arrowhead Recreation Club and The Wheelhouse, a local bike shop that is looking to lease part of the lodge to serve the recent increase...