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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...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, N.H. — A 31-year-old Claremont man who police say struck and killed a bicyclist on John Stark Highway has two prior convictions for using a mobile device while driving and tried to prevent police from seeing his mobile phone after the Monday...

By JOHN P. GREGG

NEWPORT, N.H. — A 59-year-old Claremont man this week pleaded guilty to setting fire to the Daddypops Tumble Inn Diner in July.Leo J. Leblanc was sentenced to 3-to-6-years in state prison, though he could see a year shaved from his sentence for the...

By MIKE DONOGHUE

BURLINGTON — A 34-year-old Claremont man known for his child mentoring efforts in the Twin States has been arrested on a felony charge of production of child sexual abuse material, aka child pornography, in Windsor County, according to federal...

Staff Report

A 58-year-old social worker who grew up in Claremont was shot and killed by her husband as she was calling police for help, according to Vermont State Police.Lisa Kelley had called 911 shortly before 7 a.m. Monday from their home on King Road in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — With one redevelopment of a historic downtown building underway, New Hampshire developer Eric Chinburg has now acquired his second landmark Claremont property.Chinburg recently purchased the Moody Building, the four-story Queen Anne-style...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — An 83-unit apartment complex being built in the husk of a historic mill overlooking the Sugar River is in the home stretch after a complicated financing package came together for the $11 million construction project.Newmarket, N.H.-based...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — A new daily bus service aimed at helping employees get to their jobs and patients to their medical appointments has opened between Claremont and Lebanon.Now all it needs is riders.After more than a decade of delays and false starts,...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

CLAREMONT — Witnesses near Main Street saw a man lighting a fire at the front of Daddypops Tumble Inn Diner on Thursday night shortly before the beloved restaurant was damaged by the flames, according to Claremont police.Arson investigators, including...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — A major New York private equity fund has acquired control of Claremont IT consulting firm Red River Technology.Cerberus Capital Management, which oversees a portfolio of companies in aerospace, defense, health care, real estate and retail,...

By TIM CAMERATO

WEST LEBANON — New Hampshire’s school boards are now backing calls to ban firearms from school grounds, a move advocates hope will bolster a new round of legislation pending in Concord. Members of the New Hampshire School Boards Association voted,...

By TIM CAMERATO and DAVID CORRIVEAU

CLAREMONT — Police took a 55-year-old Claremont man into custody on Thursday afternoon after a day-long standoff during which the suspect fired “hundreds” of rounds in a residential area.Michael Burns, of Hanover Street, was taken into custody on...

By TIM CAMERATO

WEST LEBANON — Support is building to extend New Hampshire’s statute of limitations for sexual assault after the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester this week released a list of priests credibly accused of abusing children. Meanwhile, attorneys...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

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,...