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NEWPORT — Interim Town Manager and Finance Director Paul Brown presented a proposed operating budget of $9.37 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1 to the Selectboard Monday night.The budget represents a $655,000, or 7.6%, increase from the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Selectboard has unanimously approved the hiring of Kyle Harris, borough administrator in Garwood, N.J., as Newport’s next town manager.The board ratified a contract with Harris at its meeting Monday night and announced that Harris will...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

LEBANON — His title may be preceded by interim but with the pressing challenges of increasing demand for mental health services and the struggle to hire new staff, Alexander J. “AJ” Horvath is being proactive as he guides West Central Behavioral...

NEWPORT — Residents will have the opportunity to amend the School District’s proposed $22 million budget at Saturday’s deliberative session beginning at 9 a.m. at the Newport Middle High School.The budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1...

NEWPORT — A member of the Newport School Board has stepped down after he was criminally charged on Jan. 26 with sexually exploiting a minor more than six years ago at a campground in Windsor.Tim Beard resigned from the Newport School Board on Tuesday,...

NEWPORT — The overdose death of a Newport resident has led to charges against one woman and an arrest warrant for another.First responders found 33-year-old Maryanne Baldauff dead in an apartment building at 62 Sunapee St. on Tuesday, according to a...

By FRANCES MIZE and PATRICK ADRIAN

ORFORD — Whether or not New Hampshire voters fully support Nikki Haley for president, many of those who threw their weight behind her in Tuesday’s primaries saw their ballots as defensive — an effort to keep former President Donald Trump’s name off...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The SAU 43 administration and Newport School Board will hold a public hearing Thursday on a proposed $22.12 million budget, which represents an increase of nearly 1.8%, or $403,000, from the current fiscal year.The board last week approved...

NEWPORT — A 50-year-old Newport woman has been sentenced to two years in the Sullivan County House of Corrections for her part in disposing the body of a 40-year-old man who is suspected to have died from a drug overdose at her home on Paradise Road...

By TRIS WYKES

NEWPORT — Robert Clark was antsy Tuesday night. The Newport High boys basketball coach is also the town’s elementary school principal and was compelled to attend a School Board meeting on an upper floor of the Towle School building while his team...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — With construction underway on a new community center, the Selectboard held a required public hearing this week on a $4.8 million federal grant that will pay for more than half of the center’s cost.Demolition of the ambulance garage and...

STAFF REPORT

It appears nothing this winter is getting in the way of the Stevens High girls basketball team, which bumped its early season record up to 4-0 with a 46-26 win over archrival Newport on Monday night at Carr Gymnasium in Claremont.The Cardinals added...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEWPORT — Police have arrested four men in connection with vandalism in Newport and neighboring communities this fall. Newport residents Brandon Teeter, 24; Devin Croteau, 22; and Zachery Fuller, 30; along with Claremont resident Samuel Bathrick, 27,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The town has reached an agreement with two developers who had filed a court appeal of the water and sewer connection fees the town was charging for two workforce housing projects.Interim Town Manager Paul Brown told the Selectboard Monday...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVERCoach: Dan O’Rourke (23)League: NHIAA Division IILast year: 15-5Returners: Seniors — Sydney McLaughlin (G), Elena Mierke (G), Nina Marshall (F), Bella Hunt (G), Erin Kirkpatrick (F); Juniors — Sophia Costa (G), Dylan Simpkins (G); Sophomore:...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVERCoach: Ben Davis (2)League: NHIAA Division IILast year: 5-13Returners: Seniors — Christian Blix (F), Freddie Mierke (F); Juniors — Dave Frechette (G), Beckett Sobel (G); Sophomores — Ryan McLaughlin (G), Roy Lucas (G), Jaysen Oriol (F), Allie...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

HANOVERCoaches: Steve McConnell (8 years), Rileigh Goulette (1 year)Last year: Boys were third at the Division II state meet.League: NHIAA Division IIReturnees: Boys, seniors: Aidan Bradley, James Chafouleas, Justin Dickson, Lucian Gleiser, Joaquin...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

LEBANONCoach: Chauncey Wood (6).Last year: Sixth out of 18 teams at the state meet.League: NHIAA Division IIIReturnees: Seniors — Zach Thornton, Ben Nelson, Jon Eylander, Abigail Stone; Juniors — Aero Buzby, Garret Rose, Nick Wolstenholm, Chris Kinne;...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Toward the conclusion of her remarks at the Newport Recreation Center on Wednesday, GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley brought up former President Donald Trump, who polls indicate has a significant lead in New Hampshire as the January...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A trio of residential fires in Grafton and Sullivan counties kept firefighters busy over the weekend, with numerous departments providing mutual aid during multi-alarm calls within hours of each other.The first was a two-alarm fire at a...