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NEWPORT — The Richards Free Library in Newport is scheduled to host “The Opioid Epidemic: Where Do I fit In?” in its ballroom later this month.The free event will offer information about harm reduction, opioid overdose, how to use naloxone, also known...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — When Ella Casey arrived in Newport in the mid-1960s, she hit the ground running and rarely stopped for the next 50-plus years, involving herself in more town and community endeavors than anyone can recallCasey, who died at age 92 on October...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — A tax relief program aimed at spurring redevelopment of qualifying structures has been approved for the developers who plan to convert the former Ruger Mill on Sunapee Street into 70 housing units.The Selectboard’s unanimous vote Monday...

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 PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The recently completed revaluation of town property resulted in an astonishing increase of 81% in the total value of residential property and 41% in commercial/industrial property, which includes apartment complexes and multi-family...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT, N.H. — Two planned housing projects took small steps forward on the financing side at the Newport Selectboard’s meeting Monday night.The board first approved a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant application for Occom Properties, of...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NEWPORT — The list of resignations of Newport school officials continues to grow, as residents and educators try to restore civility and cooperation to the relationship between school officials and outspoken School Board member Bert Spaulding.On...

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 LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, N.H. — Bill Rodeschin was born at the Rodeschin family home which was located across Sunapee Street from where LaValley Building Supply is now, in 1926.His brother, Henry Rodeschin, was born in the same house in Newport six years later, in...

By JOHN LIPPMANand JOHN GREGG

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Lyme man was arraigned and pleaded not guilty on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing his cousin inside her home in Orford over the weekend.Lance Goodrich, of Pushee Falls Lane in Lyme, is being held without bail at Grafton...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — Family and coworkers are grieving the death of the assistant manager at Salt hill Pub, whose body was discovered early Saturday morning on the floor of the Newport restaurant.Jillian Dearden, 36, a Lempster, N.H., mother of four who had...

By CLAIRE POTTER

NEWPORT, N.H. — Cindy Stone has held an annual reunion for her close friends at Northstar Campground for the last 22 years. Their children grew up with the tradition, and now they bring their children. By Thursday, about 15 families had set up their...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The North Newport estate of former gunmaker William B. Ruger Jr. sold for just under $613,000 last month, according to property records, far below the $2.5 million list price for the restored home prior to the auction.One of the owners of...

By JARED PENDAK

CROYDON — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department last week finalized the purchase of nearly 3,200 acres on two parcels to be known as the William B. Ruger Wildlife Management Area.Spanning parts of Grantham, Croydon and Newport, the land will be...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Newport — A Sullivan County jury on Wednesday found a 23-year-old Sharon woman not guilty of causing a head-on crash in September 2017 on Route 10 in Croydon that resulted in the deaths of two Newport residents.Kristin Lake had no visible reaction...

By John Lippman

Newport — Roy Malool stands next to a tank the size of a grain silo inside his manufacturing plant in Newport.The blade inside the 40-drum-capacity tank, dubbed “The Monster,” is turned by a 60-horsepower motor that mixes batches of industrial...

By Tim Camerato

Newport — William Ruger Jr., who worked for more than four decades for Sturm, Ruger & Co., the firearms manufacturing company his father co-founded, and who became a major benefactor in Sullivan County, died on Saturday at his home in Newport after a...

By John Lippman

Guild — Terry Dorr’s family has been in the wool business for three generations, beginning when his grandfather took over a troubled woolen mill near Newport that became Dorr Woolen Co.At its peak in the 1960s, the mill employed 400 people. At one...

By David Corriveau

After about a decade of working for other people in the hospitality industry, brothers Josh and Joe Tuohy started an on-and-off, transcontinental phone conversation in 2001 about returning to their roots as hosts of their own family pub.Finally one...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Newport — A 25-year-old Unity man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two charges stemming from a September 2015 incident in which he struck two pedestrians with his vehicle, killing one of them and seriously injuring the other.Aaron Moeller accepted a plea...