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By LIZ SAUCHELLI
CORNISH — Almost 300 households in Plainfield and Cornish that have not had access to high-speed fiber internet may soon have it due to a recently awarded federal grant of nearly $3 million.The expansion will include households that qualify as...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CORNISH — The Stowell Library trustees’ use of a portion of a $30,000 donation for plans for a new library in the former Cornish General Store was within the trustees’ rights, the Charitable Trusts Unit of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office...
Cindy Frazee, of Fairlee, picks corn at her family farm in Fairlee on Thursday. Farmer Hodge’s Roadside Stand has been selling sweet corn for over 70 years. Frazee is the fourth generation to work the dairy and produce farm. It has been a good year...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CORNISH — The family of a donor to the Stowell Library alleges the money was misused by a committee seeking to renovate the former Cornish General Store into a new library for the town.Brian Meyette is asking the Cornish Library Trustees to return...
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
CORNISH — Ruth Ferland carefully poured a jug of maple syrup into tiny containers lined up on a lunch tray in a red booth at the Cornish Fairgrounds.After the row was finished, she placed a lid on each one and put the tray aside. Next, she began...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
CORNISH — On a Friday afternoon in late July, a procession of about 40 fire trucks wended its way through Cornish, Meriden and Plainfield on a route that passed an unassuming machine shop nestled between a two-story residence and the Cornish Flat fire...
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
CORNISH — Upper Valley lawmakers and police officers hope two new laws will help protect New Hampshire’s covered bridges from oversized vehicles.HB 1457-FN will increase the fines for motorists who damage covered bridges to $1,000 for a first offense;...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CORNISH — The historic Stowell Library, which many residents hope to see remain in use as a library, could be getting a well and septic system.In a brief 15-minute meeting Monday, Selectboard members Jason Bourne and Dillon Gallagher announced the...
By JOHN LIPPMAN
NEWPORT — A 52-year-old Cornish woman has pleaded guilty to involvement with a Medicaid fraud scheme and will spend three weeks behind bars for providing false information to a grand jury weighing charges in the case.Kimberly Patterson, of Beechwood...
CORNISH — To protect plants, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park has closed a floodplain forest that sits between the Connecticut River and Route 12A during the months of April and May.Plants such as ramps and fiddleheads typically emerge in the...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CORNISH — A year after voters narrowly approved a petitioned article to accept the former general store on Route 120 as a donation for use as the town’s library and community center, the issue continues to divide the community.In this year’s Town...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
In 1998, voters of Orford, Fairlee, Vershire and West Fairlee approved a plan to form Rivendell, an interstate school district, with the intent to pool their resources to provide an equitable and sustainable education system for their communities.The...
CORNISH — Voters approved all articles during Saturday’s floor meeting.Among the items they approved was a proposed highway budget of $817,000 and a proposed general fund of $675,000.
CORNISH — Voters elected Dillon Gallagher to a three-year term on the Selectboard.With 310 votes, Gallagher beat out Dianne Titus, who ran a write-in campaign and earned 149 votes.In a close race for library trustee, Laura Cousineau won by four votes...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
CORNISH — Voters passed all articles by voice vote, including an amended budget of $5.4 million and plans to explore greater cooperation with Plainfield, at the nearly three-hour floor meeting at the elementary school on Saturday.During ballot voting,...
Article of note: One article on the school warrant asks voters whether they support creating a committee to collaborate with the Plainfield School District to study the feasibility of a cooperative district. Another asks whether voters will support...
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
CORNISH — The National Park Service is looking to train volunteers at the Upper Valley’s two national parks to identify an invasive insect that poses a risk to hemlock trees.Staff will lead workshops about the small aphid-like insect at 9 a.m. Friday,...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
Cornish and Plainfield voters will decide on Town Meeting Day whether their school boards should consider forming a cooperative school district and merging their middle schools.The two districts have collaborated in recent years in an effort to...
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