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On her routine walk in the woods near her Cornish home, Luella Demars counts her laps around a ring of pines with sticks on last week. After finishing her house work most mornings, Demars likes to get out of the house for a change of scene

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

CORNISH — At Saturday’s annual Town Meeting, residents rejected an effort to rescind a two-year-old decision to convert the former Cornish General Store into a new library.

CORNISH — At the polls on Tuesday, Keith Beardslee won a three-year term on the Selectboard, beating out Michael Belanger, 312-254.

CORNISH — Voters on Saturday passed all articles on the warrant at the annual school meeting.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

PLAINFIELD — Voters will be asked to approve a $500,000 bond to help fund the renovation of the middle school wing at Plainfield Elementary School during the annual School Meeting.

Articles of note: Voters will be asked to weigh in on three zoning amendments: One would allow home-based child care centers in all zoning districts; another would allow a child care agency to operate as a principal use by special exception; and the third would bring the town’s off-street parking requirements for residential developments into compliance with state law, which prevents towns from requiring more than 1.5 off-street parking spaces for studio and one-bedroom units under 1,000-square-feet that are deemed to be workforce housing. Another article asks whether voters would like to adopt the Cornish Community Power plan. A petitioned article asks voters whether they would like to rescind a 2023 vote to accept the former Cornish general store as a new library. Another petitioned article seeks to alter the Cornish Conservation Commission bylaws by removing wording “which only serves to promote an elitist clique among the membership.”

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — Plans to convert the former Cornish General Store into a new library remains contentious two years after residents narrowly approved a Town Meeting petitioned article to accept the store’s donation.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH FLAT — The Cornish Community Initiative has earned a $727,000 federal grant to convert the former Cornish store into a community center and library.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — Students and employees at Cornish Elementary School were allowed to resume drinking the school’s well water this month, bringing an end to a nearly four-year period of bottled water deliveries.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

PLAINFIELD — After hearing a plan to combine the two towns’ middle schools at a joint meeting this week, the Plainfield and Cornish school boards voted unanimously to continue to move forward with considering a merger and to reconvene in a month. They...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

PLAINFIELD — A study committee created with Cornish and Plainfield voters’ approval last March will present its recommendations about combining the two towns’ middle schools at a joint school board meeting Tuesday night.The committee has been studying...

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...

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...