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ENFIELD — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Alice Kennedy and Katherine “Kate” Plumley Stewart won three-year terms on the Selectboard, beating out Michael Diehn, who also ran.Kennedy earned 265 votes, Plumley Stewart, 263, and Diehn, 223.Town Meeting will...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — A group of residents has proposed four Town Meeting warrant articles they say will help rein in town spending and put more control in the hands of taxpayers.Three of the articles give voters more control over the use of capital funds and...

Article of note: One article asks whether voters support a short-term rental ordinance intended to regulate the use of such rentals in town and to provide oversight. Another article asks whether voters will allow the Selectboard to appoint a town...

Contested races: There are no contested races.Budgets and spending articles: The proposed operating budget is $32.06 million. That’s up from the proposed budget of $30.5 million of last year.When, where and how to vote: Ballot voting is scheduled to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — At town meetings next month, residents in three Upper Valley towns will consider dropping traditional floor meetings in favor of all-day ballot voting.For the second time in two years, Enfield voters will consider moving away from...

ENFIELD — Residents will have an opportunity to discuss a proposed switch from traditional Town Meeting to SB 2 style of voting during a public hearing 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Public Works Facility.The petitioned warrant article, which was proposed by...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Voters will have a chance to weigh in on the Mascoma Valley Regional School District’s proposed $32 million operating budget during a deliberative session this Saturday.The proposed 2024-2025 budget is around 3.2% higher than the current...

By RAY COUTURE

ENFIELD — Dark clouds and a thick haze of rain did not stop the children attending the Enfield Fire Department’s Activity Day on Satur day at Huse Park from wanting yet another go with the fire extinguisher.For many of the kids who stopped by with...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Two new businesses will soon be opening on Route 4 in Enfield.Sean and Kirby Bonnell are opening Energizing Edge — an energizing tea and shake shop — and Athletic Edge — a 24-hour gym — next to Ziggy’s Pizza. The space was previously...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Developers are proposing building 162 apartments off Route 4 in Enfield. The one- and two-bedroom market-rate apartments would be spread evenly among three new buildings on the 77-acre Laramie Farms property on Route 4 and Maple Street,...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Enfield and Grantham residents, many of whom live in Eastman, are organizing to stop a proposed gravel pit operation on Bog Road over concerns about its impact on the planned living community’s water supply.“It’s literally on top of the...

By DARREN MARCY

ENFIELD — A retired Roman Catholic bishop from Madagascar with close ties to Enfield was struck and killed as he crossed Route 4A near the La Salette shrine on Saturday afternoon.Bishop Emeritus Joseph Donald Pelletier, 90, a missionary of Our Lady of...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — Citing the increasing role that public schools are forced to play in providing social services with few resources to do so, Enfield Village School principal Harrison Little announced this month he will leave the elementary school at the end...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ENFIELD — On the market for years seeking a buyer, the defunct Great View Roller Skating rink property finally has a new owner: the next-door neighbor.Enfield contractors Thomas Hersey and his son Todd Hersey have purchased the approximately 4-acre...

By MADELEINE JOHNSON

On Nov. 11, 2018, President Donald Trump was scheduled to observe the centenary of World War I’s armistice in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial, where the dead of the Battle of Belleau Wood are buried. At the time, I and a dozen other...

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North Haverhill — A 43-year-old Grantham man is facing several additional charges that allege he broke into a woman’s Upper Valley home in May and raped her.Michael Chamberlain recently was indicted by a Grafton County grand jury on two counts of...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Enfield — Police Chief Richard Crate stepped down from his job on Friday and is leaving police work in New Hampshire as part of a settlement over allegations that he physically assaulted his minor son.The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said...

By Jordan Cuddemi

Canaan — A 26-year-old Enfield man was attempting to avoid being arrested on an outstanding warrant when he was shot by a state trooper in a field, according to his fiancee, who was a passenger in the car that police had tried to stop along Route 4 in...

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — Two men employed at residential schools for at-risk children have struck plea deals on charges stemming from a single-vehicle crash last fall in Lebanon.Jeffrey Caron, 48, pleaded guilty on Monday in Lebanon Circuit Court to a violation of...

By Tim Camerato

Canaan — Two mobile home parks in the Mascoma valley are now owned and operated by residents who recently formed cooperatives to purchase the properties.The former Daniels Acres Mobile Home Park in Enfield and former Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park...