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By CLARE SHANAHAN

GRANTHAM — The Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust has purchased the 151-acre Byron Barton Woods in Grantham.The newly conserved property is protected from future development and is now open to the public. Trails may be built and connected to the...

GRANTHAM — In a four-way race for two School Board seats, Nancy Mackenzie and Philip Langsdorf each one a three-year term in Tuesday’s ballot voting. 

GRANTHAM — Voters unanimously approved a school budget of $11.94 million by voice vote at the annual meeting on Tuesday.

Article of note: A petitioned article seeks to call on elected officials to “uphold their duty of fiscal responsibility by rejecting any expansion of taxpayer funding for private education until we have full accountability, transparency, and a sustainable funding plan.”

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — After the City of Lebanon stopped providing community nursing services to residents in Enfield and Grantham last month, officials in the two towns are evaluating their options to continue the program.

Article of note: Voters will be asked to approve the cost of a new three-year collective bargaining agreement, for a total cost of $575,000.

NEWPORT — Two Upper Valley clinics that prescribe controlled medications to treat opioid use disorder have suddenly closed.New England Medicine and Counseling Associates, which has six locations in the Twin States including Grantham and Newport,...

GRANTHAM — The School Board has hired Lisa Walker as the school district’s new superintendent.Walker most recently served as superintendent of the Monadnock Regional School District and will start her role in Grantham “later this spring,” according to...

GRANTHAM — Peter Garland was elected to a three-year Selectboard seat in an uncontested race on Tuesday.Also by ballot Tuesday, voters approved five separate articles amending the town’s zoning ordinance, including one that would allow solar energy...

GRANTHAM — Voters at Grantham’s school meeting on Tuesday night approved a $11.57 million budget as proposed.There were fewer than 100 people present for the unanimous vote, according to Brenda Molloy, executive assistant for Grantham SAU #75.Ballot...

By FRANCES MIZE

LYME — From a regulatory standpoint in Lyme, solar panels are no different from a garden shed. A set of zoning amendments on this year’s Town Meeting warrant will ask voters to consider making a distinction.Three municipal buildings already have solar...

Article of note: One article on the town warrant asks whether voters will adopt the Grantham Community Power plan, an opt-out program that offers more flexible electricity procurement. Another would modify the elderly property tax exemption. There are...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

GRANTHAM — A 28-year-old Grantham man has a long recovery ahead after suffering severe burns in a house fire last week.Zachary Beaulieu remains in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was taken following the Jan. 15 fire and has...

GRANTHAM — The Grantham School Board will host a superintendent candidate forum from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Grantham Village School.Members of the public will have the opportunity to meet and interact with three superintendent candidates;...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

GRANTHAM — Firefighters battled a blaze Monday night that injured two people, one critically, and gutted a home.Grantham Fire Department’s engine arrived at 505 Route 10 South, a mostly-wooded area across from a public park and about two miles from...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

GRANTHAM — Those who are facing food insecurity in Grantham no longer have to travel to other towns for nonperishable goods.Last month, the Grantham Food Pantry opened at the Grantham United Methodist Church, at 418 Route 10. It is open from 9 to 11...

By NICOLA SMITH

Jane Carlton Verdrager was 3 years old when her father vanished.Douglas Carlton was a butcher and meat salesman who worked for the City Packing Co., in Wayne, Mich., 30 miles west of Detroit. On the day he disappeared, he’d been doing his regular...

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...

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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...

Watertown, Mass. — John R. Hope took his own life by suicide on Thursday, April 19, 2018. We ask that you, like John, open your heart and offer compassion without judgment to others struggling with life’s obstacles. John always introduced himself with...

By Josh Weinreb

Grantham — Robert MacNeil was supposed to be retired already.Owning and operating Grantham Indoor, an indoor recreation facility just off of Interstate 89, he said, was more of a labor of love than anything else. Nineteen years later, the Lebanon...