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By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — The Newport School District will keep its bus garage, but when it can obtain a building permit for a new natural science center at the Sugar River Valley Technical Center remains uncertain.Those were the two main issues discussed at a...
By PATRICK ADRIAN
MERIDEN — Several communities in Sullivan County are assessing the damage to their roads after flash flooding from heavy rains on Saturday overwhelmed culverts and washed away road materials.In Meriden, a village of Plainfield, stormwaters during the...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — The Newport Class of 2023 waited out a day of rain for graduation and was rewarded with sunny skies to celebrate their achievement before family and friends on the high school football field on Thursday evening.The ceremony’s speakers...
NEWPORT — The Newport School Board will meet Friday to discuss a recent letter from Selectboard Chairman Barry Connell telling the school district it must vacate the bus barn at the Department of Public Works by the end of the month.Connell said in...
NEWPORT — Chris Bohjalian has been selected as the 2023 Sarah Josepha Hale Award medalist.For over 50 years the Trustees of the Richards Free Library in Newport have selected a recipient of the award, which is named in honor of Hale, an author who was...
LEBANON — Laurie Harding, of Lebanon, and Judy Wilson, of Newport, were honored for their volunteerism by the NH State Commission on Aging.Volunteers from each county were honored during a ceremony at the statehouse last week as part of the 61st...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — Two developers planning to build a combined total of 112 units of workforce housing in town are asking the Selectboard to reconsider its denial of a request to reduce water and sewer connection fees.If the board won’t reconsider, the...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — The Selectboard, armed with an opinion from its attorney, may challenge the legality of a petition article that was overwhelmingly approved by voters at Town Meeting, which gives the school district a 99-year lease for $1 on the bus barn at...
NEWPORT — A 40-year-old Newport man pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a minor, less than eight weeks after he was arrested and charges were brought against him.Timothy Wright pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault in...
By JOHN LIPPMAN
NEWPORT — The youngest of five people — including three family members — charged in connection with the dumping of the body of a suspected overdose victim in the woods earlier this spring will plead guilty.Jacob Ayotte, 19, has filed a notice of...
NEWPORT — Newport said yes in Town Meeting ballot voting on Tuesday.Voters approved bonds for the town’s water and sewer systems, including $10 million that is part of a $23.5 million project to upgrade the town’s waste water treatment plant, 660-192;...
Articles of note: Voters will be asked to approve two separate bonds for the town’s water and sewer systems. A $10 million bond is part of a $23.5 million project to upgrade the town’s waste water treatment plant. Another bond request for $573,000...
By RAY COUTURE
NEWPORT — Leanna Roberts followed along closely as her 5-year-old granddaughter, Layla, bounced from the sand-art table to the face-painting station inside the Newport Rec Center Saturday morning. The two were there to enjoy a variety of free...
By FRANCES MIZE
NEWPORT — Testing required by a new state law has found multiple water fixtures at Newport Middle and High School, and Richards Elementary School, that must be replaced to abate lead contamination.With 16 drinking fountains and faucets closed across...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — At the annual Town Meeting on May 9, voters will be asked to approve two bonds for the town’s water and sewer systems for projects to address a couple of long-standing problems.A $10 million bond authorization is part of an estimated $29...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — A solution that satisfies the school district’s need for recreation land to replace the property where a new agricultural center will be constructed appears imminent.At Monday night’s Selectboard meeting, board Chairman Jeff Kessler said the...
By JOHN LIPPMAN
NEWPORT — Five Sullivan County residents — including two brothers — have been charged in connection with the death of a missing 40-year-old Newport man whose body was discovered in a wooded area a few hundred yards from the residence in Newport where...
NEWPORT — Voters elected school officials in uncontested races and approved the Newport School District’s proposed budget in ballot voting on Tuesday.Timothy Beard was elected to a three-year seat on the School Board and Jenna Darling was elected to a...
NEWPORT — Public works department crews were working Thursday afternoon to repair a water line near the Sugar River in the area of Cross Street that was discovered after an earlier leak in a main to a storage tank had been repaired.“We have identified...
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