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Amos Daisey, of Orford, cleans a deer skull while making a European skull mount for a customer on March 7. Using deer, boar and bear heads, Daisey boils them for hours, cleans and dries the skulls before brushing their teeth and using a whitener. He said the whole process takes about three days. Daisey’s family farm, Cotton Stone Farm, was started by his grandfather. Today, the family runs a wholesale cut-flower business, a bait shop and a meat-cutting business. “We’re trying to make the farm work,” he said.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — After more than two hours of debate, Rivendell voters approved a $15.8 million school budget, but defeated an article that would have moved future budget votes to an all-day Australian ballot format.

ORFORD — At a floor meeting Tuesday night, Orford voters directed the Selectboard to continue researching the proposed replacement of the High Bridge Road bridge to convert it into a walking bridge.

Article of note: One article asks whether voters want to replace the High Bridge Road bridge at an estimated cost of $1.5 million, with the town responsible for 20%, or about $300,000, and the state picking up the remainder. A separate vote on funding would take place at Town Meeting next year, if voters support the replacement.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — The Rivendell school board has extended its timeline for moving forward with school building consolidation while it searches for a permanent superintendent.

ORFORD — The Rivendell Interstate School District will hold a hearing on Tuesday on a proposal to change in the format of the annual school budget vote from floor voting to paper ballot.Voters will decide whether to adopt the proposal at the school...

ORFORD — A 19-year-old Orford man is being held in Grafton County jail on charges that he sexually assaulted an underage female while he was already out on bail on a prior charge of sexual assault against another girl earlier this year.Noah Schwarz,...

By ULLA-BRITT LIBRE

ORFORD — Catherine Butman Eastburn would sit in a folding chair at Lower Baker Pond’s boat launch in Orford and watch the loons for hours at a time.As a community science observer for the New Hampshire Loon Preservation Committee and an amateur...

ORFORD — Road resurfacing will begin this week in Orford, Lyme, Enfield and Canaan, according to a New Hampshire Department of Transportation news release. The $3.7 million project will resurface seven road sections, totaling 31 miles.The first...

By ULLA -BRITT LIBRE

ORFORD — Hundreds of people flooded the Rivendell Academy gymnasium on Saturday morning to watch the school’s 34 seniors become graduates. The ceremony began with the graduates, who wore green and white robes, as they walked to the stage to the tune...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ORFORD — Maintenance challenges and issues with private landowners mean that about a quarter of the 36-mile Cross Rivendell Trail is closed and the people who care about it are pondering its future.The trail was first founded about 25 years ago as a...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — On Saturday, June 1, voters in the Rivendell Interstate School District will consider a second, reduced budget of $15.3 million after the decisive defeat of previous budget proposal in April.Following last month’s defeat, the School Board...

By BEN HOOKE

ORFORD — The clouds that hung around all afternoon finally opened, pouring heavy rain from the sky onto the Orford Recreational Field baseball diamond just minutes after the final out.It’s not as if Rivendell needed any help in extinguishing...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — In the latest of a series of challenges Rivendell Interstate School District, the superintendent of the small district resigned last week.Superintendent Barrett Williams, who will become the principal of Strafford’s Newton School this summer,...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ORFORD — A revote on a 2024-25 budget for the Rivendell Interstate School District will take place on Saturday, May 18.The Rivendell School Board set the date for in-person Australian ballot voting during a meeting Tuesday night, after residents from...

Articles of note: Voters in the four towns served by the Rivendell Interstate School District will decide whether to permanently move their annual meeting day from the evening of the third Thursday in March to the third Saturday in March. The article...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — Selectboard Chairman John Adams was soundly defeated in his bid for a fifth term at Tuesday night’s annual Town Meeting, losing to longtime resident Larry Taylor, 238-155.In another contested race, interim board member Kevin Follensbee fended...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — The Rivendell School Board met Monday to delay the date of the district’s annual meeting, which had been improperly warned.Originally scheduled for March 23, the meeting will now take place on April 13 at 10 a.m. at Rivendell Academy in...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — Old rivalries have resurfaced in this town of 1,200 as four candidates compete for two Selectboard seats at Tuesday’s annual Town Meeting. In ballot voting, Selectboard Chairman John Adams squares off against longtime Orford resident Larry...

Article of note: One article asks whether voters will authorize the Selectboard to continue exploring uses of the Main Street Congregational Church. Another asks for $10,000 for church-related surveys, inspections and other inspections. Another...