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The Class of 2026

Following a long-standing tradition, the Kearsarge Regional High School Class of 2014 shared the stage with their counterparts in the Class of 2026. These future graduates from the district’s various kindergartens open the…

HDHS Class of 2014 urged to ‘Do all you can, with what you have’

Braving the threat of rain, which never came Hillsboro-Deering’s Class of 2014 graduation was held outside under a huge white tent. In her welcoming address, Class President Briana Welch paused to take a “classy” selfie, saying, “life is full of moments and snapshots in time. Once that moment has passed there is no turning back. I will always remember this moment.”…

John Stark’s 160 graduates excelled at community service

In keeping with a 24-year-old tradition, the 160 members of John Stark Regional High School’s Class of 2014 ended their commencement ceremony with the blast of Bob Hatfield’s cannon and the John Stark fight song. Principal Christopher Corkery was…

Speakers urge Newport’s Class of 2014 to overcome their fears

The threat of rain forced the Newport High School graduation exercises into the Newport Opera House, but did nothing to dampen the spirits of the 84 graduates, their families and friends Thursday night. Although Valedictorian Allison Doucette admitted that…

203 members of ConVal’s Class of 2014 urged to value time

The threat of rain forced the ConVal graduation ceremony into the gym, but did little to dampen the enthusiasm of those attending. Valedictorian Cassandra Daisy urged her classmates to remember the importance of time and to cherish it in the future…

Speakers stress the closeness of Sunapee’s Class of 2014

The togetherness of Sunapee’s Class of 2014 was the shared theme of the graduation exercises Friday night in the Sherburne Gymnasium. Valedictorian Madison Fowler reminded her classmates that each of the graduates had changed the person sitting next to them, behind them, or anywhere on…

Sunapee’s 3rd Championship in four years

Sunapee 6 Gorham 5 It took the Lakers a while to get going, trailing by three runs with innings slipping by. Nick Skarin got things going with a single and stolen base in the sixth…

Grizzlies claw Bobcats in Division II Finals

#1 Goffstown 8 #3 Plymouth 1 Top-seeded Goffstown got a three-run triple from junior shortstop Tanner Putnam and a complete-game pitching performance from senior Tyler Perron and defeated third-seeded Plymouth Regional 8-1 in Saturday night’s Division II Championship Game…

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Sunapee wants New London to pay 75% for sewer

The New London Selectmen spent much of Monday’s meeting discussing a $275,000 change order for a Chemical Building at the Sunapee Wastewater Treatment Plant. With $320,000 available in the Contingency Fund, the Board approved the…

Hillsboro-Deering taxpayers to receive $700,000 refund

At Monday’s Hillsboro-Deering School Board meeting, Superintendent Robert Hassett shared an e-mail received from attorney Ed Kaplan who said the Board could not use this year’s large surplus to install a backup boiler in the Middle School. Armed with a $391,000 wish list of suggested repairs and…

Claremont man arrested for drug sales

A Claremont man was arrested on three felony warrants for drug sales Thursday afternoon. Nicholas G. Santana, 23, of 15 Walnut St. was arrested by Claremont police around 1:15 p.m. at his home on warrants stemming from an investigation conducted by the…

Fired Weare police sergeant files suit against department

A week after the Weare police learned that a Federal Court was allowing a suit against them to proceed, a new lawsuit was filed by a former sergeant, claiming he was fired after showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder following an officer-involved shooting. Although Sgt. Joe Kelley was…

Fire Marshal investigating Newport fires

State, county and local authorities have opened a criminal investigation after firefighters from six communities responded to four suspicious fires in Newport early Saturday morning. All four fires were less than a mile from each other and started over a three-hour time span. The first was a…

5th Annual Hillsborough Bike Race next Saturday

The Office of Youth Services is sponsoring the 5th Annual Youth Bike Race at Grimes Field in Hillsboro on Saturday June 14th. Registration begins at 3:00pm and the race starts at 4:00pm. Ages  6 – 14 will bike various distances around Grimes Field and awards will be given out to boys and girls for ages 6-8, 9-10, 11-12 & 13-14. Two bikes donated by the Hillsboro Police Association and the Hillsboro Lions Club will be…

BASEBALL

Monadnock 7 Hillsboro-Deering 0 Max Parenteau threw 6+ innings giving up only 4 hits and Danny Egner had two hits. Newport 4 Conant 0 Andrew Houde tossed a one-hit complete game shutout to end the season. Ricky Hammond and Zach Brown had two hits each…

GIRLS’ LACROSSE Division III preliminary

#6 Bishop Brady 10 # 11 Hopkinton 7 Sonja Leavitt stopped 16 shots but Brady was relentless…

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Great Brook named 2013 Middle School of the Year

What a difference a year makes. Just over a year ago, the ConVal School District was considering closing Antrim’s Great Brook School and consolidating its students at South Meadow School in Peterborough. Antrim  residents were vocal in their opposition and eventually…

Court of Honor held for two Weare Eagle Scouts

Weare Boy Scout Troop 24, chartered with American Legion Post 65 – Philbrick-Clement Post, held a ceremonial Eagle Court of Honor for two young men, Robert Yelle Jr. (Robbie) and Noah Payeur, who both recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. The Senior Patrol Leader was…

H-D DECA Teams place 4th & 6th internationally

Hillsboro-Deering High School DECA recently returned from the International competition in Atlanta, Georgia with several accolades. The group attended the conference from May 2 – May 7, 2014 and during this event two teams made their way into the finals of their competition and finished in the top…

“Dancing With The Staff” to fund Stark Teachers’ Scholarships

Staff  members at the John Stark Regional High School are once again game to hit the dance floor for a lively evening of dance performances to raise money for the John Stark Teachers’ Association student scholarships at the school. Dancing with the Staff will be held on Friday, May 30 at 7 PM in the Café. Tickets are…

Bleach bandit hits Goffstown Cumby’s

Goffstown police say a woman threatened the clerk at the Cumberland Farms convenience store on Mast Road with bleach before getting away with some cash Friday night. Police say the woman entered the store at about 8:35 p.m. Friday and appeared to be shopping. Officers say she put on…

NH Fish & Game officers kill bear in Henniker

A 150-pound black bear that had been roaming a neighborhood in Henniker had to be put down by state Fish and Game officials Saturday. The bear and two cubs had been searching for food, but officials say she became aggressive and dangerous to people. This was the third year in a row the same bear returned to the…

BASEBALL

Newport 2 Fall Mountain 1 (8 In) Tied 1-1 in the bottom of the eighth, Tigers junior Brady Bates knocked in Matt Bocko with the winning run. Newport 1 Monadnock 0  Matt Bocko drove in the game’s lone run with a single in the fifth inning. Andrew Houde pitched a complete game with nine strikeouts…

GIRLS’ LACROSSE

Kearsarge 13 Lebanon 6 Leading only 5-3 at the break, the Cougars increased the intensity in the second half. Libby Brooks took only 4 shots, but netted them all.Kearsarge 16 Hopkinton 6 Anna Stowell had 7 goals and Libby Brooks four…

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Bradford Masons “Take A Veteran To Lunch”

In observance of Memorial Day, Saturday, June 14th, St. Peter’s Masonic Lodge of Bradford is sponsoring a luncheon to honor The Veterans of America’s Wars. Bring your grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers to this great…

Newport honors a trio of dedicated public servants 

Monday was the last Selectboard Meeting for Chair Virginia Irwin, after serving for 21 years. The last item of the night was Selectman Gary Nichols reading a proclamation, honoring Irwin and declaring May 13 Virginia Irwin Day in Newport. The proclamation was followed with…

Springfield teen hurt in single car crash

A Springfield, NH teen is in DHMC after a single car accident on Rt. 10 in Croydon on Saturday just before 7 pm. State Trooper Brandon Dean says Kimberly Morcom failed to negotiate a curve and hit the…

Bike Rodeo in Henniker on May 16th

The Henniker Community School with assistance from the Henniker Lions Club, Henniker PTA, bike repair mechanic Billy Whitcher and the Henniker Police Department will hold a Bike Rodeo for all students in grades 1-4 during the school day on Friday, May 16, 2014. All activities for the Bike Rodeo will be…

Floats are needed for BalloonFest Parade

We are once again preparing for the annual Balloon Fest and Fair parade, our 26th, on Sunday, July 20th starting at 12:00 noon going from the schools to Grimes Field. We have the start of a good line-up but need many more entries to make an exciting…

Hillsborough gym raises funds for fallen firefighters

Ken and Jenny Kass want to thank everyone that attended and those that participated in the “Bench Press For A Cause” fundraiser for the two fallen Boston firefighters. The event though hastily organized, was awesome. It turned tragedy into something very…

BASEBALL

Sunapee 8 Newport 6 The Tigers surrendered three runs in the final inning without a single Sunapee hit. The Lakers increased the lead to 4-0 before the Tigers scored 5 runs on four hits to take a 5-4 lead in the fourth. In the seventh, Newport’s Jack Weinberger was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, forcing in a run that tied the score, 6-6, before adding another two runs…

GIRLS’ TRACK & FIELD

Hillsboro-Deering 4th Hannah Murdough took first in the 100 hurdles and second in the long jump with Breahna Savoy finishing first in the 800 and third in javelin…

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Sen. Bob Odell says he will not seek re-election

Sen. Bob Odell, R-New London, announced that he will not seek re-election this fall. After 12 years in the State Senate, Odell issued the following statement: “I believe it is time to leave the Senate. I have served six terms and look forward to…

Suit claims Weare officers ‘brutalized and assaulted’ suspect 

Shane St. Onge, of Manchester, who served a year in prison after pleading guilty to breaking into a Weare used automobile business in March 2012 has now filed a suit against the town and the two officers who arrested him. The suit, filed in Hillsborough Superior Court, claims that officers…

Attorney General clears Weare officers in deadly shooting

The New Hampshire attorney general said Wednesday he cannot determine whether a Weare officer was justified in shooting to death a drug suspect in August. Although two officers fired at 35-year-old Alex Cora DeJesus, of Manchester, Attorney General Joseph Foster said…

Bradford officer honored for saving child

Bradford Det. Sgt. Edward Shaughnessy received a Citation from the Governor Maggie Hassen and a Life Saving Pin from the American Heart Association during a ceremony to be held at the New Hampshire Police, Fire, & EMS Foundation Banquet held on Wednesday, April 23. On March 25th Shaughnessy responded to a child not breathing call and found the baby making…

Newport Library Arts Center hosts 3rd Annual Peeps Diorama Contest

More than 250 people attended the “Peeps Party” on Friday for the third annual Peeps Diorama Contest at the Library Arts Center. More than 70 dioramas featuring the sugar-coated marshmallow candies were displayed. The competition has grown a little since last year, when just over…

Sunapee man indicted on two counts of murder

Robert J. Dellinger, the Sunapee man charged with two counts of murder in last December’s highway deaths of a young Upper Valley couple during what prosecutors say was Dellinger’s failed suicide attempt, apologized profusely Wednesday to the victims’ families. Dellinger’s apology was…

Newport’s Annual Peeps Diorama Contest

Anticipating strong interest again this year in the Peeps Diorama Contest, Newport’s Library Arts Center is planning to display the contest entries for a full week after the Peeps Party and award ceremony. The Library Arts Center plans to hold its third annual Peeps Diorama Contest with the…

BOYS’ LACROSSE

Hollis-Brookline 21 Kearsarge 6 Keeper Will Aufreanc was bombarded with 39 shots on goal and managed to turn away 18…

GIRLS’ TRACK & FIELD

Bow 1st Franklin’s Kaley Shepard took a trio offsets but Bow took the top honors over Newport, Franklin, Sunapee and Mount Royal…