The Messenger – March 8, 2019

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Download The Messenger - March 8, 2019 (pdf)Three injured in Henniker accident on Route 202

Last Thursday about 4:40 pm a motor vehicle accident occurred on Route 202 & 9 in Henniker. The accident occurred about 1/2 mile west of the intersection of Foster Hill Road. A Ford F150 pickup operated by 65 year old Michael Smith of Sebago, Maine was traveling westbound on Route 202 & 9 when it crossed the center line and struck the guardrail on the eastbound side. The vehicle was…

SWAT Team arrests Sunapee man after 9 hour standoff

A Sunapee man held police at a standoff for nearly 9 hours on Saturday morning. Sunapee Police say they responded to a Lower Main Street residence shortly after 3:00 AM after an intoxicated 25-year-old Joshua Stiller discharged a handgun in the barn at the residence. Sunapee and State Police set up a…

Newport victim falls prey to telephone scam

The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office has learned of a telephone scam that occurred over the weekend in which a number of residents were contacted. At least one Newport resident was victimized for $2,800. The victim reported that the caller whose caller ID showed the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department was contacted by a male who identified himself as a current deputy from the sheriff’s office, who explained that there were warrants out for their arrest for failing to…

Six local businesses agree to sponsor Harlem Superstars

Recognizing the community service efforts of the Hillsboro Lions Club six area businesses are supoting its endecors. Amadio Insurance, Bank of New Hampshire, Edmunds Ace Hardware, Hillsboro Ford, Pat Nash Realty and Granite State Telephone have signed on as sponsors of the…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Division II Quarterfinals. #5 John Stark 71, #4 Bishop Brady 56: John Stark erased a six-point halftime deficit by outscoring the Giants, 22-10, in the third quarter and iced the game at the free-throw line in the final frame en route to a 71-56 victory over No. 4 Bishop Brady…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Division III Quarterfinals. #1 Stark/Hopkinton 8, #8 Kennett 3: The General Hawks experimented with a new line combination during the final games of the regular season, putting Paul Molnar, Brett Patnode and Nolan Sauer together. The experiment appears to be a success as that trio scored five goals on Saturday…

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In New Hampshire – March 2019

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Download In New Hampshire - March 2019 (pdf)Climb to the Clouds Hillclimb returns to Mt. Washington July 2020

Officials with the Mt. Washington Auto Road in Gorham, New Hampshire and the Sports Car Club of New Hampshire announced today that one of the Nation’s oldest automobile races, the historic Mt. Washington Hillclimb, will be returning to the Northeast’s tallest peak July 9-12, 2020. Organized and sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of New Hampshire, the 2020 Mt. Washington Hillclimb will serve as a 3-day motorsports festival that will include an 80-car field filled with some of the best drivers from North…

Maple Sugaring Season for families

Maple Sugaring Season! Saturdays, March 2-30; 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00 $10 ($8 Members; FREE for upgraded members). Join us to experience an old-fashioned New England Tradition – making maple syrup! From tapping a tree to tasting delicious maple syrup, you will participate in every step of the…

Maple Sugar Day at Burleigh Farm

Mark your calendars for March 23rd, 10 am to noon for the 2019 Maple Sugar Day at Burleigh Farm. This is a free, community event co-sponsored by the Squam Lakes Association, the Squam Lakes Conservation Society and the Lakes Region Conservation Trust. Please join us for a fun day at the farm with sugaring demonstrations and maple sugar tasting, followed by…

Celtic Woman at Concord’s Capitol Center for the Arts On Friday, March 29

CELTIC WOMAN – vocalists Mairead Carlin, Eabha McMahon, Tara McNeill (fiddle) and newest member Megan Walsh (who makes her debut on ANCIENT LAND) – continue the centuries-old Irish tradition of telling stories through song: stories of the land, stories of love and stories of dancing; songs that will bring a piece of Ireland into viewers’ homes and hearts. Since their 2005 debut…

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The Messenger – March 1, 2019

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Elizabeth Tremblay, daughter of James and Victoria Tremblay, Benjamin Jachim-Gallagher, the son of Cindy Gallagher and Geri Jachim, and Victoria Burroughs, the daughter of James and Stacey Burroughs, graduating seniors at Newport High School, have been named in the 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.6 million…

WWII Veteran’s remains identified 75 years after death

An Antrim woman has learned that the remains of her brother who was listed as missing in action for decades have now been identified, 75 years after 1st Lt. Burleigh Curtis died in World War II, his little sister Madelyn Klose now has closure. On June 13, 1944, just one week after D-Day, Curtis was piloting a bombing raid when his plane crashed into a field in France. The military delivered a telegram, saying that he was…

Hillsboro-Deering DECA awarded 2 trophies, 24 medals and 14 plaques

A young and talented Hillsboro-Deering DECA team had great success at the recent New Hampshire DECA 62nd Annual Career Development Conference. It was held Wednesday, February 13 through Friday, February 15, 2019, at the Hilton Doubletree in Manchester, NH. Twenty-nine team members attended this year’s…

Couple responds to aid Epsom fire victim

A couple is being credited with helping an Epsom man after his home caught fire Friday night. Caroline Perreault and her fiancé, Jason Martin were driving about 8:30 p.m. when they saw what they thought was a bonfire, but they quickly realized the flames were coming from a…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Division III Quarterfinals. #1 Conant 46, #8 Belmont 37: They started the season with a 73-37 loss to these same Orioles and fell short of the upset and ended the season with a 46-37 loss at No. 1 Conant. #3 Newfound 46, # 6 Hopkinton 32: The Hawks led 6-4 after the first quarter, but the Bears scored 17 points in the second to take control of the game…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Division IV Preliminary. #5 Sunapee 43, #12 Derryfield 41: The Lakers had to scrap their way to the D-IV quarterfinals with a 43-41 win. #6 Pittsfield 61, #11 Farmington 49: Farmington opened the 4th quarter with five points to tie the game, 47-47, with four minutes to go, but Pittsfield closed the game with a 14-2 run and went 13-for-14 from the free throw line to punch its ticket to the quarterfinals…

 

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The Messenger – February 22, 2019

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Download The Messenger - February 22, 2019 (pdf)20-year-old Hillsborough woman hit & killed on Main Street

A Hillsborough family is mourning after a woman was hit by a pickup truck and killed Thursday while she was walking across a street. Arianna Theberge, 20, was struck on West Main Street. “This is not the way it’s supposed to…

Newport’s Alia Gonzales named a National Merit Scholarship Finalist

Alia Gonzalez, granddaughter of John and Eileen Barton, has met all the requirements to advance to become a National Merit Scholarship finalist. Finalists are considered for National Merit Scholarships to be offered in the spring. Over 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the…

Henniker Rescue Squad recognizes heroic efforts of police officer

At Tuesday’s Henniker Select Board meeting, Gregory Aucoin, Deputy Chief of the Rescue Squad presented Officer Matthew Mitchell with the following citation. “On January 23, 2019 Officer Mathew Mitchell responded, while on duty, to a medical call for a patient who was not conscious or breathing. The town’s primary ambulance was already at Concord Hospital due to a different medical call that had…

Hillsborough teenager found not guilty of graduation threat

A jury took less than an hour to find John Thomas, 19, of Hillsborough, not guilty of perceived threat. Thomas was arrested four months after the school shooting in Parkland, FL, which left 17 people dead and reignited concerns nationally about school shootings and easy access to guns for disturbed kids. The jury rendered the verdict on…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

#4 Woodsville 57, #13 Sunapee 45: Woodsville led 38-34 entering the fourth quarter, but then outplayed the Lakers in the final frame. #6 Mount Royal 45, #11 Lisbon 35: On the opening night of NHIAA basketball’s tournament season, the No. 6 Mount Royal dropped to No. 11 Lisbon in an upset, 45-35 in D-IV action…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Mascoma 59, Hillsboro-Deering 40: Halie Hurd (17 points) and Fayth Grimes (12 points) led the Hillcats. Hopkinton 49, Gilford 29: The Hawks jumped out to a 15-5 lead after the first quarter and held Gilford to single-digit scoring in each quarter…

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The Messenger – February 15, 2019

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Download The Messenger - February 15, 2019 (pdf)Hillsborough teen indicted

A grand jury has indicted Alan Clark, 19, of Hillsborough for attempting to steal two NH State Police cruisers in Canterbury last fall. State Police arrested Clark the day after he caused a nearly head-on collision in Canterbury. Clark walked away from a trooper who tried to question him then ran to an idling cruiser, got in and…

DECA Recognizes Hillsboro-Deering DECA’s Gold Level School Store

The School-Based Enterprise (SBE) at Hillsboro-Deering High School – The Hillcat Corner was among 483 school-based enterprises in the United States achieving Gold Level Certification or Gold Level Re-certification this year and will be recognized at DECA’s International Career Development Conference in…

Ice jam may cause flooding in Goffstown & New Boston

The towns of New Boston and Goffstown are again facing the possibility of severe flooding later this spring thanks to a fast-growing ice jam in the Piscataquog River that’s already three quarters of a mile in length. Formed by the accumulation of floating ice chunks that slow or fully obstruct…

Nebraska fugitive avoids arrest after Peterborough tractor-trailer crash

A tractor-trailer unit rolled over the middle of a roundabout, closing Route 101 in Peterborough for nearly three hours on Monday morning. Drew Davis, 38, of Gastonia, North Carolina, reported that he was driving his tractor-trailer, loaded with 60,000 pounds of…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Oyster River 69, Kearsarge 53: Kearsarge hung with one of the top teams in D-II, taking an 18-15 lead after one quarter and trailing 52-44 after three. Hinsdale 47, Mount Royal 17: Sophie LaRose had 9 points and 7 boards, and Alexis Matte scored 7 and came away with 4 steals…

BOYS BASKETBALL

Stevens 54 Newport 51: It wasn’t easy for Stevens, as a last second Newport shot ended up short to give Stevens a hard-fought, three-point win. ConVal 56 Stevens 52: Matt McCool got eight of his team-high 22 in the fourth quarter, edging the Sabers back into the game, but the Cougars won it, 56-52…

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The Messenger – February 8, 2019

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Download The Messenger - February 8, 2019 (pdf)Two Newport Selectmen challenge School Board

The largest crowd in recent history filled the High School gym during Saturday’s Newport School District Deliberative Session. First up for discussion was the proposed $18,963,855 Operating Budget, with a Default Budget that was actually larger at $19,163,662. Officials cautioned that even if the budget passes as presented staff layoffs remained a…

Kearsarge students form Students Practicing Ethical Leadership (SPEL) Group

Superintendent Winfried Feneberg has announced that a group of Kearsarge Regional High School students is creating a new student organization after attending an ethical leadership conference in December. A group of 25 Kearsarge High students in grades nine through 11 recently joined peers from six other…

Two charged with road rage in New Boston

While on a routine patrol, New Boston Police Officer Andrew Vollaro witnessed 23-year-old Corey Lafontaine of Windham and 52-year-old Daniel Handrahan of Goffstown taking part in what police described as a road rage incident. Lafontaine and Handrahan appeared to be racing each other, with the two men reportedly observed crossing the solid yellow line in order to pass other vehicles. The passing took place as…

Twelve towns provide mutual aid in battling Bradford house fire

On February 1st, 2019 at 12:16 am, the Bradford Fire Department was dispatched with Automatic Mutual Aid from the Towns of Washington and Henniker FD’s to 209 East Washington Road in Bradford for a reported fire in the basement. Prior to arriving on the scene Fire Chief Mark Goldberg contacted Concord Fire Alarm and asked for a 2nd alarm structural response and a 3rd alarm tankers due to the…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Belmont 56, Hillsboro-Deering 29: Julianna Estremera had 30 points as the Raiders opened the game with a 22-2 first-quarter lead and led 35-9 at halftime. Hopkinton 64, Campbell 35: Katie Meserve and Ellie Owen scored six points apiece in the first quarter to get the Hawks off and running en route to their third straight win…

BOYS HOCKEY

Mascenic 80, Hillsboro-Deering 62: Elijah Winters scored 24 points, Sam Hatcher 9 points and Charles Veitch 9 in the loss.
Belmont 67, Hillsboro-Deering 50: Keith Landry led the way with 11 points, while Matt Thurber and Mikey Sprague had 10 each for Belmont, which took a 41-19 halftime lead…

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In New Hampshire – February, 2019

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Download In New Hampshire - February, 2019 (pdf)Chili & Beer Tasting Fundraiser at Castle in the Clouds

Castle in the Clouds hosts its second annual Chili and Beer Tasting fundraiser on Saturday, February 16 from 4-6 pm outdoors in the paved area in front of The Carriage House. Guests can enjoy sampling homemade chili and beer from ten local Lakes Region restaurants and breweries, plus spirits from Tamworth Distilling. A variety of chili will be served, including…

MidWeek in Manchester One-Day Antiques Fair

Barn Star Productions is pleased to announce The 25th Annual MidWeek in Manchester Antiques Show will be introducing a new format during Antiques Week in New Hampshire, becoming the “MidWeek One-Day Antiques Fair”, held Wednesday, August 7th, 2019. With several shows during the week to shop, we hope buyers will find this new format favorable and spend the day with our exceptional exhibitors…

Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Ice Harvest & Winter Carnival

A celebration of New Hampshire tradition and wintertime on a historic farmstead. Try your hand at each step of harvesting ice blocks from our farm pond. Outdoor activities, demonstrations, sleigh rides, games, farm animals and more…

Sunrise SnowCoach Tours

Our experienced SnowCoach drivers will take you to treeline (weather permitting) at 4,200 feet on the Mt. Washington Auto Road for a chance to watch the sun rise. We leave promptly at 6:30 am in January and 5:45 am in February from the base lodge, and…

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The Messenger – February 1, 2019

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Download The Messenger - February 1, 2019 (pdf)Later start times at ConVal

The ConVal Regional School Board has voted to have its middle and high school students start school an hour later next year, a change that requires voters to raise an additional $808,000 this March. The Board is sponsoring a warrant article to add 14 to 15 additional bus routes to the current 38, to create a single-tier bussing system, allowing all students…

Hopkinton Eagle Scout going to US Military Academy

Cooper Otis, Senior Honor Society Student at Hopkinton High School, recently received several honors. Cooper was nominated to the United States Military Academy at West Point NY by both Senator Maggie Hassan and Congresswoman Annie Kuster, which he…

H-D freshmen trio captures DECA 1st place

After ten days of competing against other high schools in a global competition, a team of three students from Hillsboro-Deering High School have qualified for the DECA International Conference in April 2019 in the area of Sports & Entertainment Management. The Sports and Entertainment Management team, made up of freshmen Emily Ferguson, Kelsey Powell, and Irena Rose, finished in…

Franklin snowmobiler falls through the ice

A snowmobiler was rescued after he fell through the ice on Webster Lake in Franklin on Friday. Crews were called to the area off Webster Lake Road about 4 p.m. and when they arrived, the man was partially submerged in the water and balancing himself on his snowmobile. Rescuers deployed a flotation device and

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hopkinton 50, Hillsboro-Deering 20: The Hawks jumped out to an early lead and held on. Hopkinton 45, Somersworth 16: The Hawks led wire-to-wire to pick up their eighth win of the season…

BOYS HOCKEY

Stark/Hopkinton 9, Laconia/Winnisquam 0: Senior Paul Molnar scored a pair of goals and had an assist – giving him his 100th career point – head coach Denis Kolehmainen earned his 100th coaching victory and junior Brett Patnode scored a hat trick to lift the undefeated General Hawks to their 10th straight win…

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The Messenger – January 25, 2019

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Download The Messenger - January 25, 2019 (pdf)Hillsboro Lions host 1st Annual High School Sing Off

Lovers of good music will want to attend the 1st Annual High School Sing Off being held at 7 PM on February 16th at the Hillsboro-Deering Middle School Cafetorium. The High School Choruses from ConVal Regional, Kearsarge Regional, Newport and Hillsboro-Deering High Schools will face off in competitive performances for a grand prize of…

Duncan-Jenkins Trust distributes $322,215.06 to H-D & Washington

A full house gathered Thursday at the Hillsboro-Deering Middle School Cafetorium for the Annual Duncan-Jenkins Trust Dinner. Douglas Hatfield gave the 2018 Report of the Trustee on the Trust’s contribution to the quality of education for the teachers and students of Washington and Hillsboro-Deering…

Eight towns provide mutual aid to Weare in battling house fire

On January 16, 2019, at 8:25 p.m. the Weare Fire Department responded to a report of a building fire at 48 Blake Road. When firefighters arrived they encountered a 1-story wood framed building heavily involved in fire. Fire Chief Robert Vezina was the incident commander and struck a second alarm to summon additional personnel…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hillsboro-Deering 49, Somersworth 43: The Hillcats picked up their second win of the season on Friday night. Conant 56, Hillsboro-Deering 28: Liz Gonyea went off for a game-high 22 points as the Orioles earned their seventh consecutive win…

BOYS HOCKEY

Conant 65, Hillsboro-Deering 30: Hillsboro-Deering fell short against a powerful Conant team. Monadnock 59, Hopkinton 58: The Huskies outscored the Hawks in the first half and the deficit was one point too many for Hopkinton to overcome…

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The Messenger – January 18, 2019

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Download The Messenger - January 18, 2019 (pdf)Is Wal*Mart coming to Hillsborough or not?

No definitive answer has been given. However, Town Administrator Laura Buono recently sent the following E-mail to all town employees: “Many rumors have been circulating about the Weatherstone Crossing Project with the latest being that not only is Walmart…

Tragedy claims life of 2-year-old Newport girl who freezes to death

A 2½-year-old girl was found dead in frigid weather outside her Newport home Monday morning in what police said appeared to be a tragic accident. Newport Police said the girl, Sofia Van Schoick, apparently got out of the house overnight as temperatures dropped to about 8 degrees below zero. Neighbor Shane Rowe and his girlfriend found the…

Aerial mapping shows 1,242 of New London’s 2,800 parcels are inaccurate

Tri-Town Assessor Norm Bernaiche recently briefed the New London Select Board on the salient points on the 2019 mapping project conducted by a Professional Mapping Company well known throughout New England. The 2 ½ year project included aerial mapping, research of plans, deeds and…

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Monadnock 58, Hillsboro-Deering 27: The Hillcats were led by Morgan Racine (11 points), Erin Dean (8 points), and Zoe Kemp (6 points). Laconia 37, John Stark 32: The Sachems turned up the pressure to give the Generals their first loss of the regular season…

BOYS HOCKEY

Stark/Hopkinton 8, Pembroke/Campbell 0: Saturday’s 8-0 win against Pembroke-Campbell pushed General Hawks’ record to 8-0. Hollis/Brookline 2 ConVal/Conant 0: Following a gritty performance, it was the host Warriors who came out on top, posting a hard-fought 2-0 triumph…

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