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Man gets over 3-year sentence for having explosive device

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to over three years in federal prison for possession of an improvised explosive device. Ryan Cortina, 34, of Somersworth, pleaded guilty in April in a plea agreement with prosecutors. He was sentenced in federal court on ...

Barrett Hill Road now ‘scenic’

WILTON – Barrett Hill Road is now designated “scenic,” following a special, petitioned, town meeting on Monday, July 18. Deputy Town Moderator Deb Degan presided. The petition, signed by over 70 residents, asked that the entire length of Barrett Hill Road, from its junction with Burton ...

Rule-breakers put Still Good Shed in jeopardy

WILTON – The Still Good Shed at the Recycling Center opened in April in a converted shipping container. Staffed twice a week, Tuesday and Saturday, by volunteers, it has proved to be immensely popular, both by those donating unwanted items and those finding treasures. The rules and ...

Local completes 45-day walking pilgrimage

The old “one-stitch-at-a-time” adage is well embraced by Christine Clement, a Nashuan and member of a Merrimack crochet group founded a decade ago by Pat Heinrich of Merrimack High School Adult Ed. But it was “one-step-at-a-time “ that recently took Clement and family friend Mireille ...

Cease and desist order issues, then rescinded

LYNDEBOROUGH – On Wednesday, July 13, the Board of Selectmen issued a cease-and-desist order against an apparent unpermitted excavation project on Dutton Road. That order was executed on Thursday by Police Chief Rance Deware accompanied by Code Enforcement Officer Leo Trudeau. Later on ...

Henry Ward Beecher sermon site latest NH historical marker

CARROLL, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s latest historical marker commemorates clergyman Henry Ward Beecher’s open-air sermon site from the 1870s near a glacial boulder in the White Mountains area. Beecher, an abolitionist, proponent of women’s suffrage, and brother to author Harriet ...