BRADFORD—The Wrights Mountain Forest has recently expanded, if not officially. Last month, Upper Valley Land Trust announced it had conserved a 61-acre parcel of land near the intersection of Route 25 and Wrights Mountain Road. The parcel lies in close proximity to the 507-acre Wrights Mountain/Devil’s Den Town Forest and other protected lands.
CORINTH—The home at 82 South America Road was surrounded by the Meadow Brook on three sides. During torrential rainfall in July 2023, the typically quiet stream swept over nearby Eagle Hollow Road.
WOODSVILLE—Officials in Haverhill want help in shaping the forensic audit of town finances that was ordered at town meeting in March. To that end, they have scheduled a meeting for July 21 at 6 p.m. to receive public input in providing direction to a prospective auditor.
BRADFORD—“Today’s teens aren’t that much different from teens in the 1960s but the world they must navigate is so much more complicated.” The foregoing quote is from a mentor with The Mentoring Project of the Upper Valley, now it its 21st year, and explains one of the reasons mentors have answered the call to connect […]
In a political rebound for Gov. Kelly Ayotte, legislators voted on June 26 to largely prohibit the student use of cellphones in public schools, opting for the strictest “bell-to-bell” measure — a policy the governor had tirelessly championed since her inauguration.
BATH—The lure of gold has drawn hopeful prospectors in both New Hampshire and Vermont for decades. And people still head for the streams and hills, if they are not lucky enough to live nearby, of both the Granite and Green Mountain states.
BRADFORD—There were no reported injuries after a 70-year-old Maine man drove a car onto a footbridge in Bradford on the afternoon of June 25.
BRADFORD—Help is on the way for the crippled fleet of the Bradford Fire Department. On June 25, Bradford Selectboard Chair Meroa Benjamin and members Josh Allen, Carole Taylor, and Michael Wright opened bids for a brush, mini-pumper utility vehicle called a wildland brush and/or mini-pumper.
BURLINGTON—A former Ryegate man with a lengthy criminal history admitted in federal court on Monday to shooting at U.S. Marshals during a car chase last fall as they tried to apprehend him.
WEST BATH—It’s rare these days to have property stay in the same family for multiple generations. Today, at the Minot Farm, the ninth generation is growing up on the same farm as their ancestors did.