NEWBURY—Newbury Village will welcome Marshfield School of Weaving in mid-September.The school’s current lease in Marshfield will cease at summer’s end. Thanks to the foresight of the Newbury Woman’s Club, however, the weaving school’s new home in Newbury Village on the Common is the old Methodist Church, which the club purchased in the 1960s. Justin Squizzero, […]
ORFORD—A special meeting of the Rivendell Interstate School District will be held on June 1 at 10 a.m. to appropriate an operating budget for 2024-2025. The first attempt to pass a budget for the four-town district failed on April 13 by a vote of 240-143.
GROTON—Meet Groton’s newest business owner, Rachel Roxanne, owner of Glamour Paw Spa. Roxanne first opened her business in Groton in December 2023.
BRADFORD—On June 1, downtown Bradford will be bustling with vendors and shoppers, excited to celebrate the warmer weather and interact with community members. The first-ever Spring Globe Festival, sponsored by the Bradford Business Association and Bradford Parks & Recreation in conjunction with the Bradford Conservation Commission, will begin at 10 a.m., with vendors on sidewalks, […]
WOODSVILLE—Haverhill will pay Walmart nearly $300,000 under the terms of a settlement agreement finalized last month. The settlement stems from a property tax appeal filed by the Arkansas-based retail behemoth before the New Hampshire Board of Tax and Appeals. As part of the litigation, the two sides met in mediation, which led to the settlement […]
PIERMONT—Activists have sued to block two White Mountain National Forest logging projects, including one planned for the shores of Lake Tarleton in Piermont and Warren. Standing Trees, an environmental conservation group based in Montpelier, and the Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic filed the lawsuit in federal court in New Hampshire last week.
NEWBURY—Four area fire departments battled an intense blaze for over six hours the evening of May 7 into the early morning hours of May 8 at 29 Fiske Road, near the village of South Ryegate. Wells River, Newbury, Ryegate, and Woodsville fire departments responded to the 1900s-era two-story home at 9:16 p.m. on May 7.
NEWBURY—Newbury Elementary School Librarian and Educational Technologist Laurie Williams has won the 2024 Outstanding School Libarian Award.
NORTH HAVERHILL—Upper Valley Press has gone quiet. The longtime commercial printing company began in the early 1970s in Bradford and moved in the late 1990s to North Haverhill to expand, fell victim to the decline in the print industry and ceased operations earlier this month.
In compliance with votes taken at town meeting in March, selectboards in both Bradford and Thetford have sent letters to the White House in recent weeks calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.