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, director of the school and a Newbury resident for eight years, is ecstatic at the prospect of finding a suitable new home.

GROTON—Meet Groton’s newest business owner, Rachel Roxanne, owner of Glamour Paw Spa.
Roxanne first opened her business in Groton in December 2023.

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 agreement, resolving the BTLA cases.

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.

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.