NORTH HAVERHILL—Lynn Perry, 70, of Newbury was badly injured over the weekend after his gyrocopter crashed at the Dean Memorial Airport. He was found by two people who noticed the wreck while walking by early Sunday afternoon.
As of Tuesday morning, Perry was being treated in the burn unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston after being transported by ambulance from Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon on Monday afternoon. Low visibility prevented him from being airlifted between the two hospitals.

WELLS RIVER—Little Rivers Health Care has launched a capital campaign to expand services in the region.
The campaign, People You Know, The Care You Trust, will leverage both public and philanthropic contributions to invest in its facilities, some of which date to as early as 1765.
LRHC has received a gift of $100,000 from the Rowe family, whose parents Mary Whitney Rowe and Dr. Harry Rowe, first opened a family medicine practice in the iconic white farmhouse on Main Street, Wells River in 1951.

BRADFORD—Like many businesses, local senior centers are wrestling with how to adapt to the new normal. Even as programming returns to similar levels as before the pandemic, one core activity—congregate meals—has struggled to attract the same level of participation.

ORFORD—Despite the spitting rain on a gray November Sunday afternoon, customers flowed in and out of Patterson’s at a steady stream. They popped in and out for a few minutes to pick up an item or two or just to buy a lottery ticket. It it was busy without being crowded.

BRADFORD—Most of those turning out for an unusually well-attended selectboard meeting last week in Bradford went home disappointed.
At least two dozen people were there on Nov. 10 in support of a presentation by Bradford Parks and Recreation Commission Chair Jean Carlan who sought permission from the board to begin fundraising for a $450,000-$500,000 skate park. Carlan said she hoped to begin raising money in 2023 with the aim of beginning construction at Elizabeth’s Park in 2024.