WOODSVILLE—Woodsville Precinct will take its case for more than $600,000 appropriated at Haverhill Town Meeting in March to court. The precinct has filed suit against the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration after the state agency invalidated two petitioned warrant articles.
Voters may be familiar with the two candidates squaring off to represent the Orange-Caledonia District at the Statehouse.
The race for the Orange 2 House seat features two fresh faces for the Statehouse.
Bobby Farlice-Rubio is the only registered candidate in Caledonia 1.
WOODSVILLE—The fire that destroyed a vacant commercial building on Dartmouth College Highway in Woodsville last month was inadvertently caused by juveniles, according to state investigators.
Firefighters responded to the blaze near the Forest Street intersection during the early morning hours of Sept. 28. The fire completely destroyed the 10,000 square foot building, which once housed the Way We Were Radio Shack/movie rental/furniture store.
NEWBURY—After years of leasing the Newbury Village Fire Station, the Town of Newbury is obtaining ownership from the village trustees for the grand total of $1.
According to Newbury Selectboard Chair Alma Roystan, “Ownership has been discussed for a number of years on how to best serve the town and contain costs.”
Taking ownership of the Newbury fire station building will allow the town to expand and renovate to accommodate equipment. There is no immediate plan to acquire a new fire engine and one could not fit in the current three-bay structure anyway.
After a long, arduous “multi-level process,” Eaton’s ancestral home in West Fairlee “from valley to ridgeline” will be conserved in perpetuity. The property sits on over 400 hundred acres of fields and forest with meandering streams surrounded by green hills.
Orange County Sheriff: Incumbent Bill Bohnyak, 64, has served as sheriff for the past 15 years. He’s being challenged by Orange County High Bailiff George Contois, 73, a former deputy at the department who worked for almost three decades with the Vermont State Police.
Orange 1 House District race: State Rep. Samantha Lefebvre, R-Orange, hopes to win reelection, while former Rep. Carl Demrow, D-Corinth, is aiming to return to the capitol.
Orange County Senate race: Incumbent state Sen. Mark MacDonald, D-Williamstown, and former gubernatorial candidate John Klar, a Republican from Brookfield, are each focusing on how the state should respond to two global issues in their race for the Orange County Senate District seat: climate change and fractured supply chains.
BRADFORD—Last month, residents in several area towns received a glossy flyer from Seminars Unlimited of Keene, Texas promoting a free “Prophecy Seminar” to be held at Oxbow High School on Oct. 7.
According to the flyer, the seminar would be continued on Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Attendees would receive free Bibles and study guides and would gain insight about the future and “hope in these days of uncertainty.” They would be given “specific and dramatic revelations of things to come—not from the psychics but “from the unfailing Word of God.”
Social media lit up immediately with commentary from community members.
FAIRLEE—Rivendell could turn to an outside company to develop a long-term maintenance plan for the district’s three campuses.
After a presentation at a meeting last week, the board authorized multinational corporation Honeywell to conduct a deeper dive of the district’s capital project needs.
BATH—Route 135 north of Woodsville is closed for three weeks. NH Department of Transportation will implement the extended closure for retaining wall work at the Narrows. It will last through Nov. 1, according to an announcement.
Work at the site was initiated in the spring and led to the temporary closure this summer and fall of one lane with Jersey barriers. Also, two temporary traffic lights at either end of the Narrows were installed.
BRADFORD—Mike and Kelly Morrissette are set to open Running Water Recreation Center on Saturday next to the Orange East Senior Center.
Upon entering space at 176 Waits River Road, visitors are met with 8,300 square feet in a family- friendly setting featuring brightly colored walls, sports equipment abound and dazzling bounce houses.
Years ago, it was the home of Upper Valley Press, then the Bradford Teen Center. Most recently, it briefly served as the temporary home of Old Church Theater.