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.

WOODSVILLE—The fire that destroyed a vacant commercial building near a busy intersection last week is under investigation.
On Sept. 28 at approximately 3 a.m., a passer-by called 911 to report the old Modern Furniture/Way We Were building, located at 4475 Dartmouth College Highway near the Forest Street intersection, had visible flames shooting through the roof.
Upon arrival, the Woodsville Fire Department found the 10,000 square foot wooden structure to be fully engulfed.

GROTON—For almost 13 years, Zac Conaway of Groton has been trying to get a former colleague, Jamil, out of Afghanistan. The efforts intensified just before the Taliban takeover a little more than one year ago, but thus far have been unsuccessful.
While deployed with the U.S. Army in 2009, Conaway transported material in support of various battalions located in the Kunar River Valley. For about a year, Jamil was assigned to Conaway as translator. In order to keep Jamil’s identity concea

NORTH HAVERHILL—The teenage driver of a pickup truck that killed a 14-year-old girl in a 2019 fatal crash could avoid jail time after he pleaded guilty on Friday.
Jeffrey Dumais, then 16, was driving an unregistered 2008 Honda Ridgeline on Oct. 13, 2019 when he lost control on River Road in Bath and struck a tree.
Dumais and one passenger, James Crews, sustained injuries. A second passenger, Krystina Crews, died at the scene.

FAIRLEE—The Fairlee Selectboard extended the building moratorium around Lake Morey on Monday night following a public hearing. An initial one-year moratorium was set to expire on Sept. 27.
Still, town officials said they are hopeful of lifting the moratorium well before September 2023. They hope to put proposed zoning bylaw amendments in front of voters next spring that would increase oversight of new building and septic capacity around the densely developed lakeshore.