WARREN—For visitors to Warren, three things stand out: the Redstone Missile conspicuously aimed at the sky from its village common launchpad is one. The second is the historical marker commemorating U.S. Senator Norris Cotton (1900–1989), who was born in Warren and for whom Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s cancer center is named.
The town’s other claim to fame is little Sarah Whitcher, the subject of a folktale. Sometime in the early 1780s, this young daughter of early settler John Whitcher got lost in the woods and was protected, it is said, by a bear.

PIERMONT—Piermonters may soon have less choice in the list of high school options to send local students.
Piermont has officially designated Woodsville, Oxbow, and Rivendell as receiving high schools. Those schools are located in towns bordering Piermont, which maintains the k-8 Piermont Village School.

BRADFORD—The Bradford Selectboard shot down a request from the planning board to study improved bike and pedestrian travel on the Lower Plain.
Board members voted 3-2 last week in rejecting the request for a $60,000 scoping study of bike and pedestrian access along Route 5 between the Waits River and the Route 25 intersection.

BRADFORD—Several area residents, including one facing federal weapons charges, were arrested last week after a series of break-ins and burglaries in Bradford over the last month.
According to a news release from the Bradford Police Department, several search warrants were obtained as part of the investigation, including at least three carried out at the Bradford Motel. As a result of the searches, stolen property from the burglaries was recovered and several people are also now facing drug charges, including possession of heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine.

VERSHIRE—Town meeting was held in person on May 22 this year with David Hooke presiding as town moderator as he has for 25 years.
An informational meeting on Saturday enjoyed a strong breeze while Sunday’s town meeting was hot for May, even under a striped tent behind the Town Center. The typical hot soup lunch, appreciated in March, was absent. Sunday’s meeting instead cooled by Justin Will’s iced coffee.