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Alton, New Hampshire is located in Belknap County. Zip codes in Alton, NH include 03809. More Alton information.

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Saturday | The Citizen

Frisbie Hospital adds paramedic intercept truck to emergency fleet

Frisbie Memorial Hospital added a paramedic intercept truck to its fleet to help streamline the response to emergencies throughout the area.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Citizen

No jail time in Alton road death: Judge relents to wishes of victim's family

Daryl Carlson/Citizen photo With his attorney Mark Sisti by his side, Ryan Sell, who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in the death of Robert Richey last year in Alton, apologizes to Richey's relatives in Belknap County Superior Court during his sentencing Wednesday.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Carroll County Independent

Tax rates bring mixed news

The recent setting of Alton, Barnstead, and New Durham's respective tax rates has brought a mixture of good and bad news to local property owners.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Citizen

N.H. unemployment rate continues creep upward

New Hampshire's unadjusted unemployment rate for September continued its upward creep to stand at 7.0 percent, compared to 6.9 percent in August and 3.9 percent in September 2008.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

Granite State News

From Salerno to Stark

ALTON RESIDENT ALLAN GURNEY today and as he appeared in his early 20s as a young private in the U.S. Army.

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Mountain Ear

Board approves $9.7 million preliminary budget

Following a final look at the Alton School District's proposed operating budget for the 2011 fiscal year, school board members voted Monday night to approve a preliminary grand total of $9,743,457. Pointing out that the total approved by the board did not include Alton's share of the operating budget for Prospect Mountain High School, ...

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Sun Oct 18, 2009

UnionLeader

Victim says attacker being paroled too soon

He was an angry sophomore high school student who attacked an Alton shopkeeper with a clam rake in 1991 and left her for dead.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

Press Releases

Strong Fundraising and Team Building Shows Momentum for Guinta

Manchester, NH The energy and excitement around Frank Guinta's 1st District bid for Congress has exploded in the past several weeks, with 399 donors, a strong fundraising report, and 100 County Captains.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

The Meredith News

Grand jury indicts Alton man charged with threatening to blow up police barracks

An Alton man who in August allegedly threatened to kill a State Trooper and an Ossipee Police Officer and blow up the State Police barracks in Tamworth has been indicted on three misdemeanor level criminal threatening charges.

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Sat Oct 10, 2009

The Citizen

Holiday weekend lures tourists

State tourism officials are confident the combination of great weather, spectacular fall foliage and modest gasoline prices will bring as many as 590,000 visitors to New Hampshire this Columbus Day weekend.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

WMUR-TV Manchester

Parents Alerted After H1N1 Diagnosed In Alton Student

Parents of students of a New Hampshire school are being put on alert after they were notified that a student was diagnosed with H1N1.

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Tue Sep 15, 2009

Carroll County Independent

Changing of the guard

As the atmosphere within Alton's Police Department begins to settle down after a three-year period of internal turmoil and personnel changes at all levels, one more changing of the guard will take place early next month, when current chief Phil Smith hands the reins over to his newly-promoted second in command, Ryan Heath.

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The Record Enterprise

An a'maize'ing undertaking

MIKE AND KATHY CURRIER enjoy the view from the raised observation platform at the center of their new cornfield maze, located at the Lake Knoll Farm in Alton.

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Fri Sep 11, 2009

The Boston Globe

NH issues first foliage report of the season

New Hampshire's official leaf peepers say green is just starting to give way to red in a few scattered spot as foliage season begins.

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Sun Sep 06, 2009

UnionLeader

Class climb provides important lesson

As students head off to college this fall, there are plenty of things for them to worry about: Passing classes, making friends, decorating dorms, getting invited to the right parties, the freshman 15.

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Thu Sep 03, 2009

UnionLeader

It's a nice day (and night) for a swim

A North Conway man has completed the first ever double swim of Lake Winnipesaukee, spending more than 24 hours in the water during the 42-mile swim.

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Tue Sep 01, 2009

The Meredith News

Seybert, Bennett top rainy Old Home Day 5K

Mother Nature wasn't exactly cooperative with Barnstead's Old Home Day celebration on Saturday, Aug.

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Sat Aug 29, 2009

WCAX-TV Burlington

Bus, 2 vehicles collide in NH road

Authorities say part of a road in Alton, N.H., was closed after a collision between a school bus carrying 23 students and two vehicles, and at least four people were taken to hospitals.

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Fri Aug 28, 2009

The Citizen

Alton school bus in three-vehicle crash:Two drivers hurt, two students transported to hospital

Two people were injured and two students were transported as a precaution after a three-vehicle accident involving a Prospect Mountain High School-bound school bus on Route 28 Thursday morning.

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Thu Aug 27, 2009

UnionLeader

Four hurt in crash involving school bus

Four people were taken to area hospitals after a three-vehicle crash on Rte. 28 at 11:20 this morning.

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