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

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.

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.

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.

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

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, ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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