Alton News

Investigators from the state Fire Marshal's Office are looking into what caused a fire at a home late Sunday night.

Police using hand-held extinguishers stopped a one-alarm fire from spreading at a Main Street home Sunday.

In an effort to fulfill the intent of a Warrant article passed by voters in 2007, the board of selectmen voted Monday night to form an advisory committee charged with examining energy usage in town buildings.

EVER THE BOOKWORM, retired Alton Central School Reading Director Jackie Verville poses for a photo while packing up her office on June 25.

Dr. Frederick Samuels, of Alton, died June 16, 2009, at the Hyder Family Hospice House in Dover, with family and friends at his side.

Mother Nature didn't allow the Prospect Mountain High School Class of 2009 to hold its commencement exercises outdoors on Friday, June 19, but that didn't damper the spirits of the newest crop of former Timber Wolves.

The birth of Brady Glidden early Friday morning was perfectly normal, besides the fact that his mother gave birth to him in a car along Route 11 in the pouring rain.

Check it out! Don't miss the chance to see Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne.

The board of selectmen joined forces with Fire Chief Scott Williams Monday night in an effort to urge visiting members of the Belknap County Commission to keep funding for the Lakes Region Mutual Fire Aid Association in place at the county level.

FEMA's rejection of its application for a competitive grant has the town seeking alternate funding to stabilize the Suncook River, which changed its course during the Mother's Day flood of 2006.

Firefighters had to rescue two Rochester fisherman after their boat overturned on Gilman Pond Wednesday night.

Gay marriage faces two more hurdles if New Hampshire is to become the sixth state to allow gays to marry -- votes in the Senate and House today.

A Middleton woman was transported to the hospital after her vehicle flipped onto its roof along Route 11 Monday afternoon.

There was an outpouring of grief following Stacey Burns' funeral at St. Katharine Drexel Roman Catholic Church in Alton on Friday.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 EJ Hersom/Staff photographer Gas prices in Rochester are well above the $2 a gallon mark as posted on a self-service price sign Monday.

There were a lot of new things about the Big Lake Half Marathon this year. A new primary sponsor came on board in Harvard Pilgrim.

A 10-year-old New Hampshire boy discovered $8,160 in a bag that was lost by a woman during an October house fire, the woman's sister said.

By the end of May, Fox Tale Books owner Mary McHale anticipates her bookstore will be moving from New Durham to Alton.

A month after an Easter fire destroyed one of the oldest sections of the Christian Conference Center in Alton, N.H., the work of the center goes on.

As part of our mission to "engage the community in the joy of learning," the library reaches out in many ways to provide its services to our patrons.