Campton News

Senate budget writers heard impassioned pleas to keep the state's social safety net intact as they held a public hearing Thursday on the state budget recently passed by the House of Representatives.

When Spencer Hadlock got in his boat Sunday and went fishing on Lake Winona, he was pursuing his favorite hobby on a beautiful day, family members said.

In a recent article, Sen. Odell, justifying his vote against the energy moratorium, stated that the government should not be in charge of "picking winners and losers in the production of renewable energy." Sen.

Bert Bingel of Bert's Better Beers in Hooksett sends me a "raft" note by e-mail every now and again - as in, "Jim, a new raft of beers just came in." This, of course, prompts a trip to Community Plaza, just off Interstate 93's Exit 9 North to see what's in store.

The Select Board voted unanimously Thursday to move ahead with two companies that submitted bids in connection with the temporary bridge that will be constructed on the 2nd N.H. Turnpike: A & B Lumber out of Pembroke and Hansen Bridge of New London.