Contoocook News

A great hands-on museum in Contoocook, New Hampshire for children is The Little Nature Museum.

As the members of the African choir at Contoocook United Methodist Church sang a hymn Sunday morning, their faces shone with happiness and reverence.

Aside from a big drippy ice cream cone or a game of pick-up Wiffle ball, nothing epitomes summer like a concert on the green.

Callers to some phone numbers in the Concord, N.H., area have been unable to get through, and a spokeswoman for FairPoint Communicaitons confirms there's a been a problem with some exchanges.

As it has every spring for the last 35 years, the Great Smith River Canoe and Kayak Race took off from Albee Beach on Lake Wentworth on Saturday afternoon.

Check it out! 33rd Annual NH Sheep and Wool Festival When: Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and May 10 Where: Hopkinton State Fairgrounds, Contoocook Cost: $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, free for children under 12 More information: Check out the NH Sheep & Wool Growers Association at nhswga.org The 33rd Annual New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival will ...

Three people and a dog were in a Contoocook home when fire broke out Tuesday morning.

A two-alarm fire leveled an unoccupied home in Contoocook on Tuesday morning, though no one was injured in the blaze.

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A body that may be a kayaker missing since February has been recovered from an island off the coast of New Hampshire The Coast Guard and New Hampshire Marine Patrol recovered the body from the rocks of Lunging Island on the New Hampshire side of the Isles of Shoals.

My Turn, a nonprofit youth development agency that serves about 200 teens and young adults each year in the Nashua and Manchester area, has hired two new employees.

Bow officials last week filed a lawsuit against three companies contracted to fix the bridge that connects Dunklee Road over Bog Brook after serious flood damage closed it for nearly six months in 2006.

The City Council approved the $134,000 contract of Superintendent Ed McDonough Monday, despite concerns about the size of the salary and the fact that he is not required to live in the city.

Concord will rock tonight at the Capitol Center for the Arts, with some pretty notable rockers.

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After a two-day, two-night search, the Coast Guard on Sunday ended its efforts to find 59-year-old Hamilton "Toby" Wood of Contoocook, who went missing Friday afternoon on a solo kayak trip to the Isles of ...

Author: Strathspey-Herald Source: Strathspey-Herald Title: POLICE PROBE 'PAGAN' ATTACKS ON CHURCH The congregation of a Grantown church has been alarmed by a year-long series of "pagan" attacks culminating in ...

The Coast Guard has called offA a search for a kayakerA two days after the man went missingA off the New Hampshire coast.

The Coast Guard says crews are searching for a missing kayaker along the Maine and New Hampshire coast.

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