Groveton News

For more than a year landowners and a conservation group have been trying to keep Northern Pass from finding a route through Northern Coos County.

Sophie Byk Wilson died peacefully Sunday, March 24, 2013 at Rockingham County Nursing Home, Brentwood, with her husband by her side.

Maple tapping at The Rocks Estate in Bethlehem last season, New Hampshire sugarmakers are predicting this year's maple season will likely be even better than last due to the prolonged winter weather.

Michael King, executive director of North Country Council, the regional planning commission and economic development planning district agency for the northern part of the state, announced he is stepping down.

Both sides in the chess game over the Northern Pass made moves recently, with 319 acres sold to the transmission line project for $5 million, while the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests acquired additional easements in its ongoing "blocking action." Jack Savage, spokesman for the society, confirmed that Northern Pass partners, ... (more)