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Keene, New Hampshire is located in Cheshire County. Zip codes in Keene, NH include 03435, and 03431. The median home price in Keene is $189,500. More Keene information.

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Friday | The Brattleboro Reformer

Chase suspect is wanted man in Virginia

A man who led police on a two-state vehicle pursuit before abandoning his stolen car in Hinsdale, N.H., and taking off on foot, was arraigned in court in Keene, N.H., Thursday.

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Friday | Concord Monitor

Letter: Let the homeless stay

That is the only place they know of as home. They should be able to stay there and not be moved.

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Thu May 23, 2013

UnionLeader.com

Hundreds of Monadnock Region students team with professional musicians

'Dance Me a Story,' an original show by New Hampshire Dance Institute's artistic director Kristen Leach, is set for stage this weekend at the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond in Keene.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Examiner.com

'Robin Hoods' feeding parking meters get sued by New Hampshire city

Good Samaritans in the New Hampshire city of Keene , otherwise known as "Robin Hoods," are being sued by the municipal government after the anti-government group decided to feed coins in expired parking meters before officers write tickets.

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Sun May 19, 2013

Examiner.com

N.H. group commits random acts of kindness: Government attacks them

Case in point: A New Hampshire group who drop pocket change into expired parking meters have now found themselves on the receiving end of a government lawsuit, as reported by CBS Connecticut/WTIC on 18 May, 2013.

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Fri May 17, 2013

The Brattleboro Reformer

The family that sings together ... For 20 years, the River...

There's a signpost at the foot of the little hill where the Westminster West Congregational Church stands that's covered with signs pointing out the distances from there to other places in the world.

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Thu May 16, 2013

UnionLeader.com

Keene man trying to save former presidential yacht of President Harry Truman

New Hampshire resident Steve Lindsey of Keene said to the Maine Portland Press Herald that "The USS Williamsburg, restored, would look grand near DiMillo's in Portland Harbor, painted glistening white.

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Moonbattery

Good Samaritans Sued by Municipal Moonbats

Garret Ean is one of six people named in a lawsuit filed by Keene [New Hampshire]. Ean and his group of friends call themselves Robin Hood of Keene.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Reuters

Parking meter 'Robin Hoods' provoke New Hampshire city's ire

In December James Cleaveland made an unusual New Year's resolution: to do all he could to keep police in the city of Keene, New Hampshire, from issuing parking tickets.

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WJNO

City Sues 'Robin Hood' Group For Paying Expired Parking Meters

The city of Keene, New Hampshire, is suing a group of do-gooders for allegedly topping off parking meters of strangers.

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WCAX-TV Burlington

Middlesex school bond shot down

The last major improvements at Rumney Memorial School were in 1991. School Board members say the kitchen, boilers and structure need fixing.

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WCAX-TV Burlington

Keene class wins NH video tourism contest

A fourth-grade class from Keene, N.H., has won a trip to the top of Mount Washington by creating a video that promotes tourism spots around the state.

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UnionLeader.com

Fire experts will be allowed to testify in Keene murder trial

The court also reversed the trial court's ruling that a 2002 recorded telephone conversation in which prime suspect Daniel McLeod admitted he set a couch inside the building on fire is admissible at trial.

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Tue May 14, 2013

The Florida Times-Union

Winn-Dixie outsources logistics; says no layoffs expected

A New Hampshire company is taking over all the buying, warehousing and transportation for Winn-Dixie. All of the grocery chain's employees involved in those activities will become employees of C&S Wholesale Grocers.

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Washington Times

New Hampshire city suing 'Robin Hood' for paying parking meters of strangers

The city of Keene, N.H., is suing "Robin Hood and his Merry Men" - a group that has made a name for itself by paying people's parking meters before they can get slapped with a ticket from local parking enforcement officers.

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Foster's Daily Democrat

NH court to rule in Keene arson case

The New Hampshire Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in the case of a man charged with the 1989 arson deaths of four members of a Keene family.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

Jaffrey: The mountain that shaped our region

Jackie Stetser, a board member of Rabbit Ear Films, left, and Donna Kluk, right, at the summit of Mount Monadnock on January 1, 2013.

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UnionLeader.com

Keene firefighters battle two blazes eight hours apart

Firefighters are battling a three-alarm blaze on Grove Street this morning, after extinguishing a blaze last night that destroyed a garage on Marlboro Road.

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Sun May 12, 2013

UnionLeader.com

Coalition hosts educational festival celebrating wonders of water

Last week the New Hampshire Drinking Water Coalition, along with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, celebrated Drinking Water Week by sponsoring a water festival and science fair at the Concord drinking water treatment plant.

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Boston.com

For freshman in Congress, courting cash is job 1

US Representative Ann McLane Kuster, a freshman Democrat from New Hampshire, toured Knappe & Koester Inc.

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