Lempster News

One of the biggest worldwide stories of the decade, the push for alternative energy prodded by concern about climate change, got a boost here in 2009 as the Lempster Mountain Wind Farm went online.

I wish everyone in Lowell could have taken the bus with GMP and VEC to see the wind towers in Lempster, N.H. We had heard so much about how noisy and ugly the turbines will be, but I can tell you that when I stood only 2,000 feet away from them -- and they were generating at the time -- I couldn't hear a thing.

A New Hampshire woman was severely burned after her house caught on fire. It happened late Saturday night on Nichols Road in Lempster.

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I just returned from a 12-day visit to Spain. Almost everywhere I went, by bus, train and car, ridgelines and hilltops were crowned by wind turbines.

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has awarded $5,000 in matching funds that will go toward studying the possibility of raising a larger sum that would enable a number of improvements to Weeks State Park.

A governor-appointed Gaming Study Commission is expected to determine what effect various forms of gambling could have on the state's quality of life.

OOPS. Speaker of the House Terie Norelli let a little secret slip last week. She mentioned a legislative economic summit that's still in the planning stages when she met with the Portsmouth Herald's editorial board.

Gov. John Lynch chose high-powered leaders in politics, labor, law enforcement, education, business and tourism to serve on his 15-member commission to independently explore the pros and cons of expanded gambling in New Hampshire.

Gov. John Lynch has filled almost all of the membership of his Gambling Study Commission, which was established in July to undertake a comprehensive study of the ramifications of expanding gambling in New Hampshire.

Gov. John Lynch today announced the members of the Gaming Study Commission, created through Executive Order last month to conduct a review of various models for expanded gaming in New Hampshire.

Today I will indulge in the columnist's prerogative and write about my summer vacation North of the Notches and in Maine.

Anna H. Currier, 84, of Ayers Road, died Tuesday, July 28, 2009, at home. Anna was born July 29, 1924, in Woodstock, Vt., to the late Milford and Sophie Horton.

If melting polar ice caps don't do it for you, maybe thoughts of a sticky summer below the Mason-Dixon line will.

In his 30 years on Mount Washington, Jim Reichert thought he had seen it all from the summit -- the moose, the unicyclist, the Segway -- until yesterday morning.

A camel celebrated "hump" day in grand style Wednesday. Josh, a dromedary camel from Lempster, N.H., became the first camel ever to make the trek to the summit of Mount Washington.

Hikers and bikers have scaled Mount Washington, the Northeast's highest mountain.

Ever since Darby Field made the first ascent of Mount Washington, others seeking to be first have followed.

A former, 10-year Democratic state legislator is President Barack Obama's choice to be executive director for the New Hampshire Farm Service Agency with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Board of Selectmen accepted a proposal from Aquatech Irrigation to perform the turn-off and winterization of the town's four irrigation systems for a total cost of $1,037. Originally, the Board of Selectmen rejected a proposal for Aquatech to both turn the systems off and turn them on in the spring.