Lyndeborough News

The town's veterans memorials have a new temporary home, just in time for Wednesday's Veteran's Day celebration, but the hasty relocation has upset some residents who say they shouldn't have been moved without an approving town vote.

Staff photo by COREY PERRINE Lucille Greer of Norridgewock, Maine looks on at the Korean War Memorial Friday, Oct.

" Sherri Edwards received her last text message from Michelle Boehm on Wednesday, and, typical of the woman she called her best friend, it said, "I love you and I miss you." Not many hours later Boehm, a 48-year-old Milford resident, died on Amherst Street in Nashua.

Calling the site an a oeeyesore,a four residents asked Lyndeborough selectmen last week whether they could do anything about a lot on Route 31 north owned by the United Church of Lyndeborough.

My letter of Aug. 16, "She wasn't impressed with U.K. health care," drew responses from Dennis Ryder of Nashua, Shirl Garhart of Peterborough and Mike Beebe of Lyndeborough.

When Neal Cass bought the small town Hancock Cash Market after graduating with a business administration degree from the University of New Hampshire, he was forced to learn how to fill in as the cashier and butcher.

This year Lyndeborough's 5-year-olds are attending kindergarten classes at Milford Early Learning Center, but where will they go next year? The school district has nine students at the school, with guaranteed space for two more.

It began with a body in the woods. A man had been shot and his corpse dumped in Sharon, in a stretch of forest no different than those in backyards across the Monadnock region.

Energy expenses can add up quickly - for Milford they reached $1.04 million between Jan.

There are many good reasons - and few, if any, negative ones - for the Mason School District to withdraw from School Administrative Unit 63, according to Superintendent/Special Education Director Deb Bemis.

With winter three months away, emergency services officials in Amherst and other local communities have formed Community Emergency Response Teams made up of residents with a variety of backgrounds to pitch in when unusual situations demand additional resources.

One of the few dairy farms left in the Nashua area has taken to selling its most recognizable product directly to consumers.

For a look at the promise and difficulty of moving from traditional wholesale agriculture to direct-to-consumer farming, consider Woodmont Orchards' operation in Lyndeborough.

The loud booms that have been rumbling through the hills and dales of northern sections of Lyndeborough, Mont Vernon and Amherst the past few days have ceased for now, according to a spokesman for the New Boston Air Force Tracking Station, where the explosions originated.

2. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" sung by Simon and Garfunkel. 3. "God Bless The Child" by Billie Holiday.

Ronald Reagan was completing the final year of his second term as the country's 40th president.

It was loud Monday afternoon outside the large, doublewide trailer that will serve as the portable classrooms at Hills Garrison Elementary School.

For some local students, the days will be a little longer but the year will be a little shorter.

About a dozen brand-new seventh-graders toured the older part of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School with their social studies teacher Michael Dring as part of their first day orientation Wednesday.

Public schools will be opening over the next week, so if your morning commute travels down a road with a school bus route, plan your schedule accordingly.