Mont Vernon News

MONT VERNON Route 13 near Lyndeborough Road is shut down this morning because of a fatal motor vehicle crash, according to the state Traffic Management Center in Concord.

Kathy Cleveland photo Martha Shadwell, of Goffstown, with her baby, Jeanne, talks to Dan Bellemore on the opening day of his Mont Vernon General Store Saturday.

Mont Vernon police said Chief Kyle Aspinwall captured the goat Monday after a resident on Francestown Turnpike found it in the garage.

For eight generations members of the Wilkins family have harvested local timber to feed their sawmill in Milford.

Since 1840, the Mont Vernon General Store has been part of the landscape of the small town.

We read with great interest the criteria used by the folks at Newsweek magazine to list Oyster River High School as one of the top 2,000 high schools in the country - at 753rd.

This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, May 7. An adult Mississippi kite was seen flying overhead in the vicinity of the traffic circle on Route 33 in Stratham on May 3. Four sandhill cranes were seen flying overhead in North Sandwich on May 7. A red-headed woodpecker has been coming to a birdfeeder on Grafton Road in ... (more)

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the conviction of one of the killers in a 2009 Mont Vernon home invasion.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court is expected to release a ruling in the case of a man seeking to reverse his conviction for the murder of a woman hacked to death with a machete.

The old inn on Main Street in Mont Vernon is getting a new life as high-end condominiums.

Although Police Chief Kyle Aspinwall witnessed Mont Vernon's darkest hour, he has also had the opportunity to watch the community rise up and come together in the face of horror.

A man convicted of hacking a woman to death with a machete and maiming her daughter during a home invasion is being re-sentenced in New Hampshire, though he could end up with the same outcome: life without parole, plus 76 years.

The annual household hazardous waste collection in Milford will be held Saturday, May 4, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Milford Public Works Garage, 289 South Street , Milford.

A Mont Vernon police sergeant was justified in shooting a man in January in what the victim's father called ''suicide by cop,'' the New Hampshire attorney general ruled Thursday.

Skiers Jake and Jennifer Vezina of Greenfield prepared for a run down a trail at Crotched Mountain ski area, accompanied by, from left, CMARS Program Assistant Jeff Burnett of Mont Vernon and volunteers Mick Brown of Dublin and Dan Fotter of Francestown.