New Ipswich News

With the new tax rate set at a 30 percent increase, the Select Board is weighing the option of having voters decide whether to restore or demolish the former, mold-infested police station located at the town office complex.

On the anniversary of the ice storm that knocked out power for days in more than 400,000 residences and businesses across the state, members of PSNH, the state house, the town, and others gathered at Boynton Middle School to remember the heroes who made a difference.

An event yesterday at Boynton Middle School culled some warmth from the ice storm of 2008, one of the biggest disasters to strike New Hampshire in modern history.

They aren't the usual tree ornaments, but the mittens that hang on the Christmas tree at the United Church of Jaffrey are symbols of the caring and giving that goes on in the community throughout the year.

Staff file photo by GRANT MORRIS Raool Vaz, left, and Pat Dubreil double check their workmanship on Mike Roth's roof in Merrimack right after December's ice storm struck in 2008.

While Northfield selectmen may have been looking for more residents at their Nov.

The Ledger-Transcript recently provided a list of questions to officials at Monadnock Community Hospital relating to vaccine updates, local policies, emergency plans and where residents can find more information.

Many of the nation's newspapers are in financial trouble. Reduced readership and the presence of the online editions of newspapers have cut deeply into the profitability of selling a printed paper version.

By a vote of 150-11, Mason voters on Tuesday completed the process of making their school district completely independent.

Joseph Diab of Jaffrey wants to know why gasoline is 10 cents to 20 cents more expensive in his hometown than in most other towns in the region.

All midterm elections are a good bellwether of the mood of the body politic, but 2010 has greater importance, because the results will change where candidates all across New Hampshire have to run in the future.

Except for the more than usual flow for this time of year, both the Merrimack and Souhegan Rivers have returned to their normal cleanliness when measured this week by the Souhegan Watershed Association and Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee volunteers.

Work on a new "outdoor classroom" at the Grater Woods Town Forest in Merrimack begins this week, and organizers are calling for all hands on deck.

Celebrate "America's Kitchens," Historic New England's newest publication, with a talk and book signing by co-author and curator Nancy Carlisle at 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

Deepak Chopra, world renowned authority in the field of mind-body healing, says 'Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet-it's a way of entering the quiet that's already there-buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.' On Sunday, September 13, a wooded retreat center in New Ipswich will be hosting a mindfulness ...

A local man crashed his motorcycle into a swamp Wednesday night, while police were in pursuit of the 2000 Suzuki GSXR 750 on Turnpike Road.

Before Mason officially withdrew from the Mascenic School District on July 1, the town was contributing $1,911,704 annually to the school district.

The Governor Wentworth Regional School District Building and Maintenance Committee has continued to meet regularly throughout the summer weeks in an effort to move forward on the planning of the Kingswood Complex renovation and expansion project that was passed by district voters this past March.

The Governor Wentworth Regional School District Building and Maintenance Committee has continued to meet regularly throughout the summer weeks in an effort to move forward on the planning of the Kingswood Complex renovation and expansion project that was passed by district voters this past March.

A local motorcyclist survived after rear-ending a car at roughly 100 miles an hour, police report.