New London News

Jessica Bates, of Methuen, and Victoria Forbes, of Townsend, graduated from Middlesex Community College on Thursday, May 23, with associate degrees in liberal studies.

Sigmund Romberg's 1920s operetta speaks to a still-contemporary climate of socio-political scandals, this one involving a prince who falls for a commoner and has to weigh matters of the heart against stately duty.

When a strike temporarily shut down The New York Times in 1978, former Rolling Stone publisher Lawrence A. Durocher Jr. joined other editors and writers to publish a parody newspaper called "Not The New York Times."

The season's first pair of nesting loons was recorded May 11 on Pleasant Lake in New London, according to The Loon Preservation Committee, an organization that works to restore and maintain the state's loon population.

The Loon Preservation Committee says it recorded the season's first pair of nesting loons on May 11 on Pleasant Lake in New London.

Jessica Bates, left, of Methuen, and Victoria Forbes, of Townsend, show off their diplomas after the Middlesex Community College graduation ceremony at Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

Since early April New London has been trying to figure out how its respected longtime police chief, David Seastrand, disappeared into an abrupt retirement after his resignation and relinquishment of police credentials following accusations made by an 18-year-old Colby-Sawyer College student.

A woman who dedicated much of her life to serving with the New England K-9 Search and Rescue group has received the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission's highest honor.