Newbury News

New Hampshire's Senate is scheduled to vote next week on a bill that would set up a study committee to review the Fish and Game Department's proposal to build a boat ramp on Lake Sunapee in Newbury.

A 20-year-old man who allegedly sexually assaulted two young girls in Newbury, one of them on videotape, is incompetent to stand trial because he talks only to children, not adults, and therefore can't consult with his lawyer, a judge ruled yesterday.

A program intended to protect the state's lakes from invasive exotic plants means work for 220 people across the state this summer.

The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance will recognize 13 historic preservation projects during a ceremony at the Concord City Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. today.

A lakeside cabin burned to the ground yesterday afternoon while a property maintenance worker was at the residence, fire officials said.

A Newbury man faces a heavy fine for derailing a recent sexual assault trial by researching the defendant online and allegedly telling fellow jurors the man was already a convicted sex offender.

In prioritizing the water and sewer projects where stimulus dollars will be directed, state officials say they're trying to spread the $56 million as far as possible - but the recipients will still be few, and their cut of the money thinner than expected.

Newport's bid for federal stimulus funds to help pay for the closing of the Guild lagoons is ranked sixth on a list of 207 applications for wastewater projects in New Hampshire.

The evidence suggests that we live in an area that cherishes poets and poetry. During the last several years, the Monitor has sponsored four poetry nights at the City Auditorium, and all of them have drawn 500 people or more.

As the thaw begins and sap starts flowing, some local maple syrup producers are struggling to salvage the season after the December ice storm left sap lines broken and trees damaged across the region.

Elwood E. "Robbie" Roberts, 77, of North Road, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, at his home.

Lisa Braiterman, the business administrator for the Hillsboro-Deering School District, draws you into the annual school budget report with an animated bee buzzing up top.

Newman Durell of Newbury, a girls basketball coach at Kearsarge Regional High School, is worried about which of his e-mails will bounce back and which will make it to the people he is helping organize an ...

Area experts offer a Free Seminar on designing and building a green home with an Open House to help homeowners learn more about building an energy efficient home.

The following items were recorded in the log of the Newbury police: Abbey L. Buckley, 29, 19 Commercial St., Marblehead, was arrested Saturday at 1:39 a.m. and charged with driving while under the influence of ...

A group of organizations around Lake Sunapee are about to kick off a year of events examining the political and economic history of the state and of the Kearsarge and Lake Sunapee regions.

A Newbury man was charged yesterday as the police searched for an alleged co-conspirator in the theft of more than 50 antique toy trucks from a Concord auto shop.

A Newbury, N.H., man has been charged with breaking into a Concord business and stealing $20,000 in antique model cars.

When they go to the polls in March, voters in the seven towns that make up the Kearsarge Regional School District will choose between two proposed budgets that would have starkly different outcomes for ...

Actor Matt Dillon was pulled over Tuesday night by Vermont state police for excessive speeding.