Wolfeboro News

In what a key lawmaker called "retribution" for casino gambling being killed by the House, the state Senate Thursday killed the House-passed 67 percent hike in the state's gasoline tax.

A day after the House rejected the Senate's casino bill, the Senate voted Thursday to kill the House's plan to fix highways by phasing in a 12-cent increase in the gas and diesel tax and blocked any discussion of the tax in budget negotiations with the House next month.

The city's Memorial Day Parade will take place on Monday, May 27 with marchers stepping off from the Holy Rosary Church parking lot at 10 a.m., having mustered at 9:30 a.m. The Rochester Police Honor Guard will lead the parade, and veterans from the Korean War era will be honored as Grand Marshals.

Memorial Day will be celebrates on Monday, May 27, with many communities and organizations holding observances on Monday.

Nancy Ramos, center, regent of the Winni- pesaukee Chapter of DAR, presents a 25-year member certificate to Charlotte Ferguson, as treasurer Priscilla Theberge looks on.

The reception will be held at the club, located at 12 Nancy's Way, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The first of the two "Meet and Greet" receptions will be held on May 30 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center on White Oaks Road in Laconia.

New Hampshire could sign on to new carbon emissions levels through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, if the full Senate on Thursday passes legislation paving the way.

One person is hospitalized and five others slightly injured after a boat struck Chip Island about 12:30 a.m. Monday.

The weathered and worn clock faces at the Brewster Memorial Hall clock tower are getting a $34,000 facelift.

Courtesy photo Robert Williams, left, a woodworking teacher at Milford High School, recently received the Program of the Year award from the New England Association of Woodworking Teachers.

Spaulding High School's new principal has high hopes for his future students. "I feel Spaulding is going to do great things and I'm excited to be a part of it," said Peter Weaver, the newly named principal.

A poll out today from Dartmouth College's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center shows U.S. Sen.

The School Board named six members to the Joint Board for the East Rochester School project and approved Peter Weaver as the new principal of Spaulding High School.

Getting ready to celebrate Armed Forces Day, on May 18, in a major way at the Lilac Mall are, from left, Rochester Veterans' Council President Dennis Sellers, Al Benton of AMVET Post 1 and Lilac Mall Manager Ellen Paquette.

Just two years after lawmakers came close to pulling New Hampshire out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Legislature is on track to sign off on a 45 percent reduction in the nine-state region's cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

Wakefield Police Department Lt. Mark O'Brien said the neighbor, who lives on Mead Dam Road in Brookfield, reported an alleged burglary in progress on April 18 at 5:30 a.m. He called police after hearing a truck go past his house and stop next door.

Robert Williams, of Milford High School, was given the Program of the Year award at the spring meeting for the New England Association of Woodworking Teachers.

The New Hampshire Boat Museum's Back Bay Skippers, a model boat-building club, hosted its first Open International Footy Regatta on Saturday on Back Bay.

At Hampshire Pewter, we practice the centuries-old art of handcasting fine pewter.

Sheryll Ross, left, docent of the Clark House Museum in Wolfeboro, talked to the Winnipesaukee Chapter of DAR about the museum's summer schedule and need for tour guides.