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April 18, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

Grandstand seating closed off at Barnes Park due to floor hazards

Director of Parks and Recreation Scott Hausler blamed a “maintenence backlog” for keeping spectators out of the Barnes Park grandstands even as the local baseball season heats up. More...

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Local News

Flight park plans await state OK

A plan to expand the Morningside Hang Gliding Park in Charlestown is still awaiting state approval of proposed new water and septic systems, a Charlestown official said last night. More...

Police cite ‘pedestrian impairment’ in accident

No criminal charges will be filed in the wake of an accident earlier this month in which Mayor James Neilsen struck a pedestrian, Claremont Chief of Police Alexander Scott said in a statement yesterday. More...

LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF

Springfield woman charged with DUI More...

Opinion

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Thumbnail Thoughts

Thumbnail Thoughts is a weekly feature that appears each Wednesday on the Editorial Page of the Eagle Times. More...

Women’s vote is a myth

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is obsessed with the women’s vote. More...

Sports

Pierce’s 43 too little in loss to Knicks

NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony had 35 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for his second career triple-double, and the New York Knicks made 19 3-pointers to keep alive their Atlantic Division title hopes with a 118-110 victory over the Boston Celtic More...

Cosmos outlast Chiefs at home

SPRINGFIELD — The way Larry Partridge drew it up, Springfield ace Jeff Fuller was going to take the mound for the final inning or so yesterday to get some throwing in before tomorrow’s start against Bellows Falls. More...

Local Ticker

HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE More...

B.F. man wanted for N.H. home invasion

New Hampshire police are searching for a Bellows Falls man accused of breaking into a Hinsdale, N.H., residence late Sunday evening. More...

2-alarm fire completely engulfs Ascutney home

A two-alarm fire fully engulfed an Ascutney home yesterday leaving charred remains and a scorched lawn before crews contained the blaze. More...

Prostitution scandal escalates in Wash.

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service prostitution scandal escalated yesterday with the disclosure that at least 20 women had been in hotel rooms with U.S. More...

Obituaries

Dorothy Walker - 2013-05-21
Ernest M. Rzeczycki - 2013-05-21
Donald R. Melendy - 2013-05-21
Catherine Perry - 2013-05-21
Rose M. Butler - 2013-05-21
David A. Sclafani - 2013-05-20
Madeline E. Kane - 2013-05-20
Madeline E. Kane - 2013-05-18
Nancy A. McHugh - 2013-05-18
Shirley H. Noyes - 2013-05-18
Brony Budzik - 2013-05-18
Harry Blish Jr. - 2013-05-18
Shirley H. Mitchell - 2013-05-18
John R. Grady Sr. - 2013-05-17
Lawrence H. West - 2013-05-16

Health & Fitness

Seeing is believing

THE SKINNY

F or almost eight years now More...

HEALTH IN BRIEF

Positive outlook may be good for heart WASHINGTON — Be happy — it seems to be good for your heart. More...

National/World

Frozen cows a problem

DENVER — It may take explosives to dislodge a group of cows that wandered into an old ranger cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, then died and froze solid when they couldn’t get out. More...

Report: GSA official took trips even after warnings

WASHINGTON — The main figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal took trips to Hawaii, Napa Valley and the South Pacific islands, all after the agency’s inspector general warned top officials about the excesses. More...

Kindergartner removed in cuffs

ATLANTA — A kindergartner who threw a tantrum at her small-town Georgia school was taken away in handcuffs, her arms behind her back, in an episode that is firing up the debate over whether teachers and police around the country are overreactin More...

Around Town

WEDNESDAY

Networking event NEWPORT — “Coffee with Bacon,” a free business networking event, will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, at Bacon Graphics, 232 North Main St., in Newport. More...

THURSDAY

Blood drive More...

ONGOING

Moose breakfasts More...

Advice

Daughter probably knows Mom never wanted her around

DEAR ABBY: My youngest daughter, “Lizzy,” the sweetest and most conscientious of my children, has been cut off yet again by her mother, “Ruth.” Ruth pressured Lizzy to graduate from high school a year early because she couldn& More...

Non-drug strategies for falling fast asleep

DEAR DOCTOR K: I am 70 and have always had sleep problems. I've started to take a prescription nonbenzodiazepine sleeping pill every night. It’s working very well. Is it OK if I keep on taking it? More...