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July 23, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

Blueberry goodies, quilts attract crowd in Newport

Saturday was a perfect day to go blueberrying, check out more than 50 quilts and end the day with a visit to the Fireplace Room for High Tea. More...

Special Sections

Local News

LOCAL IN BRIEF

Claremont’s Visitors Center vandalized More...

A BEARY FUN TIME

Erin Chandler is all smiles after her bear was repaired at the Teddy Bear Picnic in Sunapee Harbor on Saturday. More...

WINDSOR POLICE LOG

Tuesday, July 3 3:05 a.m. — Foot patrol on Main Street. 9:57 a.m.— Animal problem on Moonrise Hill. 4:22 p.m. — Citizen assist on Union Street. 5:20 p.m.— Animal problem on Bald Hill Road in West Windsor. 7:28 p.m. More...

National/World

NCAA to punish Penn State; statue removed

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. More...

NATION IN BRIEF

Man charged in dismemberment of Mich. couple ALLEN PARK, Mich. — A 39-year-old house guest has been charged with killing a suburban Detroit couple who’d been hosting him, dismembering their bodies and dumping them in a river. More...

Shooting suspect mum after attack

AURORA, Colo. More...

Around Town

MONDAY

Cruise nights More...

TUESDAY

Blood drive NEWPORT — An American Red Cross Blood Drive will be held from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, at the Newport Middle High School. Free business workshop More...

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. Concert on the Windsor common More...

Locals not deterred from seeing new Batman film  Free Access 

Despite Friday’s mass shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater that killed 12 people and wounded dozens, several local moviegoers said they had no second thoughts when arriving at Claremont Cinema 6 to view the anticipated “Dark Knigh More...

1 year later, no arrest in missing N.H. girl’s death

CONCORD — Nearly a year after an 11-year-old girl vanished from her northern New Hampshire home and was found slain a week later, no arrests have been made, and investigators still aren’t revealing any details about her death. More...

New State Street principal named

It’s a homecoming of sorts for Bridget Fariel, the latest principal hired to lead State Street School. More...

Obituaries

Lawrence H. West - 2013-05-16
Melvyn V. Mitchell - 2013-05-15
Eleanor McDermott - 2013-05-15
Merton H. Bascom - 2013-05-14
Camille Childs - 2013-05-14
Phyllis Spaulding - 2013-05-14
Natalie Beauregard - 2013-05-14
Yolande L. Cleary - 2013-05-14
Arvilla I. Strawn - 2013-05-13
Steven P. Hodgkins - 2013-05-11
Betsy H. Weston - 2013-05-11
Alice A. Fox - 2013-05-11
Charles F. Evans Jr. - 2013-05-11
Merton H. Bascom - 2013-05-11

Education

Teens in UNH program launch simulated satellite

CONCORD — High school students participating in a University of New Hampshire summer program will be launching a simulated satellite, and possibly their careers, when they send a cardboard and foam vehicle to the edge of outer space this week. More...

Vt. man spends lifetime at camp

NORTH HERO, Vt. — For the better part of a century, Ray Jacoby has been going to summer camp. He first went to camp as an 8-day-old infant in New Jersey, where his father was the youth director at a church camp. More...

VERMONT ACADEMY HONOR ROLL

SAXTONS RIVER — Vermont Academy has named the following area students to the Honor Roll for the second semester of the 2011-2012 academic year. HIGH HONORS (a GPA of 3.5 or above with no grade below a B) Seniors More...

Opinion

CAPITAL COMMENTS

LSPA work a unique model for scientists around world

I think we all understand that the world today is an interconnected place. And by comparing data and information about activity in one part of the world with other locations may help us understand our local circumstances better. More...

Political Cartoon

Full Story

Never-ending drought

A mass of ice twice the size of Manhattan broke away from a glacier in northwestern Greenland earlier this week. It was 46 square miles in dimension. More...

State News

TWIN STATES IN BRIEF

Fire at N.H. apt. building displaces 80 MANCHESTER — A fire at in an apartment building has damaged 40 units and displaced about 80 residents. More...

Advice

Wife sours on cafe worker who’s sweet on her husband

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Vic,” and I used to work at the same company. While I worked there I noticed that one of the women who worked in the building cafe seemed to have a crush on him. More...

Establish healthful eating habits early

DEAR DOCTOR K: I keep hearing about childhood obesity. What can I do now to make sure my 5- and 7-yearolds learn healthy eating habits? More...