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1750 Taphouse opens its doors on Route 101 in Bedford
After several months of renovations, 1750 Taphouse is now open and dishing out homemade pizzas and beer. Housed at the former Tek-Nique space at 170 Route 101, the taphouse restaurant officially opened on Monday and is already receiving positive feedback.
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Promotions, departures cause movement in ranks at MPD
Police Chief Carlo Capano isn't the only guy with a new title at the Manchester Police Department.
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Woman struck and fatally injured in Lancaster crosswalk remembered fondly
Pauline C. Clark, 76, who was struck and fatally injured by an SUV on Tuesday afternoon while riding her motorized wheelchair through a crosswalk near her home is being remembered as a good person and a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
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Father and daughter trying to recreate earlier hike rescued from Mount Washington
New Hampshire Fish and Game officials said underestimating what it takes to climb the tallest peak in the Northeast was a major factor in a 77-year-old Florida man needing to be rescued Tuesday night.
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Chester woman finds renewal on Spain's Camino
Colby Millsaps woke up at 5 a.m. Thursday, her 21st birthday, gathered her gear and walked the last mile to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
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Kevin Landrigan's Granite Status: Gloves come off in 1st District Republican primary
Republican congressional candidate Eddie Edwards of Dover holds the Trump-embraced views on Obamacare he wanted it repealed and immigration reform no amnesty, tighter borders in his 1st District run.
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Kingston Vets Club cooking some clams
All Kingston Veterans Club members and their bonafide guests are invited to the club's clam bake, Saturday, Aug. 25.
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Mass. man to serve prison term for oxycodone trafficking in Granite State
A Lawrence, Mass., man will serve more than three years in federal prison for selling oxycodone pills in New Hampshire.
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Necco workers sue firm after mass layoff
Massachusetts Necco workers sued the Greenwich, Conn., firm that last month backed out of a deal to run the candy maker going forward, seeking back pay covering 60 days on the job.
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AG: AFP is compliant with law governing nonprofits
The Attorney General's office has determined the conservative policy group Americans for Prosperity is compliant with state law governing groups operating as nonprofits in New Hampshire after a group of Republican state representatives challenged the group's nonprofit status after it targeted some of them in an 'accountability...
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Police searching for man who threatened, robbed another man in his Northfield home
Police are searching for a man they say threatened and robbed another man inside his Northfield home on Wednesday.
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Man accused of Planet Fitness beating on trial
The Portsmouth man accused of beating a Planet Fitness employee to retaliate for the alleged theft of 30,000 by her boyfriend is on trial at Strafford County Superior Court.
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New Bethlehem highway marker honors 'mother of forensic science'
Frances Glessner Lee's dictum was 'Convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell,' which she did on a scale of one inch to the foot.
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Former Lancer returns to lead her students in Old Home Day parade
A former Londonderry Lancer is the current Bedford Bulldogs' marching band leader, and she's coming home with her 120 students for the 119th Londonderry Old Home Day parade on Saturday, Aug. 18.
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Trump urges AG to end Russia probe 'right now'
President Donald Trump appealed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end an investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from his fellow Republicans in Congress who said the probe must go on.
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George Will: Ending California's 'dance of the lemons'
Congress, controlled by forelock-tugging Republicans, is a passive bystander as the President decides to shovel out 12 billion to compensate farmers for the damage his trade war ' regarding this war, as with real ones, Congress is powerless by choice ' is doing to them.
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Coalition of the wild: Breaking NH's outdoor alliance
New Hampshire does an exemplary job managing its natural resources.
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John Stossel: Working for tips
Union protestors and celebrity advocates have decided that waiters' tips aren't big enough. They are upset that in 43 states, tipped workers can be paid a lower minimum wage, as low as 2.13 an hour.
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An empty suit: Hampton should look to Legislature
We were pleased to see that Hampton selectmen have decided to drop the town's lawsuit seeking additional state funding for Hampton Beach State Park.
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Pat Buchanan: Will tribalism trump democracy?
ON JULY 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation's Basic Law. Israel was declared to be, now and forever, the nation-state and national home of the Jewish people. Hebrew is to be the state language. Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift.
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