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An engineer hired by the city to review the Environmental Protection Agency's projected costs to clean up the former Mohawk Tannery site says many of the estimated price tags are significantly low.

Tucked away in a cul de sac next to the town's post office is a company that is quietly producing the bulk of the power sources used in the most sophisticated and, at times, the most secretive defense programs in the world.

The local school district is planning to hire a life coach who will work with students at risk of dropping out of school.

The town settled a longstanding lawsuit against the engineering firm that was supposed to oversee the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, netting a little more than 3 million in the process.

EARLY IN HIS U.S. Marine Corps career, which he concluded as a four-star general, Walt Boomer was decorated for valor in Vietnam. He distilled into three words the lesson of that debacle: 'Tell the truth.' Max Hastings, an eminent British journalist and historian, has done that in a book that is a painful but perhaps inoculating...

I AM WAY PAST deadline, trying to formulate an articulate, compelling column about something ' anything ' to do with New Hampshire politics. But I am not in New Hampshire. I am in New York, helping my Dad care for my Mom, and it is nearly impossible to focus on politics.

To the Editor: A free-thinking 15-year-old girl from a well-to-do family and a friend decide to attend a house party that some boys are having. The two girls and the four boys are drinking beer and after a while, one of the girls goes upstairs with two of the boys.

A city man is facing charges of resisting arrest and criminal threatening after police say he exited his Clay Street residence carrying a rifle while officers performed a welfare check.

In an effort to support sustainable agriculture, the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has opened a new aquaponic greenhouse facility.

For the third year, the Wright Museum of World War II in Wolfeboro is hosting residents from the New Hampshire Veterans Home, offering them a special tour, a lunch and the opportunity to interact with students from area high schools.

A familiar problem plagued the University of New Hampshire men's hockey team in its two losses at Colgate last weekend.

State police say slippery road conditions caused a four-car crash that sent five people to a local hospital and closed a portion of Interstate 93 northbound in Franconia Wednesday afternoon.

In addition to ongoing traffic snarls from Goffstown's ongoing Village rebuild projects, residents can expect detours and additional delays over the next two weeks as the town begins maintenance work to repair what officials refer to as 'significant deterioration' on the Tirrell Hill Road bridge and the East Dunbarton Road bridge.

Some members of the town's budget committee are opposing a proposal that would eliminate the panel whose job is to provide another set of eyes on local spending.

The Executive Council has put the brakes on a contract that would enable Vail Resorts to take over operations of the state-owned Mount Sunapee ski area, citing last-minute amendments to the lease that need closer scrutiny.

Town Council Chairman John Farrell plans to hold an educational session before its Nov. 3 budget meeting to discuss how the new rules are likely to affect the municipal budgeting process.

A local judge has vacated a preventative detention order so that a city man can receive therapy and medication following an assault on his girlfriend and a Nashua police officer earlier this month.

The James W. Foley Freedom Run is taking place Saturday morning in Rochester, and the slain journalist's mother says a free press is key to having an informed citizenry here and in other countries.

The Planning Board approved the capital improvement plan developed by the CIP committee over the last several weeks, which calls for a few small items for next spring's ballot on the town side, and a number of big-ticket items in years ahead on the school side, including building a new elementary school.

A teary-eyed Seth Winkley expressed remorse for the 2017 crash that killed his passenger, Jasmine Marston, before a judge on Wednesday sentenced him to at least four years in prison.