Alton News

Courtesy photo Sisters and church members Mary Kohlhase Frarie, Barbara Kohlhase Stone and Libby Kohlhase Wilcox model hand-knit items on sale at the Greenland Church Christmas Fair set for Saturday, Dec.

What had originally been planned as a discussion of local infrastructure issues quickly turned into a referendum on healthcare reform, as Alton residents took U.S. Rep.

Up for adoption: a 5,000-ton boulder the size of a small house -- the largest known boulder of its type in New England -- listed as a National Natural Landmark and in one of New Hampshire's money-losing parks.

A New Hampshire lawmaker wants to create an adopt-a-park program to help the state's cash-strapped park system care for up to half of New Hampshire's 71 parks because the agency can't afford their upkeep.

Gov. John Lynch, Sen. Judd Gregg and Rep. Paul Hodes will appear today at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen in observance of Veterans Day.

After reviewing Prospect Mountain High School's proposed operating budget for the 2011 fiscal year, the JMA board voted during its Nov.

Maine police have issued the state's first Amber Alert for a missing 2-year-old girl who was taken by her father after he allegedly assaulted the girl's mother at her Sanford apartment.

Frisbie Memorial Hospital added a paramedic intercept truck to its fleet to help streamline the response to emergencies throughout the area.

Daryl Carlson/Citizen photo With his attorney Mark Sisti by his side, Ryan Sell, who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in the death of Robert Richey last year in Alton, apologizes to Richey's relatives in Belknap County Superior Court during his sentencing Wednesday.

The recent setting of Alton, Barnstead, and New Durham's respective tax rates has brought a mixture of good and bad news to local property owners.

New Hampshire's unadjusted unemployment rate for September continued its upward creep to stand at 7.0 percent, compared to 6.9 percent in August and 3.9 percent in September 2008.

ALTON RESIDENT ALLAN GURNEY today and as he appeared in his early 20s as a young private in the U.S. Army.

Following a final look at the Alton School District's proposed operating budget for the 2011 fiscal year, school board members voted Monday night to approve a preliminary grand total of $9,743,457. Pointing out that the total approved by the board did not include Alton's share of the operating budget for Prospect Mountain High School, ...

He was an angry sophomore high school student who attacked an Alton shopkeeper with a clam rake in 1991 and left her for dead.

Manchester, NH The energy and excitement around Frank Guinta's 1st District bid for Congress has exploded in the past several weeks, with 399 donors, a strong fundraising report, and 100 County Captains.

An Alton man who in August allegedly threatened to kill a State Trooper and an Ossipee Police Officer and blow up the State Police barracks in Tamworth has been indicted on three misdemeanor level criminal threatening charges.

State tourism officials are confident the combination of great weather, spectacular fall foliage and modest gasoline prices will bring as many as 590,000 visitors to New Hampshire this Columbus Day weekend.

Parents of students of a New Hampshire school are being put on alert after they were notified that a student was diagnosed with H1N1.

As the atmosphere within Alton's Police Department begins to settle down after a three-year period of internal turmoil and personnel changes at all levels, one more changing of the guard will take place early next month, when current chief Phil Smith hands the reins over to his newly-promoted second in command, Ryan Heath.

MIKE AND KATHY CURRIER enjoy the view from the raised observation platform at the center of their new cornfield maze, located at the Lake Knoll Farm in Alton.