Bath News

Streams and rivers are lapping at their banks. Fungus is sprouting like dandelions in any other July.

Transportation Department officials say a 150-yard mudslide has taken down about 12 trees in Bath, New Hampshire.

Police say 52-year-old Alan Welch of South Ryegate, Vermont, was making a right turn on Route 302 near Bath when he crashed into a car Monday. via The Citizen

“The water has gone down significantly”

"No one is cut off and no one is stranded or isolated," said Linda Lauer, who is getting ready to become the town's emergency management director. via UnionLeader.com

“The house didn't collapse, but one of the walls of the concrete foundation came in”

The state opened its Emergency Operations Center in Concord Saturday morning, expecting the worst. via UnionLeader.com

“Overall, sorbents are useful for land spills or in contained spills on water”

Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - by Efrain Viscarolasaga Mass High Tech Oil spills are a global problem responsible for dumping billions of gallons of fuel and lubricant each year into ... via Bizjournals

“We ran out of water and had to haul it in”

Firefighters from both sides of the Connecticut River were called to the Donald Bazell residence on Lakeside Drive just after 8:30 p.m., said Woodsville Fire Chief Don Hammond. via UnionLeader.com

BATH-On Dec. 10, the Bath Fire Department took delivery of a 1979 Ford F700 pumper fire truck, rounding off their assemblage of one engine and two tankers. They paid just $2,500 for the vehicle which has a mere 5,000 miles on it.

It all began when friends Dennis MacKay, Bath's Fire Chief, and Peter Gemelli, retired Fire Chief from Wayland, MA, who was visiting at the time, were chatting and Mackay said he was looking for a pumper. MacKay said Gemelli told him that he would see what he could do and it wasn't much later that MacKay's friend called to see if Bath could afford $2,500.   Read more

BACKGROUND: The Maine Public Utilities Commission today will deliberate - and possibly vote - on the proposed acquisition of Verizon's landline business by FairPoint Inc. via Nashua Telegraph

“People who didn't need assistance before need it now”

WOODSVILLE-Winter is an expensive time of year and not just because of holiday shopping frenzies. Unaffordable fuel and electric bills have residents keeping their thermostats low because heating bills are high.  

"Things are getting harder," said Tri-County Community Action Program (Tri-County CAP) manager Dan McGregor in an interview from Woodsville. "Your income may change or stay the same but the cost of everything else like rent and cost of living go up."  

The Woodsville branch of Tri-County CAP provides fuel assistance and access to a food pantry for residents in the towns of Bath, Haverhill, Orford, Warren, Benton, Wentworth, Monroe, Lisbon, Landaff and North Woodstock.       Read more

“The residents of Groveton need and deserve any available assistance, and the federal government can play an important role in helping the North Country to recover from this and other recent mill closures”

More than a dozen federal, state and local officials, including the Congressional delegation and top officials from the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce, will take part in a roundtable discussion Monday ... via UnionLeader