Belmont News

There have been a couple of recent examples in the news of how lightning can cause a lot of damage to buildings, roads and planes.

A member of Sen. Judd Gregg 's staff has scheduled a time to meet with constituents on Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Belmont Town Hall, the senator's office has announced.

What surprises Mary Alice Dalton the most are the men - grandpas, uncles and sometimes dads - who come into her Children's Couture shop in Belmont.

It was a wild and contentious first session for the 2009-10 New Hampshire Legislature, and these are our top six retrospective highlights: The budget The very public sausage-making exercise in budget creation resulted in a $11.6 billion budget that left few happy about the outcome - which many consider the essence of political compromise.

Greyhound racing in New Hampshire is about to become history. The state's two remaining tracks - in Seabrook and Belmont - won permission Monday to drop live racing, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.

Thunderstorms left behind widespread but mostly minor damage across parts of New Hampshire Saturday night.

The Legislature made a colossal mistake this week. The rejection of expanded gambling will cost this state billions of dollars over the next several decades.

Police have arrested a Belmont man on charges he tried to steal a license plate and then assaulted officers both as he was being arrested and later as he was being booked.

Thomas F. McNamara, 91, of Westport, currently residing in Tilton, NH passed away Friday, June 12, 2009 at Lakes Region General Hospital, Laconia, NH after a brief illness.

Three months ago, video slots appeared to be dead in New Hampshire - a state that has long resisted expanding gambling.

They came "by land and by sea" on Saturday to Belmont Beach for a clean-up day, spearheaded by Belmont Call Fire Fighter Jason McCarthy, who is also a member of Dive Master Dive Services.

The only real difference between Democrats in the House and Democrats in the Senate is the way in which they want to pick the pockets of the businesses and people of New Hampshire, who are struggling to survive.

More jobs may be on the way. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a forum at Pace University in New York City, predicted that many more Americans would see the effects of the $787 billion Recovery Act in the next three months than had seen them in the past three.

Laconia police arrested a Tilton man Saturday after a pursuit that began in the Weirs and ended across town near the Belmont line about 3 1/2 hours later, police said yesterday.

Police are questioning a couple in connection with a robbery last evening on Pine Street.

Thousands of slot machines could spring up throughout New Hampshire at horse and dog racetracks and at North Country slot parlors.

A family of four was forced from their home in Franklin on Monday after a fire ignited in a second-story bedroom.

Patricia A. Chadwick, 79, of Magnolia Lane, died Friday, May 15, 2009, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.

Rebecca Rule E-mail Web site RSS Feed Rebecca Rule, author of "Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller's Guide to New Hampshire," spends a lot of time on the road, traveling to her wicked funny performances throughout the Granite State.

Marie G. Arsenault, 48, of Goshen Drive, died Friday, May 15, 2009. Marie was born in Concord on Feb.