Bristol News

The state police and Merrimack County Sheriff deputies are armed with Tasers. Police officers in Northfield, Loudon, Franklin and Bow are too.

Smile Nashua . . . you're on FlashCAM. At least three automated cameras will be stationed around the city taking pictures of people in an attempt to reduce and deter criminal behavior, city officials say.

Local police will establish 24-hour coverage of the community for the first time and circulate recent photos of convicted child murderer Raymond A. Guay, who has been living in town since mid-May. Selectmen Chairman Paul Tierney said police will provide a description of the vehicle Guay drives, and public and private schools and the town's ...

The Taste of Newfound and Business Expo will be held on Tuesday at the Inn on Newfound Lake on Route 3A in Bridgewater.

An interesting piece of news on June 25, over WMUR, which was also in The Keene Sentinel on page 5 really gave me sort of a jolt, something hard to believe, but it was there, on the air, and in print.

Why veterans are stepping out of their camouflage and into the renewable energy industry.

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

OK, things haven't gotten quite this bad yet, at least as portrayed in today's editorial cartoon depicting someone holding up pictures of fireworks as the crowd responds to each one with the obligatory 'oohs' and 'ahhs.' But that doesn't mean the sour economy isn't taking its toll on the nation's traditional Fourth of July celebrations this holiday ...

Friday, July 3, 2009 REP. FRANCINE Wendelboe talks to residents outside the selectmen's meeting room in New Hampton.

New Hampshire government is now getting 25 percent of its electricity from wind power installations.

With all the municipal belt-tightening going on, there will be a little less sparkle in the sky this Fourth of July.

Concord landowner Kevin Guay has sued city and state officials for $55 million in damages after they tore up his property while searching for pollution.

Thursday, July 2, 2009 Selectmen have known since early May that convicted child murderer Raymond Guay is living in their community, but when they discussed the matter officially, they did so in a closed-door session.

Nearly two decades after the Soviet collapse set Russia's roulette wheels spinning again, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling in the chips on the gambling industry, a symbol of the glitz and excess of Russia's oil-fueled boom.

Horror stories involving overworked and under-funded public defender offices across the nation have become commonplace.

The rain hasn't let up in New Hampshire, and many people visiting the Lakes Region are staying inside during one of the busiest times of the year.

Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but getting it back more than 60 years later helped him remember the past.

The recent arrival of the invasive harlequin ladybird in the UK is likely to threaten more than 1,000 native species, scientists have warned.

Even if it ain't Baroque, he'll still fix it. That's because fiddling with wood has always come naturally to Jim Robinson, a boyhood whittler who eventually gave up construction work for something completely different.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 As Monday morning dawned cloudy and rainy. Franklin farmer Dan Fife decided he'd do some equipment repairs he'd been considering for a time because getting the hay in from his alfalfa fields along the Merrimack River was out of the question.