Franklin News

By their own admission, Democrats nationally can't claim Election Day 2009 as their own.

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The owner of a Franklin foundry fined more than $250,000 after federal investigators reported finding potentially deadly levels of lead dust spread throughout his factory formally contested the findings yesterday.

Local resident Karen Beaudin's mission for justice will take a big leap forward Friday night when the story of her sister's murder will go nationwide in hopes of finding new leads and bringing awareness to a recently passed piece of legislation in New Hampshire.

Autumn brings a chilling memory for many residents of Franklin, N.H. It's the time of year when Kathy Gloddy, 13 at the time, vanished in broad daylight almost 40 years ago.

Saying children's health is at risk, workers affected by cutbacks at the state's Lead Poison Prevention Program are trying to get funding for several positions reinstated.

Friday, October 30, 2009 Citizen file photo Ann Ring, of Somersworth, testifies before a state Senate panel in support of a cold case unit bill.

The last living suspect in the murder of Kathy Lynn Gloddy said yesterday he wants everyone in his hometown of Franklin to know he did not rape, strangle and run over the teenager in the winter of 1971.

The number of lead inspections done by the state could be cut in half, after two of four state inspectors were laid off from the state's childhood lead poisoning prevention program.

A top state health official says cuts to the lead poison prevention program could roll back recent reforms meant to give investigators an edge in detecting hazards, particularly in Rochester, Laconia and Franklin and five other communities deemed high-risk areas.

A former nursing assistant has pleaded guilty to stealing checks from a 90-year-old resident of a New Hampshire assisted-living facility.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Franklin Non-Ferrous Foundry Inc.

A convicted sex offender whose February trial on a child rape charge was derailed by a juror's online snooping agreed to plead guilty yesterday to avoid a new trial.

From mentoring to job shadows, the State Scholars business partners who are working with Winnisquam students are offering them a chance to look beyond the classroom to potential future careers.

A New Hampshire Hospital unit in Concord for those with head injuries and a treatment program for drunken and drugged driving offenders in Laconia are casualties in the largest single layoff of state workers, this one inside the Department of Health and Human Services Department.

Go&Do: NH Film Festival going strong October 18, 2009 2:00 AM New Hampshire Film Festival wraps up today The New Hampshire Film Festival, which accepted 80 films from more than 700 submissions this year, wraps up today.

Sally Walsh, 73, of Broad Avenue in Concord, died Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at home.

We trust that the Coos County Commissioners will be properly skeptical of an application before them this week seeking $3.5 million in federal "stimulus" funds for tourism signs and 30 kiosks.

With flu talk everywhere, more people than usual are rolling up their sleeves for the seasonal flu vaccine.

IF REPUBLICANS gain some seats on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen this year, they'll probably want to raise a glass in toast of Fred Tausch.