Jaffrey News

Share + Jan 5, 2010 9:47 pm US/Eastern JAFFREY, N.H. A New Hampshire artist and videographer who dressed as Bigfoot in a state park says his rights were trampled by big government.

Jeremy LaChance and his friend Kellie Ryan toast to success. They're working together with their friend Cole Winkelmann to name milk as the official state beverage.

The line between freedom of artistic expression and the responsibilities of state park rangers to manage Mount Monadnock is at the center of a challenge the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union is taking on.

It could be the biggest legislative fight in Concord this year: milk or cider? Well, maybe not.

In 1909, four months after the publisher of the Boston Post began the tradition of presenting the Boston Post Cane to the oldest living resident in 700 towns across New England, Lily Pakkala was born in Finland.

A bustling 18th and 19th century mill village along the Old Boston Post Road stagecoach route comes alive in a recently completed historical survey of Jaffrey's Squantum Village.

Police Officer Joe Golinski went out on the ice of a small pond off Dean Farm Road Monday.

My son Jeremy went on a field trip to the State House. He found out that the state fruit is the pumpkin and the state dog is the Chinook .

When Alzheimer's and the ice storm forced Albert Sylvestre, 91, to seek permanent care for his wife, Eileen, 88, it only deeped his devotion Though he and his wife survived the Dec.

A man who shot his dog and threatened to do the same to his wife will serve two years in prison according to a negotiated plea agreement reached yesterday at a hearing in Cheshire County Superior Court.

The Harvard professor killed along with three other people in an October crash on Route 202 was passing another vehicle when his van crashed head-on into another car, said Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The effects of the ice storm, which began a year ago today, were longer for some than others.

They aren't the usual tree ornaments, but the mittens that hang on the Christmas tree at the United Church of Jaffrey are symbols of the caring and giving that goes on in the community throughout the year.

On the evening of Dec. 11, 2008, a fierce storm began that would leave New Hampshire encased in ice and hundreds of thousands of residents without power for days.

JAFFREY a ' Sheila L. Chamberlain, 75, of Gilmore Pond Road in Jaffrey, died Friday, Nov.

Share + Nov 27, 2009 10:27 am US/Eastern JAFFREY, N.H. A New Hampshire soldier has been awarded $445,000 for being demoted and then fired after he returned from Iraq.

Way back in the 3rd century B.C., the Romans knew how to coax the most sweetness from their turnips by roasting them at high heat.

Stephen Murphy, who came of age while living in Jaffrey TROY - When John Covey, Jr., brought 13-year-old Stephen L. Murphy home to live with his family on Webster Street in Jaffrey all those years ago, it was only supposed to be for two weeks.

The Ledger-Transcript recently provided a list of questions to officials at Monadnock Community Hospital relating to vaccine updates, local policies, emergency plans and where residents can find more information.

A 19-year-old Merrimack man accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl was arraigned yesterday in Merrimack and Peterborough, where he is facing similar felony charges.