North Woodstock News

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I didn't know in 1996 when a buddy asked me to join him and his young son on a hike up cloudy Mount Isolation that as they completed their five-year White Mountain journey, I was starting mine.

The summer season is steadily arriving in the North Country, and that includes Saturday at Lost River Gorge & Boulder Caves, where the 161st season gets underway.

About 200 people gathered Friday on the 10th anniversary of the Old Man of the Mountain's fall, their faces turned upward toward the rock out of which his granite visage once jutted.

A group of residents and friends have lunch at the grand opening of the Pemi Commons senior housing complex Tuesday.

As a busy lady bustles in to check on that package she's been waiting for, she passes an old codger porch-sitting, marking time with the regular hurl of chaw into his spittoon.