Ossipee News

Shafts of golden light from a late October sun slanted through oaks and maples as a wiry gray-haired lady bearing an American flag picked her way over the fallen leaves covering the Wentworth family cemetery.

Area veterans and motorcyclists displayed the red, white and blue Saturday as they rode through the University of New Hampshire campus in support of a UNH freshman who was told not to fly the flag outside his dorm room.

Pictures depicting a recent trip to Spider Web Gardens, construction paper versions of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, as well as posters declaring "when I'm grown up, I want to be..." were among the artwork displayed on the walls of Tuftonboro Central School, where the Governor Wentworth Regional School Board was welcomed by Principal Kathy ...

Some veterans are organizing a motorcycle ride Saturday in support of the University of New Hampshire freshman who was told not to fly the American flag outside his dorm room.

OSSIPEE, N.H. -- A New Hampshire deer hunter has accidentally shot himself in the right hand while trying to lift his loaded rifle into a tree stand using a rope tied around the weapon.A state conservation officer says a branch or stick apparently got stuck in the trigger of Robert Lapointe's . . .Full Story

Deer hunting season has barely started and there's already been an accident in New Hampshire.

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A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to robbing a Rite Aid store in New Hampshire.

At the end of the selectmen's regular meeting on Oct. 21, Town Manager Dave Owen told the board that town department heads had discussed the ongoing situation with the town's Historic District Commission and the need to respond to a petition requesting action.

The board of selectmen hosted a two-hour fact-checking session Monday, Oct. 19 on the draft report Municipal Resources Inc presented on the feasibility of merging the town's three separate fire precincts and departments.

A University of New Hampshire freshman's protest over having to remove the American flag he hung outside his dormitory window is going national: Conner MacIver says he'll appear on FOX News' "Fox and Friends" this morning.

Peterborough Artist's Work Coming to Conservation Center in Concord Concord, NH, October 2, 2009 - Peterborough artist Barbara Busenbark will exhibit her series "Peeking at Our Mountains" from Tuesday, October 13 through Monday, November 30 at the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests' Conservation Center in Concord, NH.

Municipal Resources Inc. submitted a draft of its much-anticipated study on the potential of consolidating the town's three fire precincts into one town-wide service.

A University of New Hampshire student has gotten into a tussle with the school over his decision to hang an American flag outside his dorm window.

An Alton man who in August allegedly threatened to kill a State Trooper and an Ossipee Police Officer and blow up the State Police barracks in Tamworth has been indicted on three misdemeanor level criminal threatening charges.

The New Hampshire Archeological Society, in partnership with the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources and New Hampshire Department of Transportation, is sponsoring the 2009 New Hampshire Archeology Month in October.

Between 2004 and 2008, most of the local people incarcerated in the county's jail were from Ossipee and Conway, but as of September, Wolfeboro has overtaken Ossipee and was tied with Conway for having the most incarcerated residents.

The Schools Out! Program at Ossipee Central School prepares for some fiscal belt-tightening as it faces a $40,000-plus shortfall in private and public sector grant funding this year.

State and local police agencies last week arrested six suspects from three different towns following an investigation into illegal drug and gun possession.