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A New Home HfH Turns over a New Home Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:19 AM The Sunapee-Kearsarge Habitat for Humanity affiliate is pleased to announce the completion and turnover of its 18'th house to its new ...

Jude Shedd knew her fiance, Mike Levesque, was in trouble when she talked to him by phone Friday afternoon.

John Lynch's signing of a new bicycle safety bill - and to get about 55 miles worth of exercise - Gene and Judy Andersen hopped on their red Raleigh tandem bike and pedaled from their Lebanon home to the ...

The cab of the Kearsarge Fire Tower is an office with a view. Due south, Mount Monadnock rises in the distance, and while you can't actually see the ocean, on a clear day you can see the cooling towers at the ...

At the May 22 meeting of the Kearsarge Regional School Board, Warner's Clark Lindley, announced that they had unanimously chosen Jerry Frew, during an earlier, non-public meeting.

“It's very disappointing, to say the least”

Seven of the state's 12 charter schools may have been dealt a fatal blow yesterday by the Senate Finance Committee, which rejected a bill that would have extended the cash-strapped schools a $1.5 million ... via Concord Monitor

“The bill calls for an appropriation of $1.5 million; we're $75 million in the hole”

A bill that would keep seven imperiled charter schools financially afloat next year won preliminary support yesterday in the Senate. via Concord Monitor

The Monitor story on Thursday about how Bishop Brady High School's principal took matters into her own hands, resulting in the arrest and suspension of a Concord High student, did not come to the public's ... via Concord Monitor

“We did find evidence there that supports the burglary arrests”

While investigating the men on an unrelated charge of receiving stolen property and other possible crimes, Massachusetts state police found evidence, including money, that tied them to the burglary at Ragged ... via UnionLeader.com

“We are pleased that, once again, strong recommendations from our current New Hampshire customers helped reassure the Kearsarge Board of Education on their decision”

Kearsarge Regional School District to Provide Fuel in $8.4 million Five-Year, Renewable Pact TORONTO, March 17 /CNW/ - Student Transportation of America, Ltd. via Canada NewsWire

“It just seems foolish to let this go now if the landowner is in a position where they're ready to sell it.”

The New London Conservation Commission wants to preserve 60 acres on Clark Pond that the master plan has earmarked as a conservation priority. via Concord Monitor

“Eliminating poverty is a multigenerational task”

I thought you might be interested in this article, dated Tuesday, February 19, 2008, that I read on TheDartmouth.com: "Microfinance panelists extol aid to impoverished" ... via The Dartmouth

“The second part of the association's mission is advocating for charter schools on a statewide basis. At the moment, that revolves around funding and legislation concerning funding”

As a way of fulfilling their purpose, the state's charter schools have formed the New Hampshire Public Charter School Association. via Seacoast Online

“Do the right thing; vote for charter schools”

Eight of the state's 10 currently open charter schools have formed an association with two goals. via Concord Monitor

A Nashua man was charged yesterday with first-degree assault after a two-and-a-half month old boy was taken to Boston Children's Hospital with a fractured skull and fractured ribs. via UnionLeader

KEN WILLIAMS / Monitor file photos, AP From top, New Hampshire Poet Laureate Charles Simic and past poets laureate Maxine Kumin and Donald Hall. via Concord Monitor

A U.S. Military Academy cadet has been awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. via Mid-Hudson News

“It's exactly twenty minutes past two.”

Tomie dePaola, superstar children's book writer and illustrator, has loosed more than 200 books upon the world in his long, celebrated career. via Concord Monitor

“If we were leaving paradise, I'd say you're right.”

Teachers cheered and embraced and the school board dug into a celebratory box of fudge after it voted last night to open the new Kearsarge Regional Middle School on March 3, 2008. via Concord Monitor

“There were few galleries and no museums displaying photography then”

The advent of photography and the lives of these men overlapped by just a few years, allowing the 1864 publication of The Last Men of the Revolution, one of a large new collection of photography books available ... via Concord Monitor