Carroll County News

New Hampshire's unadjusted unemployment rate for September continued its upward creep to stand at 7.0 percent, compared to 6.9 percent in August and 3.9 percent in September 2008.

Voters will choose from nine candidates for five available seats on the School Board at Tuesday's municipal elections.

LT. DEAN RONDEAU of the Wolfeboro Police Department talks with officers from N.H. State Police Troop E and the Carroll County Sheriff's Office Monday afternoon, Oct.

State police and local police as well as officers from the Carroll County Sheriff's Department converged on a north Wolfeboro neighborhood Monday afternoon, forming a loose perimeter around the North Main Street home where Stacy Burns, a mother of five, was murdered on Mother's Day.

Last week, Carroll County's nursing home residents came one step closer to having a newly built facility to replace the aging Mountain View Nursing Home.

As she awaits a retrial on animal-cruelty charges in New Hampshire, Missing Persons frontwoman Dale Bozzio's troubles continue in Southern California, where she faces eviction from her San Fernando Valley home over $4400 in missing rent payments.

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.

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.

Dr. Andrew Pomerantz knows of veterans in New Hampshire who will drive three or four hours on a winter's day to get to the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, the closest one to them.

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.

New management intends to change the PK Motel for the better following a police sting that lead to the arrest of the motel's former manager and a half dozen other suspects on illegal drug and weapons charges, a current manager said on Tuesday.

A truck carrying the Moving Wall, a replica of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., was escorted down South Main Street at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, Sept.

Needy children will likely receive less assistance from the Ossipee Children's Fund and other organizations for the next two years due to a reduction in state grant funding.

The Carroll County Transit Project is on schedule to start shuttling tourists and residents on July 1 of next year.

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

At their Sept. 16 meeting, selectmen reviewed funding requests for 2010 from 14 nonprofit agencies that provide services to Wolfeboro residents.

The process used to hire the town's new police chief is being challenged in court under the Right to Know Law.

Carroll County Commission Chair David Sorensen made a guest appearance at this week's select board meeting where he updated the public on plans for the new county nursing home.

The driver of a minivan that collided with a golf cart in New Hampshire, killing a woman in the cart, has been arrested on a drunken driving charge in connection with the Sept.

An East Wakefield man who was indicted on 10 counts of possession of child pornography has until May to decide whether to accept a plea agreement from the state offering him seven and one-half to 15 years in prison.