Cheshire County News

Black gold. This is the name farmers give to good quality compost, and for good reason.

The staff at Kindle Farm School knows all about what it takes to work out the frustrations and disappointments of adolescence, and then emerge even stronger and more self assured.

A Hill police sergeant has been charged in an incident last May at a North State Street pepper-spray supply shop where owner Brian Blackden says he was robbed and threatened by members of a police motorcycle club.

While just about every advocacy group for human rights, victims rights, and womens rights on the face of the earth has repudiated the shit sandwich GOP version of the Violence Against Women Act that passed yesterday, there is one group that is offering its full-throated support- Paranoid Men's Rights Activists : House GOP legislation to reauthorize ... (more)

The sun was out, the temperatures had soared into the 80s, and everyone was out mowing lawns and mulching flower beds recently.

There are hints that the Cheshire county area may be in for a dry summer. With very little snow to provide spring run-off, even the recent rainfall we've had is unlikely to be enough to top off the reservoirs enough for unlimited water usage all summer.

Simple living isn't simple, sometimes. The term "simple" refers more to the removal of modern additives and technology that are harmful or detrimental in some way, and not to the level of complexity of life.

This is the time of year that Jews around the world are 'counting the Omer' , an ancient practice that marks the time ". . . between the barley harvest at Pesach and the wheat harvest which would be given to God as a first-fruits offering at the pilgrimage festival of Shavuot." There are 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot, and each day is a new ... (more)

Kyle Nye, 23, whose addresses are listed as the jails in Cheshire and Sullivan counties, pleaded guilty recently in Cheshire County Superior Court to being a felon in possession of a weapon, possession of marijuana with intent to sell, attempted witness tampering, possession of crack cocaine, possession of psilocin, criminal threatening and ... (more)