http://www.concordmonitor.com/local Local and State news from Concord Monitor Online en-us Copyright Concord Monitor Newspapers http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/FRONTPAGE/2100305/1001/RSS01 Former state representative Jim Ryan will spend four to 12 years in prison for theft, forgery and passing bad checks while in charge of the state's Committee to Elect House Democrats. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/FRONTPAGE/2100301/1001/RSS01 Lawyers investigating an alleged financial scam in the Lakes Region say the father of the man accused of orchestrating the fraud received $2 million in bogus loans with his son's help. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/FRONTPAGE/2100302/1001/RSS01 Concord developer Yves Tanguay, who relied on Scott Farah to finance his stalled Abbott Village condo development, has been sued by several investors in the project who claim Tanguay misled them about how their money was being used. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/FRONTPAGE/2100321/1001/RSS01 Chichester fire Chief Gilbert Vien has taken a sudden leave of absence after successive complaints were filed against him, officials said. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/FRONTPAGE/2100320/1001/RSS01 Art, music and physical education teachers would be laid off under a proposed Hill School Board budget that will see its first public hearing tomorrow. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100375/1001/RSS01 State officials have asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling denying the state access to $110 million from a medical malpractice fund. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100322/1001/RSS01 The state's top health official said yesterday it's reasonable to assume a radioactive substance leaking from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is reaching the Connecticut River. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100318/1001/RSS01 The Franklin police want to speak with a man who left behind some personal items after checking out of a local grocery store. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100313/1001/RSS01 The suspected ringleader in a string of at least 31 Lakes Region burglaries turned himself in to the Sanbornton police yesterday, authorities said. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100308/1001/RSS01 HOPING TO AVOID traffic on your evening commute? The state Department of Transportation wants to help. The agency is now tweeting traffic alerts to notify drivers of jams, construction delays and dangerous conditions on Interstate 93. You can follow the updates (preferably not while driving) at twitter.com/nhdoti93. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100307/1001/RSS01 Two Weare residents were arrested Monday on shoplifting charges after their car crashed into a tree, the police said. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100306/1001/RSS01 A House committee that deadlocked a year ago over legalizing gay marriage voted yesterday against repealing New Hampshire's five-week-old law allowing the unions. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS01/2100304/1001/RSS01 A Keene police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man who had taken his ex-girlfriend hostage and was threatening to kill her, the attorney general's office has concluded. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/FRONTPAGE/2090302/1001/RSS01 FairPoint Communications Inc. would shed about $1.8 billion in debt, out of a total of $2.8 billion, under a reorganization plan the troubled telecommunications company filed yesterday with a federal bankruptcy court. But the company said it is still committed to increasing broadband internet access in northern New England. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/FRONTPAGE/2090304/1001/RSS01 The 55-year-old Concord man charged Friday with raping a young girl he met through a single parenting support group was arrested yesterday by the Hooksett police on new charges that he raped the girl in that town as well. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:54:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/FRONTPAGE/2090301/1001/RSS01 A superior court judge yesterday granted a request from Concord developer Kevin Guay to delay his civil trial related to charges he polluted Penacook Lake. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/FRONTPAGE/2090303/1001/RSS01 A fire of unknown origin damaged the second floor and attic of a home near downtown yesterday morning, forcing a refugee family from Liberia to seek shelter elsewhere for the foreseeable future. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:56:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/FRONTPAGE/2090305/1001/RSS01 State hospitals and health care providers are still calculating the impact of impending cuts to their funding. But, they warn, providers will not shoulder the cuts alone. Eventually, the cost of the services will be borne by average people through higher insurance premiums. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090354/1001/RSS01 As of late yesterday, state medical officials had not determined the cause of death for the inmate found unresponsive in the state prison over the weekend. Staff there said the autopsy would be finished today. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:57:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090364/1001/RSS01 Councilors last night unanimously agreed to sell part of the former Penacook tannery site to a Vermont developer for a new Concord Hospital building. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:45:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090321/1001/RSS01 After 23 years with the Hillsboro Police Department, David Roarick will take the reins as chief this week. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:46:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090356/1001/RSS01 Neighbors of William and Judith Small, the Epsom couple whose home was demolished in a three-alarm blaze last week, have set up a fund to help the pair get back on their feet. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090318/1001/RSS01 Dartmouth College will lay off 38 nonteaching employees now and a similar number in April to help cut the school's budget by $100 million over two years, President Jim Yong Kim said yesterday. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090358/1001/RSS01 PSNH'S LARGEST FORAY into renewable energy, the wood-fired boiler built in Portsmouth in 2006, has reached a milestone. On Jan. 30, Northern Wood Power at Schiller Station produced its 1 billionth kilowatt hour of energy, the utility said in a statement. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:53:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090357/1001/RSS01 THEY'VE BEEN CLEANED, reframed and re-hung, but the floral panels hanging in the Concord Public Library aren't new. They were painted in 1936 by Penacook resident Margaret Masson, a project funded by the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:52:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/NEWS01/2090317/1001/RSS01 District 1 Executive Councilor Ray Burton raised $65,000 in one night at a Meredith fundraiser, according to his campaign. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080392/1001/RSS01 State medical officials may know as early as this afternoon what caused the death of an inmate found unresponsive in his prison cell Sunday morning. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:16:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/FRONTPAGE/2080302/1001/RSS01 Lee Lajoie was baptized at St. John the Evangelist in Concord in 1962 and has been going there ever since. It used to be, he said, that four priests served the South Main Street church. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/FRONTPAGE/2080303/1001/RSS01 Contract negotiations between Pembroke's school board and teachers union are at an impasse as both sides refuse to budge on the issue of whether teachers should receive automatic step increases under the so-called evergreen law. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/FRONTPAGE/2080301/1001/RSS01 Years ago, Deerfield resident Petra Gazzola would find herself stuck inside her secluded home in the Pawtuckaway Mountains because her property had been inundated with six feet of water from beavers damming up nearby culverts. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:52:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080326/1001/RSS01 The Kimball-Jenkins Estate in Concord has been the subject of much public debate lately. A new set of trustees has asked the public for help breathing new life into the property - and bringing in new revenue, too. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:45:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080347/1001/RSS01 An inmate was found dead in his cell at the state prison yesterday morning, and authorities are describing his death as untimely. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:56:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080348/1001/RSS01 With little debate, selectmen voted against a switch to SB 2 for Hopkinton yesterday afternoon. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:57:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080342/1001/RSS01 Senate Finance Chairman Lou D'Allesandro has tried unsuccessfully a dozen times in as many years to get reluctant New Hampshire lawmakers to expand gambling. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:58:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080351/1001/RSS01 U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes is scheduled to travel to the Vermont Yankee power plant in Vernon, Vt., and inspect safety procedures. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:59:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080356/1001/RSS01 The Hopkinton Historical Society has begun a campaign to raise money for upkeep at the William H. Long Memorial Building on Main Street. In 1890, it became the first building specially designed to house a historical society. Already, $140,000 has been raised, according to Executive Director Heather Mitchell. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080358/1001/RSS01 WITH 23 GRADUATES now serving in the Peace Corps, the University of New Hampshire ranks 15th among medium-sized colleges and universities in producing volunteers. Last year, UNH ranked 19th nationally in that group. For the purpose of the Peace Corps rankings, a medium-sized school is one that has between 5,000 to 15,000 undergraduates. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:00:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080355/1001/RSS01 Gary Lopes of Dighton, Mass., died Friday in a snowmobile accident in Pittsburg. A story in yesterday's Monitor gave an incorrect day. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:01:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080350/1001/RSS01 State officials are meeting to review a report on the state's prisons that recommends ways to reduce recidivism to save money. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:02:00 EST http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS01/2080349/1001/RSS01 The police say a Maine man is in jail in New Hampshire on charges that he burglarized a home and made his getaway in a vehicle that he carjacked at gunpoint. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:02:00 EST