Webster
A Merrimack County grand jury has indicted a third person in an ongoing investigation into a house fire in Webster several months ago that authorities say was purposely set to defraud an insurance company. Brittany Chenette, 24, of Zapora Drive in Hooksett, has been charged as an accessory to the arson that authorities say took place on Nov. 18 at 682 White Plains Road. In court…
May 25, 2012
Loudon
A Loudon man accused of shooting his wife in the stomach and legs through a wall while cleaning his gun last November has been sentenced to a year in jail. Mark Hillson, 45, pleaded guilty to one charge each of reckless conduct and simple assault yesterday in Merrimack County Superior Court in connection with the November incident, court records show. For the misdemeanor simple…
May 24, 2012
New Hampton
The former fire chief of New Hampton has been indicted on a dozen counts of sexual assault against a female identified in court records as his relative. David Clement, 58, of 11 Clement Road, New Hampton, was indicted by a Merrimack County grand jury on 12 counts of sexual assault, including six felonies and six misdemeanors,…
May 24, 2012
A SOLDIER KILLED in Vietnam with ties to Franklin will be honored this Memorial Day, when his name is added to the city's war memorial monument. Staff Sgt. Eugene Harriman died Dec. 23, 1967, at the 45th Army Surgical Hospital in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, 10 days after the vehicle he was traveling in hit a land mine, according to the Rev. Roger Sargent, who grew up in Franklin and served…
May 23, 2012
Tea Party activist Andrew Hemingway has launched a new venture: getting a Republican in the governor’s office. Hemingway, who ran Newt Gingrich’s campaign in New Hampshire and has toyed in the past with running for congress, filed paperwork yesterday to form a political action committee called “4RG” -- For a Republican Governor. Hemingway will be both chairman…
May 22, 2012
New Hampshire's Episcopalians yesterday elected a 50-year-old, straight, father of three to be the next bishop of the state diocese. The decision could allow the church to keep a lower profile after it set in motion a worldwide schism in the Anglican church by electing an openly gay bishop in 2003. Robert Hirschfeld,…
May 20, 2012
Henniker
Students at Chester College, which is expected to close this year under financial pressure, are being offered an easy transition to Henniker's New England College. The two schools announced a partnership yesterday that will allow any of Chester College's approximately 120 students to transfer all of their credits and attend NEC for the same tuition they are currently paying.…
May 19, 2012
Nearly 1,000 people attended "meet and greet" sessions and an 18-person committee spent several months screening candidates, but what will happen in Concord today when members of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elect a new bishop is something of a mystery. "This is a spiritual process, and so…
May 19, 2012
Franklin
The Franklin police are asking for the public's help to find the people responsible for vandalizing tombstones in a Thompson Park cemetery with anti-Semitic graffiti. Some of the headstones were spray-painted with swastikas, said police Sgt. Daniel Ball. "Hitler" was spray-painted on one, he said. There haven't been any other incidents of anti-Semitism in the area lately, Ball…
May 19, 2012
Pittsfield
Pittsfield's deputy fire chief will temporarily lead the fire department, according to Town Administrator Paul Skowron. Lenny Deane, who has been a volunteer firefighter in Pittsfield for more than 30 years, will serve as acting chief while the town decides how to fill Gary Johnson's position, Skowron said. Johnson stepped down yesterday. Johnson was the town's full-time…
May 19, 2012