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Boys’ BasketballLaconia 53, Bow 46Key players: Laconia – Keaton Beck (19 points, rebounding); Bow – Jake Reardon (14 points), Brendan O’Keeffe (13 points)Coach’s quote:  “You’re not going to win many games when you get outrebounded and you turn the...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Pembroke Academy senior Joe Fitzgerald, a captain on this year’s boys’ varsity basketball team, finished his high school career with over 1,000 points scored, a milestone only 17 other Spartans have reached.But from Jim Cilley, one of Pembroke’s...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Belmont man and former student of Bishop Guertin High School is suing the school, claiming it failed to protect him from sexual assault by a teacher it knew was a pedophile. The administration of the private Nashua high school learned in 1970 that...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-simmering idea that Canterbury should withdraw from the Shaker Regional School District is back at the forefront following a study committee’s support of the idea.This is the third time Canterbury has considered withdrawing from the...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-running effort to turn the old Gale School into a vibrant community center, delayed by cost increases, has received federal support.The United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development fund recently directed $391,000 to the project...

By DAN ATTORRI

The Bow High School golf team had as good an inaugural season in Division II as any squad could hope for. The Falcons swept the NHIAA D-II titles, winning the team championship, their ninth state crown in the last 11 years (the others were won in...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A Belmont man has been indicted on charges connected to his possession of a firearm recovered during a homicide investigation in Franklin last month. Justin Gebo, 28, is facing three counts of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm...

By RAY DUCKLER

He didn’t have the original poem he’d written 70 years ago when the Old Man of the Mountain guarded Franconia Notch with a hard stare, but Charlie Poole of Bristol remembered the words, altering them to acknowledge his friend’s death.“There was a man,...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

One thing that truly fills Kimberly McWhinnie with a deep sense of pride is being able to say she graduated Belmont High as a fox, the school’s new mascot.With almost four years of passionate engagement in school board meetings and discussions, the...

By GEORGINA LAMBERT

Georgina Lambert lives in Belmont. American conservatives have an opportunity to adopt a more accepting stance towards social programs that benefit vulnerable individuals. By embracing programs such as Meals on Wheels, elder and limited ability...

A 243-year-old farmhouse in Belmont that flourished during the 1820s wool boom, when there were more sheep than people in town, has been listed to the National Register of Historic Places.The Dudley Gilman Homestead, one of the oldest documented homes...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

It was like eavesdropping on a conversation between United States senators.“Patience.” “Compromise.” “Listen to others.”But these weren’t U.S. senators or even New Hampshire state representatives. These were students at Belmont High School. And over...