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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Typically, on Town Meeting ballots, four candidates will vie for three positions, or select board races will go uncontested. These volunteer positions are subject to public scrutiny and the will of residents.But with a vacant seat on Warner’s...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The two members of the Warner select board have formalized a process for filling the open third seat.The board accepted interest forms from residents until 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Once they’ve compiled a list of interested applicants, they will then hold...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

At a past Warner select board meeting, several residents made their way to Town Hall and took to the microphone to let their elected officials know how they felt about recent turmoil in town.Others tuned in online, using a Zoom video link to follow...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI 

Apryl Blood wants to set the record straight. To start, she has numbers. In May, Warner Connects, the local food pantry, served 969 meals to 124 households.Come June, pantry volunteers distributed 1,400 meals to 167 households. In a place like Warner,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the basement of Warner Town Hall, it was standing room only as the select board convened for their first meeting since two members resigned last month.As residents filled rows of plastic chairs, Harry Seidel, who was the sole board member following...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

The Warner Select Board will meet Tuesday for the first time with its newly appointed member, Faith Minton. Earlier this month, Warner town government was brought to a halt after Christine Frost and Jody Sloane resigned on July 12. Minton, who was...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Warner select board members Christine Frost and Jody Sloane cannot rescind their resignations and are no longer elected officials representing the town, a judge ruled Monday.In addition, Judge Brian Tucker approved the appointment of Faith Minton to...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

After rescinding their resignations made the previous week, Warner select board members Jody Sloane and Christine Frost returned to town hall Tuesday with a new motion: to fire Diane Ricciardelli, the town administrator. Ahead of Tuesday’s meeting,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A court hearing Thursday was intended to fill a vacant seat on Warner's town select board after two members resigned last week. But this appointment might not be necessary, if Judge Brian Tucker accepts that Christine Frost and Jody Sloane were able...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the downstairs of Warner Town Hall, Christine Frost took her place behind the plastic folding table, with board members Jody Sloane and Harry Seidel on either side, and called the select board meeting to order.With a light agenda for last Tuesday’s...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As new estimates show the state needs 60,000 units to meet housing demands by 2030, reconfiguring zoning codes is one key solution to building necessary units.  In Merrimack County, the towns of Warner, Boscawen and Hopkinton will have some help doing...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center and Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum are partnering for a second time to host an event featuring Native American storytelling and stargazing in Warner, giving attendees an opportunity to explore the stars through an...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Warner residents will have reason to celebrate in 2024, as the town prepares for its 250th anniversary. And in honor of the upcoming year of town pride, residents kicked off the annual meeting with a celebratory tune: a rendition of happy birthday on...

By DAVID M. CARROLL

Artist, naturalist, and writer David M. Carroll lives in Warner. To quote Henry David Thoreau, “I would speak a word for Nature.” And I would speak it from deepest opposition to the severely degrading impacts that would be brought to bear on the...

By DAVID BROOKS

As the Warner River gets closer to protected status with a public hearing set for Thursday, here are two numbers to consider: 2,225 and 6.Those figures are the maximum and minimum possible river flows, measured in cubic feet per second, given in a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Maintenance will be the underlying theme for Warner residents at Town Meeting in March.In addition to a proposed operating budget of almost $4.4 million, which is an increase 18.8 %, voters will consider warrant articles that will expend funds for...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Freezing temperatures this past weekend lead to damaging fires and burst pipes across the state, leaving families displaced and homes destroyed as temperatures hovered in the negative and single digits until Sunday. As temperatures began to climb on...

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Firefighters quickly put out a fire at a single-family home on East Sutton Road in Warner on Sunday night.Crews were alerted to a structure fire around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The roof of the blue custom-built, contemporary home was fully engulfed in flames...

By DAVID BROOKS

A years-in-the-making conservation easement has settled the immediate future of a family vegetable farm in Warner but that doesn’t mean it faces no more problems. Consider porcupines.“They were all over the place this year. We didn’t do a good job...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Behind the metal racks stocked with canned food, dog treats and bags of fresh produce, Lori Garrett sits at her desk in the office of Warner Connects, a food pantry and community resource center, replying to emails to get started for the day. Garrett,...