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By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — The Stowell Library trustees’ use of a portion of a $30,000 donation for plans for a new library in the former Cornish General Store was within the trustees’ rights, the Charitable Trusts Unit of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — The family of a donor to the Stowell Library alleges the money was misused by a committee seeking to renovate the former Cornish General Store into a new library for the town.Brian Meyette is asking the Cornish Library Trustees to return...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH — Ruth Ferland carefully poured a jug of maple syrup into tiny containers lined up on a lunch tray in a red booth at the Cornish Fairgrounds.After the row was finished, she placed a lid on each one and put the tray aside. Next, she began...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

CORNISH — On a Friday afternoon in late July, a procession of about 40 fire trucks wended its way through Cornish, Meriden and Plainfield on a route that passed an unassuming machine shop nestled between a two-story residence and the Cornish Flat fire...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH — Upper Valley lawmakers and police officers hope two new laws will help protect New Hampshire’s covered bridges from oversized vehicles.HB 1457-FN will increase the fines for motorists who damage covered bridges to $1,000 for a first offense;...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — The historic Stowell Library, which many residents hope to see remain in use as a library, could be getting a well and septic system.In a brief 15-minute meeting Monday, Selectboard members Jason Bourne and Dillon Gallagher announced the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A 52-year-old Cornish woman has pleaded guilty to involvement with a Medicaid fraud scheme and will spend three weeks behind bars for providing false information to a grand jury weighing charges in the case.Kimberly Patterson, of Beechwood...

CORNISH — To protect plants, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park has closed a floodplain forest that sits between the Connecticut River and Route 12A during the months of April and May.Plants such as ramps and fiddleheads typically emerge in the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — A year after voters narrowly approved a petitioned article to accept the former general store on Route 120 as a donation for use as the town’s library and community center, the issue continues to divide the community.In this year’s Town...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

In 1998, voters of Orford, Fairlee, Vershire and West Fairlee approved a plan to form Rivendell, an interstate school district, with the intent to pool their resources to provide an equitable and sustainable education system for their communities.The...

CORNISH — Voters approved all articles during Saturday’s floor meeting.Among the items they approved was a proposed highway budget of $817,000 and a proposed general fund of $675,000.

CORNISH — Voters elected Dillon Gallagher to a three-year term on the Selectboard.With 310 votes, Gallagher beat out Dianne Titus, who ran a write-in campaign and earned 149 votes.In a close race for library trustee, Laura Cousineau won by four votes...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — Voters passed all articles by voice vote, including an amended budget of $5.4 million and plans to explore greater cooperation with Plainfield, at the nearly three-hour floor meeting at the elementary school on Saturday.During ballot voting,...

Article of note: One article on the school warrant asks voters whether they support creating a committee to collaborate with the Plainfield School District to study the feasibility of a cooperative district. Another asks whether voters will support...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH — The National Park Service is looking to train volunteers at the Upper Valley’s two national parks to identify an invasive insect that poses a risk to hemlock trees.Staff will lead workshops about the small aphid-like insect at 9 a.m. Friday,...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

Cornish and Plainfield voters will decide on Town Meeting Day whether their school boards should consider forming a cooperative school district and merging their middle schools.The two districts have collaborated in recent years in an effort to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

CORNISH — Around half a dozen times year, Cornish Police Chief Doug Hackett has to respond to a too familiar call: Someone has hit one of the town’s fabled covered bridges.More often than not, the motorist is already long gone. On the off chance that...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

PLAINFIELD — As they face staffing shortages and high costs, the Plainfield and Cornish school boards are considering several potential models for restructuring the relationship between two school administrative units, SAUs.Under the current...

By FRANCES MIZE

CORNISH — In managing her 475-acre wooded property in Cornish, Colleen O’Neill chooses to think in tree time — which is long and slow.Decisions made today at Langwood Tree Farm, such as where to harvest timber, are for the benefit of arboreal life...