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By FRANCES MIZE

CORNISH — Ethel Nelson was much in the news.Her family, riddling through her local stardom in the months after her death, largely thinks it wasn’t that Nelson herself was attention-grabbing. It’s just that what she did, inevitably, grabbed...

ENFIELD — The Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission is set to host a series of at-home composting workshops this fall.The workshops will discuss “best practices” for composters, and what food materials can and can’t be composted.The...

By RAY COUTURE

CORNISH — You’d think a family that’s lived in the same house for the last two-and-a-half centuries would know how to throw a party there at the drop of a hat.But for the Fitchs, who have owned and lived on their 165-acre plot of land atop Dingleton...

Sydney Leggett, who has been serving as interim superintendent of the Plainfield and Cornish school districts, has been named to the permanent role. Leggett is also currently the superintendent of the Grantham school district and will leave that role...

CORNISH — The Cornish Police Department is seeking assistance identifying the person responsible for damaging the Cornish Windsor Covered Bridge on Friday, according to a Sunday post on the department’s Facebook page. It may have been a trailer that...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CORNISH — In a Town Meeting that drew a standing-room-only crowd at the Cornish Elementary School gymnasium on Saturday, voters narrowly approved a petitioned article that clears the way for renovating the town’s former general store and making it the...

Staff Report

CORNISH — In Australian ballot voting on Tuesday, Cornish voters supported three changes to the zoning ordinance.The changes include lifting the limit on the size of accessory dwelling units; adding bonding and insurance requirements; and allowing the...

By FRANCES MIZE

Tuesday’s late winter storm, which saw 13 inches of snow pile up in Newport, N.H., by noon, also brought tall stacks of Town Meeting ballots from voters who were thinking ahead. On Monday, Cornish Town Clerk Paula Harthan handed out almost 90 absentee...

By JIM KENYON

The distance between Cornish’s public library and the town’s shuttered general store is only about 200 yards.But when it comes to whether the town should keep the library where it’s been for 113 years or move its contents across Route 120 to the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

CORNISH — Town voters approved a $5 million operating budget for next school year and green-lighted funding to study needed roof repairs at Cornish Elementary School, where falling of ice and snow from roof overhangs raises safety concerns, at the...

Articles of note: One article on the school warrant asks whether voters support long-term tuition agreements between the Cornish School District and the Hartford, Windsor and Claremont school districts. One article on the town warrant asks whether the...

By ALEX HANSON

CORNISH — After almost two years of study and debate, voters here will be able to weigh in on whether to accept the gift of a new, more accessible library at Town Meeting.Representatives of the town’s library trustees and the Connect Cornish...

Staff Report

CANAAN — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic is scheduled to come to Canaan and Cornish this week. On Friday, the clinic, operated by On-Site Medical Services through a contract with the state, is...

On her fourth attempt to win a seat in the New Hampshire House, Republican Margaret Drye, of Plainfield, defeated Democrat Jason Bourne, of Cornish, 3,603-3,438, in the race to represent the five towns in the newly drawn Sullivan 7 House District.Drye...

Dr. William Palmer, a Cornish Democrat making his first run for statewide office, defeated three-time New Hampshire House candidate, Plainfield Republican Virginia Drye, 1380-903, for the Sullivan 2 House district representing Cornish and...