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By JOHN LIPPMAN

UNITY — The symbol spray painted on road signs is not quite befitting with the town’s name.Road signs in Unity have been defaced with Nazi swastikas and the town has yet to remove them. The vandalism may be tied to similar road sign defacement that...

UNITY — Voters easily approved a proposal to withdraw from SAU 6 with Claremont at the annual school meeting on Saturday.

UNITY — In uncontested races, voters elected Garry Bator to the Selectboard and Shannon Popescu and Atonya Hart to the School Board.

Article of note: A proposed school article would have the Unity School District withdraw from SAU 6. An article on the town warrant would establish a new cemetery on Mica Mine Road on town-owned land within four years.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

UNITY — A planning committee of the Unity School District has submitted a feasibility plan to the state Department of Education seeking to withdraw from SAU 6 with Claremont.Should the plan receive state approval, residents will vote on an article at...

UNITY — Voters rejected only one article at Saturday’s Town Meeting, a proposal to move the town’s Revere bell from Unity Town Hall’s bell tower to a display on the Town Common.They made some tweaks to a few warrant articles before passing them,...

UNITY — Ramona Labrie won a three-year term as town clerk, beating Kelly Simpson, 228 to 71.William Schroeter won a three-year term on the Unity Selectboard.On the school side, Rocco Ruggeri won a School Board seat in an uncontested race.The annual...

Article of note:One town article asks whether voters support a $586,000 project to remove and replace a culvert on Lear Hill Road, with funding for the project to come from the Unassigned Fund Balance and to be reimbursed by FEMA at 90%, or $528,000....

By PATRICK O’GRADY

UNITY — The Unity School Board is recommending voters approve an article on the annual school meeting warrant to begin the process to withdrawal from School Administrative Unit 6, which is based in Claremont. At a public hearing Tuesday, attended by...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — In the wake of a SAU 6 board vote to terminate Superintendent Michael Tempesta on Thursday night, he told staff that he “was surprised.” “I never planned on leaving you like this,” Tempesta, who was hired in 2019, said in the Friday...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NORTH HAVERHILL — Administrators of Upper Valley nursing homes are balking at proposed changes to federal staffing requirements, which they say would be difficult for them to meet and could put beds offline, reducing the availability of long-term care...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

UNITY — Sullivan County officials are planning a feasibility study about building a child care center at the county complex that would serve county employees and perhaps others in the community.The study would include an evaluation of the need, types...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

UNITY — Early summer 2008 was a tense time for Democrats.When the year began, then-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton was the clear favorite to capture the Democratic nomination for president. Six months later, after a bruising primary campaign, Barack Obama,...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — At its annual convention, the Sullivan County delegation of state representatives unanimously approved a $38.7 million budget for the fiscal year beginning on Saturday.The budget represents a 1.4% increase from the current budget of $38.15...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The county delegation of state representatives will hold a public hearing Tuesday on the Sullivan County Commissioners’ proposed $39 million budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1.The hearing will be held in the Goodrich room of the...

UNITY — At a floor meeting on Saturday, voters rejected an article that would have changed South Slack Road from a Class V town-maintained road to a Class IV non-town maintained road.The paper ballot tally was 72 nos to 22 yeas. In other voting, they...

UNITY — Gary Ross won a five-way race for one three-year term on the Unity Selectboard in Tuesday’s ballot voting.With 76 votes, Ross beat out Kelly Simpson, who earned 23 votes; Shaylor Duranleau, 31; Adam Ferland Sr., 15; and Debra Leahy, 13, for...

Article of note: One article asks whether voters support changing South Slack Road from a Class V town-maintained road to a Class IV non-town maintained road.Contested races: There are five candidates for one three-year term on the Selectboard: Kelly...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Norwich resident Susan White is mourning the loss of her husband, the Rev. Kenneth Cracknell, who died Oct. 26 at age 87 after testing positive for COVID-19 during an outbreak at Hanover Terrace Health and Rehabilitation Center.That...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — After years of debate and planning, work on the expansion and renovation to the county nursing home is expected to start early next month, after the delegation of state representatives on Monday approved an additional $9 million in bonding...

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...