Somersworth Revisits Hilltop Pact
Feb 6 2012 8:47AM
Posted 17 hrs 40 mins ago
Reporter: Pat Kelly/Gregg Shaw
Date: February 6, 2012
The Somersworth City Council is set to meet tonight for a vote on allowing City Manager Bob Belmore to enter into a private-public partnership with the Friends of Somersworth on the re-use of the former Hilltop School. City officials believe that the Council will be able to deal with any remaining zoning issues with that
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Portsmouth Considers Fire Station Plan
Feb 6 2012 8:21AM
Posted 18 hrs 6 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw
Date: February 6, 2012
Portsmouth City Council meets tonight, and it will consider a supplemental appropriation aimed at re-opening Fire Station #3. The 150 thousand dollar proposal would come from undesignated fund balances. Also on the Council’s schedule is a work session prior to the regular meeting, where issues related to the 2013 will be the topic.
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Memorial Bridge Demolition Begins
Feb 6 2012 8:18AM
Posted 18 hrs 9 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw
Date: February 6, 2012
The dismantling of the 2-million-pound lift span on the Memorial Bridge has now been postponed until tomorrow. That’s being preceded today by the closure of the Piscataqua River around the bridge, one that will last for 72 hours. The first major event of the demolition of the Memorial Bridge will happen between 9 am and 2 pm tomorrow,
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Broadband Network Project Makes Progress
Feb 6 2012 8:16AM
Posted 18 hrs 11 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw
Date: February 6, 2012
A project aimed at developing a high-speed broadband network across New Hampshire has passed an important milestone. Green Mountain Communications has finished work on Moose Mountain, Tenney Mountain, Hyland Hill and Mount Kearsarge, in the effort to build the network that will improve communication among public safety agencies. The NHSafenet
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2 No Child Bills Considered in NH
Feb 6 2012 8:03AM
Posted 18 hrs 24 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw/Associated Press
Date: February 6, 2012
Two bills in the New Hampshire House would withdraw the state from the No Child Left Behind law, but the cost would be an estimated $61.6 million loss in federal money tied to the law.
New Hampshire would be the first state to withdraw from the law if the legislation were to pass. Consequences would include the
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ME Promotes EZ Pass Use
Feb 6 2012 8:00AM
Posted 18 hrs 27 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw/Associated Press
Date: February 6, 2012
Maine Turnpike officials are trying to get more people to use the turnpike's electronic toll collection system.
The Maine Turnpike Authority says it's reducing the price of the E-ZPass windshield transponders from $25 to $10 to promote use of E-ZPass.
The transponders are mounted on windshields and
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ME Budget Writers Progress
Feb 6 2012 7:56AM
Posted 18 hrs 31 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw/Associated Press
Date: February 6, 2012
Maine legislators working toward a bipartisan agreement to fill a $221 million state budget hole are making progress.
The Appropriations Committee has finalized $25 million in savings recommended by a special task force. In addition, lawmakers OKd more than a dozen other initiatives to cut the budget.
Democrats
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Penguin Plunge Nets Nearly 700K
Feb 6 2012 7:53AM
Posted 18 hrs 34 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw/Associated Press
Date: February 6, 2012
Organizers say more than 1,100 people plunged into the Atlantic Ocean for the annual Penguin Plunge and raised more than $688,000 for Special Olympics New Hampshire.
The event at Hampton Beach was held over the weekend. About 400 teens took the challenge on Saturday. Adults took the plunge yesterday.
The event
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ME Bill Would Limit Bait Options
Feb 6 2012 7:48AM
Posted 18 hrs 39 mins ago
Reporter: Gregg Shaw/Associated Press
Date: February 6, 2012
It may soon be against the law in Maine to bait lobster traps with almost anything that's not part of a lobster's natural diet.
The Legislature's Marine Resources Committee unanimously endorsed the bill. It is expected to be approved by the House and Senate.
Col. Joseph Fessenden of the Maine Marine Patrol
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Somersworth Housing Theft
Dec 13 2011 2:47PM
Posted 55 days 11 hrs 40 mins ago
Somersworth Housing Theft
December 13, 2011
Reporter: Judi Currie
Somersworth Police Department is investigating what they are calling an internal theft at the Somersworth Housing Authority.
Police say in excess of 100-thousand dollars is missing and a suspect has been identified. The suspect was employed at the Housing Authority at the time of the thefts. Somersworth police say they were alerted to the theft the Director of Somersworth Housing, Elizabeth Salinger.
The investigation is ongoing, and will focus on the total amount of money that has been stolen, the duration of the theft, and who was responsible.
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Evacuation Underway
Dec 13 2011 2:43PM
Posted 55 days 11 hrs 44 mins ago
Route 108 in Rochester is closed and area homes are being evacuated. The water tank on Rochester hill is in danger of failing, according to police.
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Sep 17 2011 7:50AM
Posted 142 days 19 hrs 37 mins ago
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Skydiver Hospitalized in Accident
Aug 23 2011 8:19AM
Posted 167 days 19 hrs 8 mins ago
Reporter: Pat Kelly/Gregg Shaw
Date: August 23, 2011
An unidentified man is in a Boston hospital with serious injuries, after a sky diving accident in Lebanon. The man came to earth in a cow pasture just before 10 yesterday morning. He is said to be an experienced parachutist, with more than 35 hundred jumps to his credit. The victim was first taken to Frisbie Memorial Hospital by crews who responded to the scene, just off of Lower Barley Road. He was later transferred by Med flight to the Boston facility. Authorities believe his parachute had opened and was in working order .
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Dec 3 2010 8:06AM
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