Capping a more than year-long fundraising effort, Ossipee Conservation Commission has purchased the Route 16 "Window on the Ossipee Mountains" property.
No one injured as Long Sands Road vacation home burns to the ground during yesterday's snow storm.
Multi-part coverage by the Concord Monitor on how Washington derailed DRED's attempts to force communities to open more public lands to ATVs.
Non-binding resolution on property taxes gained traction at town meetings despite opponents' claims that it is misleading and dishonest.
It has been a rough month for buildings in the area as they surrendered to Mother Nature. Hardest hit was Camp Marist, the summer camp located on Route 25 in Effingham.
Former three-term selectman Harry Merrow outpolled two other candidates by a wide margin Tuesday in a race to fill the seat of longtime selectman Joseph Skehan, who died in February.
We have been in Freedom for nine winters and this is the first time snow off the garage roof was up to the edge of the roof (almost 8'). We were very happy to have the snow on the ground rather than on the roof.
Remember Mount Whittier? Then you probably remember Tyrol and Intervale ski areas too. Vanished but still cherished local slopes are the focus of a website and a talk this Sunday at the Eastern Slope Inn in North Conway.
It has been a great winter for skiers in central and northern New England, but the heavy snowfall has become a nightmare for municipal budgets and the owners of dozens of buildings whose roofs have collapsed.
In a letter issued this week, members of the Ossipee Conservation Commission said the organization is within $19,900 of being able to purchase the Route 16 'viewshed' property in its "Window on the Ossipee Mountains" initiative.
With the latest snowstorm on Tuesday night, North Conway set new records for the snowiest February and the snowiest winter in 34 years. But it's still not the snowiest winter on record.
Today's predicted snow storm could make the winter of 2007-2008 one for the record book.
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