ROCHESTER — The latest figures from New Hampshire Employment Security — the October job numbers broken down by industry, contain both bad news and news that may not quite be good, but at least is better than it was.

FARMINGTON — While neither town actually talked of raising a militia, there certainly was trouble brewing on the border between Farmington and New Durham for a few days last week.

MILTON — A score of residents from around Milton Three Ponds attended the selectmen's meeting on Monday night, and they certainly did not leave the board in the dark with regard to how they feel about plans to remove street lights on St James Avenue.

FARMINGTON - I dropped in on old Mr. Ramgunshoch, last Thursday evening, to give him the news that the adjoining town of New Durham had decided to use 21st century technology to update its tax maps, and in so doing, discovered, via aerial photography, that ancient st

ROCHESTER — Gas prices at the pump have been rising steadily since December 2008 when motorists — if you recall — were paying about $1.57 per gallon of regular unleaded locally.

ROCHESTER — Just about a year ago, in November of 2008, the Rochester Times carried a story headlined, "Graves of Rochester benefactors lie unkempt for months."

It would seem simple at first glance — 21st century technology in the form of satellite imagery, GPS units and aerial photography now enables lines to be drawn on a map with pinpoint accuracy, and create a town's tax map boundaries with a degree of precision undreamed of by New Hampshire's...

The War to End all Wars ended officially on June 28, 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles. But the fighting actually concluded seven months earlier on the eleventh hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. A year later, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov.