LACONIA — Cooper Products, a manufacturer of gaskets and seals, wants to expand its operations in the city and is asking the Laconia Planning Board for permission to build an addition that would double the size of its current plant at 210 Fair More...
MOULTONBOROUGH — Marcus Swedberg could finally exhale. There was never a calm moment during Moultonborough’s fourquarter grind against Epping Friday, and the usually stoic senior couldn’t help but take a long, drawn-out breath. More...
MEREDITH — Dr. Phil McCormack, superintendent of School Administrative Unit 2, which serves the Inter-Lakes and Ashland school districts, has announced his retirement, effective June 30. More...
PLYMOUTH — A former student of a Plymouth State alumna has honored her teacher and mentor by creating an Environmental Studies Endowed Professorship. More...
BELMONT — After a season peppered with Shoulda Had Its and Almost Wons, the Belmont- Gilford boys ice hockey team kicks off the Division III playoffs Saturday as an underdog. More...
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — David Ortiz seemed as surprised as anybody when he found out he would be starting at first base for the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night. “I am?” the slugger asked Friday. More...
WASHINGTON — The most accomplished social scientist of the last halfcentury would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House when Moynihan was President Nixon’s domestic policy adviser. More...
While New Englanders were enjoying the unseasonably higher temperatures and absence of snow in recent weeks, we wonder if meteorologists inwardly suspected that the odds of escaping any significant winter storms this month were nil. More...
IN THE TOP PHOTO, courtesy of George Landry, the new Wood’s Mill, off Bayside Court, Lakeport, is seen around 1915, with houses on Moulton Street in the distance across Lake Opechee. H.H. More...
LACONIA — The Manchester Daily Union was quoted, 125 years ago this week, in regard to The Laconia Democrat’s article, the previous week, calling for uniting Laconia and Lake Village: More...
Dear Readers: Are LINGERING ODORS around the house a problem? Commercial products are expensive, and they sometimes just mask the odor. What can you use that is cheap and effective? Grab that jug of plain ol’white or apple-cider vinegar. More...
NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Mariah Carey helped christen the new Disney cruise ship Fantasy at a Hudson River pier in Manhattan on Thursday night and promised to bring her twins back to enjoy some Disney hospitality. More...
Like any network executive Erin McPherson spent the winter half-crazed over content decisions. She sifted through pitches, sat through pilots, took conference calls over the Christmas holiday from a bedroom in her parents' Colorado home. More...
TILTON — Two adults and two children — one of them a baby — were transported to Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia following an afternoon accident at the intersection of Laconia Road (Routes 3- 11) and Silver Lake Road on Frid More...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. More...
LACONIA — After 44 years, Nancy Williams- Hunt on Friday ended her career exactly where she began it: with her hometown bank, Meredith Village Savings. More...
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Appeals Court should not allow trustee mismanagement to justify efforts to tear up the 351-yearold will that created the nation’s oldest charitable trust to raise funds for Ipswich public schools, an attorney fo More...
WASHINGTON — Music legend Smokey Robinson reached out to a new generation of performing artists Friday, telling them they were starting out as he did: “with a love for doing something creative.” More...
BRAITHWAITE, La. — A grand, white-pillared plantation house built on historic River Road near the Mississippi nearly 200 years ago will be sold in a March 10 auction that could provide a new twist in its colorful history. More...
DES MOINES, Iowa — The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled a program Friday that will offer financial incentives for farmers to enroll up to 1 million new acres of grasslands and wetlands into the conservation reserve program. More...
The top-seeded Moultonborough Academy boys basketball team faced its largest second-half deficit of the season Friday night with is season on the line in the Division IV quarterfinals. An 8-2 third-quarter run had No. More...
With four fouls to his name early in the fourth quarter of Saturday's quarterfinal game against Campbell, Prospect Mountain guard Pat Cassidy threw his hands to his head when he heard a whistle. Cassidy couldn't believe it. More...
FRANKLIN — On Sunday at 10 a.m., the Rev. Brendan Hadash will present “Charles Dickens: 19th Century UU.” Charles Dickens will speak about hope on this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. More...
Local St. Lawrence students study abroad CANTON, NY — The following students are participating in St. Lawrence University's International Study Program for the spring 2012 semester. Emma L. More...
Davis LACONIA — Kevin and Danielle (Center) Davis of Laconia have announced the birth of their son, Colby Alden Davis, born on Feb. 2, 2012 at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. Colby weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces at birth. More...
LOS ANGELES — When Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce in 1972, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing communication was the fax machine. More...
The Roman god, Mars, is to roar in like a lion and chase old man winter out like a lamb. We are to look southward for the approaching redbreasted robins and near our feet for the drooping snowdrops and crowning crocuses for signs of spring. More...
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