HILL — Residents on Thursday quashed an attempt to slash the public library’s budget by 40 percent before voting to give townemployeesa3percent raise. More...

MEREDITH — With the goal of aiding the Inter-Lakes School District in long-term planning, local economist Mark Billings has completed a demographic study that he shared with the school board earlier this week. More...

PLYMOUTH — Following a theme of “The Gap Between Rich and Poor”, Monday’s Saul O. Sidore lecture at Plymouth State University addressed how class differences now outweigh even gender and racial differences. More...

Hanging on many a teacher’s wall or sitting on his or her desk is that little proverb that reads, “Life is a classroom.” Half of my teachers had a variation of this framed-art maxim, right along with their globes of the world and A- More...

“Somebody’s made a payment on my credit card.” Risking sounding like Goldilocks, that was my conclusion after going over my monthly credit card statement. There it was: the amount of the generous payment, even the check number. More...

This weekend will find many more people than usual wearing a little or a lot of green in commemoration of St. Patrick’s Day. More...

LACONIA — Weary highway, telephone and Public Service Co. crews struggled, March 13, 1962, “ to dig out and repair damages of the worst storm of the winter,” The Citizen reported, 50 years ago this week. More...

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LACONIA — Rhea Coleman Guild, civic and church leader, dramatist and naturalist, died, March 13, 2012. More...

NEW YORK — Boomers beware: Scams, frauds and other financial exploitation schemes targeting older Americans are a growing multibillion-dollar industry enriching the schemers, anguishing the victims and vexing law enforcement officials who find More...

LACONIA — NH Jazz will present blues artist Charlie Hilbert on Monday at 8 p.m. at Pitman’s Freight Room, located at 94 New Salem Street in Laconia. Keller is one of the finest soul and blues men of his generation. More...

The Artists’ Loft, a life drawing group, meets Monday mornings in Laconia. New members welcome. Call 293-2702 for information. Belknap Mill Art Gallery, Belknap Mill, 25 Beacon St. East, Laconia. More...

MEREDITH — The Lakes Region Symphony invites the community to its concert of American Orchestral Music on Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Inter-lakes Auditorium in Meredith. More...