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The Lakes Region Planning Commission is using an $87,300 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to promote food waste composting to reduce materials going into solid waste landfills. The program, which includes providing Jora compost tumblers for home use, is being rolled out in Ashla…

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The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office found that the director of the state’s Division of Historical Resources, Benjamin Wilson, failed to properly notify state officials about communications with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over plans for a detention center in Merrimack, d…

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LACONIA ― There’s a small group elevating the occasion of Earth Day with their second annual Love Our Earth Day Festival, a large vendor fair intended to educate and celebrate the Lakes Region. Martha “Muff” Kruse hopes eventgoers will leave better informed about the local environment.

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BRISTOL — The town has approved an agreement with the Challenge Partnership Group to move forward with construction of the Pemi Path, a multi-use trail alongside the Pemigewasset River, between downtown Bristol and Profile Falls on Smith River.

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BELMONT — Voters at Town Meeting declined an article to relocate Town Hall to the Belmont Mill, and now, the Town Hall boiler needs to be replaced. The expense will be discussed at the selectboard meeting this Wednesday, according to the agenda.

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TUFTONBORO — Two adults were found dead outside a summer home in the small community on Saturday, and police have determined they died by suicide of environmental hypothermia. 

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ALTON — Voters declined to pass the proposed operating budget for the third straight year at Town Meeting, which put town governance in a bind. Now, a revised budget town leaders hope is more palatable will be up for a vote in June.