Posted on 17 May 2012
Editorial Coos County Democrat and Berlin Reporter The downstate media has made much of the supposed dispute between the Colebrook Planning Board and the new owners of the Balsams and then later the auction of the contents of the dilapidate 150-year-old relic of the Gilded Age. Both seem to have raised doubts about the intentions [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 12 May 2012
From Associated Press DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — From the pastel wicker chairs lined up in the sunroom to the stacks of bright red ski lift seats outside, the list of items for auction at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel is as sweeping as the view surrounding the historic property in far northern New Hampshire. Saturday’s [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 09 May 2012
by Edith Tucker, Coos County Democrat LANCASTER — Two senior employees of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) — Senior Director of Site Acquisitions Brad Wiggins and Senior Director of Partnership Relations Ben Shuster — presented the basic information that was filed with the state under its Request for Proposal process set up last fall when [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 09 May 2012
By Jeff Woodburn, Berlin Reporter GORHAM– My editor passed a tidbit to me recently – casserole was first served in Berlin. My instincts were that can’t be so because I’ve never heard it because I pay close attention to local history (and food). Maybe I thought, he was confused with Tupperware (which was invented by [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 02 May 2012
by Jeff Woodburn jeff@whitemtnews.com BERLIN — A local family, who put their life savings into upgrading their home, has found themselves caught up in construction scam. Richard and Erica Buteau, of Hillside Ave, paid a Bow Contractor $9,000 to replace their drafty, old window with new ones, but after months of missed deadlines and [...] Continue Reading...
From WMUR-TV 9 DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — Just about everything — including the kitchen sink — is up for auction at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel this weekend. Saturday’s auction is part of the hotel’s restoration project, and an expansive list of items is up for bid. Up to 1,500 bidders are expected to [...]
Share on FacebookBy JOHN DiSTASO Senior Political Reporter WASHINGTON — By the time most people hit age 73 after working for 50 years, they’re more than ready to kick back, go fishing, maybe plant a garden and watch it grow.But not Larry Brady. The Berlin native and former four-time political candidate is working long hours on [...]
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By Jeff Woodburn When warm sun of late spring finally gets to the North Country, it is a brilliant and wonderful transformation. I still have that excitement, but in May of 1979, I loved baseball and the snow just wouldn’t retreat from our baseball field fast enough. But on the 19th day of May– life [...]
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by Jeff Woodburn LANCASTER – Chelsey Goedecke, of Lancaster, was busy last Thursday washing the windows of Lancaster’s Main Street. Since 2007 she has operated her own window-washing operation. On this day, Goedecke was tending to the large plate glass windows of the offices of Rymes Heating and Aurore Hood Real Estate and the restaurant [...]
Share on FacebookThe Washington Post is reporting that Cecelia Hill Gardner, the wife of Ambassador Robert Hill, a Littleton native. The Hill had a part-time home in the North Country for many years. The Post wrote: Cecelia Hill Gardner, 91, who lived for many years in Latin America and Europe as the wife of a diplomat who [...]
Share on FacebookThe most famous paintings produced by the 19th-century White Mountain School of landscape painting have tended to be of the Mount Washington Valley region on the big mountain’s eastern side. A new exhibition opening at Holderness School on April 20—“West of Washington: Between Nature and Time”—will show that paintings and drawings of equal majesty [...]
Share on FacebookWe came accross this “meet the candidates” interview from the Conway Daily Sun with Rebecca Oleson, a former Lancaster resident. She’s beginning her second term as town moderator in Conway. – Editor Meet the Candidates: Rebecca Oleson, town moderator Details Written by Lloyd Jones CONWAY — Incumbent Rebecca J. Oleson is seeking another term as town [...]
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