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CONWAY — A 68-unit housing development will likely come before the planning board next month.
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Archer Thomas Isaiah Bellen was born Oct. 11, 2025, at MaineHealth Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H. He weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces.
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The Freedom Elementary School will host a Haunted Hallway on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 5 p,m. at the school. They are looking for volunteers to help decorate a section of hallway on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
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CONWAY — The American Red Cross of Northern New England is teaming up on Saturday with local fire departments to offer free smoke alarm installations for residents in need during a Sound the Alarm home fire safety event in the Mount Washington Valley Region.
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FRYEBURG, Maine — Jane Kneeland Smith passed away at the age of 85, surrounded by her family members.
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CONWAY — The Kennett High field hockey team has plenty to play for heading into its final game of the regular season Thursday.
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OSSIPEE — Fidium and the Carroll County Communications District held a ribbon cutting Oct.8 at the County Annex to celebrate new fiber connectivity and the “Gig Town” designation for several towns.
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When I was a younger person, growing up in Small Town, USA could feel so boring at times. I would have given anything to live near a shopping mall, just to have a place to hang out with my friends that wasn’t one of our parents’ basements.
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Though the Fryeburg Fair added a ninth day this year, the Saturday before the traditional Sunday opening, and the weather was near perfect, Total attendance was almost even with last year’s, at a little more than 171,000, The record attendance was set in 2004 at 199,000. Other agricultural f…
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CONWAY — Columbus took a chance when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and so will we all when we dare to venture out onto the local roadways this Columbus Day Weekend — also known as Indigenous People’s Weekend.
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JACKSON — The Whitney Community Center in Jackson will come alive with music, laughter and lively steps on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 7-9 pm, as caller Eric Rollnick joins forces with the White Mountain Ceili Band for a traditional Barn Dance. This all-ages community event invites everyone — se…
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Baman Stone came to Fryeburg, Maine, in 1873 to be minister of Fryeburg’s Congregational Church, but just four years later, he was “uninstalled” — or fired, in common parlance. Too liberal, would be my guess, especially since he went straight from that posting to found a congregation of Swed…