COOS COUNTY — Conservation Officers with the N.H. Fish and Game Department as well as local rescue teams were busy over the long weekend. They responded to seven snowmobile accidents that occurred around the county, some of them serious.
In Gorham, a rented snowmobile operator and his passenger avoided serious injury after going off a trail and crashing into a tree.
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