Our photographer, Jamie Gemmiti, put some of his favorite photos from 2017 together in this slide show.
Rev. Martell Spagnolo looks at the more than 5,000 origami peace cranes dangling from the rafters in the church as the sun streamed in Tuesday. The congregation led by Reverend Martell folded the cranes as a form of prayer over the past year praying for world peace. Some cranes are folded using pictures, articles and sermons including all sides of many issues. Pictures of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Gandhi, Mother Theresa and others as well as reproductions of fine art and famous poems all folded up into the thousands of peace cranes. The cranes were installed the week prior to Christmas and will be up until Lent. The church will be open for visitors on inauguration day Friday “for people who want to pray for a peaceful transition,” Reverend Martell said as an open invitation. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Jackson “Sister March” organizer Betsey Harding, center, welcomes the crowd of 300 in the Jackson Grammar School driveway and parking lot during Saturday’s protest to support women’s rights, health care, human rights, environmental protections and other issues they fear will be ignored by the new federal administration. Harding also read a proclamation sent by Senator Jean Shaheen and handed off her megaphone to others who wanted to speak to the crowd. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Participants in the Jackson “Sister March” held signs to support women’s rights, health care, human rights, environmental protections and other issues they fear will be ignored by the new federal administration in the Jackson Grammar School driveway and parking lot during Saturday’s protest that coincided with marches around the country and around the world. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Flossie Blake, 107, is pictured in a mirror framed with taped up birthday cards in her room before receiving the Boston Post Cane as the eldest citizen of Conway at Mineral Springs in Conway Wednesday, January 25, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Dave Evans is on hand to explain about the things that earlier animal trappers may have needed during the 14th annual Ice Harvest and Winter Carnival at the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm in Tamworth on Saturday. Organizers said it was one the best attended ice harvest festivals they have held. In addition to cutting the blocks and hoisting them out of the water and onto skids pulled by steer or oxen, visitors also mingled with some farm animals, learned about trapping, and other educational displays. Also, many enjoyed free fides in old Ford Model T cars equipped with skis on the front and tracks wrapped around rear tires. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Pine Tree School kindergartner Grady Brown punches though a styrofoam board while Kwoon Karate Academy instructor Alan Libby, right, looks-on and assistant instructor Hannah Smarzynski holds-on during the day-long health and wellness fair at the school Thursday March 16, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Members of the Act One Dance Company from Tina Titzer School of Dance performs a dress rehearsal of “Alice in Wonderland” in the studio in Fryeburg Sunday. From left are: Taiylor Courtemanche, Taylor Nusbaum, Madeline McGrath, Mimi Albert, Greta Grant, Taylor Gunthur, and Katherine Trumbull. The classic story interpreted in formal ballet with choreography by Tina Titzer will be performed Sunday March 26th at 4 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Jackson Grammar School students start off for the annual Nordic Ski-A-Thon at Jackson Ski Touring Center for the culminating event for the season long After School Nordic Ski Program Monday at Jackson Ski touring Center. Pre-k though 6th graders skied laps around a 1KM course on the Wentworth Golf Course after taking pledges to raise funds for the 6th grade Legacy Project and outdoor classroom pavilion and also the Jackson PTO and Jackson Ski touring Foundation. The students racked up 342 laps in the 3 hour ski-a-thon Monday. Among the students pictured here are: from left, Robbie Burton, Grade 3, Macie Marcotte, Grade 2, and Zoe Groves, Grade 4. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Curt Towle, right, waits to hand up the ladder to Matt Huntington on the tractor driven by Scott Huntington while taking down the lights and wreaths from the Jackson covered bridge during an early spring snow Friday. Even while the winter weather was blanketing the town in while the crew from Nestlenook Farm Resort, in Jackson, was going around the downtown area removing the wreaths from the utility poles and removing the decorations on the bridge. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Mary Josephine Sibly Cressy, known as “JoJo”, 105, is presented with the Freyburg Boston Post Cane by Fryeburg town manager Sharon Jackson, left, and Fryeburg selectman Richard Murray, center and Rick Eastman, right, during a gathering at Bridgton Health and Residential Care Center in Bridgeton Tuesday. Several family members, residents and employees of the care center attended the celebration. The Boston Post Cane is a tradition since 1909 when the the publisher of The Boston Post, Edwin A. Grozier, gave gold-headed ebony canes to 700 towns in New England to present to their oldest male citizen until 1930 when women were also eligible. “JoJo” celebrated her 15th birth on March 19, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Circus Smirkus artist in residence Jill Fleming, left, performs some plate spinning with Jackson Elementary School second graders Patrick Murphy, center, and Macie Marcotte and first grader Sammy Groves, right, at the Whitney Center in Jackson Thursday. Fleming spent a week with the all the students at the school showing them some circus tricks and acrobats culminating in the show for parents and fans. The circus secrets shared with student were: 'try, try again,” “try a new way” “watch and listen” “pause and reflect” “step by step” “go slow” “imagine” and Fleming reminded students and the audience that these secrets can applied to anything in life. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO
- Jamie Gemmiti
The defending Cal Ripken champions in the major division, the Bartlett White Sox, leads the parade of 23 teams in the rookie, minor and major divisions as parents and friends lined the street downtown North Conway for the annual Mount Washington Valley Babe Ruth League parade Saturday. Members and coaches of the Kennett High School baseball team joined in parade. Opening day games were played through out the valley. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
George Van Hook, of Cambridge, New York, finishes up a painting of Chocorua Mountain during an outing with about a dozen other painters on shore of Chocorua Lake Tuesday May 9, 2017. The painters are in Tamworth for a few days for an event sponsored by the Tamworth Economic Commission. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Kennett juniors Selena Gauthier, center, and Rhiannon Hacking, right, speeds to the finish line in the 100 meter dash during the track meet against Kingwood Tuesday. Gauthier won the event with a time of 13.2 seconds and also won the 200 meter dash in a time of 28.3 seconds and the long jump with a jump of 14’10.75”. The girls beat Kingswood by a score of 74-69 and the boys lost 74-69. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Martin O’Donnell, center, of Bartlett, is congratulated by his wife Michelle O’Donnell after immigration service officer Neil T. Freeman, right, announced and handed over the certificate of naturalization to be a citizen of the U.S. while friend and neighbor Walter Luikey holds the American flag and looks on during the celebration for O’Donnell in his current residence at the Merriman House in North Conway Tuesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
The color guard leads the parade through Madison during the Memorial Day observances Monday May 29, 2017. From left are: Marine veteran Jim Hayford, Navy veteran Dave Jones, and Air Force veteran Bill McCarthy and Marine veteran Michael Brooks, right, keeps cadence. Following the color guard and a group of veterans from the American Legion Post 46 of Conway was Boy Scout troop 151, Cub Scout pack 235 and the Kennett High School marching band. The parade started at the Gilman cemetery on East Madison Road after a ceremony marking graves of service members with American flags on their markers. After the parade the group ended the somber event with a flag ceremony replacing the old flag at the veterans memorial at Madison Town Hall and a pancake breakfast put on by the Madison Fire Department. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Bartlett school 4th grader Noah Hembree, swims using his life preserver under him to simulate a problem after getting tossed into the water without a life preserver on at the Aquatic Center pool at the New England Inn during the basic rescue training based on the Americna Red Cross Basic Water Safety Program Monday June 13, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Creative Sole Studio’s dance company Glitter and Grit performs during a dress rehearsal at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg Monday. The dance studio, located in Conway village, will be putting on their 8th annual recital Saturday June 17 at 6 p.m. and Sunday June 18 at 1. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Fireworks display delights thousands in and around Schouler Park in North Conway Tuesday. Revelers enjoys food and games and music from Motor Booty Affair to in the park sponsored by the Conway Recreation Department July 4, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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World War II veteran Oscar Comer jr., of Madison, gets ready to blow out the candles on his cake while celebrating his 100th birthday with his son Oscar Comer, III, 64, and several other vocal and excited friends at the American Legion Post 46 hall in Conway Tuesday. “I’m not used to this’” Comer said as he entered the room to loud applause. Comer joined the military in February of 1942 and served in the Middle East, North Africa and in Italy directly after D-Day. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO
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About 60 people stood with signs opposing hate and supporting diversity at the four corners in Conway village Friday August 18, 2017. The group came out in response to the events a week earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia, where alt-right groups marched and groups opposing clashed in the streets resulting in injuries and a fatality. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Dr. Aimee Vasse, 39, of Dunedin, Florida, cheers as she crosses the finish line atop the Mount Washington Auto Road winning the 45th Bicycle Hillclimb for female division with a time of 1:05:34 Saturday August 19, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue, right, chats with County Commissioner Mark Hounsell, left, before the swearing-in ceremony for the new Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Tony Tooke, at the Russell Colbath House on the Kancamagus Highway Friday September 1, 2017. Secretary Purdue is on his 2nd “Back to Our Roots” tour with stops in Massachusetts and Connecticut as well as here in the White Mountains. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Kennett Middle School Principal Rick Biche greets students for the first day of school on the front steps before the annual tradition of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance together to start off the new school year on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Jackson firefighters and EMTs lead the parade as it proceeds through the village during the America Supports You Freedom Walk on Monday September 11, 2017. The walk started off with the singing of the National Anthem by Robin Croche, a short speech by state representative Ed Butler and the stretch-out out of the giant flag with which several carried around the 2 mile loop in Jackson village to remember all the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Longtime Mud Bowl publicist, reporter for the Conway Daily Sun and grand marshal of the 2017 Tournament of Mud Parade Tom Eastman, center, rides with niece Sophie Rose Riopel, left, in a 1966 Chevrolet Impala driven by Pete Levesque during the parade downtown North Conway Saturday September 9, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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First responders attend the ceremony commemorating lives lost during the September 11, 2001 attacks with several others in Schouler Park in North Conway Monday September 11, 2017. From left are Conway Police cpl. Sean McGrath, Conway Police cpl. Dominic Torch, Jackson Police chief Chris Perley, Conway Police lt. George Walker, and North Conway assistant fire chief Chad McCarthy as they ready themselves to ceremoniously lay flowers on a Bible to commemorate the first responders and the civilians. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Kennett High School dance team performs their second show at the Dancing in the Street event at the new Streetside shopping area in North Conway Saturday Oct. 14, 2017. The dance team was joined by Jeanne Limmer Dance Studio as well as a teams from Maine and Boston. Along with the 2 performances on the temporary stage teams performed “flash mobs” throughout the day around the shopping village. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Making Strides against Breast Cancer fundraiser walk is led by 36 cancer survivors as they start off at the Whitaker Homesite in North Conway Sunday Oct, 15, 2017. More than $65,000 was raised by the 275 participants in this year’s event. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Kennett Middle School 7th grader Cody Tessier gets help from Comprehensive Technology teacherRon Gautreau while he works on one the many bicycles in process of being refurbished by the bike club at the school Thursday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Workers from The Cider Company restaurant chef Erik Hansen, left, and waitstaff Joanne Turner walk back along Route 302 in Glen coming from checking the on the restaurant which was in good shape they said after the storm and the flooding Monday, October 30, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Team captain for the Harlem Rockets Speedy Williams helps Conway Elementary 4th grader Mya Carboni spin a basketball on the top of a pen in the school’s gymnasium in front of an assembly of the student body plus students and faculty from Robert Frost Charter School Thursday. Williams played a game of pass with a circle of volunteers trying to fake them out to miss the passes prompting all the students in the assembly to yell “you are out” to each of the participants who missed the pass ending up with Carboni and to the delight of the crowd she succeeded in keeping the spinning up for 10 seconds. Earlier in the day the team made their way around some of the schools in Conway inviting everyone to the big show that was performed at the Kennett Middle School Thursday night to raise money for the 8th grade trip to Philadelphia. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Veteran’s Day parade is led by the American Legion Post 95 Honor Guard as they march downtown North Conway with a snow covered Mount Washington in background on Veteran’s Day Saturday November 11, 2017. A few dozen veterans were joined by Boy Scout Troop 150 and Cub Scout Pack 150 Kiwanis K-Kids and the Kennett High School marching band (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Conway elementary 6th grader Miles Harrigan smiles as he delivers donated to the Brown Church food pantry during the school’s annual food walk Wednesday November 15, 2017. The 6th grade class organizes the event, the Kiwanas Club’s K-Kids promote it making posters, and the effort was able to collect 800 pounds of food. Each class from K-6th grade carries the food from the school gymnasium to the back of the church across the field. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Cozy Mitchell takes off near the top of the course during the first day of Mountain Meisters, the weekly citizen’s race series at Cranmore Mountain Wednesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Rev. Martell Spagnolo looks at the more than 5,000 origami peace cranes dangling from the rafters in the church as the sun streamed in Tuesday. The congregation led by Reverend Martell folded the cranes as a form of prayer over the past year praying for world peace. Some cranes are folded using pictures, articles and sermons including all sides of many issues. Pictures of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Gandhi, Mother Theresa and others as well as reproductions of fine art and famous poems all folded up into the thousands of peace cranes. The cranes were installed the week prior to Christmas and will be up until Lent. The church will be open for visitors on inauguration day Friday “for people who want to pray for a peaceful transition,” Reverend Martell said as an open invitation. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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North Conway fire chief Pat Preece inspects damage in the home after the early morning fire on Oak Street Friday January 20, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Doug Armstrong, of Bartlett, competes in the 2017 White Mountain Classic 30 K at Jackson Ski touring Saturday January 21, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Jackson “Sister March” organizer Betsey Harding, center, welcomes the crowd of 300 in the Jackson Grammar School driveway and parking lot during Saturday’s protest to support women’s rights, health care, human rights, environmental protections and other issues they fear will be ignored by the new federal administration. Harding also read a proclamation sent by Senator Jean Shaheen and handed off her megaphone to others who wanted to speak to the crowd. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Participants in the Jackson “Sister March” held signs to support women’s rights, health care, human rights, environmental protections and other issues they fear will be ignored by the new federal administration in the Jackson Grammar School driveway and parking lot during Saturday’s protest that coincided with marches around the country and around the world. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Flossie Blake, 107, is pictured in a mirror framed with taped up birthday cards in her room before receiving the Boston Post Cane as the eldest citizen of Conway at Mineral Springs in Conway Wednesday, January 25, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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A skier zooms down a straight course on week 4 of Mountain Meisters at Cranmore Mountain Wednesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Chatham Town House interior is seen while preperations were made for the towns 250th celebration Thursday February 2, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Dave Evans is on hand to explain about the things that earlier animal trappers may have needed during the 14th annual Ice Harvest and Winter Carnival at the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm in Tamworth on Saturday. Organizers said it was one the best attended ice harvest festivals they have held. In addition to cutting the blocks and hoisting them out of the water and onto skids pulled by steer or oxen, visitors also mingled with some farm animals, learned about trapping, and other educational displays. Also, many enjoyed free fides in old Ford Model T cars equipped with skis on the front and tracks wrapped around rear tires. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Jackson covered bridge is seen in light snowfall Tuesday February 2, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Brothers Justin and Ryan Boudreau with friend Jacob Rex, of Berlin, slides over to buckle-up their bindings at Wildcat Mountain Wednesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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A snowboarder prepares to head down the mountain near the summit at Wildcat Wednesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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A view looking down Seavey street in North Conway of a snow covered town in a winter wonderland Thursday February 16, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The North Conway train station is seen with the Moat mountain range in the background after the week’s snowfall Thursday February 16, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO
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Cate Harty, 4 with twin siblings, Owen and Ethan, 6, side down with friends Sophia and Teddy Ochse, all near the Boston area, during the Kitty Litter Box Race at Wildcat Mountain Tuesday February 21, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Diane and Jerry Casavant, of Hudson, kept dry under their ponchos during the brief rain at Jackson Touring Center Friday February 24, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Pine Tree School kindergartner Grady Brown punches though a styrofoam board while Kwoon Karate Academy instructor Alan Libby, right, looks-on and assistant instructor Hannah Smarzynski holds-on during the day-long health and wellness fair at the school Thursday March 16, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Firefighters spray water into the house fire in Edelweiss in Madison during the blizzard that dumped several inches Tuesday March 17, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Members of the Act One Dance Company from Tina Titzer School of Dance performs a dress rehearsal of “Alice in Wonderland” in the studio in Fryeburg Sunday. From left are: Taiylor Courtemanche, Taylor Nusbaum, Madeline McGrath, Mimi Albert, Greta Grant, Taylor Gunthur, and Katherine Trumbull. The classic story interpreted in formal ballet with choreography by Tina Titzer will be performed Sunday March 26th at 4 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Jackson Grammar School students start off for the annual Nordic Ski-A-Thon at Jackson Ski Touring Center for the culminating event for the season long After School Nordic Ski Program Monday at Jackson Ski touring Center. Pre-k though 6th graders skied laps around a 1KM course on the Wentworth Golf Course after taking pledges to raise funds for the 6th grade Legacy Project and outdoor classroom pavilion and also the Jackson PTO and Jackson Ski touring Foundation. The students racked up 342 laps in the 3 hour ski-a-thon Monday. Among the students pictured here are: from left, Robbie Burton, Grade 3, Macie Marcotte, Grade 2, and Zoe Groves, Grade 4. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Curt Towle, right, waits to hand up the ladder to Matt Huntington on the tractor driven by Scott Huntington while taking down the lights and wreaths from the Jackson covered bridge during an early spring snow Friday. Even while the winter weather was blanketing the town in while the crew from Nestlenook Farm Resort, in Jackson, was going around the downtown area removing the wreaths from the utility poles and removing the decorations on the bridge. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Mary Josephine Sibly Cressy, known as “JoJo”, 105, is presented with the Freyburg Boston Post Cane by Fryeburg town manager Sharon Jackson, left, and Fryeburg selectman Richard Murray, center and Rick Eastman, right, during a gathering at Bridgton Health and Residential Care Center in Bridgeton Tuesday. Several family members, residents and employees of the care center attended the celebration. The Boston Post Cane is a tradition since 1909 when the the publisher of The Boston Post, Edwin A. Grozier, gave gold-headed ebony canes to 700 towns in New England to present to their oldest male citizen until 1930 when women were also eligible. “JoJo” celebrated her 15th birth on March 19, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Circus Smirkus artist in residence Jill Fleming, left, performs some plate spinning with Jackson Elementary School second graders Patrick Murphy, center, and Macie Marcotte and first grader Sammy Groves, right, at the Whitney Center in Jackson Thursday. Fleming spent a week with the all the students at the school showing them some circus tricks and acrobats culminating in the show for parents and fans. The circus secrets shared with student were: 'try, try again,” “try a new way” “watch and listen” “pause and reflect” “step by step” “go slow” “imagine” and Fleming reminded students and the audience that these secrets can applied to anything in life. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO
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Artists Rebecca Klementovich, left, and Kristen Pobatschnig pose in thier shared studio space in Conway April 27, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The defending Cal Ripken champions in the major division, the Bartlett White Sox, leads the parade of 23 teams in the rookie, minor and major divisions as parents and friends lined the street downtown North Conway for the annual Mount Washington Valley Babe Ruth League parade Saturday. Members and coaches of the Kennett High School baseball team joined in parade. Opening day games were played through out the valley. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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John Fuller school counselor Alison Memoli with her therapy dog Atticus welcomes students to school as they arrive Thursday May 4, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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George Van Hook, of Cambridge, New York, finishes up a painting of Chocorua Mountain during an outing with about a dozen other painters on shore of Chocorua Lake Tuesday May 9, 2017. The painters are in Tamworth for a few days for an event sponsored by the Tamworth Economic Commission. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Kennett juniors Selena Gauthier, center, and Rhiannon Hacking, right, speeds to the finish line in the 100 meter dash during the track meet against Kingwood Tuesday. Gauthier won the event with a time of 13.2 seconds and also won the 200 meter dash in a time of 28.3 seconds and the long jump with a jump of 14’10.75”. The girls beat Kingswood by a score of 74-69 and the boys lost 74-69. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Martin O’Donnell, center, of Bartlett, is congratulated by his wife Michelle O’Donnell after immigration service officer Neil T. Freeman, right, announced and handed over the certificate of naturalization to be a citizen of the U.S. while friend and neighbor Walter Luikey holds the American flag and looks on during the celebration for O’Donnell in his current residence at the Merriman House in North Conway Tuesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The color guard leads the parade through Madison during the Memorial Day observances Monday May 29, 2017. From left are: Marine veteran Jim Hayford, Navy veteran Dave Jones, and Air Force veteran Bill McCarthy and Marine veteran Michael Brooks, right, keeps cadence. Following the color guard and a group of veterans from the American Legion Post 46 of Conway was Boy Scout troop 151, Cub Scout pack 235 and the Kennett High School marching band. The parade started at the Gilman cemetery on East Madison Road after a ceremony marking graves of service members with American flags on their markers. After the parade the group ended the somber event with a flag ceremony replacing the old flag at the veterans memorial at Madison Town Hall and a pancake breakfast put on by the Madison Fire Department. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Young ballet dancers perform during Jeanne Limmer Dance school’s 33rd annual dance revue “Dance Dream Live” in front of a packed Loynd Auditorium at Kennett High School Friday night. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Bartlett school 4th grader Noah Hembree, swims using his life preserver under him to simulate a problem after getting tossed into the water without a life preserver on at the Aquatic Center pool at the New England Inn during the basic rescue training based on the Americna Red Cross Basic Water Safety Program Monday June 13, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Tina Titzer’s School of Dance’s 25th annual dance recital “Making Memories” was performed at the Leura Hill Eastman performing arts center in Fryeburg Sunday. Here the Monday jazz class dances to “Almost There.” (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Creative Sole Studio’s dance company Glitter and Grit performs during a dress rehearsal at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg Monday. The dance studio, located in Conway village, will be putting on their 8th annual recital Saturday June 17 at 6 p.m. and Sunday June 18 at 1. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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J.T. Redling, 4, of New Jersey, enjoys his first outing on the Cranmore Aerial Adventure Park Monday June 19, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Operations manager at Black Mountain Liz York leads a ride followed by Debra Follensbee, of Newport, on the mountain Tuesday June 20, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Operations manager at Black Mountain Liz York leads a ride followed by Debra Follensbee, of Newport, and Judi Barra, of Westfield, Mass., on the mountain Tuesday afternoon. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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John Fuller School 6th graders are cheered on by the rest of the school as they exit for the last time on the last day of school Tuesday June 20, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Della poses behind the Conway Area Humane Society June 22, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Conway Recreation building in Center Conway is seen with some summer camper activities Monday June 27, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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A group of people watch the high water at Lower Falls from the side of the road as the area was closed Monday July 2, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Fireworks display delights thousands in and around Schouler Park in North Conway Tuesday. Revelers enjoys food and games and music from Motor Booty Affair to in the park sponsored by the Conway Recreation Department July 4, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Travis Pastrana gets some air racing up the Mount Washington Auto Road on his trial run Saturday July 8, 2017.
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Faint aurora borealis activity is seen above and reflected the Saco River at the Willey House in Crawford Notch early Monday July 16, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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World War II veteran Oscar Comer jr., of Madison, gets ready to blow out the candles on his cake while celebrating his 100th birthday with his son Oscar Comer, III, 64, and several other vocal and excited friends at the American Legion Post 46 hall in Conway Tuesday. “I’m not used to this’” Comer said as he entered the room to loud applause. Comer joined the military in February of 1942 and served in the Middle East, North Africa and in Italy directly after D-Day. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO
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Desiree Emery, left,11, of Ossipee, has fun horsing around in the Saco river by the covered bridge with friends Alliya Libby, 11, and brother Logan Libby, 10, also of Ossipee Tuesday, July 25, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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“Clowns in a Thing, Arlene and Carol and Friends” waves to the crowd lining downtown Freedom village during the 119th Freedom Old Home Week parade Saturday July 29, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Mariana Gallo, 8, left, and Mya Bonilla, 7, have fun at the Conway Parks and Recreation Summer Camp end of the year celebration barbecue under the big tent behind the recrecation center in Center Conway Wednesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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A family walks into the newly renovated, including large new sections, for a tour of Molly Ockett School in Fryeburg Wednesday August 16, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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About 60 people stood with signs opposing hate and supporting diversity at the four corners in Conway village Friday August 18, 2017. The group came out in response to the events a week earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia, where alt-right groups marched and groups opposing clashed in the streets resulting in injuries and a fatality. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Dr. Aimee Vasse, 39, of Dunedin, Florida, cheers as she crosses the finish line atop the Mount Washington Auto Road winning the 45th Bicycle Hillclimb for female division with a time of 1:05:34 Saturday August 19, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The partial solar eclipse is seen from the lawn of the Conway Public Library Monday August 21, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Dozens of people gathered on the lawn of the Conway Public Library to view the partial solar eclipse Monday August 21, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue, right, chats with County Commissioner Mark Hounsell, left, before the swearing-in ceremony for the new Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Tony Tooke, at the Russell Colbath House on the Kancamagus Highway Friday September 1, 2017. Secretary Purdue is on his 2nd “Back to Our Roots” tour with stops in Massachusetts and Connecticut as well as here in the White Mountains. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Kennett Middle School Principal Rick Biche greets students for the first day of school on the front steps before the annual tradition of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance together to start off the new school year on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Jackson firefighters and EMTs lead the parade as it proceeds through the village during the America Supports You Freedom Walk on Monday September 11, 2017. The walk started off with the singing of the National Anthem by Robin Croche, a short speech by state representative Ed Butler and the stretch-out out of the giant flag with which several carried around the 2 mile loop in Jackson village to remember all the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Mount Washington Valley Hog, Jon Nagel is coated in mud after a play against the North Country Mud Crocs in Mud Bowl action Saturday September 9, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Susanna Holder, of the Green Machine team, avoids the two hand touch during the during the women’s exhibition game after the Tournament of Mud Parade Saturday Saturday September 9, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Longtime Mud Bowl publicist, reporter for the Conway Daily Sun and grand marshal of the 2017 Tournament of Mud Parade Tom Eastman, center, rides with niece Sophie Rose Riopel, left, in a 1966 Chevrolet Impala driven by Pete Levesque during the parade downtown North Conway Saturday September 9, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
First responders attend the ceremony commemorating lives lost during the September 11, 2001 attacks with several others in Schouler Park in North Conway Monday September 11, 2017. From left are Conway Police cpl. Sean McGrath, Conway Police cpl. Dominic Torch, Jackson Police chief Chris Perley, Conway Police lt. George Walker, and North Conway assistant fire chief Chad McCarthy as they ready themselves to ceremoniously lay flowers on a Bible to commemorate the first responders and the civilians. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Hundreds of hikers climb Cranmore Mountain during the 20th annual Jen’s Friends Hillclimb Saturday September 16, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Fireman Pete Oechsle pushes his load of coal forward while preparing the Waumbek steam locomotive atop Mount Washington for its return trip to the base in Bretton Woods Wednesday September 27, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Some ewes await their turn at the sheep show the show area at the Fryeburg Fair Tuesday Oct. 3, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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A world record setting 159 pairs of yoked steer and oxen gather for a photo and an attempt at the record in the Swine and Goat Grandstand area at the Fryeburg Fair Wednesday October 4, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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A world record setting 159 pairs of yoked steer and oxen gather for a photo and an attempt at the record in the Swine and Goat Grandstand area at the Fryeburg Fair Wednesday October 4, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
A view from the boat launch on Silver Lake Friday October 6, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
The Kennett High School dance team performs their second show at the Dancing in the Street event at the new Streetside shopping area in North Conway Saturday Oct. 14, 2017. The dance team was joined by Jeanne Limmer Dance Studio as well as a teams from Maine and Boston. Along with the 2 performances on the temporary stage teams performed “flash mobs” throughout the day around the shopping village. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
The Making Strides against Breast Cancer fundraiser walk is led by 36 cancer survivors as they start off at the Whitaker Homesite in North Conway Sunday Oct, 15, 2017. More than $65,000 was raised by the 275 participants in this year’s event. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Kennett Middle School 7th grader Cody Tessier gets help from Comprehensive Technology teacherRon Gautreau while he works on one the many bicycles in process of being refurbished by the bike club at the school Thursday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
A view looking down Seavey street in North Conway Tuesday Oct 24, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Saco River flows under the Saco Covered Bridge in Conway flooding out the Davis Park Beach Wednesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
A view from Jackson with Black Mountain ski area and Mount Washington seen Friday October 27, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
A resident takes photos with his phone on the steps as the house is surrounded by water and the raging Saco river runs just behind the house on Sleepy Hollow Road in Glen Monday, October 30, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Workers from The Cider Company restaurant chef Erik Hansen, left, and waitstaff Joanne Turner walk back along Route 302 in Glen coming from checking the on the restaurant which was in good shape they said after the storm and the flooding Monday, October 30, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
The side of the road is washed out leaving river stone along River Road in North Conway seen Tuesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Team captain for the Harlem Rockets Speedy Williams helps Conway Elementary 4th grader Mya Carboni spin a basketball on the top of a pen in the school’s gymnasium in front of an assembly of the student body plus students and faculty from Robert Frost Charter School Thursday. Williams played a game of pass with a circle of volunteers trying to fake them out to miss the passes prompting all the students in the assembly to yell “you are out” to each of the participants who missed the pass ending up with Carboni and to the delight of the crowd she succeeded in keeping the spinning up for 10 seconds. Earlier in the day the team made their way around some of the schools in Conway inviting everyone to the big show that was performed at the Kennett Middle School Thursday night to raise money for the 8th grade trip to Philadelphia. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
The Veteran’s Day parade is led by the American Legion Post 95 Honor Guard as they march downtown North Conway with a snow covered Mount Washington in background on Veteran’s Day Saturday November 11, 2017. A few dozen veterans were joined by Boy Scout Troop 150 and Cub Scout Pack 150 Kiwanis K-Kids and the Kennett High School marching band (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Conway elementary 6th grader Miles Harrigan smiles as he delivers donated to the Brown Church food pantry during the school’s annual food walk Wednesday November 15, 2017. The 6th grade class organizes the event, the Kiwanas Club’s K-Kids promote it making posters, and the effort was able to collect 800 pounds of food. Each class from K-6th grade carries the food from the school gymnasium to the back of the church across the field. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Santa Claus leads the parade of children and families towards the Eastern Slope Playhouse for a reading of T’was the Night Before Christmas on stage during the Old Fashion Christmas Saturday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Downtown North Conway is pictured early evening Tuesday as the winter storm begins to wind down. Several inches blanketed the Mount Washitngton valley. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
A Conway town plow clears up the snow on Norcross Circle in North Conway during Tuesday’s snowstorm. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
A couple looks over the flooded West Side Road in Conway Monday Oct. 30, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Conway Fourth of July parade 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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The Conway Fourth of July parade 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Governor Chris Sununu, center, checks out the damage during a tour of the flood damage near the Dry River Campground where Route 302 is closed Tuesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Mount Washington is covered in white with some remaining autumn foliage hanging on seen from the Scenic Vista rest area in Intervale Wednesday November 1, 2017. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
- Jamie Gemmiti
Both sides of U.S. Route 302 in Crawfords Notch State Park near Dry river Campground are washed out and undermined by the flooding water seen Tuesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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