OSSIPEE — Selectmen announced Monday that the New Hampshire Department of Transportation says it can build a roundabout at the dangerous intersection of Routes 28 and 171 next year, rather than 2020.
The mother of a teenager who was killed several months ago at that intersection hailed the news.
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