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GOFFSTOWN - Colombe Ouellette has a big birthday coming up this month. Really big. The great-great grandmother and lifelong New Hampshire resident is about to turn 108.

MANCHESTER - A school panel tonight will look at recommending a 4.3 percent hike in next year's school budget.

Granite State residents are evenly split on whether to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, an informal Internet survey of New Hampshire Union Leader readers has revealed.

►Restaurants prepare for smoking ban
►State House Dome: Republicans open door to wider smoking ban
►Banning bad stuff: Why stop with cigarettes?

BRIDGEWATER - Bridgewater Power turns waste wood from logging into 130,000 megawatt hours of electricity for Central New Hampshire homes and businesses.

MANCHESTER - For the first time in more than a decade, city middle school students will be formally surveyed to find out how much they are exposed to drugs and violence.

GILFORD - A chilly wind and occasional wet feet from stepping into an ice fishing hole didn't keep some 150 enthusiastic young people from enjoying themselves yesterday morning at the Belknap County Sportsman's Association's 26th annual "Take a Kid Fishing Derby" on Lily Pond.

MANCHESTER - U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat running for his party's Presidential nomination, focused yesterday on the nation's health-care system and the war in Iraq as he wrapped up his third campaign trip to New Hampshire.

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With outstretched arms and legs, the laws of gravity no longer apply inside New England's only vertical wind tunnel. A steady blast of fresh air is 100-mph strong and nearly plucking my whiskers, but it can't blow the grin off my face.

WE CAN scare ourselves stupid.

MANCHESTER - Two city men were badly hurt late Saturday night after the cars they were driving collided on Wellington Road near Currier Drive, Manchester police said. Authorities said both men had been drinking.

In 2005, Joseph Lacerda started buying and selling music gear on-line. That operation grew into Manchester Music Mill, Lacerda's music store at 400 Bedford St. in the Millyard.

HOOKSETT - As criminals become more sophisticated, the Hooksett Police Department has bought equipment to keep up with the latest investigative techniques.

Setting up a small Lego robot in the corner of the table, 14-year-old Josh Heinzl of Windham smiled as all his teammates watched their robot perform its latest task.

Three Seacoast men were charged over the weekend in connection with the Feb. 28 armed robbery of Mobil Xtra-Mart in Hampton.

LONDONDERRY - While some opposition to a proposal by officials to create a flexible industrial district in the northern part of town wasn't a complete surprise, one of the architects behind the move suggested those with concerns look at the larger picture.

NEW YORK - The 2008 campaign is already playing out so intensely that it dominates airtime at a point where only political junkies usually pay attention. Remember: it's 20 months before voters will make the ultimate decision.

DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Richardson thinks the race for his party's nomination will be all but over by the end of next January after the first four contests.

The Democrats' tentative nominating schedule begins in January, with caucuses in Iowa and then in Nevada, followed by the New Hampshire primary and then South Carolina's, Jan. 29.

SELMA, Ala. - Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton crossed campaign paths for the first time yesterday as they paid homage to civil rights activists who helped give them the chance to break barriers to the White House.