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One New Hampshire resident asks: Why are real estate negotiations done with so little legal documentation?

However, councilors ask planning officials to work on lowering the maximum density for future developments.

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Central's Aria Levasseur, left, and Milford's Melanie Forte race the final leg of the 4x100m relay. Milford won. (MARK BOLTON)

The sprinter grabs three victories; Timberlane's Lindsey Patterson just misses her own state record in winning the pole vault.

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For complete coverage of NHIAA 'Super Saturday,' the busiest tournament day of the year in high school sports, pick up a copy of today's New Hampshire Sunday News, or see our electronic edition.

Organizers point to the poor national economy as a primary cause of the nearly 40 percent decline in turnout over the last five years, and hope good weather prompts a turnaround.


So how did the operators of one of the most popular seafood restaurants in New England (whose founder lays claim to inventing the fried clam) end up choosing a location roughly 50 miles from the sea to set up shop?


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The risk of developing Lou Gehrig's Disease is 25 times higher than the norm for people who live around Mascoma Lake, according to researchers studying the possibility of a link between lake bacteria and neurological illness.

Map showing the location of Mascoma Lake.

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Bill Hand, owner of Park Nameplate Company in Dover, holds a sheet of Ford emblems. (THOMAS ROY)

New Hampshire lost more than 1,000 auto-related jobs in 2008 -- before many car dealers and parts makers in recent months made even steeper cuts in jobs and workers' hours because people were buying fewer new cars.


Massachusetts merchants near the New Hampshire border expect shoppers to flee into tax-free New Hampshire if legislative efforts to raise the Bay State's sales tax by 25 percent prevail.


NOW THAT gay-marriage debates, votes and re-votes are over, focus turns to what lawmakers said would be their biggest challenge this year -- the 2010-11 budget.


The Rockingham County attorney says a Portsmouth man could have been behind bars before an alleged assault last month.

Free for 14 months, sex offender on fifth arrest (28)


Two Massachusetts men were arrested yesterday morning after a shooting in a city parking garage near the Club Liquid night club.


Former Parks and Recreation Director Ron Ludwig is the first candidate out of the gate in what is now an open race to succeed Ted Gatsas.


At their state convention yesterday, speakers hit the GOP as "bankrupt," and "party of no."

The Milford firm has begun an "aggressive push" for cash-needy companies with its buy-in at Morin Brick, a 97-year-old Maine brick manufacturer.

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How far we have come. From the Civil War to the turn of the century, deer became so rare as to cause excitement when spotted.


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