GILFORD — For the past 21 years, Greg Goddard’s life has revolved around the weather. As the general manager at Belknap County-owned Gunstock Mountain Resort, he checks the daily forecast up to six times a day, hoping for sun during the summer and cold weather or snow during the winter.
ROCHESTER — The Rochester Fair is set to begin on Sept. 12 and as volunteers work to bring new life to the event, the organization’s former shareholders and directors are arguing they are owed more than $102,000.
The race will start in front of the Manchester Police Department at 405 Valley St. and end inside Gill Stadium, 396 Valley St.
Attracting more than 140 show cars and hundreds of attendees, the event raised more than $8,800 for the Travis Mills Foundation.
The band is also working to get city approval for a concert.
Cinemark plans to open its first cinema in the state by November.
Shooters work their way through “stages” that look like the movieset version of a Mexican cantina, the Gilded Lilly saloon, a mining town, a jail and the fabled “Boot Hill” cemetery, complete with sun-bleached steer skull.
With suitcases full of handmade dresses, skirt supports, petticoats, corsets and wigs, Taylor Shelby and a group of five friends flew to Venice’s Carnival in February with one goal in mind: to live like 18th-century women of means.
COLEBROOK — Along with Canaan, its sister community across the Connecticut River in Vermont, this town is ready to celebrate the largest land animal in both states at the North Country Moose Festival.
The fire department deployed its ladder truck to rescue a teenager who became stranded on a zipline suspended 40 feet in the air over a pond at a popular Weirs attraction.
THOMPSON and MESERVE’S PURCHASE — Anachronisms were the order of the day this weekend at the Cog, which for a fourth year hosted the celebration of steam, art, and of alternate pasts and futures known as the Railway to the Moon Steampunk Festival.
Derry historian Paul Lindemann said there is no list for what would have been inside the time capsule. He thinks it was likely there were Alan Shepard artifacts in the capsule.
Founded in 1719 by Scots-Irish Presbyterians fleeing religious persecution in Northern Ireland, Nutfield was the precursor community to Derry, Londonderry, Windham and the Derryfield neighborhood of Manchester.
THOMPSON and MESERVE’S PURCHASE — For a fourth year, the Mount Washington Cog Railway will serve as both inspiration and backdrop for whimsical as well as practical creativity when it hosts the Railway to the Moon Steampunk Festival.
An army of community children attacked a group of police officers with water balloons in Hudson, and the officers fought back.
Owner Josh Rutstein says the concept is like the opposite of an escape room, with players following clues and solving problems to break into a series of rooms, and it uses a unique smartphone app system.
One organizer said the festival lures not only riders who come for the day, but people who are increasingly buying second homes on or near the trails.
PORTSMOUTH — “America’s Tall Ship” is in Portsmouth this weekend for people to tour for free.
“We have rules and processes for what kind of events can happen on our reservations,” said Jack Savage, vice president of communications and outreach for the society. “None of that was followed.”
MASON — It’s a moment no one who saw it live will ever forget — a plane flying under a railroad trestle in Greenville.
LOS ANGELES — Spinning wheel got to go ’round ... That’s what insiders are saying about the latest attempt to have the Woodstock 50 show go on.
Stuntsmen had been putting on a show.
To celebrate AARP's 60th anniversary, the organization has vowed to install a "fitness court" in every state. The Queen City was selected as the New Hampshire community to receive one.
Former Gov. John H. Sununu, the chairman of Waterville Valley Holdings, said the transaction allows his group to build on its recent investments at the resort, which include new trails, lifts, snowmaking and base lodge expansion.
The event combines a horse race, marksmanship and cowboy outfits.
NORTH LINCOLN – Despite having just 3 inches of manmade wave beneath them, some of the best flowriders in the world nonetheless made it look easy Sunday at the second annual Akua Beach Classic Pro-Am Flowdown at Whale’s Tale Waterpark.
KINGSTON -- Thousands packed the Kingston Plains for a bonfire Saturday night that reignited memories of an annual tradition that brought the community together for nearly 50 years.
The event starts at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, in Manchester at Stark Brewing Company.
There have been 1,200 riders in the five weeks that the shuttle has been running, and, even though the state charges $5 per rider, it has lost money, said the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources commissioner.
A massive crowd turned out for the grand opening of the Encore Boston Harbor casino in Everett, Mass.
The sculpture, depicting divorce, was created by Melineige Beauregard, of Montreal, Canada, who herself is going through a divorce.
If you thought the Walt Disney Co. would stop and catch its breath after opening its hugely popular Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge expansion last month, think again.
Quebec sculptor Marc Lepire plans to create a swordfish with a sailboat that’s expected to be one of his tallest sculptures at the 19th annual Master Sand Sculpting Classic.
About 40 scooter enthusiasts are planning to participate in a ride to celebrate International Vespa Parade Day in Hampton on Saturday.
When asked how to best describe Laconia Motorcycle Week, lifelong Harley-Davidson enthusiast and repeat Motorcycle Week attendee Richard Wickham offered four simple words: “Don’t believe the forecast.”
MERRIMACK — Barbecue lovers flocked to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery Friday night, thrilled to try anything and everything off the grill.
Amateur and professional riders pitted their motorcycles against a formidable opponent on Wednesday, the 70-meter Torger Tokle Memorial Ski Jump hill.
After all of his X Games wins and Nitro Circus appearances, motocross and FMX rider Mike Mason says he still gets that adrenaline rush.
In 2011, on its 150th anniversary, the Auto Road decided to honor the many “firsts” that have been set at or on the 7.6-mile-long climb to the clouds, and, in particular, the North Country man who set them.
Club14, a new golf simulator, bar, cafe and virtual reality arcade, celebrated its grand opening May 10 at 13 Rockingham Road.
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