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CONWAY — A 68-unit housing development will likely come before the planning board next month.
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Archer Thomas Isaiah Bellen was born Oct. 11, 2025, at MaineHealth Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H. He weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces.
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Spend 10 minutes at the light in Conway Village on a Friday afternoon and you will see what growth looks like when it outpaces planning. In North Conway Village, delivery trucks idle behind visitors, while across town local commuters and tourists cut through neighborhood roads to save time.
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The Freedom Elementary School will host a Haunted Hallway on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 5 p,m. at the school. They are looking for volunteers to help decorate a section of hallway on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
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CONWAY — The American Red Cross of Northern New England is teaming up on Saturday with local fire departments to offer free smoke alarm installations for residents in need during a Sound the Alarm home fire safety event in the Mount Washington Valley Region.
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FRYEBURG, Maine — Jane Kneeland Smith passed away at the age of 85, surrounded by her family members.
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CONWAY — The Kennett High field hockey team has plenty to play for heading into its final game of the regular season Thursday.
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OSSIPEE — Fidium and the Carroll County Communications District held a ribbon cutting Oct.8 at the County Annex to celebrate new fiber connectivity and the “Gig Town” designation for several towns.
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When I was a younger person, growing up in Small Town, USA could feel so boring at times. I would have given anything to live near a shopping mall, just to have a place to hang out with my friends that wasn’t one of our parents’ basements.
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Longtime residents will remember the decades-long debate over constructing a bypass around Conway. Instead, to ease traffic congestion, the North-South Road was built, and sections of routes 16 and 302 were widened. Twenty-five years later, traffic has again become an issue. Selectman Peter …
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CONWAY — Columbus took a chance when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and so will we all when we dare to venture out onto the local roadways this Columbus Day Weekend — also known as Indigenous People’s Weekend.
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JACKSON — The Whitney Community Center in Jackson will come alive with music, laughter and lively steps on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 7-9 pm, as caller Eric Rollnick joins forces with the White Mountain Ceili Band for a traditional Barn Dance. This all-ages community event invites everyone — se…
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Baman Stone came to Fryeburg, Maine, in 1873 to be minister of Fryeburg’s Congregational Church, but just four years later, he was “uninstalled” — or fired, in common parlance. Too liberal, would be my guess, especially since he went straight from that posting to found a congregation of Swed…