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Articles of note: There is a petitioned article that would have the members of the Charlestown Fire Department elect the fire chief. The fire chief would appoint the firefighters. If approved, the change would go into effect one year from the date of...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — The position of fire chief at one time was elected but more recently it has been done by appointment by the Selectboard.Now the department wants to change that.On Town Meeting day, voters will decide whether to give the members of the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — A town board has rejected an appeal of a building permit issued to a landowner who has plans for a 10,000-square-foot home on Perry Mountain accessed by a Class VI road.The Zoning Board of Adjustment, acting in its capacity as the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — The town Zoning Board of Adjustment is seeking guidance from the town’s attorney after outcry from a group of residents raised questions about the authority to rescind certain building permits.The residents are hoping to nix two building...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — A group of residents is demanding that two building permits issued to a landowner whose property is at the end of a Class VI road be rescinded, claiming they are not in compliance with local building codes or state law and threaten a...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CHARLESTOWN — After the Selectboard narrowly adopted the proposed budget of Charlestown Fire Chief Mark LaFlam, the Wednesday’s board meeting turned contentious over a letter signed by department members claiming that they have faced “ridicule and...

CHARLESTOWN — A 20-year-old North Walpole, N.H., man died after being hit by a car while he was inspecting the damage to the car he was riding in after it hit a bear on Bellows Falls Road in Charlestown on Thursday evening, Charlestown police said in...

By JIM KENYON

When a police officer uses his immense powers to make an unmerited arrest, it’s the job of a prosecutor to — at the very least — use her own discretion. Call it righting a wrong.Unfortunately, Charlestown prosecutor Jessica Hodgman either lacks the...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — A 38-year-old Charlestown man received a suspended jail sentence in connection with a crash on Interstate 91 in June that killed a 36-year-old mother of two from Perkinsville.Joshua Rondeau pleaded guilty on Oct. 23 to a...