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Plainfield seeks FEMA assistance for flood-damaged road repairs
08-07-2023 11:57 AM

By FRANCES MIZE

PLAINFIELD — Plainfield has received almost 18 inches of rain this summer, Town Administrator Stephen Halleran said.“It all blends together,” Halleran said. “That’s a ton of rain, and a big chunk of it came in the month of June, several weekends in a...


Slim pickings: Little sun, too much rain slowing Upper Valley berry season
07-06-2023 6:48 PM

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — With berry season underway, Upper Valley farmers said their pick-your-own patches could use more sunshine to offset June’s rainy days and cool temperatures. A mid-May freeze also killed or damaged many fruit blossoms.While the impact...


Jim Kenyon: Finding the words
06-20-2023 8:26 PM

By JIM KENYON

An 18-year-old Pennie Armstrong had just started training to become a nurse in the early 1960s when she contracted polio, even though she’d been vaccinated against the debilitating, life-threatening virus.Armstrong spent the next few months at the...


Catalytic converter thieves strike in Cornish and Plainfield
06-12-2023 4:10 PM

CORNISH — Theft of catalytic converters that have plagued several Upper Valley towns has reached Cornish and Plainfield as well. The towns report multiple vehicles were struck along Route 120 in the early morning hours Friday.Police are seeking the...


Plainfield, Cornish select superintendent
04-27-2023 2:28 PM

Sydney Leggett, who has been serving as interim superintendent of the Plainfield and Cornish school districts, has been named to the permanent role. Leggett is also currently the superintendent of the Grantham school district and will leave that role...


Residents making use of recently opened library in Meriden
04-24-2023 5:15 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

MERIDEN — During the nearly 18 months the Meriden Library was under construction, 5-year-old Mary Bae would often ask her mother, Nalee Bae, when it would be finished.“We used to drive and check on the progress of the library,” Nalee Bae said.That...


A Life: Gordon Gillens could ‘talk to a child and he could stand up to the bully’
04-16-2023 6:05 PM

By PATRICK O’GRADY

PLAINFIELD — When Plainfield voters at Town Meeting approved a proposal to establish a police department in 1975, resident Steve Taylor, who supported the idea, remembers the words of the first chief, Terry Kelley.“He said, ‘Being police chief in...


Missing car from Plainfield barn fire found; Lebanon man charged with falsifying evidence
04-05-2023 8:05 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A vehicle that was reported to be missing from the scene of a barn fire in Plainfield was located and recovered and a Lebanon man was arrested and charged in connection with the investigation on Tuesday, police said.Thomas Hamel, 30, was...


Plainfield barn fire complicated by mysterious missing car
04-03-2023 8:03 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Judith Belyea was in her historic farmhouse home on Route 120 on Sunday morning when she was awakened by what sounded like a boom, so she didn’t pay much attention.“I thought it was thunder and lightning in the storm,” Belyea recalled.But...


Town Meeting: Plainfield continues committee to examine relationship with KUA
03-22-2023 12:34 PM

PLAINFIELD — In voting at Saturday’s floor meeting, voters approved all articles on the warrant.That included a measure to direct the Selectboard to appoint a committee to continue to study the town’s relationship with Kimball Union Academy in...


Town Meeting: Plainfield elects town and school officers
03-17-2023 11:43 PM

PLAINFIELD — In uncontested races in Tuesday’s ballot voting, Plainfield voters elected town and school officers.With 96 votes, Christian Forman earned a three-year seat on the School Board and Ron. C. Eberhardt, with 93 votes, earned a three-year...


Snowstorm smacks another NH Town Meeting Day, but this time officials, voters are ready
03-14-2023 8:39 PM

By FRANCES MIZE

Tuesday’s late winter storm, which saw 13 inches of snow pile up in Newport, N.H., by noon, also brought tall stacks of Town Meeting ballots from voters who were thinking ahead. On Monday, Cornish Town Clerk Paula Harthan handed out almost 90 absentee...


Season opener in Plainfield
03-13-2023 3:58 PM


Town Meeting preview: Relationship with KUA before Plainfield voters 
03-04-2023 5:46 PM

Article of note: One article on the town warrant asks whether voters want to direct the Selectboard to appoint a committee to continue to study the town’s relationship with Kimball Union Academy in Meriden.Contested races: There are no contested...


Digging out in Plainfield
01-31-2023 1:16 PM


Developer of Plainfield homebuilding project to go before Zoning Board
12-09-2022 11:06 PM

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

PLAINFIELD — A developer looking to subdivide around 140 acres of land to build 11 single-family homes in Plainfield will go before the town’s Zoning Board on Monday night.Michael Venditto has appealed a Plainfield Planning Board decision that would...


Plainfield man still rebuilding his life 5 years after being cleared murder-for-hire plot
08-20-2022 3:18 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

Five years after a jury took only three hours to acquit him of charges that he conspired to kill his ex-wife, Maurice Temple recently celebrated a sign that his life is returning to something like normal: He bought a bulldozer.“Last weekend was the...


Superintendent of Plainfield, Cornish schools steps down
08-11-2022 11:03 PM

By PATRICK O’GRADY

PLAINFIELD — Sydney Leggett will serve as interim superintendent for the Plainfield and Cornish school districts following the resignation of Cory LeClair late last month.In an email to the community, Plainfield School Board Chairman Chris Forman said...


Site of anti-tax standoff in Plainfield back on market after major renovation
06-29-2021 9:40 PM

By TIM CAMERATO

PLAINFIELD — The former home of Plainfield tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown is on the market for $1.59 million after a two-year renovation at the 100-acre compound on Center of Town Road.The turreted 7,500-square-foot home where the Browns waged a...


New Use for Home Hill Inn Approved
07-11-2017 3:04 PM

By Patrick O’Grady

Plainfield  — The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday night unanimously approved a special exception to the use of the former Home Hill Inn property, the first step toward allowing a residential treatment center for youth to operate out of the River...

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