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  • Republican Senate candidates, from left, Jim Bender, Bill Binnie, Dennis Lamare, Ovide Lamontagne and Kelly Ayotte face each other in the final round of the Monadnock Debates at Franklin Pierce University on Tuesday.
    NEW TODAY

    GOP candidates turn up the heat

    RINDGE — Terse exchanges and pointed accusations ranging from overseas jobs to negative attack ads were traded by the Republican candidates for U.S. Senate on Tuesday night in the final round of the Monadnock Debates.

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  • Richard Ames installed a 360-square-foot photovoltaic array on his garage in 2007. He estimates it will have paid itself off in energy savings over the course of 15 years.
    Jaffrey

    Cutting his energy footprint

    When Richard Ames decided to embrace earth-friendly living, he did not wade slowly into the shallow end of home efficiency improvements. Instead he embarked on an aggressive seven-year campaign to retrofit his 96-year-old home — an effort he says cut his annual energy costs by nearly $6,000 and reduced his. . . (read more)

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  • Six-year-old Reagan Buffum of Surry, holding his older brother Patrick’s hand, takes the first-place popsicle stick from race organizer Cara Weiner just before ripping through the tape at the finish line at Shieling Forest in Peterborough. Reagan’s Run was a fundraiser for the Buffum family to help with the costs associated with Reagan’s cancer treatment.
    PETERBOROUGH

    A hero at the finish line

    When Reagan Buffum broke the tape at the finish line of the race held to raise money for his battle with cancer on Saturday, the excitement was all over his face. He may not have completed the whole 3.1-mile course at Shieling Forest in Peterborough, but he finished. And Reagan did. . . (read more)

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  • Carmen and Ed Van Blarcom of Jaffrey accept a painting from their grandniece, Sarah Hautanen, 16, of Troy, during a family reunion in Jaffrey this summer. The painting is of their home, which burned down last summer.
    JAFFREY

    Forty family members celebrate rebuilt house

    JAFFREY — After a fire destroyed her Hadley Road home last summer, Carmen Van Blarcom pressed forward with plans to host a family reunion out of sheer determination.

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  • Arnie Byam of Monadnock Survey, Inc. of Wilton surveys the boundary line of the Granite Block building on Grove Street Friday. Byam said the last recorded survey work of the property was conducted in the 1950s.
    Peterborough

    Boutique hotel planned

    PETERBOROUGH — A planned reworking of the Granite Block building into a boutique hotel could start as early as next summer and might also include the adjacent Anderson Block building, said Cy Gregg Tuesday. “We will do the planning over the winter ... so we are in a position to start. . . (read more)

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