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  • Jim Eddy, left, Bruce Hautanen and Damon Poor, all employees of the Jaffrey Department of Public Works, operate the controls to dam gates at the Jaffrey Main Street impoundment of the Contoocook River.
    JAFFREY

    Main Street Dam work under way

    JAFFREY — The look and feel of downtown Jaffrey may be altered for a period of time between now and the first part of 2011, while water levels at the Main Street dam impoundment are lowered to allow for repair of the dam’s control gate operators. The dam is part. . . (read more)

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  • Antrim’s Civil War statue rests in three pieces behind the fire station. Built and installed in 1892, the statue was removed in 2007 to prevent further disfiguration of the base.
    Antrim

    Civil War statue to be stored in Deering

    ANTRIM — The Select Board on Monday authorized the movement of a decommissioned Civil War monument from the storage area behind the fire station to a hangar in Deering.

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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.
    MONADNOCK DEBATES

    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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