GREENFIELD — While visiting New England Forest Products in Greenfield on Friday, Gov. John Lynch met with two employees who had been unemployed for more than one year before they found jobs through the state’s new Return to Work program.
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.
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 fossil-fuel consumption by more than 80 percent.
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.
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.