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Wilton man arrested, charged with raping minors

March 13th 2012 at 02:56:36 PM

A Wilton man was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault against minors, according to a press release issued by Wilton police on Tuesday.

Martin J. Muscelli Sr., 62, was charged after a police investigation into the assaults, which were alleged to have taken place between 2005 and 2011.

Muscelli Sr. was transported to the Hillsborough House of Corrections and held in lieu of $75,000 cash bail. A probable cause hearing is set for March 20.

Details in Thursday's Ledger-Transcript.

FPU announces tuition freeze

March 13th 2012 at 12:37:16 PM

After five years of declining enrollment and a series of staff layoffs in the fall, Franklin Pierce University announced a student tuition rate freeze for the 2012-2013 academic year on Tuesday.

According to the Franklin Pierce University website, full-time annual tuition at the Rindge campus was $28,250 for this academic year.

In a press release issued by the college Tuesday, officials also announced the elimination of course fees and campus parking fees.

“Our tuition increase for last year was the lowest of all four year private and public colleges in the state -- just two percent -- and we did not increase tuition at all in the previous year,” FPU President James Birge is quoted as saying in the release.

More details in Thursday’s Ledger-Transcript.

Body of KSC student found in Monadnock State Park

February 21st 2012 at 03:52:23 PM

JAFFREY –- State and local officials found the body of a 21-year-old Alexandria man at Monadnock State Park Tuesday after closing the park to search for him, Fish and Game said in a press release.

According to Keene State College sources, the man, Jacob Messersmith, was a senior majoring in theater arts.

Messersmith reportedly committed suicide with a firearm after hiking into the park on Monday afternoon, and his body was found Tuesday near the mountain summit.

Jaffrey Police Department, N.H. Fish and Game and the N.H. Division of Parks and Recreation led the daylong search for Messersmith, who was to reported to have been "armed and despondent."

Story in Thursday's Ledger-Transcript.

Antrim man facing charges after drug bust

January 24th 2012 at 03:02:59 PM

An Antrim man is facing multiple criminal charges in connection with a scheme to deliver approximately $120,000 worth of hashish via a United Postal Service package, Londonderry police said in a press release issued Monday.

Samuel Ruoff, 20, of Antrim was arrested last Thursday with Jordan Reynolds, 24, of Keene after Reynolds went to the Londonderry UPS facility to pick up a package containing 20 pounds of hashish, a cannabis-based drug. According to the press release, facility workers had alerted police to the suspicious-seeming package and police, posing as postal workers, were waiting for Reynolds.

Ruoff had accompanied Reynolds in another vehicle, police said, and the men were arrested and charged with possession of a controlled drug. Ruoff was also charged with conspiracy to commit possession with intent to distribute and falsifying physical evidence. Reynolds was charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute. They were both held at the Rockingham County jail in lieu of $100,000 cash bail.

Details in Thursday's Ledger-Transcript.

Great expectations

PETERBOROUGH — As polls closed across the state on Tuesday evening, Republican supporters rallied at campaign parties in Manchester and waited in nervous, but short-lived, anticipation of results that confirmed the national punditry’s yearlong prediction: Mitt Romney won the first-in-the-nation primary, advancing his second bid to clinch the presidential nomination.

Man of milk

PETERBOROUGH — There were many cacophonous moments during Tuesday’s Ron Paul event at the Town House that drew more than 400 people, but the topic that elicited the loudest applause of the night was milk.

Push for wind has broader catalyst

November 29th 2011 at 10:04:29 AM

The recent slew of local wind energy development projects that has rankled some rural conservationists and divided alternative fuels proponents is part of a wider push for renewable energy that has escalated across New England spurred by both government engineering and market signals.

Eolian Renewable Energy’s 10-turbine facility plan for Antrim and Pioneer Green Energy’s proposal for a wind farm in New Ipswich and Temple are only two of what has become a wave of projects slated for development across New Hampshire and the northeast.

Story in Tuesday's Ledger-Transcript, and online at www.ledgertranscript.com/e-edition.

Cleaner held in rash of burglaries

November 25th 2011 at 10:17:02 AM

A string of jewelry thefts across at least three towns led to the arrest last week of a Greenville woman, who is suspected by various police departments of burglarizing the homes of people she was cleaning house for.

Angela Depauw, 31, of Greenville allegedly stole thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from at least five residences in Mason, New Ipswich and Brookline. Peterborough police acknowledged a recent rash of jewelry thefts as well, but it’s unclear whether the events are related.

Much of the jewelry was traced by Brookline and Mason police departments to pawn shops in Milford and Fitchburg, Mass., and returned to the owners.

Full story in Friday's Ledger-Transcript, or online at www.ledgertranscript.com/e-edition.

Single car crash sends driver to ER via airflight

November 24th 2011 at 05:17:35 PM

RINDGE — A woman was airlifted to UMass Memorial Hospital yesterday morning after her minivan struck a guardrail on Route 119 and ejected her from the vehicle, Fire Department officials said Thursday.

The woman, whose identity was not released by the Fire Department officials but who is not a Rindge resident, was driving at approximately 9 a.m. when the accident occurred. The driver was alone, officials said, and it was a single-vehicle incident.

Story in Friday's Ledger-Transcript.

Romney stops in Peterborough

PETERBOROUGH — Mitt Romney’s Saturday night appearance at the Peterborough Town House looked like a television commercial.

Romney to hold Peterborough town-hall meeting Saturday

November 18th 2011 at 01:17:22 PM

Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will hold a public forum Saturday at the Peterborough Townhouse, a spokesperson with the Romney campaign confirmed Friday.

The event will begin at 6 p.m. and last for slightly more than an hour, the spokeperson said. Romney will be at a food bank in Manchester earlier in the day, and does not have any other Saturday stops planned for the Monadnock region.

Story in Tuesday's Ledger-Transcript.

Candidate touts his gay pride

If presidential candidates can be assessed by their lapel pins, California Republican Fred Karger’s sums his agenda up neatly: the classic American flag medallion is crossed with a tiny rainbow flag signifying gay pride.