04/09/07 - BARRINGTON - The maple sugaring season is drawing to a close, and at least one producer who took part in the recent N.H. Maple Weekend seems less than satisfied with this year's results.

04/09/07 - PORTSMOUTH - What's in a street name? A lot, apparently.

04/09/07 - PORTSMOUTH - Conceived by The Music Hall, Dream Chestnut Street is a pilot program to determine whether Chestnut Street can achieve permanent status as a pedestrian-friendly walkway.

04/09/07 - PORTSMOUTH - Sen. Martha Fuller Clark and the Portsmouth legislative delegation are inviting local officials and the general public to a legislative update on education funding-related developments from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in Eileen Dondero Foley Council Chambers at City Hall.

04/09/07 - GREENLAND - Spring marked the release of the first edition of the Greenland Grapevine, the town's new newsletter, powered entirely by neighbors and friends.

04/09/07 - DURHAM - A salt marsh along the shores of Great Bay appears as tranquil as any artist's still-life, disrupted only by the occasional heron or salt marsh sparrow. But in reality, these areas are restless and dynamic habitats, as evidenced by the nomadic travels of several salt marsh plants.

04/09/07 - PORTSMOUTH - When students are released from the middle school at 2 p.m. on weekdays, 40 to 70 migrate to the city's new library, where they spend up to four hours without parental supervision.

04/09/07 - PORTSMOUTH - "We want their kids here," Library Director Mary Ann List said is her message to city parents. "But (teens) should come to the library because they want to use the library. And they should have a backup plan."

04/09/07 - SEABROOK - A Newburyport, Mass., man was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated and reckless conduct after the car he was driving careened off the Exit 1 off-ramp in Seabrook and crashed into a barn and chicken coop, severely damaging both buildings, according to police.

04/09/07 - CAPE NEDDICK, Maine - "I only got tackled for my first egg," said Ryan Peters, 10, of Wells, as he cashed in an Easter egg for a large bag of Tootsie Rolls at Clay Hill Farm.

04/09/07 - Kittery parents of graduating middle school students had an opportunity recently to speak with administration, faculty and students at Traip Academy as they look ahead to their students' first year in high school.

04/09/07 - The following people passed away recently. . .

04/09/07 - Area police made the following arrests and conducted the following business recently...

04/09/07 - Eric Hoffman was 5 years old when he started playing tennis, 9 when he started getting serious about it, and 16 when he beat his father for the first time.

04/09/07 - A sampling of sporting tidbits as we try to decide if it's really spring or if this is some kind of cruel winter Jedi mind trick "¦

04/09/07 - WALPOLE - This small town's police department is getting help from a national volunteer group to arrest alleged online child sex predators.

04/09/07 - SAUGUS, Mass. - It wasn't an asteroid that threatened this T-Rex with extinction _ it was vandals.

04/09/07 - On Christianity's most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI lamented the "continual slaughter" in Iraq and unrest in Afghanistan as he denounced violence in the name of religion.

04/09/07 - WASHINGTON - They say that behind every successful man, there is a great woman. In the case of John Edwards, the woman is moving from behind the scenes to a more prominent role in his presidential campaign.

03/05/07 - HETEREN, Netherlands -- A dozen middle-age and elderly men were game enough for a Dutch gym's invitation to work out nude. But they were vastly outnumbered by the dozens of journalists watching them lift, row and cycle in the buff.

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