Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm offers a model for the future with an eye to the past Nov 22, 2009
The pellets come from waste lumber in the nearby town of Jaffrey. Annual cost of heat and hot water for a typical house runs around $900. (Boston Globe)
Northeast learns lessons from '08 ice storm Nov 4, 2009
JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- One of the huge pine trees that surrounded Sieglinde Poegel's home of 42 years crashed through the roof and landed in her living room during the ice storm that crippled much of the Northeast last December ... Poegel and her husband, Werner, were unable to return permanently for several months to their home in Jaffrey, about 15 miles from the Massachusetts state line ... In Jaffrey, where 90 percent of the town's 6,000 residents were without power at one point, the town has... (Concord Monitor)
Storms cause power outages throughout NH Oct 25, 2009
PSNH did not have an estimate of when power would be restored in Antrim, Derry, Jaffrey, Rindge and Twin Mountain. The utility says spotty outages began throughout the state Saturday afternoon, and it received several hundred reports of outages Saturday night in southwest New Hampshire. (Concord Monitor)
Authority approves $8M in NH tax credits Oct 23, 2009
The projects include $1 million to Elliot Hospital in Manchester to buy equipment for an ambulatory care center, $1 million to redevelop two blighted downtown Concord buildings, $500,000 to replace the Park Theater in Jaffrey and $303,000 for improvements to a Meredith child care center. The nonprofits awarded the tax credits are responsible for raising matching donations from for-profit businesses that pay state taxes. (Concord Monitor)
NH students push apple cider as state drink Oct 20, 2009
But there is none in New Hampshire, and some elementary school students in Jaffrey want to change that ... Bonnie Mitchell, D-Jaffrey, and have persuaded her to sponsor legislation to do so ... Mitchell said she expects the Jaffrey Grade School students to take an active role as the bill goes through the legislative process this winter. (Concord Monitor)
Three members of Wellesley family killed in N.H. crash Oct 13, 2009
The road was closed near the Jaffrey town line Monday at 11:25 a.m. It opened again by late afternoon. Loading commenting interface. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Seven killed on N.E. roads over holiday weekend Oct 13, 2009
A Toyota Highlander carrying a Wellesley family collided with a Chevrolet Malibu carrying one person on Route 202 in Peterborough, N.H., near the Jaffrey town line, Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard said. Stephen Krause, 56, of Keene, N.H., was driving south when the northbound Highlander, driven by Stephen Lagakos, 63, crossed the center line as it was coming around a curve and collided with his car, Guinard said. (Boston Globe)
3 students injured hiking on NH's Mount Monadnock Oct 2, 2009
JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- Three 13-year-olds from Rhode Island were injured while hiking Mount Monadnock with classmates and teachers. Monadnock State Park manager Patrick Hummel says the two girls and boy from Curtis Corner Middle School in Wakefield, R.I., fell at different points on White Cross Trail on Wednesday. (Concord Monitor)
Heavy rain washes out some roads in western NH Aug 24, 2009
Authorities say the majority of damage Saturday was in Peterborough, but Westmoreland, Dublin, Hinsdale, Greenfield and Jaffrey also reported area roads flooded by the storm ... Police say the high water in Jaffrey led to a single-vehicle crash on Route 202. (Concord Monitor)
NH town under water-boil order Aug 16, 2009
00003596 JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- Residents in Jaffrey are being told to boil their drinking water because E. coli bacteria was found in the system ... Parts of Jaffrey are affected by the order to boil water for drinking, infant formula, dish washing, cooking, brushing teeth and making ice. (Concord Monitor)
Tainted drinking water frustrates Milford Aug 16, 2009
The New Hampshire town of Jaffrey issued a similar boil order Friday after E. coli was found in water samples Thursday. The town s director of public works, Randall Heglin, said he had not seen an E. coli outbreak there since he started working there in 2003. (Boston Globe)
New England Wood Pellet buying property Aug 8, 2009
JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire wood pellet company is buying land in New York from a wood products manufacturer to build a new plant ... The company is based in Jaffrey and has a plant in Schuyler, N.Y.. (Concord Monitor)
After switch to digital, recycle’s the word Jul 8, 2009
Peter Sarantos, the owner of E-Waste Recyclers LLC in Jaffrey, N.H., said he gets roughly 90 percent of the electronics he dismantles from big waste halls such as Veolia. We literally take TVs and computer monitors apart, and the steel and the electronics, they all get sorted out and sold, he said. (Boston Globe)
New Business Jul 5, 2009
JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) A medical equipment company in Jaffrey is bucking the national trend of layoffs and plant closures by expanding. - 6/5/2009. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
2 towns turning off street lights to save money Jun 21, 2009
In Jaffrey, selectmen last week approved shutting off 70 streetlights as a way to cut back on utility costs ... Jaffrey plans to review the decision in six months to make sure they haven't created any safety hazards. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Jaffrey, NH, company bucks trends, expands Jun 6, 2009
JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- A medical equipment company in Jaffrey, N.H., is bucking the national trend of layoffs and plant closures by expanding. State economic officials say Teleflex Medical OEM recently expanded its Jaffrey facility and is hiring 65 new workers. (Concord Monitor)
Federal cleanup money on the way to NH Jun 3, 2009
The state Department of Environmental Services is receiving $1 million and the town of Jaffrey is in line for $600,000. The Rockingham Planning Commission, Lakes Region Planning Commission and Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission each gets $400,000. (Concord Monitor)
NH gets grants to redevelop contaminated land May 10, 2009
The state Department of Environmental Services is getting the largest grant, $1 million; with other grants going to Jaffrey, the Lakes Region Planning Commission, Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission and Rockingham Planning Commission. Ads by Google. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
NH campground re-opens months after ice storm May 6, 2009
JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire campground that has been closed since December's ice storm is now open again. The entire Monadnock State Park was closed for several weeks following the storm. (Concord Monitor)
NH to get $60 million for water projects Mar 25, 2009
The communities of Portsmouth, Farmington, Jaffrey, Newport and Hillsborough are on the list for wastewater projects. . (Concord Monitor)
NH ranks water, sewer projects Mar 23, 2009
And Farmington, Newport, Newbury, Jaffrey and Hillsboro all ranked in the state's top 10 for wastewater projects. The directive from both national leaders and Gov. John Lynch was to provide stimulus finds to as many communities as possible, instead of just a few large projects. (Concord Monitor)
Fire-damaged NH match company may reopen next week Mar 14, 2009
JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- A fire-damaged company that makes matchbooks could reopen next week in Jaffrey, N.H.. Flames hit D.D. Bean Co. early Thursday. (Concord Monitor)
Cheshire County unhappy with plan to move courts Feb 23, 2009
If that happens, the superior court likely would be moved to Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court, because the county building isn't big enough for two courts ... Both the county and city would have to spend more to get prisoners, police, prosecutors and others to Jaffrey, which is a 40-minute drive from Keene ... "For those people to be serviced by Superior Court in Jaffrey, it would mean most of them would have to be traveling. It would increase the cost to litigants immensely. Lawyers who... (Concord Monitor)
