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DEERFIELD - Planning for expansion, the Deerfield Volunteer Fire Department and Deerfield Rescue Squad will purchase the property at 8 Church St. |
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Flipping the expendable Coco Crisp for an inexpensive bullpen arm with promise is just the sort of move Theo Epstein has to make.

Wes Welker's week: Rooting for the Red Raiders but focused on the Dolphins. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - It's going to be a tough game, Wes Welker said. The opposing fans, the high stakes, the fact that one team with title aspirations suffered an embarrassing loss the last time the two teams met.
CONCORD - Concord police say two armed men entered a home and pointed guns at a child during a robbery.
MANCHESTER - Lawyers for convicted capital murderer Michael Addison are again asking he be spared the death penalty for killing Manchester police officer Michael Briggs. Their motion was filed before the penalty phase of his trial, which begins tomorrow.
MANCHESTER - The robbery at N and N Express, 230 Lowell St., was reported about 1:10 p.m.
JAFFREY - Updated, 9:14 a.m. A car crashed into a utility pole and caught fire, injuring two people, according to a dispatcher.

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CONCORD - Gov. John Lynch said he will propose up to $60 million in cuts to the state budget tomorrow, and spend the next seven months looking for ways to close the remaining budget gap estimated at $90 million. Lynch would not specify where $50 million to $60 million in cuts will be made.

EPPING - Police Chief Gregory Dodge said the search was part of a follow-up investigation from another agency that didn't involve an Epping case. Police said little else about the digging.

GRENIER
ROCHESTER - Updated, 12:07 a.m. Police yesterday identified a woman found dead at Christ the King Church on Route 108 as Marcie Lyn Grenier, but how she died remains undetermined. Police have called her death "untimely" but declined to say why.
NEWPORT - Prosecutors rested their case yesterday in the trial of a Charlestown woman charged with vehicular assault in the 2005 accident that killed two teenagers on a motorcycle.

FRANCONIA - Mittersill Ski Area would reopen and merge with the adjacent Cannon Mountain under a land swap that recently won a key federal approval. The swap calls for the U.S. Forest Service to transfer about 100 acres on the top of Mittersill to the state in exchange for 235 acres of state-owned land in Piermont. The Piermont land includes about a quarter-mile of the Appalachian Trail.
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New Hampshire is not in the habit of following in the footsteps of Massachusetts, but there is a move under way to build on the attention received -- and any momentum generated -- by the passage of Question 3 in the Bay State.

By now you've probably heard: The GOP is becoming too regional, too white, too old to compete at a national level.
American troops in Afghanistan are fighting what will soon become Barack Obama's war -- not just because he will inherit it, but also because he has claimed it.
A Wednesday editorial on Manchester's downtown bus station gave an incomplete picture of the decision to keep the station open at a cost of $10,000 a month.
Finally, the state of New Hampshire has gotten aggressive in recruiting Massachusetts businesses.


The latest Warren Miller film, 'Children of Winter,' is now showing in NH.
NEWS IN PRINT
►Franconia retirement home residents craft rosaries
►All New England Band Fest slated at PSU
SPORTS IN PRINT
►Boys high school All-State soccer teams announced
►Monarchs Insider: Rich Clune ready to mix it up
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