Bethlehem

North Country Town Meetings: Everything From Fighting Corporations To Reviving A Town Ski Slope

Chris Jensen — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:57:58 +0000

Voters headed to town meetings Tuesday in the North Country will find some unusual issues including creating a community ski slope, challenging the rights of corporations as people, abolishing a police department and excluding “formula stores and fast-food restaurants.”

* In Bethlehem voters are considering two articles aimed at preventing “formula retail and formula fast food restaurants” from locating in the center of town.

Democrat Challenger Takes Seat in Littleton-Bethlehem.

Chris Jensen — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:10:10 +0000

In Grafton District 1 Democrat challenger Linda Massimilla is guaranteed one of the two seats, according to final totals compiled by the Associated Press.

But it's unclear whether the second seat will go to incumbent Republican Lyle Bulis or Republican Ralph Doolan.

Massimilla had 2,263 votes.

Meanwhile Bulis had 1,667 - only two votes more than Doolan. It wasn't clear whether Doolan will seek a recount.

The district includes Littleton and Bethlehem and was redrawn this year.

Voting In One North Country Town: A Very Low Turnout

Chris Jensen — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:33:49 +0000

With most of the voting day over some North Country election officials are figuring it won’t take long to count votes tonight.

NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.

John Miller, the deputy moderator for the town of Bethlehem, says it has been a typical primary election for local candidates.

“The turnout so far has been very, very low.”

By about 4:30 roughly 250 of the 1600 or so registered voters in this Northern Grafton town had voted, Miller said.

He figured there were slightly more Republicans than Democrats voting.

Artful Monsters Stopping Traffic In Bethlehem

Chris Jensen — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:33:14 +0000

Traffic through the North Country on Labor Day was slowed a bit in one town by huge metal monsters.

NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.

The movie monsters and Leonardo Da Vinci’s horse stopped a lot of traffic on Route 302 in Bethlehem over the holiday.

The statues are in front of a shop where Gerry Ramback plans to sell arts and crafts from the region – as well as Asia.

They were created by welding, mixing and matching thousands of auto and motorcycle parts.

North Country Gets Its Own Fire-Fighting Training Center

Chris Jensen — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:30:43 +0000

Gov. Lynch has signed a bill to establish a fire training site in Bethlehem.

It will allow a long-sought $550,000 training facility.

NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.

Sound of fire departments being dispatched for fire in Bethlehem…

For decades North Country fire fighters rushing to fires such this one last month first had to go to Concord for training and practice.

And for years fire chiefs have dreamed of having a training facility above the notches, says Jack Anderson, the fire chief in Bethlehem.

Black Hawk Rescues Heat Victim From 4,000 Footer

Chris Jensen — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:53:31 +0000

Warm weather over the weekend and climbing a 4,000 footer in the North Country was a bad combination for a Penacook man.

NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.

Early Sunday afternoon hiking companions of a 51-year-old man used a cell phone to call for help.

Lt. James Kneeland of Fish and Game said the problem was apparently heat related.

“Dehydration, heat stroke. Something along those lines to the point where he was losing, in and out of consciousness.”