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A Visit to Walmart 

My trips to Walmart are infrequent, so each time I go I observe the changes since the prior visit.  Items I seek often are no longer in the aisles where they used to be. They get moved. Maybe experts believe moving merchandise around somehow improves the store, though it makes[Read More…]

Springfield Senior Center news 

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Drop-in cornhole will be on every Tuesday at 1 p.m. Knitting will meet on Jan. 23 at 1 p.m. Wizard card games will be on Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. Hand & Foot card games will be on Jan. 31 and Feb. 14 at 1 p.m. Nickel[Read More…]

Cosmos complete season sweep versus L&G 

By DAN BARILE  Eagle Times Correspondent  SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — The Springfield Cosmos boys basketball team earned its first win of the season when they traveled to Townshend just two days before Christmas and cruised to a 65-42 victory over Leland & Gray.   The Cosmos won in convincing fashion despite a[Read More…]

Claremont Senior Center news 

CLAREMONT, N.H. — The Claremont Senior Center is open every Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. There are many activities including pool, card games, cribbage, puzzles, mahjong, knitting and quilting, to name a few. There’s also Miracle Ear,[Read More…]

Frost Quakes: Groans of Old Man Winter

As the winter sun set on Feb. 3, 2023, the Caribou, Maine branch of the National Weather Service (NWS) was flooded with reports of seismic activity. James Sinko, the office’s hydrology program manager, recounted Mainers calling in from across the state’s Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington counties to describe homes[Read More…]

Arthur G. Bastian

CLAREMONT, NH– Arthur Gale Bastian was born January 28,1938 in Concord, NH to Arthur Thomas Bastian and Barbara Ellen Straw. He was raised in Claremont, NH on Chestnut Street Extension on a small family farm, along with his younger brothers Ronald (Tom), Russell and Brian where he learned about and[Read More…]

Antoinette A. (Rivard) Drouart

NASHUA, NH– Antoinette Alice (Rivard) Drouart, 72, died peacefully on Friday, January 10, 2025, at the Community Hospice House in Merrimack, New Hampshire endowed with the sacraments of the Church. She was born on August 8, 1952, in Claremont, New Hampshire, the daughter of the late Mathieu Rivard and Marie-Gloire[Read More…]

Olive “Ollie” H. Dorr

RYE, NH– Olive “Ollie” Hadley Dorr, 97, passed away peacefully after a brief illness at Benchmark’s memory care facility in Rye, NH on January 3, 2025. Born Olive Rebecca McMorran on January 28, 1927 in Lincoln, New Hampshire, to Henry T. McMorran and Mary (Towers) McMorran. She was the salutatorian[Read More…]

GM boys, BF girls top local teams at UVM 

By DAN BARILE  Eagle Times Correspondent   BURLINGTON, Vt. — The fifth week of the indoor track & field season saw several strong competitors convene at the University of Vermont with 32 schools participating on Sunday, Jan. 12.   Division 2 featured 24 teams competing, including Bellows Falls, Green Mountain, and Springfield.  [Read More…]