1977 CLAREMONT For the first time since 1946, ownership of Claremont Paper Mill, 131 Sullivan St., will be in local hands. Harvey Hill, West Unity, plant manager at the Bemis Division plant until May of this year, will be major stockholder in CPM Inc, new owner of the mill. Hill[Read More…]
Past Times
Newport students collect 84,500 pennies in Miles of Pennies Campaign
1977 CLAREMONT Frank J. McKeen, the retired Connecticut high school principal who donated $50,000 to the School District in July, has offered a $1,000 gift to the Marion Phillips Senior Citizens Housing Center. The Claremont Housing Authority voted Wednesday afternoon to accept the gift, which McKee is giving in memory[Read More…]
Corbett Oil Company is low bidder for Newport fuel oil at 13.7 cents per gallon
1977 CLAREMONT The Sullivan County Helping Services Council has received $48,000 in federal manpower money to begin a program to help troubled teen-agers. Last week, for example, the Planned Parenthood Association of the Upper Valley voted to begin a branch clinic in Newport, the first service of its kind in[Read More…]
John DeMayo upsets Maurice Cummings in Newport Selectman’s race
1980 CLAREMONT By this time next month, the city’s newest elderly housing project will be solar. Installation of 114 heat collectors on the north-facing roof of the Senior Congress Park, 67 Maple Ave., has begun. According to Howard G. Tolz, executive director of the 81-unit complex, the solar project should[Read More…]
Dog ordinance in Newport gains public support on 12-9 vote
1985 CLAREMONT The city and its unionized firefighters have come to an agreement on a three-year contract that will provide an average wage increase at 5.3 percent each year. The pact, calling for 3.6, 7.3 and 5 percent pay hikes during the three year, was termed “reasonable” by Kenneth Lurvey[Read More…]
Edward J. Tenney Jr. announces bid for State Senate in District 8
PHOTO COURTESY OF NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1977 CLAREMONT Three area insurance agents will be recognized by the John Hancock Life Insurance Company this month. They are staff manager Oliver L. Zullo of Newport and agents Angelo A. Scelza of White River Junction, James F. Butler, Lebanon, and Richard W. Pariseau,[Read More…]
Mrs. John Cain named principal of Goshen-Lempster Cooperative School
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO 1985 CLAREMONT Photo Caption — Practicing the art of tie-dying at Camp Paradise are, from left, Newport’s Tonya Gregory and Claremont’s Chris Granger and Jennifer Ferland. They were among the 105 Girl Scouts spending the last two weeks at the camp based at the Arrowhead Skiway[Read More…]
Renae Maccioli crowned Miss Cornish Fair; Rachel Kemp is Miss Congeniality
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO 1985 CLAREMONT Area residents have been tricked into replacing their lousy landfills with a lousy incinerator, Dr. Paul Connett told an audience of about 100 people at a public forum Thursday night. Connett, a chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y., attacked New Hampshire/Vermont solid[Read More…]
Worms gear up for annual Claremont race; lightning stuns Grantham woman
1979 CLAREMONT Activity in preparation for the second annual Greater Claremont International Invitational Annelid (Worm) Race Thursday is intense as worms and trainers have begun flooding into the city from many parts of the country. Clare DeClene, head librarian at the Fiske Free Library, which sponsors the race with the[Read More…]
Newport Selectmen turn down $5,000 offer for Nettleton House
1979 CLAREMONT Several members of the Claremont Garden Club received awards at the recent meeting of the New Hampshire Federation of Garden Clubs. Among them were a first for the club scrapbook and a third for the yearbook. A silver certificate was awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dumontier for[Read More…]