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The KHS Alumni Fund gave its annual Outstanding Educator Award to Keene High School science teacher Susan Romano last week. 

Jacob Favolise has been elected to the Keene City Council, filling the vacant Ward 1 seat during Thursday night’s council meeting.

A man caused alarm in his neighborhood and prompted a lockdown of Thayer Public Library and the town post office for about an hour late Thursday afternoon when he fired rock salt from a cannon, according to Police Chief David Rice.

Three friends who met at arts camp in the ’70s-two from Keene-talk about how the experience shaped their lives. One of them, Risa Lavelle, of Boston, will perform this weekend as part of the Nova Arts live music series at Brewbakers Cafe.

Improper maintenance and the pilot’s failure to abort takeoff likely caused a small plane to crash into a building in New Hampshire in 2022, killing both people on board and sparking a fire, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its final report

A fire in Charlestown Thursday has claimed the lives of two individuals, according to New Hampshire State Fire Marshal Sean P. Toomey, Fire Chief Mark LaFlam, and Charlestown Police Chief Patrick Connors.

The final phase of Keene’s Sidewalk Replacement Project is set to take place on Friday, June 7, 2024, along Main Street, between Silent Way and Greenwood Avenue. The project will involve final clean-up and stabilization efforts, including excavation and seeding.

Tonight’s Keene SwampBats game against the Upper Valley Nighthawks has been cancelled due to weather. The makeup game will be held June 17 at 6:35 p.m. 

Officers assisted in serving search warrants in the area of Chesham Road Thursday morning.

In total the suspects were found to be in possession of 1,460 bags of suspected fentanyl and 51.32 grams of suspected crack cocaine.