New Hampshire

Utility Pole Fire Knocks Out Power To Nearly 2,000 Unitil Customers in Concord

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2 months ago

March 22, 2026

Utility Pole Fire Knocks Out Power To Nearly 2,000 Unitil Customers in Concord

CONCORD, NH — About 2,000 Unitil electric customers were without power on Sunday afternoon, possibly due to a fire involving a utility pole in the North End.

Just before 4:30 p.m., Capital Region Fire Dispatch received a call from a Prospect Street resident reporting a utility pole on fire, down behind homes in the neighborhood toward the east, near Horseshoe Pond. Not long before that call, power outages were being reported in the North and West End neighborhoods.

Unitil later told fire dispatch the company believed the pole fire was the cause of the power outage. The cause of the pole fire was not known at the time of publication.

At around 4:30 p.m., 1,896 customers, about 2.3 percent of Unitil customers in the city, were without power. The outage spread from Swenson Avenue off and along North State Street to Fisk and Little Pond roads, Auburn Street, Ridge Road, and Penacook Street, and to most of the area north of Washington Street and surrounding White Park and the Old North Cemetery. Sections of downtown, in the area of North State Street, Centre Street, and Loudon Road by Bridge Street, were also without power.

A battalion commander reported seeing smoke and told dispatch to tell Unitil they would be able to access the pole by Horseshoe Pond, not Prospect Street.

News 603 posted a video on Facebook.

The Capital Plaza Towers, at 15 Pitman St., reported a tenant stuck in an elevator, according to scanner chatter. Streetlights were out all over North Main Street.

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New Hampshire Cub Scouts clean up community – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

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5 hours ago

June 1, 2026

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New Hampshire Cub Scouts clean up community – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

HAMPTON, N.H. (WHDH) – Cub Scouts recently showed their committment to cleaning up their community.

The scouts of Pack 177 were at Plaice Cove Beach in Hampton last month scouring for trash and getting it ready for the summer fun.

One scout said it’s all in a day’s work.

“Imagine you were coming just down to the beach to enjoy a holiday in the water and then you feel something at your foot and it’s a bag,” scout Logan George of Pack 177 said. “We help our community, we help our friends, we’re always kind and trustworthy and we help other people.”

The Cub Scouts do several other cleanups each year, including along the highway and on the side of roads around Hampton.

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Drivers And Passengers OK After 3 Vehicles Collide On Clinton Street In Bow

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15 hours ago

June 1, 2026

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Drivers And Passengers OK After 3 Vehicles Collide On Clinton Street In Bow

BOW, NH — Bow police and fire and rescue teams were sent to a crash on Sunday afternoon, not far from a previous crash earlier this month.

At 2:30 p.m., Concord Fire Alarm reported a crash involving multiple vehicles not far from the intersection of Page Road and Clinton Street. About 10 minutes later, a battalion commander told dispatch there were three vehicles involved and two patients were being evaluated. Dispatch asked if EMTs needed a retone for an engine, and the commander said, “Yeah, why don’t you send them.”

News 603 posted a video from the crash scene on Facebook, linked here.

Just before 3 p.m., EMTs cleared the scene after reporting the patients refused transport.

The crash site was not far from a crash on May 1 that sent one driver to Concord Hospital. In July 2024, a fatal motorcycle accident, which took the life of Joseph Kasper of Weare, occured not far from the location of Sunday’s crash.

Not long after, Concord Fire and Rescue teams were sent to a downed tree on Merrimack Street by School Street.

The tree was knocked down after a small storm moved through the region around 2:45 p.m.

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New Hampshire

Photo Exhibit | Art Talk | Crew Competition | Nashua Genealogy Club | More: Week Ahead Events

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1 day ago

May 31, 2026

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Photo Exhibit | Art Talk | Crew Competition | Nashua Genealogy Club | More: Week Ahead Events

NASHUA, NH — Here is the week ahead roundup.

Get out, New Hampshire.

Event listings are free on one Patch site. You can share your calendar info on other community sites for a modest fee, starting at 25 cents per day. To get started, visit the Events link on the front page of all Patch sites. Statewide calendar roundups are published on most Sundays and Wednesdays. Visit any of the 223 New Hampshire Patch Event sites (patch.com/map/new-hampshire) for updated listings.

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