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[email protected] VOL. CXLIV, NO. 22 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011 LANCASTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE TELEPHONE: 603-788-4939 THIRTY PAGES 75¢ North Country Strong storms comes out on top of surprise storm By Jonathan Benton caught fire. According to Martin
[email protected] the fire was focused on the upper NORTH COUNTY — Residents barn area and was one of the of Lancaster and Northumberland strangest fires he’d ever seen. The were blindsided by a late afternoon barn had a metal roof and the fire storm that blew in Thursday night was centered in the rafters at the washing out roads, knocking out cross of three beams and spilled power and raining down marble out with flames licking out the sized hail. eaves. The first person to notice It was about 8:40 p.m. when the fire was Nathan Wert of the Lan- both towns lost power and it was caster Fire Department who called around that time that Sonny Mar- it in. The LFD arrived shortly at the tin of Martin’s Agway discovered that a barn on the family farm had Storm,PAGEA4 50th anniversary parade and celebration set for Aug. 6-7 weekend PHOTO BY ART MCGRATH, THE COURIER By Edith Tucker lands, sometimes violently,
[email protected] Trees, branches and leaves were down all over in Guildhall after last Thursday night’s storm. This tree blocking Route 102 was cut to allow against the claims of New Yorkers.