BY LAUREN SAUSSERPembroke selectmen want downtown spruced up, but are not convinced residents will want to pick up the $1.3 million cost at Town Meeting next spring. The specific project in question is the reconstruction of Broadway Street. Initial engineering plans advise drainage work, paving and sidewalk improvements. The board has already ...

BY JENN McDOWELLPembroke Town Administrator Geoff Ruggles is leaving his post for a different municipal job in Gilford. The town is currently taking applications for the soon-to-be-empty position. Ruggles, who lives in Gilford, said he took the finance director job in Gilford to be closer to home and family, adding the pay is about the same as ...

BY JENN McDOWELL A proposal for a traffic roundabout at Route 3 and Pembroke Hill Road will be up for discussion later this month. Pembroke selectmen will hold a public forum for input on the state’s plan on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 6:30 p.m., in the Paulsen Meeting Room at Pembroke Town Hall. Interim Town Administrator Geoff Ruggles ...

BY SUSAN WARE Town Administrator Troy Brown thought that residents would get fired up over changes to solid waste disposal, but only one resident turned up for a public hearing. The Board of Selectmen are in the process of debating a fee and usage changes, and they are looking for public input. They held a public hearing on Wednesday, July 25, ...