Conway Daily Sun

Nearly two years to the day since Club Motorsports Inc. pulled its application from a local review board, the Derry developer will return to Tamworth next month to ask for permission to build its massively contentious high-performance driving club.

The Nature Conservancy is in the final stages of a risky $3.8 million plan to save a rare habitat, racing against developers in their purchase of valuable properties.

Off-and-on showers Tuesday didn't add up to any substantial flooding in Carroll County, although officials warned that heavier sustained rains could spell trouble with surging rivers and a full-to-the-rim Ossipee Lake.

Mount Shaw, 2,990 feet, is the highest mountain in the circular Ossipee Range. For many years, the rustic 3.5-mile Mount Shaw Trail has been ascended by hikers from Route 171 in Tuftonboro.

Harry Merrow, a selectman and state legislator who owns hundreds of acres in town, is planning to sell off about 28 acres on Route 16 to a major New England mall builder.