🌱 Canterbury crews help fight devastating three-alarm restaurant fire in Loudon

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• Canterbury crews help fight devastating three-alarm restaurant fire in Loudon

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• Wednesday: Fog will lift in the morning, with a high of 86 and low of 62 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
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📰 News we're reading

• ‘It's emotional to look at it as it is now': Three-alarm blaze destroys Beanie's Bar & Grill in Loudon (concordmonitor.com) — Canterbury firefighters were among more than a dozen departments that rushed to help battle a three-alarm fire destroying Beanie’s Bar & Grill in nearby Loudon early Monday morning. The longtime community hangout was heavily damaged, but the owners say they plan to rebuild after investigators determine what sparked the blaze.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Loudon

• Beanie's Bar & Grill On Route 129 In Loudon Destroyed During 3-Alarm Fire: Video (patch.com)
• New to Stream This Week on Apple TV, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video, and More (Aug 17–23) (streamingbetter.com)
• New Hampshire Dollar Tree 301 DFS, Betting Picks (2026) (rotoballer.com)

Boscawen

• Balancing act: How conservation organizations and housing advocates ‘make more efficient use' of N.H.'s land (concordmonitor.com)

Concord

• Three Bipartisan Bills Related To Protecting Victims Celebrated in Concord (indepthnh.org)
• ‘Keeping Concord vital': Capitol Center for the Arts renames theatre after John Swope ahead of multi-million dollar renovation (concordmonitor.com)

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