Saturday, Sept. 21, 1974

Some Keene city councilors, along with a school official and several area residents, say two new tennis courts are being built at Daniels School on a site they aren't supposed to be, but since construction has already begun the city council concedes that the courts "are where they'll have to be."

NEW YORK -- In an era of "pop journalism," Dan Rather's replacement, Bob Schieffer, CBS's new news correspondent at the White House, says he still "looks for the straight news story, not a sugar-coated, laugh-a-minute dispatch."

Monday, Sept. 21, 1999

Slumping sales have prompted Keene's second largest employer, Timken Aerospace and Super Precision Bearings, to lay off six workers and reassign 15 others into new jobs. Timken, which manufactures 200 different types of ball bearings, reported sales of $2.6 billion in 1998.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- High-rise apartment buildings were knocked off their foundations and roads buckled into waves of asphalt overnight when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake centered 90 miles south of Taipei struck, killing more than 1,500 people.