PHOTO ESSAY: A health center’s closure leaves unanswered questions in this New England mountain town

Tamara Ceaikovski

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — For more than two decades, residents in this tiny tourist town in the shadow of the White Mountains knew they could just drive a few minutes down the road to their community health center for a physical, a Vitamin B-12 shot or to get checked out for a case of the sniffles or high blood pressure. But that changed last month, when this site of the Ammonoosuc Community Health Services in Franconia closed. “I just really like it there. I don’t know, I’m just really going to