Army Cpl. Paul Hedge will be one of the newest residents of the Lakes Region, in a custom-built house complete with myriad adaptations for accessibility, provided through Homes For Our Troops.

“I’m overwhelmed right now, just seeing all of you coming out, the community welcoming me,” Hedge said Saturday morning during an event at Kingswood Arts Center in Wolfeboro.

The nonprofit Homes For Our Troops builds and donates custom homes specially adapted for severely injured veterans of the post-9/11 era theaters in Afghanistan and Iraq, assisting them with returning to civilian life.

Founded in 2004 in Massachusetts, the organization's staff and volunteers assist veterans of every branch of the military in the United States. When they build another house in South Dakota, they’ll have constru

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