CONCORD - Education Commissioner Nicholas Donohue abruptly ended any speculation about his desire to stay on the job Monday, announcing his plans to resign at the beginning of next month. Donohue insisted the decision to step aside was his own…
NASHUA - An aldermanic committee endorsed the current system of appointing police commissioners, turning back an effort to have home rule over the Police Department. Many aldermen at the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee meeting said the proposal to give the mayor…
HUDSON - The annual raises for non-union personnel are in question after the Budget Committee removed them from the town budget and the selectmen couldn’t agree whether to put them in a warrant article. Typically the raises have gone before…
LYNDEBOROUGH - Considering the rate of growth in neighboring towns, the Planning Board decided to keep the town’s growth management ordinance in place for another five years on Thursday night. Lyndeborough has had a growth management ordinance in place for…
NASHUA - Expansion projects at the city’s two hospitals are among 14 across the state that will receive federal funds through a $388.4 billion omnibus spending bill recently approved by Congress. The Omnibus Appropriations Act, which was signed into law…
NASHUA - Aldermen will have to look hard at how to pay for the city’s trash-disposal operation because the Solid Waste Department has a forecasted $3.7 million deficit with the current payment system. And relying on the private sector to…
Congress sent a nice check of $850,000 to the city of Nashua for wastewater and sewage improvements. The announcement came in a laundry list of New Hampshire projects supported by U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass that were approved as part of…
Denise Dube was trying to hold back her tears. She paused to catch her breath as she described what it’s like to be a foster parent to five young children. “It’s a blessing,” Dube said, her eyes beginning to water.…
Next month, Parker Sweeney will travel for three hours through the tropics of Mexico in the back of a cattle wagon. He will navigate a trail so overgrown, he and his classmates will have to cut branches above the truck…
NASHUA- A residence on 35 East Dunstable Road suffered some peripheral damage Saturday, but firefighters contained a fire to a second-story bedroom. No one was home when the fire started at 1:24 p.m., Deputy Fire Chief Michael O’Brien said. Its…
LYNDEBOROUGH - A new pumper for the Fire Department is among the items contained in a capital improvement plan approved by the Planning Board. The five-year plan, which was prepared by a subcommittee in conjunction with the Budget Committee, was…
MILFORD - The Rotary Club has started a formal push to turn a dilapidated tennis court opposite Bales School into a park with brick walkways as a way to honor the 100th anniversary of Rotary International. The club is selling…
HOLLIS - Students at Hollis/Brookline High School will transform tragedy into melody tonight as members of the school’s FIRST team and students in the senior class gather to host the “Rock 4 Charity” concert. Proceeds from the concert will go…
MERRIMACK - After a final round of adjustments late Thursday, the Board of Selectmen sent a proposed 2005-06 operating budget of $25.4 million to the Budget Committee. Although that budget doesn’t include special warrant articles, the best apples-to-apples comparison for…
CONCORD - By Memorial Day weekend, motorists who sign up to get an E-ZPass will be able to drive their car or truck slowly through all turnpike tollbooths without stopping, Gov. Craig Benson announced Friday. Transportation Commissioner Carol Murray joined…
When the rest of the Wildcats girls’ soccer team decided to hang up their cleats, Erin Kelley was still kicking. It was 6 p.m. on a late October evening - dusk was approaching, and the air was moving from comfortable…
WILTON - A plan presented by Pine Hill Waldorf School to subdivide several acres from its Pine Hill Drive site and lease the land to a Center for Anthroposophy has moved forward. On Tuesday, the Zoning Board of Adjustment approved…
HOLLIS - The Land Protection Study Committee came out in full force at Thursday night’s Special Town Meeting to push for its No. 1 targeted land purchase, the 180-acre parcel known as Woodmont Orchard West. Voters approved the $3.25 million…
MERRIMACK - Both the town and school budgets proposed for next year are settling into amounts slightly more than 3 percent over current spending. The Board of Selectmen on Thursday debated a series of reductions that Chairman Dick Hinch proposed…
HOLLIS - Many of Carolyn Cicciu’s assignments for her eighth-grade students involve discussing foreign cultures and exploring others ways of living. This season, Cicciu found another way to show her pupils that there is more to life than what happens…
CONCORD - In 1998, Nashua real-estate developer John Stabile sold Maurice Arel a $339,564 custom-built home at cost, essentially giving the then-Pennichuck Corp. president a $70,000 discount. Why? “We’d had a long-term business relationship. The company agreed to build a…
CONCORD - Maurice Arel, the former president and chief executive officer of Pennichuck Corp., will pay $270,000 in fines to the utility as part of a $390,000 settlement between Pennichuck, the state and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Arel…
Jack the dog, the latest canine media star, should recover from a gunshot wound and will likely keep his leg. The plucky pooch responded to tests, and can soon rehabilitate the right foreleg that was damaged by a .45-caliber bullet.…
What a difference a day makes. On Wednesday, Home Health & Hospice Care in Nashua was promoting a Monday flu clinic at the Senior Activity Center for seniors on Medicare and adults with chronic illnesses, while the city Division of…
CONCORD - In 1998, Nashua real-estate developer John Stabile sold Maurice Arel a $339,564 custom-built home at cost, essentially giving the then-Pennichuck Corp. president a $70,000 discount. Why? “We’d had a long-term business relationship. The company agreed to build a…
WILTON- Ken and Shari Smith of Intervale Road have been given permission to operate a wedding and portrait photography studio as a home occupation. The Zoning Board of Adjustment approved the plan Tuesday, adding a restriction that no darkroom or…
WILTON -A plan presented by Pine Hill Waldorf School to subdivide several acres from its Pine Hill Drive site and lease the land to a Center for Anthroposophy has moved forward. On Tuesday, the Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a…
MILFORD - An addition at Heron Pond School, actually a separate building nearby, is the option chosen by the School Board to deal with overcrowding. And thanks to insurance money for the arson-destroyed Garden Street School, it shouldn’t hit Milford…
NASHUA - Jack the dog has won many hearts, but all he needs is one good leg. The mixed breed had some extra rest before veterinarians today try to save his right foreleg from a .45-caliber gunshot wound. His caregivers…
Kari Husson is an organized person, so organized that after she and her husband, Joe, learned they were having triplets, she addressed the birth announcements and did her Christmas and birthday shopping. But two weeks before her scheduled Nov. 4…
CONCORD - If Mason wants to withdraw from the Mascenic School District, it’s either going to have to appeal to the state Supreme Court, get new state laws passed, or else start the whole, long process over again. That’s the…
HOLLIS - The debt payments on recent land purchases will cause the biggest increase in the town tax rate in 2005, according to a first reading of the town budget Tuesday night. That news became evident two days before voters…
CONCORD - Gov. Craig Benson decided to drop plans to fill a vacant judgeship at Nashua District Court that has been the source of intense, political controversy, his spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday. The Nashua judgeship appears to be one of a…
MILFORD - Residents and businesses that get water from Milford were notified this week that the system had violated a bacteria standard in early November. Under state standards, no corrective action was required, and sampling as of mid-November found no…
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - The flu vaccine shortage apparently has ended in New Hampshire. Dr. Jesse Greenblatt, the state epidemiologist, said the state now has enough vaccine to protect its adult population, as well as residents at high risk for…
NASHUA- Home Health & Hospice Care is holding a flu vaccination clinic for older adults and adults at highest risk of complications from the flu Monday, Dec. 20, from 1-3 p.m. Only older adults receiving Medicare and other adults 18…
NASHUA- Guidance counselors from Nashua High School North and South will hold a free college financial aid workshop tonight at Nashua South. The program will be available in English and Spanish and students from both high schools are encouraged to…
NASHUA - A gas leak was discovered on the outside of Fairgrounds Middle School on Wednesday morning and was fixed prior to the start of school. “It was basically a small leak in an exterior pipe. It was repaired in…
MILFORD - Residents and businesses that get water from Milford were notified this week that the system had violated a bacteria standard in early November. Under state standards, no corrective action was required, and sampling as of mid-November found no…
NASHUA - A dog with a .45-caliber gunshot injury faces a potentially unsettling medical prognosis today. Veterinarians will see if they can repair the golden retriever-chow’s shattered elbow joint. Otherwise, the year-old male must have his right foreleg amputated. Workers…
Voters in Hollis are not only considering the largest land purchase in town history, they are preparing to make the type of decisions that will determine the state’s future. “Something is going to happen with all of the land in…
NASHUA - Aldermen voted 14-1 to endorse building a commuter rail station in the future within a yet-to-be-approved special tax district. City leaders want to use a tax increment financing district to pay for the estimated $14 million cost to…
HUDSON - The Board of Selectmen held off on moving forward with any changes to the noise ordinance Tuesday, with some board members saying they wanted some issues clarified. The board is re-examining aspects of the ordinance after resident Hal…
DERRY - A 12-year-old boy died early Tuesday evening after he was struck by a van near the Londonderry line. The boy, whom police would not identify, was pronounced dead at Parkland Medical Center, where he was taken by ambulance…
WILTON - Deputy Fire Chief David Boissonnault said it was just part of his job. Former ambulance attendant Tom Schultz said it was just one of those things you do. Police Officer John Fredette didn’t think it was all that…
LITCHFIELD - If Town Meeting voters approve a proposal to construct a new elementary school for grades 1-5 and pre-kindergarten at a cost of about $20 million, it would be the last school the community will ever have to build,…
NASHUA - Kristela Hernandez is breathing easier these days, and she has Susan Williams to thank. “I was sitting right there when it happened,” said Kristela, a sixth-grader at Fairgrounds Middle School, pointing at a nearby table in the school…
NASHUA - The Solid Waste Department has announced the schedule for curbside collections of trash and recycling during the holiday season. There will be no delays in collection during the two-week period between Monday, Dec. 20, and Friday, Dec. 31.…
MILFORD - Rising costs have shrunk plans for a new police station to the point that the Board of Selectmen came within one vote of all but canceling the project Monday. After debate about reduced expectations, the board voted 3-2…
WILTON - Deputy Fire Chief David Boissonnault said it was just part of his job. Former ambulance attendant Tom Schultz said it was just one of those things you do. Police Office John Fredette didn’t think it was all that…
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