On the battleground that also serves as their living room, Lynn Lombardi and Jim Censabella spare no jabs. Even their coffee table delineates their respective allegiances in the bitter hardball feud between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees:…
HUDSON - A staunch advocate of open meetings, John Bednar was also well known for the many controversies that swirled around him. The longtime, outspoken politician died Tuesday. He was 91. Known as the father of the Right-to-Know Law, Bednar…
NASHUA - Eight-year-old Alisha del Llano was still jumping up and down minutes after exiting an inflatable bounce house. Of all the activities Wednesday evening, she said it was her favorite. Her 4-year-old sister didn’t say what was her favorite…
LITTLETON, N.H. (AP) - Jeremy Regnier, a 22-year-old Army specialist from Littleton, was killed in Iraq on Wednesday. Regnier, who hoped to become a helicopter mechanic, died Wednesday morning outside Baghdad when the Bradley armored vehicle he was traveling in…
Merrimack - Silo’s Steakhouse in Merrimack will be holding a fund-raiser for Merrimack resident Diane Wilusz, who was severely injured Sept. 4, in a motorcycle accident. The event will be held Tuesday, and all of the evening’s funds raised will…
NASHUA- The Heritage Series continues at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Hunt Building, 6 Main St., on Library Hill. Dr. Niki Karavasilis, author of “Scattered Leaves,” will talk about the book’s story of a family in Trikorfon, Greece, and…
NASHUA- The local Super Shoes store is accepting donations to the National Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation on Friday and Saturday, in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pink ribbons will be provided to all who contribute. The store is…
WILTON - Several employees at a local direct-mailing company went through decontamination procedures and were taken to a hospital Tuesday afternoon after a suspicious white powder was found in an envelope opened in the company mail room. “There was an…
NASHUA - The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a $484 million, five-year contract for infrared countermeasures to protect Army aircraft against guided missiles, bringing additional jobs to the area, according to company officials. BAE expects the program to continue…
WILTON - Instead of making Prince Street one-way from Maple to Tremont Streets, it would be better to simply prevent left turns onto Prince from Tremont. That would leave Prince Street two-way for the four residents who live there. That…
Nashua schools are some of the safest in New England, according to Fire Chief Roger Hatfield and city emergency preparedness director Ed Lecius. Hatfield and Lecius told the Board of Education on Tuesday night that they have an all-hazards plan…
NASHUA - If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were a woman, he could not have children. He’s eaten too much fish. Kennedy said he recently had his mercury level tested and discovered that his body contains three times the safe amount.…
PEPPERELL, Mass. - Two Nashua teenagers were injured Tuesday night after the car they were traveling in collided head on with a parked vehicle off Route 111. Pepperell police refused to identify the teens, but said both were males, ages…
NASHUA - Weeks after the school year began, principals who watch over the city’s schools continue to work without a contract. The Nashua Association of School Principals suffered a second defeat after its proposed three-year contract was rejected by the…
LONDONDERRY - The Londonderry School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to ban a photo of a pupil posing with a shotgun from the senior photo section from the Londonderry High School yearbook. The five-member board backed a compromise offered by the…
NASHUA - John Feick’s father was an army medical officer who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camps in 1945. Fifty-nine years later he will still only say one thing about the horrors he saw. “No one can tell stories of…
LYNDEBOROUGH -People frequently complain - with tongue firmly in cheek - that beavers forget to obtain the required permits before they start their construction projects. That often leads to flooded roads and blocked culverts, much to the annoyance of highway…
MILFORD - Design modifications to keep the new police station within budget once construction starts next year should mostly be invisible to the outside eye, but one change has been made that people definitely will notice: What was for decades…
WILTON - Florence Rideout Elementary School needs a new playground, and various groups have been raising money since June. On Nov. 5 and 6, volunteers will install the equipment that has been purchased so far. With that in mind, students…
MERRIMACK The town Skate Park on O’Gara Drive will be closed Friday through Sunday before gearing up for its final two weeks of the season, the Parks and Recreation Department announced. The park will again open from Oct. 20-30, the…
NASHUA The two flu-shot clinics scheduled for this month at the Kmart pharmacy in Nashua have been canceled because of shortage of the vaccine. The clinics had been scheduled for Friday from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Oct. 26 from 3:30-7…
WHAT: Golf tournament to benefit the Jonathan P. Gove Memorial Scholarship WHEN: Oct. 22, registration deadline is Oct. 15. Tee time is 9 a.m. WHERE: Green Meadow Golf Club, Hudson ON THE NET: Tournament applications are at Jonathangove.org
HUDSON - Jonathan Gove’s family hopes to raise money for a scholarship in his name, playing on the greens where he spent so much time. Gove’s family and friends have organized two golf tournaments - one in Hudson and one…
HUDSON - If milfoil were a dinosaur instead of a water-borne weed, it might be a velociraptor. Ken Warren, a water pollution biologist with the state Department of Environmental Resources, tells of a small lake in the town of Brookfield…
STATE OFFICES: Open. MUNICIPAL OFFICES: Nashua City Hall closed, some town offices open. FEDERAL OFFICES: Closed. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Most closed, Mascenic Regional open. POST OFFICES: Closed; Express Mail delivery accepted. BANKS: Many closed, although some may be open. STOCK MARKET:…
MERRIMACK - It’s not so much all-terrain vehicles or motorbikes that have bedeviled playing fields in town, said the head of the organization that runs youth sports. It’s the “regular” four-wheel-drive pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles that have torn…
NASHUA - The Nashua Center for the Multiply Handicapped Inc. is holding its third annual “Taste of the Towns” silent auction and wine tasting fund-raiser Nov. 5, from 6-11 p.m. at the Nashua Marriott. The event will feature many area…
MILFORD - Thousands of people converged on the Oval for the 15th annual Great Pumpkin Festival on Saturday afternoon. Side streets were turned into sidewalk fairs with tables full of homemade candles, pillows, sweaters and jewelry for sale. Massive pumpkins…
NASHUA - Author and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel will be the keynote speaker for the New Hampshire Humanities Council’s annual dinner Monday. His speech, titled “On Humanizing History,” will begin at 8 p.m. at the Sheraton Nashua Hotel. The…
AMHERST - Less than two miles away from the Great Pumpkin Festival in Milford, the sweet smell of hay filled the air as people jubilantly celebrated another autumn fruit. At the town’s first Cider Festival, hundreds of folks milled about…
NASHUA- The Adult Learning Center announces sponsorship of the Special Milk Program. Milk will be made available to participating children in the Adventure Club. Milk will be provided regardless of race, color, nationality, sex, age or disability. Adventure Club provides…
MERRIMACK - Thanks to Anheuser-Busch, the town can undertake $5.2 million in improvement projects related to wastewater treatment without borrowing money or raising taxes. The Board of Selectmen on Thursday approved changes to the wastewater capital improvement program, which includes…
Columbus Day is observed Monday. State offices: Open. Municipal offices: Nashua City Hall closed, some town offices open. Federal offices: Closed. Public schools: Most closed, Mascenic Regional open. Post offices: Closed; Express Mail delivery accepted. Banks: Many closed, although some…
NASHUA - Six members and one good friend of Pilgrim Congregational Church gathered in the church parking lot Friday morning to watch a 100-ton crane lift a solid steel bell into the air and hang it from a heavy beam…
NASHUA - The state Medicaid director says a month-old policy requiring Medicaid clients to use prescription drugs from a list of lower-cost brands could save the state between $6 million and $10 million a year - without interfering in the…
NASHUA - The Mine Falls Park Advisory Committee will hold its last trail day of the season Saturday, Oct. 16, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The group will meet at the Mill Pond entrance to the park, in the parking lot…
MANCHESTER - The Hillsborough County Republican Committee is hosting an Oktoberfest starting at noon at the Manchester County Club on October 16. Keith Herman, aide to Gov. Benson, will be the master of ceremonies for a second time. There will…
AMHERST - The Amherst Ski and Skate Swap will be held Friday, Oct. 22, from 7-9 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 23, from 9 a.m. to noon at Wilkins Elementary School. Equipment drop-off times are 4-6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22,…
An enrichment and extended day program will be offered at the Amherst Middle School beginning Tuesday. The program is designed for students interested in learning something new, hanging out with friends, and participating in various enrichment activities. The program will…
CONCORD - A former nightclub owner who gained notoriety as “spam king” in the 1990s has been using “spyware” to hijack computers running Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser, the Federal Trade Commission charges. The FTC filed a complaint Wednesday in…
NASHUA - Ward 8 Alderman David MacLaughlin on Thursday night reassured about 150 residents from throughout the city that a conceptual proposal to build a $100 million horse-racing track and entertainment venue in south Nashua will never get out of…
NASHUA-Nestled in the shadow of Mt. Monadnock in the scenic town of Peterborough, Peterboro Basket Co. has become the most successful basket company in the world and the oldest continuously operating basket company in the country. And at Peterboro Basket…
WILTON - Among the goals the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School Board has set this year are to research all secondary school courses to see if they meet student needs and to add more advanced placement courses. The new courses would include…
Southbound commuters should find the drive to work a little less hectic this morning, with seven miles of an extra lane to work with. A stretch of the new third lane on southbound Route 3 from the New Hampshire line…
MERRIMACK - We don’t care after all, selectmen decided Thursday. The Board of Selectmen voted 4-0 to terminate a contract with WeCare LLC, a New York company hired last year to haul trash from the town’s solid waste transfer station…
NASHUA - Chuck Hemeon is used to hectic situations like the one he encountered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Thursday afternoon. “It’s always chaos,” he said. “We try to organize it.” The situation he helped organize involved about 28…
NASHUA - Surfing the Internet can be dangerous. You have to be careful about where you go, what you do, and whom you do it with, or else you never know what you’ll catch. Anyone who ventures online without a…
Your home page has changed. Spyware often resets your home page without asking your permission. You see hot links within documents, leading you to advertisements. You get numerous “pop-up” ads, especially pornographic ads. Your computer runs slower than it did.…
MANCHESTER- The New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights is presenting a one-day conference, “New Hampshire Welcoming Diversity and Its Benefits,” on Wednesday at the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester. The Commission has put together a program featuring experts in…
PEPPERELL, Mass. - The Nissitissit River Land Trust annual fall hike will be held on Saturday, October 16. The hike is being co-sponsored with the Nashoba Conservation Trust and the plan is to hike the length of the Jeff Smith…
NH Hospital Association President Steve Ahnen discusses health care landscape in the state, federal and state policies affecting patients, AI in health care and more
Anthem and Martin’s Point are exiting the state entirely, Aetna is shrinking its coverage to just one county, and others are adjusting their plans, leaving some of the state’s counties with limited choices
New Hampshire’s attorney general says no improprieties by state officials preceded the sale of a large Nashua commercial building to China’s largest water bottler. But Attorney General John Formella’s report to Gov. Kelly Ayotte dated Oct. 3 says the provisions of federal law should have taken place prior to the sale of the 337,391-square-foot building at 80 Northwest Blvd. in Nashua by a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring.
Efforts to silence speech contradicts Trump executive order citing First Amendment
Despite a shift in policy, New Hampshire officials expect 100% of the households and businesses in the state will have access to broadband internet by 2026.
Careful planning around succession, market changes and investment choices can help you feel more confident about the years ahead.
Rajesh Nair is on a global mission to inspire students to experience the same joy he did as a youth in India when he learned how to build a simple crystal radio.
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
Move to join the DH system follows two years of study
