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…
NASHUA-The Nashua Pastoral Care Center, 7 Concord St., is looking for penny picker volunteers for several dates: Saturday, Oct. 30, Nov. 6 and Nov. 13, from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and Sunday, Oct. 31, Nov. 7 and Nov. 14, from noon-3 p.m.…
LYNDEBOROUGH - The Police Department is badly in need of more space, but the Fire Department has found it can make do for another five years with a little adjusting. That’s what Police Chief Jim Basinas and Fire Chief Rick…
MERRIMACK - Diane Wilusz will come home Oct. 19, if only for an afternoon. Wilusz was left a paraplegic after a Sept. 4 motorcycle accident near her family’s campground in Campton. Since Sept. 17, she has been at the HealthSouth…
NASHUA - Games won’t come cheaply for out-of-towners wanting to play in city parks if Ward 4 Alderman Marc Plamondon has his way. The alderman wants to charge users of the city’s athletic fields or other park facilities $500 a…
NASHUA - A $211,000 study that has just started will help the Nashua Airport Authority determine exactly what type of improvements are needed at Boire Field to bring the local airport into compliance with federal safety standards, consultants and officials…
What a difference a day makes. On Monday, Lucy Saia, director of home care for Home Health and Hospice Care, didn’t give a second thought to flu vaccine. But on Tuesday, an announcement from the federal government about a national…
Voters of all persuasions who are looking to get informed about the upcoming elections will have their pick of events in Hollis and Brookline during the coming weeks. Townspeople will have a chance to pose questions to local candidates, and…
NASHUA- The BAE Systems Explorer Post 200 will hold an open house for students between the ages of 14 and 20 to learn about careers in technical fields such as engineering and computer repair. The open house will be Tuesday…
BROOKLINE - The Brookline and Hollis Parent Council will host Professor Elaine Holden, AOGPE in a series of presentations on reading. Dr. Holden teaches in the graduate education program at Rivier College and is a nationally recognized expert on reading.…
NASHUA- Area Agency of Greater Nashua is holding a voter information night, as well as a voter registration night, on Wednesday, Oct. 13, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., at 144 Canal St. Town clerks from Nashua, Hudson and Merrimack will be on…
LITCHFIELD - Mud wasp nests were determined to be the source of a fire that destroyed a heating unit at a local school late Wednesday afternoon. Fire crews responded to St. Francis of Assisi School and Church at 9 St.…
NASHUA- Children’s author Graeme Base will visit Barnes & Noble tonight at 7 p.m. for a reading and signing of his latest book, “Jungle Drums.” Base gained international recognition for his picture book “Animalia,” in which each page showed a…
NASHUA - In the food pantry world, September sits on a cusp between have and have-not months. It’s a tenuous place for providers and equally worrisome for those in need. And it’s where Lucille L’Heureux, social worker at the Salvation…
A new report says an influx of new Granite Staters is coming primarily from neighboring Massachusetts, and most of them are younger, part of Gen Z, the cohort of people born roughly between 1997 and 2012. But another report says the newbies, like already established residents here, face affordability challenges when it comes to housing and child care.
UNH marketing program helps small businesses and students work together
The United Way of Greater Nashua aims to raise $175,000 this year through its biggest annual fundraiser June 22-23 at Brady Sullivan Plaza.
The recently formed New Hampshire Forum has been whittling down — from 18 to four to one or two — important issues that will be addressed in the 2027 session of the state Legislature.
$1 million-plus sales are becoming more regular, according to New Hampshire Association of Realtors data
Analogic Corp. relocated from Peabody, Mass., to Salem, NH, in January. The privately held company designs and manufactures advanced imaging, detection and power technology for aviation security, health care and industrial markets. Its airport baggage screening systems are deployed in more than 26 countries.
Business and event happenings around the state of NH
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
Upcoming legislation may provide (somewhat) smoother permitting process for developers
