WASHINGTON - One of the two local spellers competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee has advanced to the final day of the event. Elicia Chamberlin of Wilton correctly spelled “rabulistic” and “reggae” in the third and fourth rounds of…
HUDSON SJ Family Medical Center will host an open house from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. June 12. The event includes free blood sugar screenings, kids’ photo identification and fingerprinting, and a teddy-bear clinic. Entertainment will be provided by Cheerio the Clown.…
Barnes & Noble will host a book fair Thursday from 5-9 p.m. to benefit the PLUS Co. The PLUS Co. will receive a percentage of all sales accompanied by a PLUS coupon. Coupons will be available at Barnes & Noble…
Hoops for Recovery, an annual 3-on-3, double-elimination basketball tournament for groups of four and ages 12 and older, will be played Saturday at Daniel Webster College. Tournament proceeds will benefit Keystone Hall’s 28-bed facility, which offers recovery programs in residential…
The city’s Division of Public Health and Community Services is sponsoring a lead-safe renovation awareness breakfast Thursday morning. The breakfast will be held at Alpine Grove in Hollis from 7-8:30 a.m. It is aimed at those who would be working…
MERRIMACK - A 16-year-old driver parked his car on Church Street on Sunday night, but left the transmission in neutral and the parking brake off - setting off a chain of events that ended when the car smacked into a…
NASHUA - There’s only one event that lets you stroll down Main Street on a warm spring evening while sampling food from 23 downtown restaurants and bakeries. The Great American Downtown organization is sponsoring that event - the 10th annual…
HOLLIS - It was a day of celebration, remembrance and somber reflection as residents watched the town’s Memorial Day parade, which ended in a ceremony on the grounds of Monument Square. Town officials in classic cars, Girl Scout and Boy…
WINDHAM - In case a Pelham-Windham high school never happens, the town’s School District is creating several committees to ponder a one-town facility, school officials say. The district is looking to create facilities, athletics, communications and steering committees in the…
HUDSON - A girl who was hurt at her St. Francis Drive home Sunday evening was flown to Children’s Hospital in Boston by a medical helicopter that drew dozens of spectators when it landed in a field behind Nottingham West…
WILTON - The dedication of a memorial for Joan Andersen will be held at the Wilton Public and Gregg Free Library at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 13. Representatives of the GFWC-Wilton/Lyndeborough Women’s Club, the Friends of the Library and the…
LYNDEBOROUGH - Quick action by police and the Lafayette Artillery Company saved the day, and the 1844 brass cannon. After the usual Memorial Day ceremonies on the common, Artillery members have traditionally fired their cannon several times. The cannon was…
MILFORD - The Keyes Art Show and Blooming Sidewalks Celebration will be held on the Community House Lawn downtown from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The weekend event will showcase original works of art, on display and for sale,…
MASON - Mason MOMS, in conjunction with the Town Recreation Committee, will present a family concert featuring Amy Conley from noon-1 p.m. Monday, June 21, at Town Hall. All proceeds will benefit the Town Playground Fund. Conley is known throughout…
Sahiti Surapaneni will readily admit she can’t spell “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Elicia Chamberlin jokes that when her classmates put her on the spot, she flubs the easiest of words. But these 13-year-olds have shown no strain under the unsympathetic spotlight of competition.…
Kids dream of throwing a Super Bowl-winning pass and making presidential decisions in the White House - pressure situations for many adults but not for youths with big imaginations. Conversely, many adults aspire - but often fail - to nail…
A U.S. Army captain and former Hollis resident died Saturday in an explosion in Afghanistan. Daniel W. Eggers, 28, of Cape Coral, Fla., and member of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C., was one…
NASHUA - Omer Cote walked dutifully down Amherst Street toward City Hall, his arms by his side, as people standing on the sidewalks applauded and cheered. The cheers were nice, Cote said. It shows him how many appreciate old veterans…
WASHINGTON - History could never fully instruct me about the greater good of World War II. Even with a personal tie - an uncle killed in the Battle of the Bulge - I could never wholly grasp how collective sacrifice…
WILTON - Memorial Day has become just “another long weekend,” and the original meaning is being lost, according to Marine Corps Reserve Lt. Col. John Yurcak. Yurcak, who was the guest speaker at a Florence Rideout Elementary School program on…
LYNDEBOROUGH - Old country cemeteries are quiet, peaceful spots, places for reverie and remembrance. The slate headstones from the 1770s can still be read, since slate resists the weather and the lichens much better than the fancier granite and marble.…
WASHINGTON - Admiration for the Greatest Generation ran about 140,000 times deep Saturday with the dedication of the National World War II Memorial. Amidst pageantry and fervent declarations of patriotism, people of all ages jammed the many open corridors of…
WASHINGTON - Of the more than 140,000 people estimated to have attended the World War II Memorial dedication Saturday, only 110 required medical attention with 30 of them going to hospitals. Most of those treated went to nine medical tents…
He had read all about the controversy over the National World War II Memorial, following the proposal’s arduous route from the drawing board to the middle of the Mall. But as A.A. Lanciotti prepared to attend the dedication ceremony, he…
In response to the Rob Marino letter of May 5. Heterosexual and same-sex relationships are not equal because the latter cannot procreate. This physical fact mandates inferiority no matter how hyperbolic the rhetoric gets about equal rights. Same-sex relationships cannot…
CONCORD - Sharon Adrien has had diabetes for 26 years, but until recently, she never wore a medical ID bracelet. When Adrien began using an insulin pump four years ago to regulate her insulin throughout the day, she knew she…
Here is a roundup of Memorial Day observances and events planned around Greater Nashua, in alphabetical order by town: Brookline The town ceremony will be at 9 a.m. Monday at Town Hall. Greenville Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday…
When most people order fish, they do so by the pound at their local fish counter. But if you’re a New Hampshire Fish and Game warden and you think your pond is running a little low on trout, you can…
Looking at the New Hampshire Marine Memorial at Hampton Beach, one thing always bothered veteran Alan Morgan. The name of a boyhood friend, Milton Tufts, was nowhere to be found. Tufts worked on Morgan’s father’s farm in Hudson when he…
The grand dame that gave Library Hill its name needs some help. A recent facility master plan of the Hunt Building by the firm HDB/Cram and Ferguson of Boston, a successor to Hunt architect Ralph Adams Cram, points out the…
NASHUA - The goal of remaking the Nashua River into a showpiece and continuing the revival of Railroad Square hit a roadblock last week when aldermen objected to one of the key features of the plan. The decision raises questions…
The memorial was authorized by Congress in 1993. Construction began in September 2001 after several years of fund raising and public hearings. 1993 May 25: President Clinton authorizes the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a World War II Memorial…
MERRIMACK - Public relations and communication were among the themes selectman discussed Thursday night while brainstorming their goals for the upcoming year. Board members will further discuss and prioritize plans for the future at the board’s meeting June 10. One…
WILTON - A middle-school girl who smelled smoke before heading off to school alerted the other two families in her building Thursday morning, saving them from what could have been a dangerous fire. “If she didn’t get the people out…
HUDSON - The Fire Department’s obsolete protective clothing will have a second life at smaller departments across the country. The department recently inventoried its protective clothing and found several items that the department no longer uses, including 11 pairs of…
NASHUA - Fire officials were forced to evacuate a local apartment building Thursday when a resident accidentally rolled his car from a nearby parking lot into the side of the structure, sending a television in an adjacent apartment flying off…
PELHAM - A four-alarm fire caused thousands of dollars in damage to an electronics manufacturing company Friday night. The fire at QAC Incorporated at 60 Pulpit Rock Road was initially reported at about 7 p.m., when an off-duty employee discovered…
NASHUA - New concern about the buildup of toxins in adult, hatchery-raised salmon has led the state to recommend that adult fishermen limit their consumption of brood stock released from the federal hatchery in Nashua, and that people under 15…
PELHAM K&B Development and American Excavating Corp. face up to $137,500 in fines for violations of the Clean Water Act at the Collins Way construction site in town, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement. The EPA said the…
MONT VERNON - Former Village School Principal Bob St. Cyr wants to set the record straight. He has no issues with Superintendent of Schools Michael Ananis, despite public comments his father, Al St. Cyr, made in anger outside a School…
WILTON, N.H. (AP) The fire chief says Abbie Graves is a guardian angel. The eighth-grader saved three of her neighbors when their apartment house caught fire on Thursday. Brandy MacDonald and her two young children were sleeping when flames broke…
WILTON A Thursday morning fire in an apartment house left three families homeless. Both the apartment house and much of the occupants’ belongings received heavy fire and smoke damage, according to the Greater Nashua & Souhegan Valley Chapter of the…
WINDHAM The School Board is sending everybody who gets mail in town a survey to get suggestions for a possible Windham High School. The School Board is planning to use the surveys, which will be mailed the week of June…
HUDSON - The town’s work preserving Benson’s is moving forward and getting recognition statewide. The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance has awarded the Benson’s Committee and the authors of a report on historical buildings in Benson’s a stewardship and planning award.…
NASHUA - The next step in the Mine Falls Park restoration project is to restore and preserve the historical gatehouse located in the park near Stellos Stadium. As birds chirped and water rushed by Thursday morning, U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg,…
Three former top executives of Enterasys Networks Inc. have pleaded not guilty and two more have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from what federal prosecutors describe as a $1.3 billion fraud against investors. The charges resulted from an investigation into…
As he gives a tour of Temco Tool’s impressive facility on Holt Avenue in Manchester, Norm Gagne compares his main task as president of the company to that “of steering a boat.” In this case, the ship is a 28,000-square-foot,…
Mary McGowan, M.D., is the worst thing that ever happened to cholesterol. As medical director of the Cholesterol Management Center at the New England Heart Institute at Catholic Medical Center, she works with the other professionals at the center to…
In 1992, when New Hampshire’s leading banks had been taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and newspapers were filled with foreclosure notices, most people looked at the real estate market and saw disaster. Shane Brady and Arthur Sullivan…
New Hampshire's economic future will depend largely on how well each community in the state preserves its distinctive character, provides affordable housing and safeguards the state's environment, according to Exeter resident Peter Francese, a nationally known demographics expert. Francese was…
It’s October and as the leaves fall, town budget committees, school boards and select-boards are beginning the process that will culminate in Town Meeting as snow starts to melt in March. The famous quote is that “all politics is local,” but in New Hampshire so are budgets.
I keep seeing articles on how hard it is for new college grads to find jobs. Some who do are often let go a few months after starting.
A roundup of news updates from public companies in NH and nationwide
Interest rate hike? What interest rate hike? The move by the Federal Reserve to hike a key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point (0.25%) has provoked a big yawn in the New Hampshire economy.
NH Business Review's biweekly snapshot of business and industry statistics
The Seacoast Landing retail and commercial development project underway in Newington could include a large medical facility that would be between 75,000 and 100,000 square feet, and would be the third major occupant of the 82-acre project along with a Costco and a second major retailer.
On a recent Friday at the Easterseals NH Military & Veterans Campus in Franklin, I found myself about 30 feet in the air. I was holding onto a pole and contemplating what suddenly seemed like a rather narrow log stretching out over a great deal of empty space toward another pole, which also seemed remarkably distant.
In recent years, New Hampshire families have faced persistent and growing challenges with affordability and accessibility as they navigate the early care and education landscape.
Published annually, “The Best Lawyers in America®” is an exhaustive search for the country’s top attorneys. Here is a compilation of the top attorneys who practice in New Hampshire in dozens of legal specialties related to the needs of businesses,…
