CONCORD - The House of Representatives killed a study into whether the state should phase out water testing services that business leaders claim now compete unfairly with private labs. Nashua Republican Sen. Jane O’Hearn had offered a plan to pending…
HUDSON - Residents will be able to weigh in on a proposal to connect Webster and Ferry streets next month. The Board of Selectmen approved holding a public hearing on the proposal at its June 22 meeting. Road Agent Kevin…
NASHUA - Fire officials promoted three members of the city’s fire department Wednesday to positions opened following the retirement of former Fire Chief Mike Buxton. Lake Street Community Fire Station Capt. Dan Cronin was promoted to the position of deputy…
CONNECTING STREETS HUDSON - In order to improve traffic flow along the heavily traveled Derry Street, the road agent has recommending linking Webster and Ferry streets. “As you are aware traffic congestion on Derry Street has reach an unacceptable level,”…
REGION - Residents of Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, Merrimack, Milford, Mont Vernon, Nashua, Pelham or Windham, may discard household hazardous waste June 3 at the Public Works Garage on Riverside Street in Nashua. The collection will run from 3…
NASHUA - State Attorney General Peter Heed will address the local chapter of the Catholic lay group Voice of the Faithful Thursday night. Heed will outline the state’s agreement with the Diocese of Manchester, and will participate in a question-and-answer…
BEDFORD - Lightning from an early morning thunderstorm on Sunday struck a Bowman Parade Road home and sparked a fire that left it heavily damaged and uninhabitable, Fire Chief Scott Wiggin said in a prepared statement. The homeowner, who wasn’t…
Richard Orareo, member of Voice of the Faithful, a Catholic lay organization, holds a sign during a vigil Sunday outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. Archbishop Sean O’Malley, not shown, is scheduled to announce dozens of church…
WASHINGTON _ Washington is used to handling large crowds, from hundreds of thousands of antiwar demonstrators to marchers on both sides of the abortion debate to July 4th frolickers who fill the Mall yearly. But next Saturday's dedication of the…
The Bektash Shriners will put on a parade today from 2-2:30 p.m., running from Amherst Computer on Continental Boulevard to the Radisson Hotel on Executive Park Drive.
Milford Christian Academy’s drama team will perform “Anne of Green Gables” this evening at 7 at Town Hall. Refreshments will be served; tickets are $7 for adults, $3 for children younger than 12.
MERRIMACK - It took an hour Thursday night for the Board of Selectmen to decide not to buy a fire truck. Fire Chief Bill Pepler and acting Town Manager William Mulligan had recommended that selectmen approve the purchase of a…
WILTON - The Wilton Public-Gregg Free Library will offer free classes in Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint. The instructor will provide state-of-the-art laptops, and they will be set up in the reading room next to the rotunda. Classes begin May 27 and will…
BAE Systems of Nashua would receive $7 million for an advanced naval under-sea detection system, and $6 million to research affordable digital receiving and jamming technology for the Air Force. Insight Technologies of Londonderry would receive $13 million for an…
MILFORD - The first big public event at the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley’s new home will be held today, in the form of a free field day celebration. The event will feature races, raffles, a bicycle clinic,…
AMHERST - Amherst Middle School Principal Bill Hagen will be leaving that job at the end of the school year to become principal at his alma mater, Salem High School. Hagen, 47, has been principal at Amherst Middle School for…
Nashua Fire Rescue is hosting a fun day to conclude its Risk Watch program for fourth-grade students. The event will be held on the ball fields at Greeley Park on Saturday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The rain date is June…
REGION - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a defense bill Thursday with $29 million in federal funding for local defense contractors. The bill, approved by the House 391-34, contains provisions that would allow thousands of military survivors to receive…
MILFORD - A plan to turn the former American Stage Festival into a multimillion-dollar facility for the Souhegan Valley Boys & Girls Club got its expected approval Tuesday, but not before some neighbors expressed concern about traffic heading out a…
WILTON - The Wilton Scenic Railroad will offer a Father’s Day Special on June 20. All fathers ride for $6 when accompanied by one of their children, whether child, youth or adult. The train will depart from the depot at…
NASHUA - Lindsay Fernandez loved everything about her new school. As she walked toward the entrance to Pennichuck Junior High School alongside befuddled classmates, Fernandez was bursting with excitement. She started to clap and cheer. “I thought this was going…
MERRIMACK - Anybody have a spare 90 Gs kicking around? The Board of Selectmen has asked acting Town Manager Bill Mulligan, working with department heads, to come up with $90,000 in savings from capital expenditures in order for the town…
Charlene Brady is getting rid of her 1997 teal Mitsubishi Eclipse sports coupe. Not because she doesn’t like it. Not because it doesn’t run well. “It costs too much to fill it up,” the 18-year-old Dracut, Mass., woman said Wednesday…
AMHERST - Nick D’Augustine, a local storeowner, sees it as a patriotic right. Charlie Tiedemann, the town of Amherst’s planning director, sees it as a violation of the town’s sign ordinance. At dispute is a display outside the Oak Furniture…
DERRY - The state Board of Medicine has reprimanded a Derry physician following a complaint from a patient about unprofessional conduct. The female patient, who was diagnosed as being HIV-positive in September 2002, complained to the board after Dr. Mary…
The state Board of Medicine has suspended a Nashua doctor’s license to practice medicine for the second time in the past year. The board first suspended the license of Dr. Jason Henderson for the six-month period from Nov. 1, 2003,…
MILFORD - A follow-up meeting of the Milford Teen Resource Round Table will be held Wednesday, with more teens showing up to begin the process of developing a resource handbook and organize a hoped-for “Battle of the Bands” at the…
MILFORD - The annual Police Department Fishing Derby will return to Railroad Pond next weekend, and without any of the legal or aquatic fuss that accompanied last year’s edition. The Derby, held in honor of former Milford High School football…
NASHUA - Michael Buxton said “so long” to one of his families Friday when he officially retired from Nashua Fire Rescue. His two families are closely entwined. Buxton’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather each served more than 30 years as firefighters…
MERRIMACK - The new Federal Aviation Administration radar facility located here is to New England airports what Tom Brady is to the New England Patriots. It completes touchdowns. In the FAA case, those touchdowns are actually touch downs, successful landings…
REGION U.S. Department of Justice officials have awarded 13 southern and central New Hampshire communities, including Nashua, more than $50,000 in grant money to go toward the purchase of bulletproof vests, according to a statement from U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg.…
AMHERST - A moose took on a couple of vehicles early Thursday morning on Route 101. The moose lost, but not before it destroyed one car and sent its driver to the hospital with injuries. Shortly after midnight, a westbound…
NASHUA - Bill Shea stepped away from a group of guys, swung a leg over the wall on the top floor of the Elm Street parking garage, took one look down, and disappeared from view. But nobody, either down on…
Cabletron Systems co-founder Gov. Craig Benson sits in the State House partly due to the millions he earned from his company and partly due to his reputation as a can-do job creator. At its peak in 1997, the Rochester high-tech…
From time to time aircraft builders find a home in New Hampshire although they eventually either move on or fade into obscurity. But a new aircraft builder emerging in a basement in Bedford has a good chance of staying afloat…
The issue of rural broadband access is no longer a theoretical matter, with much of the political and social discussion focusing on the “digital divide” between hot-wired urban and suburban regions and the mostly dial-up world in the rest of…
New Hampshire Industries Inc. has become the first consumer to purchase wholesale electricity directly from the New England Power Pool market. Granite State Electric Co. began delivering electricity to NHI’s Lebanon manufacturing facility on April 20. Freedom Energy, a marketer…
A proposed new way of bringing health insurance to employees has polarized businesses, organizations and government agencies across the nation and throughout New Hampshire. Called association health plans, or AHPs, they’re designed to be offered by trade or professional organizations…
It’s pretty safe to say that Andru Volinsky - the lead lawyer for the plaintiff school districts in the Claremont education lawsuits — is one of the state’s best-known lawyers. It’s also safe to say that most people don’t know…
Now that Soft Draw Investments has reached an agreement to take over the bankrupt Golf Club of New England, there remains one major outstanding issue aside from the financial future of the venture: What kind of loan did the company…
Cats in the Cradle doesn’t pussyfoot around when it comes to putting its “simpler times of yore” message on its line of handmade soaps, lotions and lip balms. Uniquely marketed with images from the era of silent films, owner Chris…
It’s pretty safe to say that Andru Volinsky - the lead lawyer for the plaintiff school districts in the Claremont education lawsuits — is one of the state’s best-known lawyers. It’s also safe to say that most people don’t know…
LOWELL, Mass. Boott Hydropower Inc. said it lowered the level of the Merrimack River about five feet Tuesday in order to work on the Pawtucket Dam. The work is expected to continue for three to five days, after which the…
Dermatologist Khalil Khatri will hold free skin cancer screenings May 22 at The Skin & Laser Surgery Center of New England, 74 Allds St. The screenings were scheduled to coincide with Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month, sponsored by the…
NASHUA The Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a variance Tuesday for a property owner to maintain 10 apartments on an undersized lot at 7 Mason St. Gerald Prunier, a lawyer for property owner Terry Darkin, said the purpose of the…
NASHUA - The Zoning Board of Adjustment was impressed with plans to build a 37-unit, single-family cluster housing development on East Dunstable Road, across from the Sky Meadow commercial and residential complex. The board voted 5-0 Tuesday to endorse a…
MANCHESTER - When Ken Hauser donated blood for the first time in 15 years, he never suspected he would need it all back, and then some, six months later. About two years ago, Hauser, a Bedford resident, collapsed on a…
MERRIMACK - Selectman Carolyn Whitlock doesn’t want her colleagues to find themselves in an embarrassing predicament. In early June, the Board of Selectmen will sit down with candidates for town manager as part of an intensive “hell weekend” put together…
HOLLIS - The Hollis/Brookline Cooperative School Board voted 6-1 Wednesday night to apply for a $125,000 federal grant to fund a school resource officer for the district’s two schools. The grant would pay $125,000 over three years for the officer’s…
Nashua was named one of the healthiest communities in America by Men’s Journal magazine. The June issue of the monthly magazine, on newsstands Tuesday, names the 50 best places to live in America, rating communities in eight different categories. Nashua…
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.
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