LITCHFIELD - Fifth-grader Emily Martin never knew there were so many ways to say no to drugs and alcohol. “A very important thing I learned was how to say no,” she said. If you act unsure, peers might ask you…
WILTON - Granite State Concrete’s proposal to expand its operation is back before the Planning Board after several months of postponements while information was collected and evaluated by the town’s engineers, Normandeau Associates of Bedford. At the board’s regular meeting…
NASHUA - Amherst Street School just got a superstar. Janet Valeri, who got the super designation from her graduate studies adviser at Rivier College, will become the next principal at Amherst Street starting July 1. Valeri is currently an assistant…
NASHUA - Even if you can’t pay a visit to Ireland this summer, you can get a taste of traditional Irish food and drink at an upscale pub and restaurant opening downtown in August. Construction on the old Goodale’s Bike…
ALBANY - Members of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association will gather May 22 at Town Hall for their 93rd annual meeting. The day will start at 8:30 a.m. with a pair of tours, of forestry work in the pine…
The Promotion Committee of the Wilton Main Street Association will celebrate Flag Day on June 14 with a display of American flags in downtown Wilton. Flags will be displayed for the day, and will appear along Main Street. Flag Day…
WILTON - The annual gathering to make the popular Whimsical People will be held on Saturday, May 8, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Fire Station on Main Street. The Whimsicals, stick figures dressed in whatever costume the designer…
STATE - CONCORD (AP) - Oil dealers and distributors in New Hampshire have donated 14,200 gallons of home heating oil for the families of soldiers deployed overseas, it was announced last week. The program is called Operation Helping Hand and…
Amherst and Mont Vernon residents who want to meet the three finalist candidates for the School Administrative Unit 39 superintendent of schools position will have the chance to do so today. From 2:30 to 4:45 p.m., the three candidates will…
AMHERST An English teacher who came under public scrutiny after teaching a poem with vulgar language has resigned from Souhegan High School, effective at the end of the school year, said Principal Ted Hall. Christine Schadler’s resignation was accepted by…
WILTON At a recent caucus, Wilton Democrats elected the following officers: Hal Melcher, president; Gail Proctor, vice president; Joan Melcher, secretary; and Brian Sullivan, treasurer. Member Andrew Fairbank will attend the New Hampshire State Convention as a delegate. On Sunday,…
MILFORD A roadside cleanup and educational displays will ring in Earth Day on Sunday on Beaver Brook Association land in town. The cleanup, set for noon-3 p.m., will be along Osgood, Burns Hill and Mason roads. A guided hike will…
MASON - There is enough history in Mason to have a meeting once a month for years without repeating anything. But how do you get people interested enough in it to come and listen? Genie Rafter asked that question on…
The Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School Destination ImagiNation team is holding a fund-raiser at the Recycling Center on Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. They will accept donations of penny collections. Donations may also be made to WLC-DI at the High School at…
WILTON - Once again, the Main Street Association and Pine Hill Waldorf School have joined together to host a “Celebration of Children in The Arts.” An opening reception was held Saturday morning at Town Hall for all artists entering the…
MERRIMACK - High school classes will start 10 minutes earlier and the school district’s last classes - for grades 5 and 6 next year - will be dismissed 25 minutes later under a transportation plan approved Monday night. The School…
Mindstorms Mayhem, a FIRST Lego League robotics team consisting of home-schoolers from Wilton, Milford, Merrimack, Hollis and Bedford, won the Director’s Award at the FLL International Invitational Tournament in Atlanta. The Director’s Award is given to the most well-rounded team…
CONCORD - The state can’t spend gas tax money on railroads, the state Supreme Court ruled this morning. A 1938 amendment to the state Constitution specifically and clearly forbids it, the court ruled. The ruling derails the state’s plan to…
NASHUA - Roman military specialist Douglas Ryan will make presentations Wednesday at the north campus of Nashua High School. Students and members of the public will have the chance to learn about ancient military culture and view items from ancient…
Paul Coon, mechanical engineer Paul Coon has been out of work for two years. Despite networking and applying for jobs since being laid off from Teradyne, the 47-year-old mechanical engineer from Mont Vernon went a good six to nine months…
NASHUA - Nashua Fire Rescue responded to a basement fire at a home on East Dunstable Road on Saturday afternoon. Fire officials said the blaze at 15 E. Dunstable Road, a home owned by Thomas and Colleen Nauss, was possibly…
PORTSMOUTH - (AP) - DNA testing has confirmed that bodies uncovered at a grave site are African-American and confirmed a genetic trait that will make it easier to identify Africans, a researcher said. Last fall, crews digging a new sewer…
MERRIMACK - Come early, stay late and have fun. That’s Debra Huffman’s sales pitch for the second annual Earth Day celebration and cleanup day at the Horse Hill Nature Preserve, the 563-acre property of swamp, field and forest the town…
NASHUA - The Board of Education will hold a public information meeting Tuesday night to discuss possible uses of Stellos Stadium. Board members are seeking both positive and negative feedback about the possibility of opening the field to organizations outside…
NASHUA - Saying it had to stick by a stipulation that limits the use of Stellos Stadium to youth sports, the Planning Board denied a request from the Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps to host a competition at the stadium…
Water will be shut off in the area near Main and Temple streets late Sunday night and early Monday morning during work to upgrade some water mains that date back to the early 1900s. Water will be off from 10…
The Pilgrim Church of Nashua at 4 Watson St. has received the go-ahead from the Planning Board to build a one-story, 5,170-square-foot addition. According to project engineer Jeffrey Lewis, the new space will be used for offices and classrooms for…
NASHUA The police and fire departments are investigating two cases of arson that happened Thursday night. At about 10:55 p.m., a brush fire was reported in an area adjacent to the F.E. Everett Turnpike, between Pine Hill Road and the…
NASHUA - School administrators and parents sighed in relief as they got their first look at how the schools fared in Mayor Bernie Streeter’s budget proposal for the 2005 fiscal year. “Our first reaction was one of relief - that…
WILTON The Historical Society will meet on Thursday at 7 p.m., at the Wilton Public-Gregg Free Library. The speaker will be Society member Lynne Draper who will give a presentation on Samuel Chamberlain, a noted photographer, etcher and lithographer, who…
GREENVILLE - The annual town cleanup day will be held Saturday. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Town Hall at 9 a.m., where they will be assigned an area to work. The event is co-sponsored by the Conservation Committee…
The Nashua Lions Club is looking for nominations for its Teacher of the Year award. Nominations can be made by anyone. The only requirement is that the person being nominated is a teacher in either a public or private school…
When firefighters get together for a cause, there is no stopping them. Shane Sewade, who works at the Lake Street Fire Station in Nashua, said after fellow firefighter Manny Pimental lost his wife to breast cancer last year, a lot…
Housing continues to be a priority issue for senior citizens. The Greater Nashua Area Committee on Aging has planned a forum on senior housing options to be held at the Senior Activity Center, 70 Temple St., on Wednesday, April 28,…
MANCHESTER - Several things immediately strike you about Hubert Simwerayi and his wife, Helene Muyumbu: How much they have been through, how much gratitude they express, and how deeply they wish to be reunited with their seven children. The couple…
NASHUA - Mayor Bernie Streeter trimmed the spending plan for the city’s schools, but his budget proposal for the 2005 fiscal year does not endorse any of the dire options feared by parents. No elementary schools will close. High school…
“Business diversity” is an often abused claim employed by companies attempting to separate themselves from their competition. But it’s the real thing at Appledore Engineering Inc. of Portsmouth, a relatively small firm that can do a lot of things --…
It’s safe to say that there are few newspapers in northern New England quite like Rumbo, the free weekly newspaper for the Spanish-speaking population up and down the Merrimack River Valley, from Lawrence, Mass., through Nashua and as far north…
“Business diversity” is an often abused claim employed by companies attempting to separate themselves from their competition. But it’s the real thing at Appledore Engineering Inc. of Portsmouth, a relatively small firm that can do a lot of things --…
Herve Riel, a Manchester accountant, found out his health insurance premiums were about to rise some 35 percent, to nearly $1,000 a month. No surprises there. Since he is in his 60s, and is in the smallest group possible (one),…
A recent article in The Boston Globe reports that the promise of big savings on phone calls has helped propel “Voice over Internet Protocol” into the consumer consciousness. To consumers, interest in VoIP has boomed during the last year as…
Dial-up is fading and high-speed connections are soaring for Internet usage by New Hampshire businesses, according to a survey released Tuesday by the state that underlined the importance of fast Net access in the corporate world. And that importance is…
Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is a technology often described as the next generation of bar coding, one that proponents say will revolutionize supply chain management. Placed on pallets, boxes or individual items, RFID tags can track and identify goods…
Now that the Segway has fizzled, New Hampshire’s best claim to a cool techno-thing has to be IPv6. I’ll admit that “cool” is relative: I don’t think you’ll see Diane Sawyer getting all giddy about Internet name-space expansion any time…
Herve Riel, a Manchester accountant, found out his health insurance premiums were about to rise some 35 percent, to nearly $1,000 a month. No surprises there. Since he is in his 60s, and is in the smallest group possible (one),…
No matter what the outcome of the expected retrial of former Tyco International executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz, their prosecution has already had an effect in New Hampshire. Or at least it’s supposed to. In October 2002, Tyco -…
It’s safe to say that there are few newspapers in northern New England quite like Rumbo, the free weekly newspaper for the Spanish-speaking population up and down the Merrimack River Valley, from Lawrence, Mass., through Nashua and as far north…
PELHAM - On April 27, the Pelham Police Department’s phones will be down for a short amount of time starting at 7 a.m. The department will not be able to receive any calls on the administrative lines: 635-2411 or 635-6985.…
AMHERST - Five candidates are being interviewed this week for the superintendent of schools position. Mike Ananis, who has overseen the Amherst, Mont Vernon and Souhegan Cooperative school districts since 2000, is leaving his post at the end of this…
HUDSON - The town Democratic Committee will hold its biennial organizational meeting this evening at 7 in the Community Development Room at Town Hall. The committee will elect officers and delegates to the state convention in May, and also talk…
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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