Tuna’s visit spoiled
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – You had the so-called coaching Battle of the Bills. And new silver jerseys for the home team. Good thing there was drama off the field at Gillette Stadium, because there certainly wasn’t a whole lot on it…
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Cougars fall in IL title game
Campbell High’s run to a junior varsity football championship ended in a flash Saturday. John Stark wasted no time claiming the Independent League JV football title, scoring four, unanswered first-quarter touchdowns, in a 46-22 win over Campbell in Weare. The…
Democrat wins La. governor’s race
NEW ORLEANS – Democratic Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco became the first woman ever elected governor of Louisiana on Saturday, defeating a conservative Indian-American and scoring a rare gain for Democrats in an election season that has seen a string of…
Vickers takes Busch title
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) – Brian Vickers became NASCAR’s youngest champion ever Saturday, claiming the Busch Series title with an 11th-place finish behind first-time winner Kasey Kahne at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 20-year-old Vickers regained a lost lap and finished 11th in…
This time
EAST SWANZEY – When Milford’s Ben Fulham broke out of the pack and strode down to the Monadnock one-inch line on only the second play from scrimmage, the Spartans couldn’t believe it. A quick start? Really? Prior to Saturday’s 27-16…
Milford
EAST SWANZEY – It was a cold and windy day on a mud-ridden field at Monadnock High School on Saturday – perfect for an afternoon of smashmouth Milford football. The No. 4-seeded Spartans took to the Division IV championship field…
Shock _to the system
NASHUA – Kate Jackson is an elite athlete who competes in Ironman triathlons, events in which she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles and runs a marathon – all in one day. But a few weeks ago, the pain in…
Divide grows over city dropout rate
NASHUA – Kim Shaw said credit for lowering the dropout rate belongs to the school district, not the city. Edwina Kwan complained that a section of a report on dropouts didn’t reflect everything that was discussed in her subcommittee. The…
Effort to buy church
NASHUA – A foundation that aims to re-establish the religious and cultural life of St. Francis Xavier Church has started a fund-raising drive to buy the closed building from the Diocese of Manchester. The St. Francis Xavier Church Foundation has…
Date set for power transfer
MOSUL, Iraq – The Iraqi Governing Council endorsed a U.S. plan Saturday that would create a provisional government by June. Also Saturday, two Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed in Mosul, killing 17 American soldiers in the U.S. military’s worst…
Building community New territory Not about navel-gazing
Ed Rietman used to drive his wife crazy with his chronic road rage. It flared every morning when the Nashua physicist battled Route 3 traffic – sometimes for two hours – to get to his job in nearby Chelmsford. Nowadays,…
Vandross, 50 Cent among American Music Awards winners
LOS ANGELES – Soul singer Luther Vandross, who is recovering from a debilitating stroke that threatened to end not only his career but his life, won a leading two American Music Awards on Sunday. The 52-year-old singer can speak and…
Balancing act
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN octors told Millie and Mark Duvault that their son Austin probably would die before he turned 3 due to a rare, infantile epileptic condition known as Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy Syndrome. Austin, now 10, is clinically blind, mute,…
French U.N. official shot in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – One of two Afghan men on a motorcycle opened fire Sunday on a marked United Nations’ car, killing a French aid worker, the first international U.N. staff member slain in postwar Afghanistan. Police identified the captured assailants…
Study: Skin cancer often tied to other serious cancers
CHICAGO – Women with common, usually nonfatal forms of skin cancer face double the risk of having unrelated cancers, according to a large study, suggesting that the initial diagnosis may be more worrisome than previously thought. The skin cancer link…
Faulty sense of smell found in early schizophrenia cases
A new study has found that a faulty sense of smell may predict precisely the risk of schizophrenia, months or years before obvious symptoms appear. Until now, doctors have had no reliable way to make an early diagnosis of the…
Clark’s stepbrother surprised about family tie
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Kennard Clark learned to his surprise that he has a stepbrother, and the guy’s running for president. The 71-year-old surgeon in Arlington, Texas, said his father disappeared shortly after Kennard graduated from high school in…
Bush wins over voters with_his personality
CLAYTON, Mo. – The nine Democrats vying for the presidential nomination make the case at every campaign stop that the United States needs fresh leadership. Millions of voters aren’t about to consider that. With a year to go until the…
Dean tries to choose words carefully
AMES, Iowa – Howard Dean’s off-the-cuff straight talk helped propel him to the front of the Democratic presidential field. It’s a style he would not think of abandoning, but one that’s forcing him to be more careful with his words.…
Following up a job interview with an e-mail is fine
DEAR KATE & DALE: What is your feeling on an e-mail follow-up note versus hard copy? I just had an interview with a “fast” sort of person, and he mentioned that he is interviewing all the candidates today, will further…
A commoner on the throne? Spain agog over royal fiancee
MADRID, Spain – A year ago, Letizia Ortiz stood on a beach, ankle-deep in black muck, reporting to the nation on an oil spill. Next summer, the TV anchorwoman will trade her microphone for the hand of Crown Prince Felipe,…
A suspenseful John F. Kennedy documentary now out on DVD
When Life reporter Robert Drew approached John F. Kennedy in 1960 about making a short documentary on his Wisconsin presidential primary run, he promised a new solution to an old problem: How does a reporter act as a fly on…
‘Elf’ takes weekend box office
LOS ANGELES – Will Ferrell’s “Elf” scuttled Russell Crowe’s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” to finish as the weekend’s No. 1 movie. “Elf,” about a man-child raised by Santa’s helpers at the North Pole, took in…
City boy back from talk show debut
It seems that no filmmaker or actor can thrive nowadays without making the round of television talk shows. Nick DiRamio, for one, certainly understands that he can only promote his movie to his seventh-grade classmates so much. So the 12-year-old…
Building community New territory Not about navel-gazing
Ed Rietman used to drive his wife crazy with his chronic road rage. It flared every morning when the Nashua physicist battled Route 3 traffic – sometimes for two hours – to get to his job in nearby Chelmsford.Nowadays, Rietman…
Vickers takes Busch title
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) – Brian Vickers became NASCAR’s youngest champion ever Saturday, claiming the Busch Series title with an 11th-place finish behind first-time winner Kasey Kahne at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 20-year-old Vickers regained a lost lap and finished 11th in…
This time
EAST SWANZEY – When Milford’s Ben Fulham broke out of the pack and strode down to the Monadnock one-inch line on only the second play from scrimmage, the Spartans couldn’t believe it. A quick start? Really? Prior to Saturday’s 27-16…
Shock _to the system
NASHUA – Kate Jackson is an elite athlete who competes in Ironman triathlons, events in which she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles and runs a marathon – all in one day. But a few weeks ago, the pain in…
Divide grows over city dropout rate
NASHUA – Kim Shaw said credit for lowering the dropout rate belongs to the school district, not the city. Edwina Kwan complained that a section of a report on dropouts didn’t reflect everything that was discussed in her subcommittee. The…
Effort to buy church
NASHUA – A foundation that aims to re-establish the religious and cultural life of St. Francis Xavier Church has started a fund-raising drive to buy the closed building from the Diocese of Manchester. The St. Francis Xavier Church Foundation has…
Balancing act
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN octors told Millie and Mark Duvault that their son Austin probably would die before he turned 3 due to a rare, infantile epileptic condition known as Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy Syndrome. Austin, now 10, is clinically blind, mute,…
Date set for power transfer
MOSUL, Iraq – The Iraqi Governing Council endorsed a U.S. plan Saturday that would create a provisional government by June. Also Saturday, two Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed in Mosul, killing 17 American soldiers in the U.S. military’s worst…
Making music with Kenneth Kiesler
Kenneth Kiesler is not yet a household name in New Hampshire, but he should be. Entering his second season as conductor and musical director of the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, he brings with him an impressive amount of experience, splitting…
Bar readies new approach to ethics cases
A lawyer hired to help a man start a business became president of the company -- and fired the client who hired him. An attorney handling the legal affairs of an elderly woman wound up with the deed to her…
Government takes the risk on Bedford firm’s Colombian mine
William Dell’Orfano, who heads the firm that has proposed opening a controversial construction waste-burning generator in Hopkinton, also serves as president of Sector Resources Ltd., a Bedford-based firm incorporated in the Cayman Islands, that recently collected more than $3 million…
N.H. road-sign law raises U.S. highway agency’s ire
The state of New Hampshire might be on a collision course with the Federal Highway Administration -- one that might cost it $120 million to $150 million in annual federal highway construction aid. The why of it might be due…
In Keene, the Rynborn gets its mojo working
Given the fickle nature of the industry, it takes a certain amount of business bravado to shut down and move a successful and popular restaurant and musical venue from one community to another. But that’s what Doug Aborn did earlier…
Making music with Kenneth Kiesler
Kenneth Kiesler is not yet a household name in New Hampshire, but he should be. Entering his second season as conductor and musical director of the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, he brings with him an impressive amount of experience, splitting…
Retirement and John Stabile just don’t mix
Even when he’s spending part of the winter in Naples, Fla., John Stabile isn’t on vacation. Stabile, whose first job was clearing lots at his dad’s construction sites when he was 10, has tried retiring once before. It didn’t work.…
VoIP growth gives regulators a new target
Regulators across the country are struggling to figure out what the emerging technology known as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) might mean for consumers and the regulated phone industry. The Washington Post reports that cable companies are coming after telephone…
Retirement and John Stabile just don’t mix
Even when he’s spending part of the winter in Naples, Fla., John Stabile isn’t on vacation. Stabile, whose first job was clearing lots at his dad’s construction sites when he was 10, has tried retiring once before. It didn’t work.…
VoIP growth gives regulators a new target
Regulators across the country are struggling to figure out what the emerging technology known as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) might mean for consumers and the regulated phone industry. The Washington Post reports that cable companies are coming after telephone…
Library work up in the air
LYNDEBOROUGH – You can’t build a library by holding pancake breakfasts. But that hasn’t stopped some people from trying. Bob Rogers, a trustee of the J.A. Tarbell Library, has made that statement several times over the past couple of years,…
First N.H. Guard company to be deployed
CONCORD – About 140 guardsmen and guardswomen will be deployed to Iraq next month, the first company from New Hampshire to be sent there since Operation Iraqi Freedom began last year. The 744th Transportation Company, headquartered in Hillsborough, will leave…
Business is sweet for new chocolatiers
Have you ever walked into a business and said to yourself, “These guys have got it” -- with “it” being the undefinable sense of success? Swan Chocolates in Merrimack is one of those businesses. Great location, great retail display, outrageously…
New Hampshire's Robinson becomes pioneer gay bishop
The ceremony brought 3,000 supporters to their feet for two minutes of whistling applause at the University of New Hampshire's ice hockey rink turned church-for-a-day. Minutes after Robinson was consecrated, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams — spiritual leader of the…
Voters choose experienced commissioners for fire board
NASHUA – The newly elected members of the Board of Fire Commissioners haven’t just fallen off the ladder truck. For the two-year seat, incumbent Maurice Trottier will return to the board for his 24th and 25th year. He beat his…
Clemons, Dowd, Shaw _re-elected to school board
NASHUA – Michael Clemons has told people who come to Board of Education meetings that if they don’t like his politics, they should vote him out of office. On Tuesday, city voters re-elected Clemons to another four-year term on the…
Clark campaigns in city
You can ask for support during your first encounter with a voter, but don't expect to get it. Vasilios Pervanas, a 73-year-old shoe salesman and buyer, acted as Clark's professor after the new candidate spent nearly 10 minutes talking about…
Every staff member under his direction; his tireless energy and deep caring for the work he loved.
"Nothing difficult is overwhelming when it's what you love to do," the priest reflected. But the administrator was not motivated by recognition, Giuliano continued. Instead, he was driven by a strong work ethic that translated into long days and weekends…
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Ask the Experts: Planning is paramount for wills, trusts and estates
Planning for the future, particularly as a business owner, requires more than a simple will. Our panelist of professionals explore the fundamentals of estate planning, from choosing between wills and trusts to preparing for incapacity and business succession. Their insights highlight how thoughtful planning can protect assets, reduce legal complications, maximize financial benefits and ensure your wishes are carried out for both family and business interests.
NH WARN: what employers need to know about layoff notices
Workforce reductions are never easy. Whether driven by economic uncertainty, industry shifts or strategic restructuring, layoffs can be some of the most difficult decisions business leaders face. At the same time, workforce reductions carry legal obligations that are easy to overlook, particularly under state law. In New Hampshire, one of the most misunderstood of those obligations is the state’s WARN Act.
New administrator of YDC fund confirmed
Nearly nine months after a controversial change to the Youth Development Center abuse claims process pushed the administrator from his job and stalled the proceedings for survivors, the fund now has a new leader.
(Opinion) Opportunity Zones 2.0: Other states are getting ready, is New Hampshire?
With the permanent passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this past summer, Opportunity Zones (OZ) are being reset, and with it, an opportunity for New Hampshire to shape what comes next. The question is whether we’re ready and whether municipalities, developers and state leaders are aligned to act.
(Opinion) Businesses are part of the village that stops child abuse and neglect
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. New Hampshire Children’s Trust (NHCT), in collaboration with our national partner, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA), uses this month as an opportunity to spread awareness about ways to stop child abuse and neglect before it happens.
