MILFORD – Voters on Tuesday gave selectmen the authority to negotiate a multi-year lease with a company that wants to build a solar farm on 120 acres of the Brox property. The election also saw Michael Hannon and write-in candidate Holleigh Tlapa defeat longtime school board incumbents ...
MILFORD – During a three-hour public hearing Monday night, members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives’ finance committee listened for three hours as people asked for more funding for schools, housing, hiking trails, legal aid, and especially for mental health and developmental ...
LYNDEBOROUGH – The business part of town meeting will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Citizens’ Hall. Voters are asked to consider 14 articles beginning with the proposed budget of $2,140,986, an increase of about $70,000. Both the Budget Committee and Board of Selectmen approve the budget. ...
A New Ipswich man suffered non-life threatening injuries March 5 when the Subaru he was driving east on Route 101, just past Market Basket, drove off the highway and flipped onto the driver’s side into a guardrail. Milford firefighters removed the roof and an ambulance transported Charles ...
WILTON – Sometimes an error made in the past comes back to trouble current town officials, and correcting that error can be difficult, if not impossible. You have to just move on. Some years ago, Adam Royz sold a piece of property that apparently belongs to the town of Wilton. On Monday, he ...
WILTON – After a sometimes heated discussion on Monday, March 11, the Select Board voted to adopt the state Emergency Operations Plan. The proposed plan was presented by Town Administrator Paul Branscombe and Emergency Management Director David Boissonnault. Last week, Selectman Kermit ...
The Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley is proud to honor a number of local individuals and organizations who have had a tremendous impact on youth and the community in general with the following awards: Business of the Year: Jay Steel LLC – For their generous support and commitment to ...
MILFORD – The Milford Area Players, winner of the 2013, 2011 and 2009 New Hampshire Theatre Award for Best Production in Drama/Comedy for Community Theatre, is proud to present Jake’s Women by Neil Simon at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Route 13N, for one ...
MANCHESTER – The Washington Post called Pete Buttigieg, the two-term Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of.” Friday, he told a crowd in Manchester why he should be elected president in 2020. Buttigieg is 37 and a U.S. Navy veteran. ...
MILFORD – Four years ago Amanda Cheney’s husband, Wayne, found her unresponsive in the morning and had to call an ambulance. That happened twice, and it frightened them both. Amanda has type 1 diabetes, sometimes called juvenile diabetes. It’s a life-threatening autoimmune disease in ...
MILFORD - The star of the Milford Police Department’s open house last week was an alert, energetic black dog. Barry is the department’s K-9, and he was there with his handler, officer Michael Barritt, for much of the two-hour session that attracted about two dozen residents who got an ...
LYNDEBOROUGH – When Debbie Bass married in June of 1986, her mother had her dress cleaned and sealed in an acid-free storage box. “I carried that box to Florida and then Nevada, and then back to New Hampshire” Bass said recently. “I always thought the box seemed too small for my ...
The following bills were voted on in the House of Representations on Wednesday and Thursday, February 27th and 28th. There was a total of 51 bills presented for both sessions. I will attempt to show only those house bill that have a major impact to the citizens of my district. As an Amherst ...
WILTON – After more than an hour of discussion, almost 100 voters at the annual Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District annual meeting on Saturday morning increased the budget proposed by the Budget Committee by $81,000. Former School Board Member Fran Bujak, who offered the ...
WILTON – At their regular meeting on March 5, the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School Board authorized Middle/High School Principal Brian Bagley to continue investigating the installation of “vape” detectors in the school. Speaking at the district meeting on March 9, Board Chairman ...
LONDONDERRY – When she was a teenager during World War I, Bernice Blake loved to watch planes head for Europe, and she knew she wanted to be up there flying some day. Not many years later she took flying lessons at the new Manchester Airport and became the first New Hampshire woman to ...
MILFORD – Of the four people vying for two seats on the Milford School Board, only one is criticizing the way the new superintendent of schools was hired. Dr. Jessica Huizenga was hired last year after serving as Milford’s interim superintendent for a few months. Holleigh Ciardelli Tlapa, ...
MONT VERNON – Mont Vernon is one of only three Souhegan Valley towns that still operate under the traditional town meeting form of government, and town meeting 2019 will be held on Wednesday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in the Village School. One article that could spark discussion is asks for ...
BOSTON – The Telegraph continued its long tradition of excellence and service to the community recently, bringing home 19 New England Newspaper & Press Association Contest awards. The regional association - which represents more than 450 daily and weekly newspapers in Connecticut, ...
Dog walkers are common in the Amherst Village, but the sight of Steve Cooper, his dog and two goats, strolling the Green made people do double-takes last week. Cooper, who lives in Amherst, said he uses the goats as pack animals for back-packing. ‘When I turned 60 I decided I can’t carry ...