Paul Mikkola, of Bedford, is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Service Award from Michigan Technological University. The award was presented to Mikkola by Michigan Technological University Alumni board of directors at its annual alumni dinner and awards ceremony on Aug. 4. Paul ...

MANCHESTER – Kiwanis Club of Manchester recently donated $18,000 in grants to six local organizations that share the club’s mission of enriching and improving the lives of Manchester’s children and youth. These organizations include: UpReach Therapeutic Riding Center, MY TURN, Queen City ...

MERRIMACK – Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics provided an update on its efforts to provide public drinking water to Bedford properties impacted by perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Three design estimates to provide public water to 61 properties in Bedford, which were ...

AMHERST – When Steve Hale came up from Louisiana to New Hampshire for graduate school in the early 1990s he had little interest in hiking. What did interest him was birds, and he did his Ph.D. thesis on the Bicknell’s thrush, a small bird that can be found in the high mountains of New ...

Make it two in a row for Vermont. Fair Haven’s Dylan Ellis scored a pair of touchdowns and Vermont stifled New Hampshire for a 19-0 victory in the 64th Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl on Saturday evening at Spartan Stadium in Castleton, Vt. It’s the second straight victory in the series for the ...

In part one of our article, we looked at a few of our fine furry and feathered friends who coexist with us here in town (namely, birds, beavers, porcupines and turkeys). With your “wildlife radar” turned on and tuned in, you’ll see evidence of those critters (and a few more we’ll ...