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Merrimack News

Merrimack school receives grant to grow gardening program

MERRIMACK — After two years of lobbying for funds, Thorntons Ferry Elementary School recently received a $2,000 grant from Voya Financial to expand its Flex Farm program. The grant process was spearheaded by Principal Julie DeLuca, Assistant Principal Brooke Ross as well as Nurses Jackie ...

Manchester man charged with overdose death of Merrimack woman

MERRIMACK — Edwin Jimenez-Gomez, 22, of Manchester, was taken into custody on Sept. 3 in connection with the death of Merrimack resident Isabella Spain in October of last year. According to the Merrimack Police Department, Jimenez-Gomez sold Spain a lethal dose of fentanyl. On Oct. 31, ...

American Legion Riders: a community of patriots

MERRIMACK - Members and associates of American Legion Riders Chapter 98 of the American Legion Post 98 in Merrimack have long been a powerful two-wheeled presence at Independence Day parades, Memorial Day events, military funerals and related occasions of high regard. The evening of the 24th ...

Wags to Whiskers festival goers adopt a dozen dogs

MERRIMACK - Chocolate. Onions. Avocados. Grapes. These nibbles and many more ingestibles are toxic to dogs, so said the canine poison control experts among 23 vendors of all things canine or feline at the annual Wags to Whiskers Festival, a pet adoption event hosted on Sept. 6 at ...

Tree safety check time is now

MERRIMACK - G. "Hutch" Shaw Jr., a longtime Merrimack arborist, has been performing tree work for 30 years and founded G.H. Shaw Tree Service more than 14 years ago to better help customers with problems related to trees that perhaps are poised for toppling in extreme weather or debilitated ...