AMHERST – Outside of a couple of questions seeking to clarify the language in a warrant article asking voters whether to dissolve the Cemetery Lots Fund in favor of an expandable trust fund, about two dozen residents voted without comment at Thursday’s deliberative session to send all 12 ...
WILTON – Francis Gros Louis is being remembered by friends as a hard-working selectman who left for a career in in the federal government but never lost his ties to Wilton. Gros Louis was 87 when he died on Jan. 31 in Leesburg, Virginia. He served with the U.S. Department of Housing and ...
WILTON – The Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District operating budget is down 1.65 percent from last year, the School Board has reached an agreement with the district staff, and the replacement of the roof on the middle-high school is in year three of a five year plan. The only area ...
LYNDEBOROUGH – The proposed operating budget for the town is a 2.9 percent increase over last year. The special warrant articles bring the total up to $2,042,032, an increase of 5.7 percent. The Budget Committee held a hearing on the proposed budget on Tuesday, Feb. 6, but only a half dozen ...
Dental health LYNDEBOROUGH – February is National Dental Health Month and it was observed at the Early Learning Center with a visit to the kindergartners by dental hygienist Kris Redman. Her presentation is through a school-based program in the Milford School District. Redman demonstrated ...
MILFORD – “Totally useless skills” is how circus people jokingly refer to their work. Useless as in not practical – the skills won’t help you unclog your toilet or get your computer running. But they are fun to learn and can help develop happy, self-confident kids, says Jackie ...
AMHERST – Singing and dancing his way through a century and a half of American music, Kevin Comtois recently offered a hugely entertaining Black History Month program at the Amherst Town Library. Slave spirituals. Late 19th century minstrels. Dixieland. Jazz. Blues. Rock ‘n’roll. Hip ...
LYNDEBOROUGH – The Town Meeting this year should be completed by noon. Of the 14 articles on the warrant, the first three are ballot questions and six are concerned with capital reserve funds of various kinds. That leaves the operating budget, paving two parking lots and forming a committee ...
MILFORD – Cancer is not usually an issue that comes up at town meetings, but at the Milford Deliberative Session Saturday, fire officials told voters that cancer prevention is a major reason Milford needs an expanded and renovated fire station. A $3.68 million project is now on the ballot ...
AMHERST – Planning a trip in March? Be warned. March 2018 could be very stormy, said Rob Carolan – who should know. Carolan is president and chief meteorologist of Hometown Forecast Services in Nashua. He and his crew provide forecasting and severe weather warnings to clients that ...
AMHERST – Planning a trip in March? Be warned. March 2018 could be very stormy, said Rob Carolan – who should know. Carolan is president and chief meteorologist of Hometown Forecast Services in Nashua. He and his crew provide forecasting and severe weather warnings to clients that include ...
AMHERST – The school board is not asking for extra money for security cameras in its proposed operating budget for Souhegan High School, but security turned out to be a major focus of the school district’s Feb. 5 Deliberative Session. After board member David Chen complained that the ...
By ADAM URQUHART Staff Writer HOLLIS – One hundred and one Boy Scouts and their Scoutmasters braved the bitter cold on Friday, Feb. 2, sleeping outside in single-digit temperatures, before waking up Saturday morning to compete in the annual Klondike Derby at Lone Pine Hunters Club. ...
Some learning about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) came with boxes and bags and big plastic bins full of colorful Lego blocks that around 75 students in grades 1-4 from Merrimack’s three elementary schools used to create some finely crafted Lego projects. The event was ...
WILTON – A member of the Budget Committee, all of whom are volunteers, inquired of the selectmen on Jan. 5 why the town administrator appears to be taking over some of their responsibilities, “overlapping some of our job,” Committee Member Donna Pucciarello said. The town of Wilton ...
AMHERST – Longtime middle school Principal Porter Dodge is retiring, but he’s not going far. Superintendent-elect Adam Steel announced last week that Dodge will take over the newly-created part-time position of director of operations for the school district. The new middle school ...
AMHERST – The New Hampshire Association of School Principals described Rob Scully, principal of Souhegan High School, as “laser focused on the student learning experience.” For this reason, among others, Scully was named this year’s high school Principal of the Year. However, ...
MILFORD – Fire Chief Jack Kelly later called it a “good intention call,” when someone at Milford High School put in a call for a gas leak mid-morning on Feb. 2. Firefighters responded to the school and used meters to check out the area where some kind of gas smell had been reported and ...
MILFORD – Towns and cities across New Hampshire that use a “pay-to-throw” system to encourage recycling, report a significant reduction in trash as well as increased recycling. The town’s recycling and solid waste committee recently submitted to selectmen a report on ...
Andres Institute of Art will host an exhibit of works by Contemporary Abstract artist using mixed media, Elizabeth LeBlanc. The event will coincide with Brookline’s Winter Festival weekend, Feb. 16-18. Elizabeth is a New England-based artist. She studied at the Maryland Institute College of ...