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Brookline black belt awarded $15k Hutchinson Scholarship

NASHUA — Kaylee Barchard, a second degree black belt at the Independent Martial Arts School, could hardly believe it when Shihan Jeffrey Maistrosky announced that she had been selected as this year’s recipient of the $15,000 Craig P. Hutchinson Memorial Scholarship. “All the color ...

Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive slated for May 9

NASHUA - The National Association of Letter Carriers will be hosting its Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 9. Letter carriers are in the communities they serve every day and often come face to face with a sad reality for too many, hunger. Each year on the second Saturday in May, letter ...

DEA takes down Manchester drug operation, Dominican national gets five years

CONCORD – Raynerson Marcos De La Paz Matos, 31, a Dominican Republic national, was sentenced, on April 14, to five years in prison and one year of supervised release after pleading guilty to fentanyl possession and distribution. According to court documents, in 2024, agents with the U.S. ...

Bernie & Phyl’s CEO needs kidney transplant

NASHUA - After being diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease when he was 10 years old, Larry Rubin always knew that someday he would need a new kidney. “Now that time has come,” he said during an event with Kidneys for Kindness on April 11, adding that the disease intensified during the ...

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Saber girls end drought vs. Cardinals

AMHERST – McKinley Curro-Sbordone knows the Souhegan High School girls lacrosse team has a roster full of good, young talent. Getting the Sabers to believe that themselves has taken a little longer than their coach might have expected. With just a little more than a week left in the ...

Former Telegraph sports editor to be back for book signing

NASHUA – Did you know that Stan Musial has 356 lifetime at bats vs. Warren Spahn? Or that Whitey Ford had 73 lifetime starts against the Chicago White Sox, but just 42 against the archrival Red Sox. “Never knew that,” said John Nogowski, former Telegraph Sports Editor for a seven year ...

South, BG nines win; HB volleyball suffers first loss

Nashua South baseball is making a late push to try to make the Division I tourney, while Bishop Guertin is pushing to move up in the standings. Meanwhile, in boys volleyball’s big battle of unbeatens, it wasn’t good news locally. Here’s your Wednesday Walkthrough: BASEBALL NASHUA ...

Souhegan milestones achieved

AMHERST – It was a special day last Wednesday at Souhegan High School for girls lacrosse in general. Two milestones were achieved in the Sabers’ dominant 15-5 win over Nashua South. Souhegan’s Emma Kennedy got her 100thcareer goal while South’s Ella Benzekri achieved goal No. ...

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Executive Council should reaffirm Commissioner Taylor Caswell

New Hampshire consistently ranks among the top states for business success—and for attracting new ones. Many of those businesses credit our state’s small, responsive, and business-friendly government. Add in our low unemployment rate and high quality of life rankings, and it’s clear: New ...

Mental health awareness is critical this month and every month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in New Hampshire, when community mental health advocates and providers work to increase knowledge and understanding about mental illness and stigma, on both the state and local levels. For the NH Community Behavioral Health Association (CBHA) and our ten ...

Policymakers have a unique and important opportunity

There’s an irony at the heart of the housing policy debate underway at the State House this session. Opponents of the many common sense, pro-housing bills being considered by the legislature frequently invoke the idea of “local control,” recycling familiar claims that any state-level ...

Using your voice to make a difference

Like many individuals and organizations, United Way of Greater Nashua often weighs in on legislative issues at the federal, state, and local levels. A beautiful aspect of our system of government is that it affords all of us many opportunities to give input on various legislative priorities, ...

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Douglas P. Bratten

Douglas P. Bratten, aka Doug, Dougie, Dad, Daddy, Daddio, G-pa, Grandpa, Great Grandpa Bratten, Grumpy Old Man, Camcorder Man, UD, Uncle Dougie, Dug and no doubt other intriguing nicknames, departed this world on April 13, 2026, a little over a month shy of his 95th birthday. He was born in the ...

Kenneth Hasselbrack

Ken Hasselbrack was born in Malden MA in 1944 and raised in Melrose MA. Ken graduated from Melrose High School in 1962 and joined the Navy in 1963. He served a year at Guantanamo Bay, and in 1965 volunteered for the USS Bache a destroyer headed for Vietnam and a cruise around the world. He was ...

John Devine

When you can't find the light That guides you through a cloudy day When the stars ain't shining bright You feel like you've lost your way When the candle light of home Burns so very far away Well, you got to let your soul shine Just like my daddy used to say -Warren Haynes John Devine's radiant ...

Alice E. Hayward

Alice E. Hayward, 89, longtime resident of Milford, NH and Naples, FL, died on April 11, 2026 at Ledgewood Bay, Milford, NH. She was born in Newport, NH on September 26, 1936, the daughter of the late Lewis and Germaine (Pouliot) Bassett of Milford, NH. She was a lifelong resident of Milford ...