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Avard receives Community Champion Award

CONCORD – State Sen. Kevin Avard (R-Nashua) recently received the Community Champion Award from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund for his efforts to reduce the cost of housing. “I’m honored to receive the Community Champion Award. Families having access to safe housing that is ...

Local food insecurity skyrockets in week without SNAP

NASHUA - Hundreds of families in Greater Nashua were left scrambling six days after funding was discontinued for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This resulted in a line of more than 250 cars and residents waiting approximately one hour in the BAE Systems parking lot for ...

Dark Downeast sheds new light on Massachusetts mystery

TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. — In her latest investigative episode of Dark Downeast, journalist and host Kylie Low uncovers new details in the suspicious death of 20-year-old Christina Lunceford, whose body was found wrapped in a comforter along the Merrimack River in Tyngsborough just months after ...

Avard receives Community Champion Award

CONCORD – State Sen. Kevin Avard (R-Nashua) recently received the Community Champion Award from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund for his efforts to reduce the cost of housing. “I’m honored to receive the Community Champion Award. Families having access to safe housing that is ...

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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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Rocco V. Civiello

Rocco V. Civiello, 84, a resident of Amherst, NH, passed away on November 4, 2025, at the Elliot Hospital in Manchester, NH, after a period of declining health. He was born on September 15, 1941, in Cambridge, MA, a son of the late Joseph and Mary Rose (Gatto) Civiello. Rocco was raised and ...

Pauline C. Calderara

Pauline C. Calderara passed away peacefully on October 24, 2025. She was born in Milford, MA on February 9, 1925. She was the fifth of eight children born to Joseph Givani and Lena (Barberi) Givani. Pauline married her husband Joseph A. Calderara from Milford, NH in 1946, after being ...

Retired Lt. Col. Thomas J. Hunsader

Retired Lt. Col. Thomas J. Hunsader, a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran, Vietnam War pilot, and proud Wisconsin farm boy, passed away at his home in Amherst, NH, on October 13, 2025, at the age of 85, following a period of declining health. He was born on March 5, 1940, in Kewaunee, WS, a son ...

Kenneth Bridgewater

Kenneth Bridgewater passed away peacefully with family at his side 30th September 2025 in Merrimack NH at the Community Hospice House. Ken was a lover of life, a steadfast husband of 58 years to June Bridgewater, and a devoted and supportive father to Colin, Stephen, and Katherine. His ...