The Week in Preview: February 8

Monday, February 8, 2010

Tuesday Tick talk According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 400,000 people may contract Lyme disease each year. That’s more than 10 times …

Old book expert to talk about finds

By JESSIE SALISBURY Correspondent | Monday, February 8, 2010

AMHERST – Are those old books you found in your grandmother’s attic rare first editions or just interesting? At 7 p.m. …

Will pay-to-play be the New Hampshire way?

By MICHAEL BRINDLEY Staff Writer | Sunday, February 7, 2010

Before they can take the field or skate out on the rink, many New Hampshire student- athletes and their families are being asked to shell …

Town Meeting 2010

Amherst: Operating budget will go on warrant as proposed

By DEAN SHALHOUP Staff Writer | Saturday, February 6, 2010

AMHERST – A brief debate over cost of living raises for nonunion and support staff and a short discussion on the funding formula for the …

Budget would add 2 cents to tax rate

By DEAN SHALHOUP Staff Writer | Friday, February 5, 2010

AMHERST – Nobody turned into a pumpkin, but there were plenty of droopy eyelids focusing on the exit door when the Amherst town Deliberative Session …

Souhegan Co-op session quiet, routine

By DEAN SHALHOUP Staff Writer | Thursday, February 4, 2010

AMHERST – Roughly 40 voters had few comments and proposed no amendments to the three articles on the Souhegan Cooperative School District warrant at Tuesday …

The Week in Preview

Monday, February 1, 2010

Thursday Backyard salad bar The local wildlife treat your flower beds like a sort of buffet – there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to …

Principal search nets 3 finalists

By KATHY CLEVELAND Staff Writer | Saturday, January 30, 2010

AMHERST – Three people have been selected as finalists as Souhegan High School principal to replace interim Principal Jim Bosman. The finalists are Teri Schrader, …

NH dropout rates decline, mixed locally

By KEVIN LANDRIGAN and MICHAEL BRINDLEY Staff Writers | Wednesday, January 27, 2010

CONCORD – The dropout rate dropped by more than half last year at high schools in Merrimack and Litchfield while it inched back up at …

Area towns part of national heritage park

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Area towns part of national heritage park What role did Souhegan Valley towns and Nashua play in the history of America? Seven local towns and …

Peterman wants to serve Amherst

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Pledging to study energy efficiency, revisit trash collection procedures and initiate a review of the town Public Works Department, former longtime Amherst Selectman Marilyn Peterman …

Peterman decides she wants to serve Amherst yet again

Friday, January 22, 2010

Pledging to study energy efficiency, revisit trash collection procedures and initiate a review of the town Public Works Department, former longtime Amherst Selectman Marilyn Peterman …

Couple charged in purse grab, theft attempt

By ANDREW WOLFE and ALBERT McKEON Staff Writers | Friday, January 22, 2010

A boyfriend and girlfriend switched roles as robber and getaway-driver in purse snatchings that injured victims outside department stores in Nashua and Hudson, police charge. …

No indictments yet in murder

By ANDREW WOLFE Staff Writer | Friday, January 22, 2010

NASHUA – An informal deadline has passed with no apparent change in the prosecution of the youths accused in the murder of a Mont Vernon …

Family left homeless by a.m. fire

By DEAN SHALHOUP Staff Writer | Wednesday, January 20, 2010

AMHERST – An early- morning chimney fire that extended into the attic and open spaces between floors of a Cub Circle duplex temporarily turned a …

Chimney fire spreads; Amherst family homeless

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

AMHERST - A chimney fire spread into the attic of a duplex at 5 Cub Circle early this morning, leaving a family homeless, Fire Chief …

Ambulance-car crash ties traffic

Monday, January 18, 2010

NASHUA – A Milford ambulance transporting a patient to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center by way of Amherst Street on Sunday morning hit a car …

History of Amherst summed up in book

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Remember back when we were kids, and how lucky we were that our playgrounds were backyards, parks and sandlots instead of the Internet? Then, you …

250th celebration kickoff

Friday, January 15, 2010

AMHERST – The long-planned celebration of the town’s 250th anniversary of incorporation gets under way Sunday, when legions of youngsters descend upon the Village Green …

Proposal for fiscal year 2011 would be $23.37m, or 0.67% higher than this year’s

By DEAN SHALHOUP Staff Writer | Friday, January 15, 2010

AMHERST – The Amherst School District presented at Wednesday’s public hearing a proposed operating budget of $23.37 million for fiscal year 2011, which is a …