HOLLIS – While state Senate District 12 candidates Melanie Levesque and Kevin Avard agree the state’s opioid crisis needs to be met head-on sooner than later, they’re fairly far apart when it comes to how each would go about it. But the issue on which their views seem to differ the ...
MANCHESTER – Roberta Woolfson was ready for a good belly laugh. The Milford resident was sitting with a group of friends Sunday night at the state Democratic Party’s Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner, waiting for the speaking program to begin. The highlight of the evening was the appearance of the ...
Amherst and Milford school officials are trying to decide if there is enough community support for changing their school start times. At a public forum organized by the Milford School Board’s school start time committee last week, board member Jennifer Siegrist said school officials are ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – A little fish on the East Coast that once provided vital protein for American colonists and bait for generations of New England lobstermen is slowly making a comeback after falling victim to lost habitat and environmental degradation. River herring once appeared ...
AMHERST – Cyberbullying, screen addiction, overscheduling, obesity. Parents and children today have challenges of which their grandparents could never have dreamed. However, Cindy Ross and her husband sidestepped those modern problems when they took their two kids outdoors and around the ...
WILTON – More than 60 years of family fun, and it keeps getting better. The annual Lions Club Penny Sale will be on Oct. 27. The doors open at 4:30 p.m., and the sale begins at 6 p.m., in the Florence Rideout Elementary School gym. Club Secretary Deb Degan said there “are hundreds of ...
Officials from the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry addressed members of the Community Action Panel on Sept. 20, discussing the Pease contaminated water study it will conduct in Portsmouth. Patrick Breyesse, the ATSDR director, began the meeting by announcing that funding has ...
WILTON – Members of the staff at the middle/high school will join members of the town’s Conservation Commission from 3:15-4:30 p.m. Oct 19 for a visit and clean-up session at The Horseshoe. The event is a continuing effort by the school to work with members of the community and become ...
NASHUA – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stressed the importance of voting in the upcoming midterm election, while sparking speculation about his 2020 presidential aspirations during a visit to Nashua Saturday morning. “We’re about to face the biggest test of our political ...
NASHUA – The revaluation of Nashua property will not add substantial revenue to the city coffer, and tax rates will rise slightly to offset a budget increase, officials said. “The budget is up 1.6 percent, so we will collect additional revenue. The reallocation of the tax burden will not ...
NASHUA – The 14th annual ArtWalk features more than 100 artists across more than 30 venues, and as things move into the second and final day of the celebration, many more people are expected to pass through and admire the various works available across the city. Although unfavorable ...
Despite Saturday’s weather bringing rain and gray clouds, it provided perfect conditions for thousands of ducks to race down the Nashua River, rubber ducks that is. The Rotary Club of Nashua West’s inaugural Duck Derby drew a large crowd to the Main Street bridge to watch on as flocks of ...
Leave it to a Massachusetts gridiron rival, I said to myself as I perused several Nashua Telegraph stories, published 60 years ago this month, regarding a rather silly controversy that erupted in the weeks after the legendary Nashua High-Lowell High football game ended in an anticlimactic 14-14 ...
NASHUA – After 75 years in the same home at 13 Manchester St., David Pierce fears losing the house due to skyrocketing property tax bills. Pierce said his tax assessment value last year was $43,200. He said as a result of KRT Appraisal’s recent revaluation on behalf of the city of Nashua, ...
NASHUA – Just three days after formally becoming a Democrat, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is scheduled to campaign in New Hampshire. Bloomberg, a potential 2020 presidential candidate with an estimated net worth of $48 billion, is scheduled to appear with a group known as ...
NASHUA – During a Friday campaign stop at The Huntington, U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., told seniors she will protect their Social Security and Medicare from Republicans. Not surprisingly, Kuster’s Republican challenger, Nashua resident Steve Negron, has a different take on the ...
Nashua Parks & Recreation Department workers collect what remains of a tree that fell Friday afternoon on Concord Street. Traffic was directed by a police officer while the tree was dealt with by workers from the Nashua Parks and Recreation Forestry Unit. Department foreman Paul Haskell ...
NASHUA – This week, members of the Nashua Board of Education’s Human Resources Committee unanimously recommended three individuals to fill open school positions: assistant principals at Birch Hill Elementary, Fairgrounds Middle and Pennichuck Middle schools. Christine Michaud was the ...
NASHUA – It’s getting spooky on Foxboro Street in Nashua. Graveside Manor, a family-run haunted house, opened for a ninth consecutive year on Friday. Through Halloween, Graveside Manor will operate from 6-9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Kathy Thomas, who runs the house, said her family ...
MERRIMACK – Recycled Percussion, a “junk rock” band from Manchester, visited Thorntons Ferry Elementary School Friday with the headliner “Chaos and Kindness.” The group’s mission is to urge children to focus on being the best versions of themselves by staying positive and behaving ...