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Holiday Toy Store needs your help
Local
Monday November 16, 2009
AMHERST – For 21 years, the Holiday Toy Store has given families experiencing financial difficulty in Milford, Brookline, Mont Vernon and Amherst the opportunity to choose holiday gifts for their children free of charge. The Holiday Toy Store has evolved into a special community effort involving various churches, businesses and civic organizations.
Pre-Halloween Hayrides at the Educational Farm
Local
Thursday October 22, 2009
BEDFORD – The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill is holding tractor-drawn hayrides Saturday from 2-5 p.m.
Local
Wednesday October 21, 2009
AMHERST – The Amherst Recreation Department is hosting a Fall Harvest Festival at the Peabody Mill Environmental Center on Friday and Saturday. On Friday from 4-6:30 p.
School collecting pajamas and books
Local
Thursday October 8, 2009
AMHERST – The students of Souhegan High School’s Reading Center are sponsoring The Great Sprout Tuck-In, a program focused on collecting new pajamas and new books for children in need. Donations are being accepted at the Souhegan High School Main Office through Friday, Oct.
Military
Friday October 9, 2009
Thomas E. Indelicato has entered Basic Cadet Training at the U.
HBHS holding workshop for parents of teens
Youth-Education
Wednesday October 28, 2009
HOLLIS – Hollis/Brookline High School PTSA’s S-Team is sponsoring a free, public educational workshop on “Children in Distress: Mood Imbalances in Our Teens,” to be presented by Gail Vanark, MSN, FNP-BC, from the Center for Preventative Medicine of Amherst, on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Derryfield seniors earn academic recognition
Youth-Education
Wednesday October 28, 2009
MANCHESTER – Local Derryfield School seniors have been inducted into the National Honor Society. The are Ellie Kaufman and Matthew Porat, of Amherst; Alessandra Geffner-Smith and Samantha Hough, of Merrimack; Nicholas Alberts and Andrea Green, of Nashua, and Philip Melanson, of Windham.
Youth-Education
Sunday October 25, 2009
The Adult Learning Center recently announced that the following students passed their GED tests: Denae M. Soucy Nashua Joseph S.
MOMS Clubs hosting Preschool Information Night
Clubs
Monday November 16, 2009
AMHERST – The two Amherst chapters of the International MOMS Club are holding their second annual Preschool Information Night on Wednesday from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Junior Women’s Club seeking donations
Clubs
Sunday November 1, 2009
AMHERST – This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the Amherst Junior Women’s Club Holiday Home-Life Project. Because of the generosity of the community, the club has delivered holiday food baskets to more than 1,000 families in Amherst in the past 33 years.
Clubs
Friday October 9, 2009
Elizabeth Clark of Amherst got the audience laughing with the Best Humorous Speech of the night, while Jewelie Lewis of Brookline demonstrated evaluation skills, critiquing another contestant’s speech for the evaluation portion of the contest. Both Clark and Lewis honed their skills at their home club Milford Toastmasters meetings, held every second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7 p.
Clubs
Thursday October 8, 2009
HOLLIS Women’s club to host festival The apples are ripe for pie and crisp baking in Hollis, and the band is tuning up in preparation for the Hollis Annual Apple Festival and Band Concert on Sunday from 2-4 p.m.
AMHERST Holistic Moms to discuss holistic food
Clubs
Thursday October 8, 2009
The Hillsborough County Chapter of The Holistic Moms Network will present "Cooking with Weston Price" with Elizabeth Skipper of The Everyday Epicure. Learn about this holistic way of eating and creating vibrant health through diet.
SHS’s exchange program helps expand borders
Columnist
Sunday October 18, 2009
Have you ever wanted to know what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes? Have you ever felt the desire to experience a culture different from your own?
Souhegan students chime in on cell-phone debate
Columnist
Thursday October 15, 2009
Texting may soon become an extinct practice during the Souhegan High School day. A proposal to ban cell-phone use at the school was brought to the Community Council, the school’s governing body, for consideration on Monday.
Free H1N1 clinics to start next week
Local
Saturday November 21, 2009
The state’s first series of free public clinics offering the H1N1 swine flu vaccine will begin next week, but a five-hour event at the Manchester Health Department on Tuesday will be the closest to Nashua. The H1N1 vaccine is taken considerably longer to produce that had originally been expected.
Around the towns: Bus system kicks in to help
Local
Saturday November 21, 2009
Members of the Souhegan Valley Transportation Collaborative have been making the rounds in the four towns served by its bus service asking for funding to keep it going. The bus, run in conjunction with the Nashua Transit System, takes people to medical appointments and shopping plazas.
MERRIMACK 3 women, 1 child taken to hospital after crash
Local
Wednesday November 18, 2009
Three women and a child were taken to a local hospital following a three-car crash on Route 101A in Merrimack on Monday morning. None of those involved was seriously hurt, police said.
Kids look to keep fur from flying
Local
Monday November 16, 2009
MERRIMACK – The things Revanth Damerla has been observing when he’s in the car might be a little different from yours. “I see lots of garter snakes and splattered squirrels,” Damerla said.
Amherst sixth-graders come down with bedbugs at Freedom camp
Local
Saturday November 14, 2009
A group of Amherst sixth-graders returned from a Lakes Region environmental camp recently with a better understanding – in more ways than one – of how Mother Nature sometimes works. Roughly 20 Amherst Middle School sixth-graders were first thought to have come down with chicken pox, but after further examination, the little red welts that broke out on their skin were caused by bedbug bites.
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