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Local organizations making sure no one goes without a hot, Thanksgiving meal
Local
Thursday November 19, 2009
Every year on Thanksgiving, it’s all about the food. Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing and all the trimmings adorn hundreds of thousands of tables across the country.
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.
Riverbend School training young thespians to become top-notch actors
Local
Thursday November 12, 2009
MILFORD – For three years, Toby Tarnow, Susan Reilly and Bruce Williams have been creating theater magic. The Riverbend School of Theater Arts, a part of the Souhegan Valley Boys & Girls Club, is an intensive theater program that opened in October 2006.
Boys & Girls Club hosting annual auction
Local
Thursday November 5, 2009
MILFORD – The Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley will hold its ninth annual auction Saturday at the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley, 56 Mont Vernon St. The annual auction is the club’s largest fundraiser.
Academy holding food, goods drive
Local
Monday November 2, 2009
MILFORD – Through Nov. 21, Lamy’s Black Belt Academy will be holding a community-wide food and goods drive.
Masonic Temple to host breakfast for High Hopes
Local
Thursday October 15, 2009
MILFORD – The Freemasons and the Masonic Families of Milford are hosting a waffle breakfast fundraiser to benefit High Hopes Foundation of New Hampshire. On Saturday from 8 a.
Local
Tuesday September 29, 2009
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get rid of the clutter and items you no longer need in your house while at the same time raising money for well-deserved charities? At Consigning for Good in Milford, you can do just that.
Local
Saturday August 29, 2009
Milford parade Sept. 7 MILFORD – The annual Milford Labor Day Parade will be held Sept.
Military
Monday November 9, 2009
MILFORD – Air Force Airman Dominiq M. Russell graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Military
Monday November 9, 2009
MILFORD – Air Force Airman Gregory J. Desmarais graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
MHS to host Financial Aid Night
Youth-Education
Thursday November 19, 2009
MILFORD – The Milford High School Student Services Department will be sponsoring a Financial Aid Night on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.
High schoolers: Register for PSATs
Youth-Education
Friday October 9, 2009
All Milford High School juniors planning further education should consider registering for the PSATs. This is a practice for the SATs and an assessment of verbal reasoning, mathematical reasoning and writing.
Clubs
Sunday November 1, 2009
MILFORD – Rosemary goes great with chicken, but did you know that it may help stave off Alzheimer’s disease? Or that sage can help with hot flashes?
Clubs
Sunday October 25, 2009
MILFORD – Rosemary goes great with chicken, but did you know that it may help stave off Alzheimer’s disease? Or that sage can help with hot flashes?
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
AMHERST Newcomers’ to host new member coffee The Amherst Area Newcomers’ Club will host a coffee/tea Thursday from 9:30-11:30 a.m.
A penny saved is hundreds earned at Milford High School
Columnist
Sunday November 8, 2009
It isn’t every day that one can make a difference. It has become especially difficult for one to find the tools to make a change in this world with the current economic state.
‘See How They Run’ at Milford High: Spectacular
Columnist
Thursday October 15, 2009
The latest hustle and bustle throughout Milford High School seemed to start just a few short weeks ago when the cast of this year’s play was posted outside the theater classroom. Since that day, much time and preparation has gone into this year’s performance.
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON MISSING ROADS
Columnist
Monday August 17, 2009
There is that old joke, usually attributed to some Yankee farmer, who ends up telling the tourist who is asking for directions, “you can’t get there from here.” The joke usually includes some local landmarks that the tourist couldn’t possibly know, leaving the farmer exasperated.
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: Milford chairman makes case for fireworks
Local
Saturday November 21, 2009
Fireworks are more than an exciting show of colorful lights, they are also a way that community organizations raise much-needed money, the chairman of the town’s Recreation Commission told selectmen last week. There were no fireworks this Fourth of July after voters in March rejected a $10,000 warrant article in March.
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.
Attendance awards sticking in Milford
Local
Saturday November 21, 2009
Perfect attendance will continue to be recognized in at least one local town this year, despite concerns elsewhere that it gives sick students an incentive to come to school. The Milford School District will continue to recognize students for coming to school every day, said Assistant Superintendent Laurie Johnson.
Accountant gets more than 2 years in embezzling case
Local
Friday November 20, 2009
CONCORD – A Milford woman who admitted embezzling roughly $395,000 from two local companies while working as a bookkeeper was sentenced Friday to 27 months in federal prison. Linda Blanchet, 45, of 176 Westchester Drive, Milford, had pleaded guilty in July to bank fraud charges, admitting that she embezzled from Inside Track Cabling Inc.
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