Nashua

World Academy celebrates Earth

South Nashua private school World Academy celebrated Earth Day with a series of activities about ecology and conservation, starting with a presentation on invasive insects in New Hampshire.

Hillsborough County forester Jon Nute and the Middle School Envirothon Club hosted a presentation on the emerald ash borer, an invasive species of insect that infests native ash trees. The team taught middle school students about the ecological, economic and social impact of the insect.

World Academy is an infant through grade-eight school, and children of all ages took part in Earth Day activities. Kindergarteners read Earth Day-related books like "Miss Rhumphius" and "Protect the Earth," and first-graders designed posters showing how they reduce, reuse and recycle.

Second-grade students took part in writing projects answering questions such as "What is harming the Earth?" and "What can I do to help?"

Fourth-=graders created seed bombs for pollinators and helped dispose of litter in their environment, and fifth-grade students made tubular bird feeders. At the middle school level, sixth-grade students wrote poetry about the beauty of nature, and seventh- and eighth-graders created Earth Day greeting cards.

Students also learned about St. Francis of Assisi, an Italian saint considered to be the first environmental activist.

Located at 138 Spit Brook Road in Nashua, the 55,000-square-foot campus has wings for nursery, preschool, elementary and middle school students.

– Telegraph staff

Robbery, assault charges for man

Hudson resident Roberto Rivera was held Tuesday on $10,000 cash or surety bail pending a Wednesday arraignment on a charge of robbery, a Class B felony, stemming from the alleged assault and theft from a person in Nashua, police said.

Rivera, 30, of 12 Baker St., Apt. C, Hudson, was jailed overnight after police arrested him shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday in connection with the incident, which was reported to police around 7:20 p.m., police said.

Police said officers were called to the Shell gas station at 160 Broad St., where an unidentified man told them three men approached him as he sat in his parked car. One of the men, later identified as Rivera, allegedly assaulted the victim and took his cellphone, police said.

Nashua police enlisted the assistance of Hudson officers, and together they located Rivera at his residence and took him into custody, police said.

A Class B felony is punishable by up to seven years in State Prison, exclusive of fines.

Police ask that anyone with any additional information on the incident to contact the department’s Crime Line at 589-1665.

– DEAN SHALHOUP

Merrimack

Cops chase down reckless driver

A 20-year-old local man who police said sped past a patrol officer on Turkey Hill Road Tuesday night then tried to elude the officer by hiding his car in a nearby neighborhood nevertheless ended up in custody a short time later.

Jesse Buss, of 450 S. Baboosic Lake Road, was charged with one count each of reckless driving and disobeying an officer following the incident, which police say began just before 10 p.m. when the officer, traveling in the opposite direction from Buss, clocked him at 60 mph as he went by.

When the officer turned around to try and stop Buss’s vehicle, police said, Buss allegedly attempted to elude the officer by driving into a neighborhood and hide his car "in a driveway at a residence he was not familiar with," police said.

But the officer promptly located him, and placed him under arrest without incident, police said.

Buss was later released on $1,500 personal recognizance bail pending arraignment, which is scheduled for 8 a.m. on June 16 in Merrimack district court.

– DEAN SHALHOUP

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