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Huge step for Lil’ Iguana

NASHUA — After 24 years of service to the children of New Hampshire, those in charge of the Lil’ Iguana program will turn the endeavor over to a professional theater troupe. Officials with the Firehouse Center for the Arts, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, signed a partnership agreement to ...

Vietnam veteran serves as muse for student band

NASHUA – Austin Hall, a Nashua High School North junior, took his grandfather, Norman Hall out to lunch nearly five months ago, hoping to learn more about the veteran’s time serving in Vietnam for a social studies project. He had a prepared list of interview questions, but as it turned ...

Bishop Guertin grads lauded at commencement

NASHUA – Holly Boivin was 14 and “clueless” when she first set foot in Bishop Guertin High School, the Nashua resident told her green-and-gold-clad classmates and a sea of visitors to Sunday’s commencement. Worse, Boivin said, was finding herself in the looming shadow of her older ...

Rivier receives $2.04 million nursing grant

NASHUA – “The majority of nursing practice no longer takes place solely in the hospital setting,” Rivier University Dean of Nursing and Healthcare Professions Paula Williams said in announcing a $2.04 million federal grant to bolster students’ education. “Patients are being ...

Skills to pay bills: Kuster promotes career education

NASHUA – “We have the jobs and we’re looking for people with the skills to fill those jobs,” is how U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., describes the Granite State’s economy. Tuesday at Nashua Community College, Kuster released a plan she terms the “Jobs and Opportunity Agenda.” ...

City remembers ‘Nashua’s Own Music Man’

NASHUA – Approximately 30 years ago, Steve Norris, a career Nashua music educator and by then a veteran band and chorus director, made his way in to the psychiatric unit of a local hospital to visit a member of his chorus. The child, in all likelihood, wasn’t a stellar vocalist, but ...