January 2008 - Posts

• Allenstown tries to avoid default budget

  BY JENN McDOWELL Allenstown voters will decide whether to accept a 11.4 percent increase in the town’s operating budget after being on a default budget this year. “It’s a big increase, but it’s like we lost a year,” said Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:24 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, Merrimack Valley, Board of Selectmen, budget

• Students create music in honor of civil rights

  BY JENN McDOWELL Students at Armand Dupont Middle School made beautiful music as part of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day presentation for the entire school. T.J. Wheeler, a celebrated New Hampshire jazz and blues musician and activist, also known in the Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:01 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Merrimack Valley, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, T. J. Wheeler, Armand Dupont Middle School

• VIDEO: "Hope, Heroes, and the Blues" at Allenstown's Dupont School

  By Jen McDowell In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, New Hampshire blues artist T.J. Wheeler performed with his "Dr. Jazz Freedom Singers" from the Dupont School in Allenstown on Wednesday, Jan. 16. Fifteen students participated in Read More... Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 11:50 AM by admin | 0 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, Kids & Family, children, students, video, music

• Holidays bring out drunk drivers – and police

  BY JENN McDOWELL To combat drunk driving around the holidays, local police departments created extra shifts and paid out some overtime for more manpower during Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The police departments in Allenstown, Pembroke and Epsom Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:12 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, Pembroke, Police, Merrimack Valley, Epsom, Chichester, Bow, task force

• Sewer expansion goes to voters again

  BY JENN McDOWELL Allenstown voters will once again consider spending tax dollars to improve its sewer plant. Public meetings regarding a $15 million bond to expand the Suncook Wastewater Treatment Facility will continue after Allenstown selectmen and Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:07 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Wastewater Treatment Plant, Sewer Commission, Allenstown, Pembroke, Suncook

• Subway shop robbed, two are arrested

  By JENN McDOWELL Two Manchester residents are being charged with robbing a Subway sandwich shop in Allenstown after a collaboration of police efforts in Allenstown, Hudson, and Nashua revealed that robbery was unrelated to a recent string of Subway robberies Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:24 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, Police, Merrimack Valley, crime, restaurant, robbery

• Proposed middle school gets state OK

  By JENN McDOWELL The state Board of Education has officially approved the tuition agreement for a proposed joint middle school between Candia and Auburn. School Board members from both towns attended the state board’s meeting on Wednesday, Dec. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:55 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Auburn, schools, candia, school board