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• Man flooded two years ago gets donated house

  By KAREN DANDURANT Sometime in mid-July, Stan Watson will return to the property he has lived at for more than 10 years, to a brand-new home that was donated to him. Watson’s previous home was destroyed in April 2007. Flood waters sent 3 feet of Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:46 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, floods, There's No Place Like Home, charity, donation

• Buyout plan fails to please everyone

  BY JENN McDOWELL Town officials have jumped the first hurdle in buying up homes in the Suncook River floodplain in Allenstown, getting $2.1 million in federal assistance, but there is still a way to go before the town can purchase the homes. “People Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:39 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, floods, Suncook River, buyout

• Home again – After two floods in two years, Suncook couple begins to recover

  BY JENN McDOWELL Marcia Abbott and Brian Gagne will be happy to be back at home, even if it’s 10 feet in the air. The house on Riverside Park Drive, a small brown cottage-like structure they have dubbed the gingerbread house, was twice ruined in Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:21 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, Suncook, floods

• Condemned homes strain mobile home park

  BY SUSAN WARE A handful of Brookside Terrace residents met on Sunday, June 24, to weigh their options. The issue is that a quarter of their mobile home park sits dangerously close to the Suncook River and has been flooded twice in the past two years. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:35 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, parks, floods, homes, mobile home

• Hear about the role dams play in Suncook watershed on June 18

  Allenstown residents affected by the 2007 floods are invited to a public meeting on Monday, June 18, at 6:30 p.m., at the Allenstown Elementary School on Main Street to discuss the role dams play in the Suncook River watershed. There will be a representative Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:36 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Allenstown, floods, meeting