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• Bow and Hopkinton host Halloween events

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Children aren’t the only ones who can dress up in a costume and get candy as Bow and Hopkinton will host Halloween events geared for all ages and for those ready to show off their creative styles. Bow Bow’s Baker Free Library Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:38 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, Kids & Family, Event Reviews

• Preseason jamboree gives coaches glimpse of upcoming year

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR For one day, 18 soccer teams from four different classes converged on Manchester’s West High School. Among those squads were Class I’s Bow Lady Falcons and Class M’s Hopkinton Lady Hawks. The coaches of both units Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:06 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, sports, soccer

• Former Bow Times owner Beverly Marcou dies

  BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI The former owner of The Bow Times and former Dunbarton selectman, Beverly Ann Marcou, died Thursday, Aug. 21, at the age of 73. Karen Tomes, one of Marcou’s seven children, remembered her mother’s love of the newspaper Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:47 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, political

• Bow and Hopkinton residents joined Goffstown Gallop

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR Bow’s Margaret Burns and Pembroke’s Joanne Welch have been running mates for eight years. They’re currently preparing for a half marathon in Quebec in August. The 29th annual Goffstown Gallop provided them an opportunity Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 4:03 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, sports, Event Reviews, community

• Rising fuel costs in Bow, Hopkinton and Contoocook

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY It may be warm in July, but area residents are still feeling the pain of the past winter’s heating bills and fear what the future holds. Contoocook resident Roland Dubois heats his home with oil, and locked his price in last year Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:47 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, Contoocook, fuel

• Bow, Hopkinton and Concord students place at Poetry Out Loud competition

  BY LEWELLYN HALLETT Bow High School freshman Reed Van Dyck took the stage, not to sing, dance or act as she often does, but to recite poetry. Reed represented her school as a semifinalist in the Poetry Out Loud State Championship and was selected as one Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:07 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, Concord, Bow High School, hopkinton high school

• It’s your right to know – Not all officials comply with requests for public documents – Hopkinton does well, Bow fails our test

  BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Have you ever wondered how much your child’s teacher is paid? How about what happened at the last school board or selectmen’s meeting? Or whether your neighbor was arrested in that commotion last week? You have every right Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:02 PM by Bow Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, police, schools, local government, New Hampshire

• Libraries prepare for release of Harry Potter

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY Hopkinton Town Library director Elizabeth Levy stopped reading the “Harry Potter” book series after the fourth installment, but she’s apparently in the minority. “For the first four, I was very into them, but after Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:49 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, Library, books, Harry Potter

• Lost and found – Police departments are the first places to look for lost pets

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY If you’ve lost your dog in Hopkinton, chances are you know Fred Finnerty, the Police Department’s animal control officer. And he gets a lot of calls because there are about 1,320 dogs in town. “Which is a pretty sizable Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:33 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, police, pets

• State raises drop-out age – Legislation draws mixed feelings

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY On Tuesday, June 26, Gov. John Lynch signed into law legislation to raise the compulsory high school attendance age to 18. Since 1903, the legal age to drop out was 16 years old. “Today we are taking a significant step toward helping Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:06 PM by Bow Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, schools

• Not again – April nor’easter floods homes, closes roads

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR A tree fell on Clinton Street in Bow, causing a chain reaction of events that eventually led to Doug and Katherine Crabb’s downstairs looking more like a wading pool than a basement. The tree that fell knocked out power lines, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:12 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, Concord, dunbarton, flood

• State aid at risk

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR As the three branches of state government wrangle over how to best provide aid to public schools, local school administrators say they can do little, but watch and wait. If Gov. John Lynch’s plan to provide a flat 5 percent Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:22 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, schools, dunbarton, politics

• Money delays charter school opening

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR HOPKINTON/BOW – For nearly three years of work by Bow, Hopkinton and Kearsarge Regional school district superintendents, the Crossroads Learning Community Charter School in Contoocook was awarded official charter status. Though Read More... Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:38 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, education, Charter School, Contoocook

• 2006 Year in Review - In star-studded year, Hopkinton boys soccer earns top billing

  BY SAPNA PATHAK While others celebrate the end of the year with eggnog, presents and relished time with friends and family, we took a look back at 12 months worth of Neighborhood athletics. The calendar contributions came from Neighborhood squads at all Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:49 PM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton, sports, Concord, dunbarton

• Bow Times Stars of the Week 9-14-06

  Isabel Alden Plourde daughter of David Plourde and Rebecca Johnson of Concord, graduated from The Derryfield School. She also received high honors for the spring term. High honors are awarded to students who maintain a B-plus average with no grade below Read More... Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 11:18 AM by Bow Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bow, Hopkinton