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• Sheep mauled in Candia incident

  BY TOBY HENRY A High Street couple, horrified after a coyote attack on one of their sheep, said the run-in with the canine was the only predator attack they’ve had in more than 30 years of raising animals. “It was terrible,” said Francis Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:09 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, animals, sheep, coyote

• New life for old library

  BY TOBY HENRY There could be a new life in store for an old gift bestowed on the public decades ago by one of Candia’s most well-known historical figures. Selectmen Chairman Fred Kelley said it’s been many years since anyone has checked out Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:59 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, historical register, library

• Summer rec program cut

  BY TOBY HENRY Candia officials say it could be the end of the road for the decades-old summer recreation program after rising fuel costs and a lean budget year made selectmen give the program the axe. Selectmen Chairman Fred Kelley said the program, which Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:57 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, budget, recreation, summer, Kids & Family

• Liquid Planet opens to positive reviews

  BY TOBY HENRY The June 7 free day at the Liquid Planet Water Park drew hundreds of residents to a new attraction that many local families say they’ll be coming back to. “It’s small enough, it’s clean, and I think we’ll be Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:32 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Candia, Kids & Family, Liquid Planet

• Parents, kids ready for Liquid Planet opening

  BY TOBY HENRY Parents say their children are paying close attention to the opening of the new Liquid Planet Water Park as the deadline for a free locals-only day approaches. “Assuming the weather is as nice as we’ve been having, I think we’ll Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:02 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Candia, water park, Liquid Planet

• Candia firefighter charged with arson

  BY TOBY HENRY Court documents say a 21-year-old local firefighter charged with two felony counts of arson admitted to police that he set the blaze which destroyed $125,000 worth of logging equipment. Christopher Millspaugh, a Flint Road resident, was Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:09 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Candia, police, arson, Firefighter

• Jesse Remington students host Colonial Faire

  BY TOBY HENRY British Redcoats opened fire on local residents in an incident that many say will mark the beginning of a revolt of epic proportions. This recreation of the historic Boston Massacre of 1770 was one of many historical events that was recreated Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:22 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Jesse Remington High School, Education, Candia, Kids & Family, Boston Massacre, history

• Candia sues to stop trucks on Route 27

  BY TOBY HENRY Candia town officials said they plan to join a Raymond lawsuit against a gravel pit approved for an area of Route 27. Last month, Raymond Planning Board officials approved a two-year extension on a gravel pit project for the Londonderry Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:04 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, selectmen, Route 27, Raymond

• Chasse’s is back, but country store is up for sale once again

  BY TOBY HENRY Patrick Chasse, like the small variety store near the Hooksett border that bears his name, is a survivor. Although his store has been a literal “last stop” for cars headed out of town for some 40 years, the newly re-opened Chasse Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:43 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Chasse Variety

• Candia’s ‘no’ vote takes away Auburn’s choice on joint school

  BY JENN McDOWELL Candia residents decided against the tuition agreement for a joint middle school with Auburn in a 278-766 vote. The article for a $25 million bond will now come off Auburn’s warrant, being void. Candia School Board Chairman Karen Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:09 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, Auburn, vote, school

• Candia election results

  Candia School Warrants Unofficial returns, • denotes winner Article 2: To raise and appropriate $7,486,408 as an operating budget, not including appropriations by special warrant articles and other appropriations voted separately. The default budget Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:20 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Candia, Middle School, vote, election results

• Candia’s middle school wins first Tri-County hoops title

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Having lost by 29 points to Auburn earlier in the season, Candia’s Henry Moore Middle School boys basketball team could have entered the semifinals of the Tri-County Class S playoffs feeling overmatched. Instead, the team left the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:33 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, basketball, Henry Moore Middle School

• School District Meeting debates middle school

  BY JENN McDOWELL The timing of the deliberative session of Candia School District Meeting drew about as much attention from residents as discussion of its warrant articles. The meeting, called to order at 12:54 p.m., immediately following the deliberative Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:16 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, Auburn, town meeting, Middle School, school board

• Candia town budget criticized

  BY JENN McDOWELL The 100 or so Candia voters who showed up for the deliberative session of Town Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Moore School struck a compromise between the proposed town operating budgets proposed by the Board of Selectmen and the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:07 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, budget, town meeting, Board of Selectmen

• Candia restrains school budget

  BY JENN McDOWELL Candia’s School Board and Budget Committee agreed on every single number in the 2008-09 proposed school operating budget for the second year in a row, the Budget Committee accepting the School Board’s budget as is at $7,486,408. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:19 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Candia, Merrimack Valley, budget, school board