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• Small police departments struggle to stay staffed

  BY JENN McDOWELL Epsom Police Chief Wayne Preve said he’s lost two officers this year to other departments that offer higher pay and more opportunities. Officer Joseph Lister left in April, about two weeks after the March vote, at which the town Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:23 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, hooksett, police, Allenstown, Candia, recruits, Auburn

• Epsom man dies in crash

  BY JENN McDOWELL A motorcycle accident involving an alleged drunk driver ended in the death of a well-liked Epsom man and New Hampshire Department of Transportation design head. Michael Fudala, 56, chief of final eesign for the DOT’s Bureau of Highway Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:51 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Concord, NH Dept of Transportation, accident

• Sealed minutes to be released

  BY JENN McDOWELL Epsom selectmen have made it a goal this year to chip away at hundreds of files of sealed minutes, to vote on whether to make them public or keep them sealed, said Selectman Joanne Randall. “You’re going to see, this year, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:01 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, selectmen, meeting minutes

• Options to fix Suncook River after shift are daunting

  BY JENN McDOWELL After “100-year” flooding two years in a row, residents in towns along the Suncook River got some answers to questions surrounding the river’s change of course in May 2006, which led to worse flooding in Epsom, Allenstown Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:25 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Suncook River, floods

• Epsom struggles to cut expenses

  BY JENN McDOWELL Another year, another pair of default budgets for Epsom’s school and town expenses. The town must adhere to a budget of $2,469,882, as the proposed $2,882,220 budget was defeated 601-304 on March 11. Epsom is now on its fourth default Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:44 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, schools, budget

• Charron honored in his hometown

  BY GRETA CUYLER Eleven years after Epsom police officer Jeremy Charron died in the line of duty, he was honored Tuesday, March 18, when the Hillsborough Post Office was officially named the Officer Jeremy Todd Charron Post Office. “The town of Hillsborough Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:57 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Merrimack Valley, police, Jeremy Todd Charron, Hillsborough, post office

• Epsom to keep selectmen at three, budgets fail

  BY JENN McDOWELL Epsom’s Board of Selectmen will remain at three seats for at least two more years after voters re-affirmed their 2007 vote to decrease the number of seats on the board. In a 275-495 vote at this year’s election, Epsom voters Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:43 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Merrimack Valley, budget, Board of Selectmen, vote

• Saving Epsom’s open space

  Thanks to the patience and determination of landowners Les and Joan Ottinger and sister Geraldine Priest, 171 acres in Epsom -- including wetlands, a beaver pond, the headwaters of a tributary of the Suncook River, rare rocky ridge habitat, 19 acres of Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Merrimack Valley, Suncook River, Society for the Protection of NH Forests, wetlands, SPNHF

• Roads, police/fire staff top 2008 warrants

  BY SUSAN CLARK A growing population, failing roads and maintaining experienced police and rescue workers have some voters and selectmen eager to get Epsom back on track. About 55 voters turned out to the Feb. 3 deliberative session of Town Meeting. Some Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:22 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, town meeting, Merrimack Valley, police, roads, budget, fire

• Split on size of Epsom board

  BY JENN McDOWELL A recent public hearing on a petitioned warrant article to bring Epsom’s Board of Selectmen back to five seats revealed that many residents who voted to decrease the number of seats to three at last year’s Town Meeting have Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, town meeting, Merrimack Valley, Board of Selectmen

• Default budgets force spending

  BY JENN McDOWELL After several years operating on a default budget, the town of Epsom will see a 22 percent increase in the coming year’s proposed town budget, the majority of that increase devoted to road improvements town officials say have been Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:18 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Merrimack Valley, roads, budget

• Five or three selectmen?

  BY JENN McDOWELL As Epsom’s Town Meeting and elections approach, residents will have to decide whether a three-member or five-member Board of Selectmen is the way to go. Last year, voters passed a petitioned warrant article to cut two seats off Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:56 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, town meeting, Merrimack Valley, selectmen

• Epsom Year in review 2007

  BY JENN McDOWELL Epsom’s elected road agent Gordon Ellis sued selectmen for firing him in October, after they say he failed to obtain authorization for work the Highway Department performed. In the state Superior Court suit, Ellis’ lawyer Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, meeting house, Merrimack Valley, Highway Dept

• Epsom hunter finds and collects 900-pound moose

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE David Giguere said his first few days of the 2007 moose hunt were unsuccessful, and he began to doubt his chances. But patience and perseverance turned unsuccessful into unforgettable. “The one time I wasn’t competing in Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:36 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Merrimack Valley, Moose, hunting

• Two Epsom selectmen refuse to sign off on Highway Dept. expenses

  BY JENN McDOWELL Questions on the town’s invoice-signing policies in Epsom arose after it was determined two selectmen have been withholding their signatures from Highway Department invoices. Nancy Wheeler, in charge of submitting and reviewing Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:35 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, selectman, Merrimack Valley, Highway Dept, Expenses