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• Property taxes up in Epsom despite school cuts

  By Kathleen Bailey The Department of Revenue Administration has set Epsom’s tax rate for 2009. Residents can expect to see an increase of 39 cents per $1,000, in a year where the town portion of the bill went up and the school portion went down. Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:37 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Department of Revenue, taxes

• Vandalism has Epsom police on alert

  By Kathleen Bailey The Epsom Police Department is responding to several recent incidents of vandalism, though Police Chief Wayne Preve warns that the nature of the crime makes it difficult to pin down a perpetrator. While the vandalism is not widespread, Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:16 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, police, vandalism

• Grant may be part answer to shifting Suncook River

  By KATHLEEN D. BAILEY The town of Epsom has completed its paperwork for a grant which Department of Environmental Services river specialist Steve Landry said will put the town and the Suncook River on a better course following the “Mother’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:46 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Suncook River, floods

• Help still needed to finish historic building

  By Kathleen Bailey Richard Frambach made a sweeping gesture that took in the rebuilt deck area at the Epsom Historic Meetinghouse. “This is what they call a ‘reception deck,’” he said. “There’s room for people to line Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:27 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Epsom, historic, Meetinghouse

• Residents say part of historic wall is missing and town should replace it

  When is a stone wall not a stone wall, what do you do about it, and who pays? The town of Epsom is grappling with this issue after long-time residents Edward and Glenna Nutter alleged that DBU, a construction firm hired by the town to repair roads after Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:17 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, selectman, historic

• Epsom Old Home Day tradition

  By Kathleen Bailey Epsom is throwing itself a party, and you’re all invited. Gary Perry, the new chairman of the Epsom Old Home Day celebration, has been working to get Webster Park ready for the annual celebration of all things Epsom. Perry, who Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Webster Park, Old Home Day, festival

• A year after shocking event, recovery continues

  By Kathleen Bailey Last year on July 24, Epsom Selectmen Chairman Bob Blodgett was investigating a blasting complaint when his wife, Anne, called, informing him that a tree was down on Goboro Road. Blodgett went to Goboro Road, discovered that the downed Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:34 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, tornado, recovery

• Epsom Town Offices face end of lease; selectmen hope for permanent home

  By Kathleen Bailey Lee Bartlett, welfare administrator for Epsom, puts out a sign when she’s meeting with a client. It reads, “Please meet with the next available clerk,” and she props it up several feet away from her office and Town Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:37 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, selectmen, Town offices

• Epsom Town Band carries on long tradition

  By Kathleen Bailey The band members, all in concert black-and-white, tuned up as the setting sun flashed off their golden trumpets and trombones. As parents set up their lawn chairs or blankets, their children ran to the nearby playground, while younger Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:34 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Town Band, Webster Park, concerts

• Goboro Road plan criticized

  By Kathleen Bailey The proposed Towle Farm Estates housing development off Goboro Road, near the Epsom/Chichester line, is receiving critical reviews so far from a cross-section of Epsom residents. Developer Roger Bartlett hopes to put 42 single-family Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:29 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Epsom, traffic, development, water, Planning Board

• No money to fix Suncook River

  By Kathleen Bailey Steve Landry, Merrimack County Watershed Supervisor, has a simple answer for when the Suncook River should have been stabilized: “About two years ago,” the staff member of the Department of Environmental Services said. But Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:39 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, pembroke, Suncook River, Department of Environmental Services

• Epsom Central School has computerized check-in system

  By Kathleen Bailey Epsom Central School parent Tracy Rondeau moved the mouse over the computer screen of the school’s new computerized registration system, and clicked the red “finished” icon. Rondeau, who will have four children in Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:16 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Epsom Central School, registration, computers

• Big toys for big boys at the tractor pull in Epsom

  By Kathleen D. Bailey Rick Belanger maneuvered his vintage John Deere tractor in a 360-degree turn. “I have to go add more weight,” he said. Belanger wasn’t going off to drink a milkshake. He was adding weight to the rear of the machine Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:07 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Epsom, tractor pull

• Three stabbed at party in Epsom

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER An Epsom party that reportedly became “out of control” ended with the stabbings of three people, all of whom were brought to hospitals in Concord. One teenage victim from Epsom remained in critical condition on March 30 in Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:55 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Epsom, Concord, police, Allenstown, assault, stabbing

• Epsom keeps SB-2 - Allenstown says ‘no’ to almost everything

  BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Epsom voters were emphatic about keeping the official ballot vote but allowed both town and school budgets to pass as recommended. Everything passed in Hooksett for the school vote, but nearly everything failed in Allenstown. Candia Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:23 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Epsom, hooksett, Allenstown, Candia, Auburn, SB2, voting