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• Goffstown selectmen try to protect residents from higher tax bills

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The town budget this year might be good news for people down on their economic luck. The total spending for 2009 would be $21.8 million, a decrease of about $118,000. The Board of Selectmen was presented the budget on Monday, Sept. 8. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:48 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Fire Department, Selectmen, police, budget

• Newest member welcomed to police force

  BY STEPHEN BEALE One of the more recent additions to the force at the Goffstown Police Department might be the only one who rides around in a cage most of the day. But Kjel has some perks other officers don’t: he gets to bite the bad guys. Kjel Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:55 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, canines, K-9

• Police details are over budget

  BY STEPHEN BEALE Police Chief Patrick Sullivan told the Goffstown Board of Selectmen this week that he has exceeded his budget for police details, largely due to the New Hampshire presidential primary. Sullivan said he is already $2,000 over his original Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:02 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, budget, Board of Selectmen, rail trail

• Firefighter’s trial suspended

  BY JENN McDOWELL A Derry District Court judge agreed to suspend the trial for a Goffstown man whom police said drove to the home of what he believed to be his wife’s outside love interest, armed with a gun and a 12-pack of beers. Michael Lescatre, Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:54 PM by Goffstown Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, Manchester, Londonderry, firefighter, Derry, trial

• Dozens of cars vandalized

  BY STEPHEN BEALE Nearly 30 cars at a small dealership on Mast Road were vandalized recently, and police are still looking for suspects. James Harris, the owner of Harris Certified Auto and Truck Sales, said that a number of front and rear car windows Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:27 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, vandalism, cars

• French remembered for dedication to officers, town

  BY STEPHEN BEALE This week marked a changing of the guard at the Goffstown Police Department. Monday, March 31, Michael French served the last day of a 34-year career in law enforcement and saw the end of his tenure as chief. Lt. Pat Sullivan became the Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:54 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, police chief

• Goffstown names new police chief

  BY STEPHEN BEALE Pat Sullivan will replace Michael French as police chief next month. French is retiring on March 31 after nine years as the top law enforcement officer in Goffstown. Sullivan will take over on April 1. “I think I’m pretty Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:59 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, police, police chief

• Chief French plans retirement

  By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – Police Chief Michael French recently announced he’ll be retiring from the post he’s held for nine years, ending a 34-year law enforcement career spent in Goffstown. On April 1, French will go back to being Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:23 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, police, taxes, retirement, town budget, police chief

• Police request more officers

  By Michelle Kim At recent public hearings, the Budget Committee presented its proposed town and school operating budgets and other warrant articles to be discussed at the upcoming February deliberative sessions of Town Meeting. The Jan. 9 public hearing Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:08 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, police, taxes, bud

• Three injured in DUI accident

  By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – A Goffstown man allegedly driving under the influence with a suspended license collided head-on with another Goffstown driver in Manchester, sending her and her elderly mother to the hospital, on Saturday, Jan. 5. Dennis Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:47 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, police, drunk driving, Manchester

• Gunfire – Man accused of shooting gun shuts down portion of Goffstown

  BY MICHELLE KIM A Goffstown man who escaped into the woods for several hours after a domestic argument involving gunfire was caught without incident at a Manchester residence on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Joseph Nolin, 36, and a female resident of Church Street Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:27 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Crime, police

• 5 stores fail alcohol check

  BY MICHELLE KIM Five Goffstown businesses failed alcohol compliance checks by selling alcohol to underage buyers Thursday, Oct. 18. The New Hampshire Bureau of Liquor Enforcement and the Goffstown Police Department ran alcohol compliance checks at more Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:22 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, local business, alcohol

• Crash! – Quiet neighborhood rocked by accident

  BY MICHELLE KIM When Chris and Pat Blanchette saw the black pickup truck gunning towards the side of their house, they couldn’t believe it. Just moments before, they had been quietly relaxing in the living room of that very house – a neat, Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:01 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, crash, accident, court, alcohol

• Right to Know reactions – Town halls best at following spirit of law

  BY DAVE CHOATE Town offices are entrusted with providing information to their residents every day, so it’s little surprise that the offices for Goffstown, Weare, New Boston and Dunbarton fared well in our of Right to Know Law investigation. In Goffstown, Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:41 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Selectmen, police, Weare, New Boston, Dunbarton, local government

• Right to Know reactions – Goffstown, Weare police defend their policies

  BY DAVE CHOATE Two of the four police department we surveyed in last week’s Right to Know study contest our conclusion that they were not following the law. The Goffstown and Weare police departments did not fulfill our request for a log of arrests, Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:39 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, police, Weare, New Boston, Dunbarton, local government