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• Report shows Hooksett Safety Center needs millions in repairs

  By Eddie Wilson A report detailing problems at the Hooksett Safety Center proposes between $500,000 and $3.5 million in repairs. The building housing the police and fire stations has been plagued with problems since it was built in 1996, with leaks and Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:02 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, Safety Center, fire department, Health & Fitness, repairs

• Hooksett Safety Center to be fixed

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett Safety Center on Legends Drive may have been leaky since the first year it opened 12 years ago, but town officials have decided now is the time to do something about it. Interim Town Administrator Carol Granfield said the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:21 PM by Hooksett Editor | 4 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Safety Center, fire department, Police Department, repairs

• Hooksett’s first full-time fire chief, Ray O’Brien, dies

  BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Hooksett’s first full-time fire chief, Raymond James O’Brien, 70, died on Monday, Jan. 12, of cancer, surrounded by loved ones. James Sullivan, currently a Hooksett School Board member, remembered O’Brien as a “nononsense” Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:03 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, fire department, Fire Chief

• Dogs save man from burning home

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER If it wasn’t for two insistent boxers, Hooksett resident Edmond Nadeau is convinced he would have died in the fire that consumed his house on Friday, Dec. 5. Luckily for him, it was the dogs, named Mooshu and Kiara, that nudged Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:45 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, fire department, fire

• Fuel prices hit Hooksett hard

  BY JENN McDOWELL Hooksett department heads are going to have a tough time staying within their fuel budgets in the coming year given the default budget they got in March. With both gasoline and diesel fuel topping $4 a gallon right now, fire, police and Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:02 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, budget, fire department, Highway Department, fuel

• Town Meeting debates sewer, cable TV needs

  BY JENN McDOWELL The 60 or so voters who showed up at the deliberative session of Hooksett Town Meeting on Saturday, April 5, sent all monetary warrant articles to the May 13 ballot virtually unchanged, except for a few clarifying amendments. Articles Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:37 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town meeting, voting, budget, fire department, sewer expansion

• Hooksett to consider sewer plant expansion

  BY JENN McDOWELL Among the items Hooksett voters will discuss at Town Meeting on Saturday, April 5, are a $1.5 million bond for sewer plant upgrades, two new trucks for the Highway Department, raises for nonunionized town employees, additional staff for Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:52 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Hooksett, town meeting, sewers, voting, fire department, Highway Department, public access TV, sewer plant

• Global-positioning satellite is searchers’ newest tool

  By JENN McDOWELL The search for a missing Hooksett man could have been a lot more difficult without new technology said Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland. Searchers looking for any sign of Russell Bussiere, 70, in Bear Brook State Park earlier Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:06 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Hooksett, Police, rescue, fish and game, fire department