BY JERRY LIPTAKManchester Central’s football team, rolling along since mid-October, finished flat against Nashua North. The third-seeded Little Green played well on offense and defense against the Titans, but the second-seeded hosts overcame a 12-3 deficit, scored late following a sequence of fumbles and reached the Division I finals with a ...

By Dan O’Brien A head-on crash has killed a Concord couple that was reportedly active in the fight against AIDS and seriously injured an Epsom school teacher. Police say a pickup truck traveling southbound on Route 3A crossed the center line near Hidden Ranch Drive and slammed into a sport utility vehicle on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at about ...

By Kathleen Bailey T.J. Rand, president of the Epsom Historical Society, thought he was preparing for a normal board meeting when he went over Tuesday, Nov. 3, to open the building. “I turned on the lights and looked around, saw the soot on the walls -- it looked like there had been a fire.” He got in his car and drove over to the ...

By Kathleen Bailey George and Karen Reese are expecting a crowd for Thanksgiving this year. How many? Try 100 -- and there’s room for more. The Reeses and their two sons, Ian and Sean, will host their fifth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner Thanksgiving Day in the Epsom Fire Hall. The meal is open to anyone in the Greater Concord area -- ...

By Ginger Kozlowski Very soon Pembroke residents will be notified that it’s time to buy new containers for trash and recyclables. Last March, voters at the Town Meeting agreed to begin a new automated collection system for items to be recycled and for garbage, which will begin this spring. According to the town’s newsletter, the ...

By Ginger KozlowskiIt may not hold any legal power, but 78 citizens are asking the Candia Board of Selectmen and School Board to help them pay their taxes by keeping the property tax rate from increasing. A petition-like form was sent around town in early November and was available in several businesses. It said: “To: “Candia ...

By Dan O’BrienThe Hooksett Police Department, coping with personnel disputes and disciplinary action, spent more than $175,000 in legal fees in fiscal 2009, substantially more than what was spent in some similar-sized communities. “We continue, like other departments, to hold our people accountable,” Chief Stephen Agrafiotis ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThere wasn’t much that could douse the excitement of Chris Laberge, who had just led Manchester Central’s boys soccer team to its first-ever state championship match. One thing – actually a team – was the exception. “The soft side of me, and that is a side that isn’t shown often, feels bad for ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKWhenever a Manchester Central girls soccer player looked up, an Exeter foe loomed large on the Southern New Hampshire University turf. The Blue Hawks smothered the Little Green on Friday, Nov. 6, in the Class L state finale, a 2-0 outcome that doesn’t fully indicate Exeter’s control of the contest, nor do justice to ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThe Manchester Central boys made one final run before leaving the soccer field for the last time in 2009. This time the Little Green didn’t have a ball at their feet, but rather bottles in their hands as they showered their head coach with sparkling cider in celebration of the school’s first-ever boys soccer state ...