WINDHAM – Windham Parks and Recreation has set the annual tree-lighting festivities for Saturday, Dec. 5. Santa will arrive to the Town Hall area by fire truck escorted by the Salem High marching band and color guard. He will be located in the cable studio for free photos. The Windham Community Band will play from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The Boy ...

PELHAM – The Pelham Good Neighbor Fund committee is asking for your financial support to help individuals and families during Christmas with food, clothing and toys for the children. There are so many families in Pelham who are going to need help this year because of the tough economic times that have resulted in loss of jobs along with the ...

BY DARRELL HALENWINDHAM – Louise Peltz and her family and friends have used a variety of ways to promote the Windham Turkey Trot – placing fliers in stores and on mailboxes, sending out press releases, contacting churches, notifying TV stations and web sites, putting up banners, and more. Their multi-faceted outreach has also included ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSAfter a heated two-hour discussion, selectmen tabled a plan to install lighting at Griffin Park until Nov. 23. Windham Baseball Softball League has raised $137,922 to illuminate the parking lot, center walkway and a Little League baseball field with 19 light poles. If completed, the lights would allow the league to schedule night ...

BY SUZANNE D’AMATOTo those of us who live in the Granite State, it’s no surprise that small-town folks have big hearts. With the holiday season almost here, the familiar requests for monetary donations and drives for items of all kinds are being made. The following are just a few examples of how generous donations of money, time and ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSA local man is facing three felony drug charges after officers found a collection of narcotics and a large cache of used syringes in his apartment, police said. Screams led officers to 39- year-old Jason Smith’s 3 Brook Road home Saturday, Nov. 14, at about 10 p.m., where they found him “extremely high on ...

Three generations of Campbells take the mike at SHS BY DERRICK PERKINSIt’s not love of the game that’s drawn three generations of Campbell men to the high school football broadcast booth, but a bond to each other and their hometown. Bernard Howard Campbell was still playing slide trombone in the Salem High School band when his ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSPELHAM – A local elementary school student suffering from an underlying medical condition died from complications related to the H1N1 virus Nov. 17, said state and town officials.  Officials did not release many details about the child, but Pelham resident Michael Koch identified the boy as Justin May, a fifth-grader ...

The Pelham-Windham Razorbacks fourth-grade football team remained unbeaten and closed within one win of the New England regional championship following a 31-7 regional semifinal-round victory against the Nipmuc Warriors of Central Massachusetts on Saturday, Nov. 14. That triumph followed a 25-6 state championship defeat of the rival Salem Rams on ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORFor years, Salem has been an 18-wheeler chugging down the Division I football freeway. SHS, frequently a powerful force, often seemed poised to flatten the competition, only to watch speedy Pinkerton Academy blaze past, garnering title after title – nine total – in a 23-year span. In fact, the Astros entered this ...