BY GINGER KOZLOWSKIEpsom 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 passed a school budget and kept its Budget Committee, but put the town on a default operating ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThe Hooksett Town Council unanimously voted to end the town’s relationship with Tri- Town Ambulance and create the town’s own ambulance service, beginning in July 2010. Hooksett currently contracts for emergency response services with Tri-Town for $79,880 per year. Tri-Town also serves Pembroke and Allenstown. The ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKIHooksett District Court was on the list of the governor’s budget cuts, but was removed from that list shortly after it was announced. To cut costs, Gov. John Lynch proposed consolidating eight district courts and save nearly $2 million a year. Critics said the plan would drive up salary and fuel costs for police forced to ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI A record turnout is likely in the works for the presidential election on Tuesday, Nov. 4, and area police and poll workers are gearing up for the crowds. In Hooksett and Pembroke, police will be enforcing a change in the usual traffic patterns at the school buildings where voting takes place. Police in ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY With Halloween arriving, not all students will be getting tricks or treats in the classroom, as many schools have shifted away from traditional festivities. One school that has done away with Halloween festivities is Hooksett’s Fred C. Underhill School, as Assistant Principal Ralene St. Pierre said the school has been ...

BY JENN McDOWELLJust as Allenstown wins federal assistance to buy up to 14 homes severely damaged in the past two years’ floods, it – and many other towns throughout the state – ended up sopping wet after Hanna hit. The tropical storm swept up the coastline and through New England quickly, the first downpour hitting the state in ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Last year, Auburn’s Joey Dudek rode his arm and leg to Gillette Stadium – and very nearly the Super Bowl. Dudek, who won the 10- and 11-year-old division of the local Pepsi Punt, Pass and Kick competition last August, also triumphed at the sectional competition in Bristol, R.I., and then the regional ...

EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS Although Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has not been detected in samples taken from around New England this year, officials urge that care be taken to avoid contracting this viral disease, considered to be one of the most deadly mosquito-borne diseases in the United States, according to the U.S. ...

BY JENN McDOWELL As warm summer weather entices people to spend more time outside, state health officials are warning residents to be more aware of the big dangers that lie in wait in the tiniest of organisms. Jason Stull, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ public health veterinarian, said that right now ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEpsom Police Chief Wayne Preve said he’s lost two officers this year to other departments that offer higher pay and more opportunities. Officer Joseph Lister left in April, about two weeks after the March vote, at which the town inherited its fourth default budget in a row. He took an opening with the Northwood Police ...