BY JENN McDOWELLFor many families whose homes were ravaged by the flooding of the past two years, there is finally a ray of hope. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $2.1 million in grants to the town for the purpose of buying out 14 homes along the Suncook River affected by the floods. The town now has to secure the rest of the ...

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 JENN McDOWELL  The Federal Emergency Management Agency is funding an independent study on the 2006 and 2007 flooding of New Hampshire rivers. The Suncook River is one of the prime focus areas of the study, which will look into the differences between the two flooding episodes, possible reasons for the excessive flooding and ways to ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNKen Rowe bought a shiny new Mercury Comet in 1965. Forty-one years later, in May 2006, floodwaters ripping through his low-lying neighborhood off Riverside Park Drive got as high as the Comet’s roof. Still, Rowe, a former teacher with no flood insurance for his home of nearly three decades, pledged to get the Comet running ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNRoads closed, bridges washed away and hundreds of residents were forced to abandon their homes to find safer ground once again as a spring nor’easter ravaged the state. And in Allenstown, in a low-lying neighborhood that’s been perpetually abused by flooding, five people were arrested by press time for disorderly ...