By KAREN DANDURANTSometime in mid-July, Stan Watson will return to the property he has lived at for more than 10 years, to a brand-new home that was donated to him. Watson’s previous home was destroyed in April 2007. Flood waters sent 3 feet of water through his property. “I got out with a couple of bags of clothes and my dog,” ...

BY JENN McDOWELLTown officials have jumped the first hurdle in buying up homes in the Suncook River floodplain in Allenstown, getting $2.1 million in federal assistance, but there is still a way to go before the town can purchase the homes. “People are going to be lucky if they can make it to the buyout before they’re foreclosed ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Marcia Abbott and Brian Gagne will be happy to be back at home, even if it’s 10 feet in the air. The house on Riverside Park Drive, a small brown cottage-like structure they have dubbed the gingerbread house, was twice ruined in the Suncook River’s spring floods of 2006 and 2007. Flood insurance paid to raise the ...

BY SUSAN WARE A handful of Brookside Terrace residents met on Sunday, June 24, to weigh their options. The issue is that a quarter of their mobile home park sits dangerously close to the Suncook River and has been flooded twice in the past two years. Today, almost three months after the last flood, there are six condemned mobile homes in the ...

Allenstown residents affected by the 2007 floods are invited to a public meeting on Monday, June 18, at 6:30 p.m., at the Allenstown Elementary School on Main Street to discuss the role dams play in the Suncook River watershed.   There will be a representative from the state Department of Environmental Services – Dam Bureau available ...