BY JILLIAN JORGESENCommunity leaders are hoping to convince the Executive Council and Gov. John Lynch to give widening Route 101 another look for inclusion on the 2010 Ten Year Transportation Improvement Plan. “You’ve got a 1950s road trying to serve 2010 and beyond,” Town Councilor Bill Dermody said Monday, when he sat down ...

BY JILLIAN JORGENSENTown officials and others pleaded their case to representatives from the state Department of Transportation and the Executive Council to put a long-awaited upgrade of Route 101 back on the state’s Ten- Year Transportation Improvement Plan during a public hearing on Sept. 28. The project, which was estimated to cost $7 ...

By STEPHEN BEALEThe town was notified recently it is receiving $1.15 million through the state for a new intersection at Route 101 and Nashua Road. Two-thirds of the money is coming from the federal economic stimulus program. The rest will come out of the state highway fund, according to Town Manager Russ Marcoux. The arrangement is a far better ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe town is pinning its hopes for a new Route 101 and Nashua Road intersection on the federal stimulus program. A local plan to do the work for $1 million was favored by most voters, 1,768-1,016, but it fell short of the necessary twothirds supermajority at the March 10 town election. Town and school officials have said the ...

BY SUSAN CLARKA typo or a misunderstanding may have sealed the fate of the $1 million debt request on the town ballot to make safety improvements to the intersection of Route 101 and Nashua Road. By a 1,768-1,106 vote, article 4 failed to garner two-thirds majority vote on Tuesday, March 10. The article asked voters to agree to spend the $1 ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYState and town officials across New Hampshire have been preparing for the passing of the latest economic stimulus proposal, and now that it’s official, the waiting game begins for potential projects. Several towns in the area began scrambling to finalize plans for projects in hopes that potential stimulus money could help ...