BY LAUREN SAUSSERA family lost almost everything in a two-alarm fire that ravaged their Weare home on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Weare firefighters, the first to arrive on the scene at 11 Cilley Hill Road, said the blaze started about 12:51 p.m. Local trucks arrived within five minutes. Later, teams from Henniker, Bow, Dunbarton, New Boston and Hopkinton ...

BY SARAH LEBRUNThe Dec. 11 ice storm left thousands without power and and curtailed the operation of many businesses and organizations throughout town, including the schools. In New Boston, officials closed the Central School from Dec. 12 to 18. Students went back to school Friday, Dec. 19. SAU 19 Assistant Superintendent of School Brian Balke ...

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 STEPHEN BEALEThree new people are filling the top positions for the school districts of Goffstown, Dunbarton and New Boston this year. They are interim Superintendent Stacy Buckley and assistant superintendents Brian Balke and MaryClaire Barry. Both Buckley and Barry have held other positions in SAU 19, the school administrative unit that ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEKathi Titus, an assistant superintendent for Goffstown, Dunbarton and New Boston, is retiring at the end of this school year. Her departure will coincide with that of Dr. Darrell Lockwood, the 10-year superintendent who is taking the top school administrative position in Tyngsborough, Mass., after this year. The other assistant ...

BY MICHELLE KIM After considering a short list of options, the Dunbarton School Board decided Oct. 3 to remain with the current arrangement for integrated special education preschool programming until more specific information on an in-house program could be gathered. Currently, Dunbarton sends its preschool-aged children requiring special ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Town offices are entrusted with providing information to their residents every day, so it’s little surprise that the offices for Goffstown, Weare, New Boston and Dunbarton fared well in our of Right to Know Law investigation. In Goffstown, our reporter dealt with Board of Selectmen executive secretary Kathryn Fisher and ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Two of the four police department we surveyed in last week’s Right to Know study contest our conclusion that they were not following the law. The Goffstown and Weare police departments did not fulfill our request for a log of arrests, while Dunbarton and New Boston both complied. Goffstown Police Chief Michael French ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Ashley Jennings is preparing to graduate from Goffstown High School, but she’s not sure what that means for her future. Ashley, consistently an honor roll student throughout high school, scored a 400 in reading and 350 in math on her SAT. She also scored poorly on an Army entrance examination. “(Goffstown ...

BY ROD HANSENThe hills and roadways of Dunbarton, Goffstown, New Boston and Weare have long been associated with Gen. John Stark and his family, and a new scenic byway could blanket all those towns with the Stark name. A submission for a General John Stark Scenic Byway has already made it through the first cut of review by the state byways ...