BY JENN McDOWELLAfter several years of planning, the beautification of the Epsom traffic circle is set to begin this month. The circle, at the intersection of the Suncook Valley Highway and Dover Road, has long been thought of as the center of Epsom, with businesses springing up around it. In 2007, the state officially renamed the circle The ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEpsom and Pembroke will hope to see some lower health insurance costs for town employees after they agreed to share costs with some neighboring towns. The Suncook Valley Regional Town Association, made up of representatives from Epsom, Pembroke, Chichester, Pittsfield and Barnstead, has asked the Local Government Center, which ...

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 McDOWELLEpsom could get about $20,000 in federal aid for damages the town suffered during the July 24 tornado after President George Bush reconsidered his decision not to include the New Hampshire counties of Merrimack and Strafford in his FEMA relief package for the incident. Gov. John Lynch pushed the president through the Federal ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAn Epsom man is facing charges after police found over $100,000 worth of stolen dirt bikes, snowmobiles, tractors, and an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on his property. Jerry Dupont, 42, of 32 Range Road in Epsom, was arrested at his home on Tuesday, Aug. 12, after Pembroke and Epsom police executed a search warrant resulting from a ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAn Epsom kayaker came dangerously close to drowning on Sunday, Aug. 10, when his kayak got stuck on a fallen tree in the Suncook River. It took rescue crews about 45 minutes to get to Dennis Jenkerson, 43, who was clinging to the tree as the waters, swollen from the recent rains, rushed by him. Epsom Police Chief Wayne Preve said ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKITen days after a tornado touched down in Epsom and then went on a 50-mile path of destruction, residents were still busy cleaning up. Robert White, 70, was employing lumberjack skills he learned as a young man, chopping up the several 100-foot trees the wind blew down in front of his house. “I was in the garage, looked ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAs residents in Epsom sort through their tree-strewn yards with boggled minds, meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, are trying to make sense of the shocking strength and stubborn resilience of the tornado that sustained a 50-mile-long path through 11 New Hampshire towns on Thursday, July 24. In Deerfield ...

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 ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERA Concord woman was arrested Friday, Aug. 1, for setting fire to a storage barn that caused more than $100,000 in damage, her way of getting back at her estranged husband, officials said. “I don’t believe she was trying to destroy materials. I think she was just trying to destroy her ex-husband,” Epsom Fire ...