BY STEPHEN BEALEThe town is forming a committee of residents from the Lynchville and Danis Park areas as the first step toward a second application for flood buyouts. The committee will collect information on flood damages for the application. The first applied in 2007 on behalf of about two dozen residents. The buyouts are part of a Federal ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEResidents who have already braved two severe floods are hoping for the best, but bracing for the worst. Last week they met with Gov. John Lynch as he toured neighborhoods in Goffstown at risk of flooding this spring. Several residents said they were ready. Rhonda Scheerders, of 3 Sonny Ave. said she already has piled sandbags ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEFor Jennifer Eaton, it was too good to be true. At age 19, she and her boyfriend had been approved for a mortgage, allowing them to buy a three-room house with an unobstructed view of the meandering Piscataquog River close by. One night, a few weeks later, she sat by the river, wondering how she had been so lucky. “I said, ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEResidents hoping to escape from twiceflooded homes near the Piscataquog River won’t be getting any help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The town has learned that homeowners are not eligible for buyouts from FEMA, according to Sue Desruisseaux, the town administrator. The decision affects about 24 homeowners in ...

By Michelle Kim  GOFFSTOWN – For the Herod family, there truly is no place like home. A year and a half after being driven out of their Danis Park home in the Mother’s Day floods, the Herods were finally able to move back home, into a brand-new modular house donated by an organization called No Place Like Home and built in ...

Flood victim gets a new house in time for new yearBY ROD HANSENLike many elaborate gifts, Matthew Poulin’s Christmas present required some assembly this year. But when all the pieces have been snapped together, Poulin will have something he’s been missing for eight months: a home. Poulin’s father, Al, along with a team of about ...