BY DAVE CHOATE The Grasmere Town Hall may look like it is in the midst of a major renovation, but at the moment the changes are mostly cosmetic. Until money meant for the building is freed up, it will likely remain that way. Right now, the first floor is home to meeting rooms and Merri Loo preschool, but it’s the potential of the second ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Just five years before The Goffstown News swung into business, a mysterious man from Manchester came by the town with a camera and an unusual mission. Arthur Blackman took hundreds of pictures of houses, roads and trees throughout the town. The only thing he left behind after his whirlwind tour of the town were yellowed ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Back in its infancy in 1957, The Goffstown News cost $4 for a year’s subscription, was housed on Main Street and covered Francestown in addition to five other towns. On its 50th anniversary, many things have changed at the paper, but it still carries the same name. The Goffstown News began its life on Main Street under the ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY It might be an understatement to refer to Goffstown’s Ben and Jane Hampton as “patriotic” Americans. Both have traced their roots back to Revolutionary War soldiers, visited all but one of the major Civil War battlefields and, on Thursday, July 4, the two were asked to make a presentation at Hopkinton’s ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY It might be an understatement to refer to Goffstown’s Ben and Jane Hampton as “patriotic” Americans. Both have traced their roots back to Revolutionary War soldiers, visited all but one of the major Civil War battlefields and, on Thursday, July 4, the two were asked to make a presentation at Hopkinton’s ...