BY SARAH LEBRUNA New Boston man was found after he went missing for 10 hours on Nov. 12. Leonard “Butch” Cullinane of 114 Beard Road, a 73-year-old man with dementia, was found on the side of the road near Dodge’s Farm Stand shortly before 11 p.m. According to New Boston Police Chief Chris Krajenka, Cullinane was found by ...

By Dan O’Brien Bow Superintendent of Schools Dean Cascadden said attendance levels have returned to normal after a record number of students were absent three weeks ago with flu-like symptoms. The peak level of absences hit Oct. 22 when 378 students, nearly 25 percent of the town’s public school students, called out sick. It was the ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSSchool officials kept a close eye on attendance rolls last week after a spike of absences at Windham Middle School on Nov. 2 with many students complaining of flu-like symptoms. Around 200 students missed class the Monday after Halloween with about half that number reporting a flu-like illness, said Superintendent Frank ...

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BY DERRICK PERKINSWhen John Rufo learned his baby daughter had a cancerous tumor on her kidney, he stepped out of the hospital emergency room and vomited in the parking lot. “How can anything go wrong with a 10-month-old baby, especially my child? It’s such a young age. It’s something that is just unfathomable,” he said. ...

Breathe New Hampshire, a statewide lung health organization, has been awarded a $47,000 contract by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. The contract award was approved by the NHLBI as part of its larger program to improve awareness and understanding of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

By GRETYL MACALASTER Car World Used Auto Parts owner Jeff Kantor did not want the town to have to take money from other departments to pay for emergency mosquito spraying, so he went door to door to local businesses and raised $2,915 to fund the spraying, which began Friday, Sept. 25. “I said I think businesses in town can rally and ...

By JILLIAN JORGENSEN About half of the students at the New Morning Schools in Goffstown and Bedford and in their dozens of after-school programs in southern New Hampshire were out with flu-like symptoms the third week of September, the president of the schools said, but attendance is bouncing back. Illness has not kept many elementary or high ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS After a local pool of mosquitoes turned up positive for Eastern equine encephalitis last week, town officials are again urging residents to take precautions to avoid the insect. According to David Poulson, Windham’s transfer station manager and health officer, town officials learned about the positive test on ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSLocal officials are gearing up preparations to take on the potential outbreak and spread of the H1N1 virus as flu season approaches. “We’re hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst,” said Brian Lockard, the town’s health officer. “We try to recommend recognizing the illness, covering coughs, ...