By MATT SCHOOLEYCity school officials are drafting a pay-to-participate policy that would include athletics, a policy that many say would have negative consequences at all three city high schools, but particularly bad at West High School. Facing a budget crisis that could lead to layoffs in the city, Manchester school officials discussed the ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKIEpsom voters were emphatic about keeping the official ballot vote but allowed both town and school budgets to pass as recommended. Everything passed in Hooksett for the school vote, but nearly everything failed in Allenstown. Candia passed a school budget and kept its Budget Committee, but put the town on a default operating ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORHis team’s 24-9 semifinal loss to Nashua South two weeks earlier was tough to swallow, but Ryan Ray and the Central Little Green had little trouble feasting on Memorial this Thanksgiving. CHS served up a 47-6 stuffing in the most recent edition of the Manchester Turkey Bowl on Thursday, Nov. 27. After the contest, Ray ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI A record turnout is likely in the works for the presidential election on Tuesday, Nov. 4, and area police and poll workers are gearing up for the crowds. In Hooksett and Pembroke, police will be enforcing a change in the usual traffic patterns at the school buildings where voting takes place. Police in ...

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 LAUREN SAUSSERHooksett police officer Benjamin Beauchemin, who flipped his car off Cedar Crest Lane in Auburn last spring, was found not guilty of driving while intoxicated by a Candia District Court judge on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Judge David Lefrancois said in his ruling that the state had been unable to prove beyond reasonable doubt that ...

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 ...

EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS Although Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has not been detected in samples taken from around New England this year, officials urge that care be taken to avoid contracting this viral disease, considered to be one of the most deadly mosquito-borne diseases in the United States, according to the U.S. ...

BY JENN McDOWELL As warm summer weather entices people to spend more time outside, state health officials are warning residents to be more aware of the big dangers that lie in wait in the tiniest of organisms. Jason Stull, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ public health veterinarian, said that right now ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEpsom Police Chief Wayne Preve said he’s lost two officers this year to other departments that offer higher pay and more opportunities. Officer Joseph Lister left in April, about two weeks after the March vote, at which the town inherited its fourth default budget in a row. He took an opening with the Northwood Police ...