BY GRETA CUYLERMaster basketweaver Alice Ogden has been teaching students in Hooksett all about weaving. As the artist-in-residence at Memorial School, Ogden has been visiting art classes and helping each student create a woven “tree star” out of all-natural materials from black ash splints and tree bark. “It opens the kids up ...

BY JENN McDOWELLTwo Hooksett Memorial School classes wrote letters to sick and disabled veterans at Walter Reed Hospital. The cards, created by Robin Githmark’s fifth-grade class and Jacqueline Wood’s thirdgrade class, were to beshipped out soon. Irene Cote, a parent with a child in each class, helped organize the project. She ran ...