BY JENN McDOWELLHooksett department heads are going to have a tough time staying within their fuel budgets in the coming year given the default budget they got in March. With both gasoline and diesel fuel topping $4 a gallon right now, fire, police and highway departments are going to have to spend almost double what their fuel budgets will allow ...

BY JENN McDOWELLHooksett voters surprised town officials – and in some cases themselves – with how they decided to spend their money, leaving officials to wonder how to fill town gas tanks and cover other expenses. About 12 percent of registered voters showed up at the Cawley Middle School on Tuesday, May 13, and rejected 508- 468 the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCassie Hobbs of Auburn said she might have gone with other friends from Auburn Village to Derry for high school had she known the sports and art classes she loves at West High School would be struck from the school’s budget for her senior year. “I wouldn’t be in this district if it weren’t for these ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe 60 or so voters who showed up at the deliberative session of Hooksett Town Meeting on Saturday, April 5, sent all monetary warrant articles to the May 13 ballot virtually unchanged, except for a few clarifying amendments. Articles including a $1.5 million sewer expansion bond, hiring two additional firefighters and ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYLong after the snow has melted beneath the warm rays of spring sunshine, New Hampshire towns will still be feeling Mother Nature’s wrath. This time, it won’t be barraging residents from the sky. Instead, it will hit them under their tires. “I was coming from Hannaford the way I come up every day,” said Jane ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Who would have thought a bubbly, unassuming, cookie-serving mom would be at presidential candidate events, educating attendees about wasting the federal budget and what to do about the country’s deficit? Hooksett resident Christine Frydenborg, 37, says it’s one of the most original tools Priorities New Hampshire ...