BY JENN McDOWELLHooksett was without emergency response lines three times over the past few weeks, and the town is going to meet with the line carrier, One Communications, to discuss the glitches. The outages happened on June 25, June 28 and July 11, said Hooksett police Capt. Jon Daigle, resulting in periods of about an hour in which the ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKThrough five innings on July 9, Salem American proved a most inhospitable District- 1 Little League host, keeping Hooksett’s 11- and 12-yearold all-stars from threatening its house. Strong pitching, flawless fielding and timely hitting gave the home team a 4-0 edge. Prior to the top of the sixth and final inning, Hooksett ...

BY JENN McDOWELLJeannette Valliere bought her small, modest home at 5 Hunt St. in Hooksett in 2003. A single mom with three kids, she had no idea what being a homeowner entailed until she went though homeowner’s education classes at NeighborWorks Greater Manchester. With financial help from the United States Department of Agriculture and ...

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 LAUREN SAUSSERSixteen months after four women were fired from town government jobs for gossiping about their boss, the Hooksett Town Council may now adopt an official code of ethics and conduct. The document, still in draft form, would apply to all town employees, committee members, volunteers and elected officials. In its current state, the ...

Snow White at the Puritan

Hooksett, sponsored by Granite State Physical Therapy, completed an 11-0 season by beating Dunbarton twice, then coming from behind to defeat Merrimack Vlley, 19-11, in the Hooksett Invitational Tournament. Behind the pitching of Sam Desaulniers, who collected seven strikeouts, Hooksett beat Dunbarton, 10-2. Desaulniers, Amber Young and Emily ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThe Hooksett 11- and 12-year-old Little League all-star bats were slowed for the first three innings of a District-1 losers bracket game at Plaistow. But a mid-game acceleration in bat speed mirrored the rapidly increasing numbers on the visitors’ side of the scoreboard. Hooksett scored 11 runs in the final three frames en ...

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 ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI If there’s one person who’s doing well in this changing economy, it’s John Labbe. Labbe is the owner of Hearth Designs in Hooksett, and he sells pellet stoves, wood stoves, fireplaces and other heating-related items. With people looking for alternatives to heating with oil, he said pellet stoves ...