By Eddie Wilson A report detailing problems at the Hooksett Safety Center proposes between $500,000 and $3.5 million in repairs. The building housing the police and fire stations has been plagued with problems since it was built in 1996, with leaks and other issues. The report notes these problems can result in “sick building ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThe Hooksett Safety Center on Legends Drive may have been leaky since the first year it opened 12 years ago, but town officials have decided now is the time to do something about it. Interim Town Administrator Carol Granfield said the building, currently experiencing plumbing, electrical and water problems, has been inspected by ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKIHooksett’s first full-time fire chief, Raymond James O’Brien, 70, died on Monday, Jan. 12, of cancer, surrounded by loved ones. James Sullivan, currently a Hooksett School Board member, remembered O’Brien as a “nononsense” fire chief. “Mr. O’Brien was fire chief when I was on the Town ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSER If it wasn’t for two insistent boxers, Hooksett resident Edmond Nadeau is convinced he would have died in the fire that consumed his house on Friday, Dec. 5. Luckily for him, it was the dogs, named Mooshu and Kiara, that nudged him awake from the first-floor room where he had been sleeping, giving Nadeau just enough time ...

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 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 JENN McDOWELLAmong the items Hooksett voters will discuss at Town Meeting on Saturday, April 5, are a $1.5 million bond for sewer plant upgrades, two new trucks for the Highway Department, raises for nonunionized town employees, additional staff for the Highway and Fire Departments, and starting up a public access TV station. They will also ...

By JENN McDOWELL  The search for a missing Hooksett man could have been a lot more difficult without new technology said Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland. Searchers looking for any sign of Russell Bussiere, 70, in Bear Brook State Park earlier this month used global positioning satellite, or GPS, devices and a high-tech mapping ...

By JENN McDOWELL Hooksett police found a man lost in the woods off Chester Turnpike after the man called in and reported that he was lost and disoriented. The call came in on Sunday, Nov. 25, at 3:17 p.m., from Scott Tenney’s cell phone, according to police. Tenney, 26, of Manchester, said he had become lost in the woods while hunting ...