BY GRETA CUYLERThe town’s insurance company has shelled out $130,000 to settle a suit with two former employees fired for gossiping. Joanne Drewniak and Jessica Skorupski, two of the socalled Hooksett fired four, each received $65,000 for back pay, compensatory damages and attorney’s fees. “This release and settlement of the ...

BY GRETA CUYLERHooksett has reached a financial settlement agreement with two of the four former employees fired last year for gossiping about their boss. According to court documents, former administrative assistants Joanne Drewniak and Jessica Skorupski have ended the case they filed last summer in Merrimack County Superior Court, although the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCabela’s A sporting goods giant had to wait longer than expected to build in Hooksett, as negotiations continued through 2007 for Cabela’s. Hooksett voters had passed an $18 million general obligation bond to bring Cabela’s, national hunting and sporting chain, into town off Exit 11 in 2006. The bond was for a ...

By: Jenn McDowell As 2007 comes to a close, we take a look back on the year. One issue common to many towns in the Banner’s coverage area was the floods that came for a second time in two years. Among our top stories of the year was the Hooksett Town Council’s decision to fire four town employees, which gained international coverage ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNAt least two of Hooksett’s four fired town employees were axed for alleged insubordination, impropriety and dishonesty related to discussing an unfounded rumor that the town’s top staffer, David Jodoin, was having an adulterous affair with another town employee. Nobody, including the four fired employees and at least ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNNearly as many Hooksett residents have signed a petition in support of four fired town employees as voted in the recent town-wide election. In about two weeks, 500 people – compared to the 742 that voted on Tuesday, May 8, town Election Day – have signed a petition asking to reverse the firings of “four longtime ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNParties on both sides of the recent firings at Hooksett Town Hall said they don’t know who leaked information that two fired employees may have been offered their jobs back. The Union Leader reported that 27-year town employee Sandy Piper, who headed the assessing department, and code enforcement officer Michelle Bonsteel, ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNFour former Hooksett town employees who plan to appeal their recent firings were axed for discussing a rumor and using an inappropriate word inside and outside the office, an attorney representing them said. Councilors, meanwhile, still can’t discuss any circumstances surrounding the firings, said Hooksett Town Council ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNPeople on both ends of the recent firing of four Hooksett town employees are remaining tight-lipped, though one of the axed workers said more facts will surface as she and the others fight their dismissal. Sandy Piper, Joanne Drewniak, Michelle Bonsteel and Jessica Skorupski, who composed the assessing and building departments, ...