BY DAN O'BRIEN Neighbors of a convicted child rapist whose house is within feet of a school bus stop say their concerns are falling on deaf ears. Gayle Gillespie says there was no police officer patrolling the bus stop on Monday, Sept. 28 -- something a police captain said would happen every day at the previous Town Council meeting on ...

By Ginger Kozlowski An investigation by the Merrimack County Sheriff into whether the Hooksett Police Department tried to hide the existence of safe school reports or cover up safety issues in Hooksett public schools has found no such coverup exists. However, the report also took the Hooksett Police Commission and Hooksett Police Department to ...

BY DAN DeCONINCK and MATT SCHOOLEYCell phones – it seems like everyone has them. After all, this is the age of technology, and being without mobile capability is like being without shoes – you could probably make it through the day barefoot, but you certainly wouldn’t like it. Everywhere you look, cell phones are present: in ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERPopular ad campaigns aside, if 13-year-old Aidan White had his pick, he said he would choose a Mac. “I think it’s a little bit easier and quicker,” Aidan said, discussing the pros and cons of PCs and Macintosh computers as his seventh-grade French class at Cawley Middle School worked on multimedia presentations. ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKITo some parents, where Hooksett police officer Jason Defina spends his time is a matter of safety. To some residents, it’s a matter of money and where it gets spent. To school officials, it’s about keeping a valuable program running. And to Hooksett Police Chief Stephen Agrafiotis, it’s a choice between ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett Police Department needs more officers on the street and – to that end – it is pulling the town’s school resource officer out of the schools and onto the road. Hooksett Police Chief Steve Agrafiotis said personnel issues dictate that the department’s school resource officer will ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERHooksett Schools Superintendent Charles “Phil” Littlefield is looking at what the district has been spending on energy costs and is more than a little worried. With sky-high gas prices sure to set in this winter, the picture isn’t looking any brighter, either. “The problem we’re facing is that a year ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter just about a year of studying the elementary levels of the Hooksett School District, the School Board’s Long Range Planning Committee came back with the conclusion that the town would need another school in the next 15 to 20 years, according to enrollment projections. They also concluded the district would need to do ...

BY JENN McDOWELLJust how crowded will Hooksett’s schools be in the future? Will the town need another elementary school? What about building a high school? The Hooksett School Board’s Long Range Planning Committee has been working to answer these questions, to be reported to the community soon. Committee members will reveal their ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Hooksett Memorial School and Allenstown Elementary School have joined the list of schools in need of improvement following state testing results. Several local schools were either added to or maintained their positions on the New Hampshire Department of Education’s “school in need of improvement” list ...