BY MATT SCHOOLEY As the fate of a proposed 42-room retreat on Lake JoSilvia remains before Merrimack County Superior Court, questions on who should be able to use the retreat concern residents. Also in question is whether Hopkinton Selectman Tom Congoran should be able to vote on issue, after writing an editorial in The Villager, a paper he ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Melanie Cooper will only serve half of her original sentence. After Cooper pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension, a felony, in the investigation of Eric Windhurst’s 1985 murder of her stepfather, Danny Paquette, she was sentenced in December to three to six years in prison. But after a three-judge panel ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Melanie Cooper will only serve half of her original sentence. After Cooper pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension, a felony charge, in the investigation of Eric Windhurst’s 1985 murder of her stepfather, Danny Paquette of Hooksett, she was sentenced, in December, to three to six years in prison. But after a ...