The New Hampshire Avalanche Squirt ’98 AAA team rolled through the Metro Boston Hockey League regular season, posting 35 wins without a loss. The postseason was no different. The top-seeded Avs, coached by Mike Potvin; his assistant coaches, Joe Silva, Mark Leach and Gary Saklad; and goaltender coches Bill McWhinnie and Bryan Ash, ...

BY STEPHEN BEALETurnout was low but voter satisfaction was high in the school and town elections earlier this week. All the warrant articles on the town and school ballots passed on Tuesday. Most were by comfortable margins, including a $3.7 million operating budget for the town and a $10.2 million operating budget for the school district. In ...

By Michelle Kim   NEW BOSTON – An aging sluiceway, a proposed footbridge and confusion over procedural issues took up most of the discussion at the deliberative session of Town Meeting on Feb. 4. About 40 residents attended the meeting, which lasted more than four hours. A pair of citizen petition articles regarding a clogged ...

By Michelle Kim NEW BOSTON – It’s Winter Carnival time again in New Boston. On Saturday, Feb. 2, area residents can look forward to a day filled with winter activities topped off with the highlight of the evening, the lip sync singing contest. The day’s outdoor activities, in the field behind the town hall, ...

By Michelle Kim NEW BOSTON – Along with the operating budget, voters can expect warrant articles expanding tax exemptions for elderly and disabled and updates to the solid waste ordinances at the Feb. 4 deliberative session of Town Meeting. The proposed operating budget of approximately $3.7 million is about 8.7 percent higher than ...

By Michelle Kim NEW BOSTON – The departure of yet another New Boston police officer may have opened the door for the Police Department to eventually meet its basic scheduling needs. And that news has Chief Chris Krajenka elated. At the Jan. 5 meeting, the Finance Committee decided to approve Krajenka’s request for a new full-time ...

By Michelle Kim  NEW BOSTON – Normally around this time of year, when snow blankets the ground and Granite State residents fight icy winds and roads, Cyndie Katz is someplace a bit warmer. – like Mexico. For the past 10 years, the Katz family has split their time between Morelia, Mexico, and New Boston, heading south from ...

BY MICHELLE KIMFor many residents in Goffstown, Weare and New Boston, 2007 had a strong a sense of deja vu. Few would have thought a 100-year flood would happen two years in a row. But it did. Here’s a look at a few events in New Boston: Rose Meadow Farm, a residential care facility for clients 18 and older with brain and spinal cord ...

By Michelle Kim A proposal for a new fire station in 2013 was introduced into the Capital Improvements Program plan to the tune of $1.8 million This CIP plan calls for a 10,132-square-foot building, nearly twice the size of the present station, with 10 vehicle bays, no dorms and would be paid for with a bond that includes $300,000 for the cost ...

BY MICHELLE KIMA fire destroyed a barn filled with hay and goats, Saturday, Nov. 10, killing 125 animals trapped inside and burning down the side wing of the nearby house, according to the New Boston Fire Department. Upon responding to a call shortly after 9:30 p.m., the New Boston Fire Department found the three-story, 2,525-square-foot barn at ...