BY STEPHEN BEALEThe voters have had their say, now the town must carry out their wishes. On Monday, March 17, the Board of Selectmen poured over the results of the March 11 town election. The message the public sent about the Fire Department was clear: the town can expand it as long as it does so in small steps, not giant leaps. Previous ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAs Epsom’s Town Meeting and elections approach, residents will have to decide whether a three-member or five-member Board of Selectmen is the way to go. Last year, voters passed a petitioned warrant article to cut two seats off the board, meaning only three people would be elected this March. The petitioners had hoped to ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYWhile Hopkinton residents will cast votes for town and school officials as well as budgets in March, Bow voters will wait until May to make their choices. Bow School District Meeting, however, continues to take place at its traditional time of the year, on March 14. Hopkinton Those interested in running for office in Hopkinton ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYWeeks after Bow selectmen voted to keep the Celebrating Children preschool a town-supported program, town members and officials are divided over alleged bigotry and political misunderstanding. During the Nov. 28 meeting, about 75 supporters showed up to tell selectmen why they do not believe the school should be asked to switch to ...

BY MICHELLE KIMDunbarton saw some of the same themes reemerge from 2006 – issues such as the SB2 ballot, gas pumps at Page’s Corner, the completion of the hearse housing. But 2007 also saw a number of changes particularly in the police department with the departure of Police Chief Jeff Nelson and promotion of executive officer Chris ...

BY MICHELLE KIM2007 got off to an inauspicious start for Weare with a fivehour standoff on Jan. 11 between police and an armed and allegedly suicidal Weare man who recently lost his job. William Lambroukos shot the telephones inside his house with a shotgun and was eventually driven out with pepper spray, accidentally shooting himself in the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYAbout 70 supporters of Bow’s Celebrating Children preschool got the vote they had hoped for, as the Bow Board of Selectmen unanimously decided to keep it a town program. The 5-0 vote during the Wednesday, Nov. 28, meeting assured Celebrating Children will not be asked to become a private group. To cut the budget, board ...

BY MICHELLE KIMAfter three months of study, the Ethics Policy Study Committee concluded in a recently presented report that a standing ethics board was unnecessary but recommended that Goffstown have an ethics policy, largely for educational purposes. The committee presented its findings and a draft Proposed Goffstown Disclosure and Conflict of ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThe Hopkinton Board of Selectmen accepted a long list of gifts from town members to clear the books of any donations that have not properly been received since 2002. Laws require donations of more than $5,000 to the town be accepted during a public hearing. Some felt the Slusser Center donation was not properly accepted two years ...

BY DARRELL HALENThe chairman of the Pelham Board of Selectmen, Ed Gleason, has resigned from the board. Gleason announced he was leaving the board near the end of its Tuesday, Oct. 9 meeting. His resignation took effect the next day. It was a move, he wrote in his resignation letter, that was made with “sincere regret and great ...