BY JENN McDOWELL In his senior year playing for the Pelham High School Pythons, running back Robby Maille rushed for about 1,500 yards, said athletic director and Maille’s coach, Tim Powers. He also scored more than 20 touchdowns that year, two stats that are both rare for high school football running backs and telling of the ...

BY JENN McDOWELL A 16-year-old Pelham High School student was arrested on the second day of school for allegedly bringing narcotics into the school to sell them to other students. The student’s name is not being released because he is a juvenile. Police are pursuing charges through Salem Family Court for possession of a controlled ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Tom Babaian isn’t looking for his team to replicate what it accomplished last season, but he does hope it ends with his football team holding a championship plaque for a second consecutive year. Babaian’s Pelham Pythons completed their undefeated 2007 campaign with a state title, and the team returns some ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Pelham police called in the region’s special operations unit to negotiate with a 31-year-old man after they heard what they at first believed to be a gunshot coming from inside a home on Victoria Circle and could not get the man to come to the door. While the Southern New Hampshire Special Operations Unit was ...

BY CHRISTINE HEISER Elsie Talanian, longtime Salem Observer employee and town icon, is retiring. One of the most familiar faces in town, Elsie, 88, cites health reasons for stepping down from her position, which she’s held for 42 years. She’s known to readers for her column, “A Chat With Elsie,” a folksy ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS Facing rising costs and potentially restricting budget constraints for next year, Fire Chief Michael Walker remains supportive of a move by selectmen to keep the budget under control. “They’re taking on the responsibility and following what they feel is a public mandate to try and find out what’s the ...

The New Hampshire Historic Resource Council has added the Pelham Library and Memorial Building in Pelham to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places. The register is part of the state’s efforts to recognize and encourage public and private efforts to identify and protect historically significant properties throughout ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS After more than a decade of battling the rampant poverty, crime and pollution of Haiti with friends and family, Pat Jussaume has no plans to stop bringing aid to the Caribbean nation. Jussaume, a Pelham resident, said it is the country’s orphaned children that has kept her and a group of contractors, handymen ...

BY RYAN O’CONNOR Last year, Auburn’s Joey Dudek rode his arm and leg to Gillette Stadium – and very nearly the Super Bowl. Dudek, who won the 10- and 11-year-old division of the local Pepsi Punt, Pass and Kick competition last August, also triumphed at the sectional competition in Bristol, R.I., and then the regional ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS A 23-year-old man was hospitalized after a physical altercation with two detectives outside of a Rite-Aid pharmacy. Pelham resident Kevin Henderson – with three warrants already out for his arrest on charges relating to speeding and drug possession – attempted to flee the pharmacy parking lot after two ...