BY DERRICK PERKINS Voters backed candidates with a background in local government for the Charter Commission, giving town employees and elected officials seats on the nine-member board on May 19. The three members of the Board of Selectmen on the ballot, Patrick Hargreaves, Michael Lyons and Chairman Arthur Barnes, won their bids for a spot on ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEEconomic development and private property rights are clashing in a plan for a new church building on land the town thinks is better suited for industry. At its last meeting in June, the Gofftsown Board of Selectmen voted to ask the Zoning Board to reconsider its decision earlier that month to grant a variance to Goffstown Harvest ...

BY JENN McDOWELLWhile Article 9, an amendment to Goffstown’s conservation district, passed at elections on March 11, contention over the map posted on the town’s Web site and a resulting revision to it surfaced before and after the vote. The new district, which adds in surface water retentions that are contiguous with previously ...