BY JENN McDOWELLAllenstown and Pittsfield police busted a heroin ring after a long investigation that ended in the raiding of an Allenstown woman’s apartment on Wednesday, Aug. 20. Police arrested eight people, including a family: two Pittsfield residents who were making runs from an Allenstown apartment back to Pittsfield, three people ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEpsom Police Chief Wayne Preve said he’s lost two officers this year to other departments that offer higher pay and more opportunities. Officer Joseph Lister left in April, about two weeks after the March vote, at which the town inherited its fourth default budget in a row. He took an opening with the Northwood Police ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAn Allenstown man was beaten with a baseball bat by two Manchester men in a road rage incident. Marty Beauliveau, 29, of Allenstown, suffered minor injuries and refused medical treatment after the incident on Route 3 near the intersection of Route 106, according to Pembroke police. An off-duty Henniker police officer who lives ...

BY JENN MCDOWELLTwo Concord residents died in a head-on collision with a car containing two Allenstown residents on Route 28, according to police. According to Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland, the two Concord residents were traveling south in a Kia Spectra when they crossed the center line and collided head on with a Plymouth Neon in the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Allenstown Board of Selectmen has decided to cut more than needed to create a buffer for possible upcoming costs which would include paying for the outside accounting help needed as well as possible spring flooding of the Suncook. There was a $191,996 difference between the default and proposed budgets, but in two meetings ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter the Bow Dispatch Center increased its fees for the four other towns it covers, Allenstown, Epsom and Pembroke are faced with payments that more than double the prior year’s payments for Bow’s services. Despite having to bite the bullet on the fee spike, law enforcement officials from all three towns say the ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The Bow Dispatch Center will see more revenue in the coming year from the four other towns it services as the town attempts to bring the center’s costs for service more in line with its financial capability. It costs about $400,000 to run the dispatch center, said Bow Police Chief Jeff Jaran, and under the new ...

BY JENN McDOWELLTo combat drunk driving around the holidays, local police departments created extra shifts and paid out some overtime for more manpower during Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The police departments in Allenstown, Pembroke and Epsom are part of a task force with Chichester and Bow police as well as the Merrimack County ...

By JENN McDOWELL  Two Manchester residents are being charged with robbing a Subway sandwich shop in Allenstown after a collaboration of police efforts in Allenstown, Hudson, and Nashua revealed that robbery was unrelated to a recent string of Subway robberies in the southern part of the state. Phillip Rawnsley, 30, and Michelle Despres, 22, ...

BY JENN McDOWELLChief convicted of stealing In March, former Allenstown Police Chief James McGonigle entered a guilty plea to stealing thousands of dollars from accounts reserved for the department, the New Hampshire Police Cadet Training Academy and Allenstown Police Association. McGonigle was sentenced to 12 months for one of the charges and ...