BY JENN McDOWELL A total of 61 Dunbarton voters attended a special town meeting and voted by secret ballot whether to establish a revolving fund for special police details. Only eight votes made the difference, with 34 voting in favor of setting up the detail account and 26 voting against it at the Friday, May 9, meeting. “I think ...

BY JENN McDOWELLDunbarton taxpayers will have to pay twice as much for emergency dispatch services in the coming year. After pondering a tight budget 2008-09 year, the town of Bow will seek more revenue from Bow Dispatch Service fees collected from Dunbarton, Allenstown, Pembroke and Epsom, the four towns the dispatch center serves. Dunbarton ...

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 ...

DUNBARTON – Several Dunbarton Police employees were recognized for their outstanding effort and performance during a September structure fire at an employee recognition ceremony on Dec. 17. On Sept. 22, the Dunbarton Police Department received a report of a structure fire at 1194 Montalona Road. The on-duty officer covering the shift ...

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 KIM Residents will see a lower overall property tax rate this year, due in large part to a drop in the school portion of the tax rate. This year’s tax rate has been set at $14.56 per $1,000 of assessed value, which is 11.5 percent lower than last year’s rate of $16.46. This means the owner of a $200,000 home would be ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY As flames and smoke poured out of Keith Bernard’s Dunbarton garage and barn, he and his fiancee didn’t have time to think. The couple could only act. The four-alarm blaze on Saturday, Sept. 22, ripped through the property, but as the flames grew, Bernard and Sheri Nuanez ran in and out of the barn to rescue their 11 ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Town offices are entrusted with providing information to their residents every day, so it’s little surprise that the offices for Goffstown, Weare, New Boston and Dunbarton fared well in our of Right to Know Law investigation. In Goffstown, our reporter dealt with Board of Selectmen executive secretary Kathryn Fisher and ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Two of the four police department we surveyed in last week’s Right to Know study contest our conclusion that they were not following the law. The Goffstown and Weare police departments did not fulfill our request for a log of arrests, while Dunbarton and New Boston both complied. Goffstown Police Chief Michael French ...

BY DAVE CHOATE John Levasseur is still in training, but he’s found a home with the town’s Police Department. “The training has been awesome so far. The easiest part is dealing with and communicating with people, and I’m really enjoying that,” he said. On July 31, Levasseur was sworn in as a full-time police ...