BY JENN MCDOWELL Candia selectmen want residents to rest assured that their small town will not become the next site of malls and megastores. Just to be sure everyone understands the town’s plans for development by Exit 3 on Route 101, selectmen have set dates for two public hearings on a proposal for a supermarket at that ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY As the fate of a proposed 42-room retreat on Lake JoSilvia remains before Merrimack County Superior Court, questions on who should be able to use the retreat concern residents. Also in question is whether Hopkinton Selectman Tom Congoran should be able to vote on issue, after writing an editorial in The Villager, a paper he ...

BY MATT HERSH A recent zoning decision made by Salem building inspector Sam Zannini has Selectman Pat Hargreaves pushing for a better-defined ordinance about parking commercial vehicles. The ruling bans commercial vehicles from parking in residential driveways, but Hargreaves believes the ordinance is too general in scope. It will unnecessarily ...