By PATRICK O’NEILL Working with rockets is no easy business. But one group of students from Dunbarton has already become experts. This club, made up of eight middle and high school students from Weare, Dunbarton, and Hill, will compete in the ARLISS project in September, a program that allows students to build and launch a scientific ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERA family lost almost everything in a two-alarm fire that ravaged their Weare home on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Weare firefighters, the first to arrive on the scene at 11 Cilley Hill Road, said the blaze started about 12:51 p.m. Local trucks arrived within five minutes. Later, teams from Henniker, Bow, Dunbarton, New Boston and Hopkinton ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY With Halloween arriving, not all students will be getting tricks or treats in the classroom, as many schools have shifted away from traditional festivities. One school that has done away with Halloween festivities is Hooksett’s Fred C. Underhill School, as Assistant Principal Ralene St. Pierre said the school has been ...

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 RYAN O'CONNOR Arielle Turcotte, who plans to pursue culinary arts in college, found the perfect opportunity to gain much needed experience with food preparation and cooking at Page’s Country Store in Dunbarton. Turcotte, 18, of Weare, attends Bishop Brady High School in Concord, from which she will graduate this June. Still, she ...

BY ROD HANSENThe hills and roadways of Dunbarton, Goffstown, New Boston and Weare have long been associated with Gen. John Stark and his family, and a new scenic byway could blanket all those towns with the Stark name. A submission for a General John Stark Scenic Byway has already made it through the first cut of review by the state byways ...

Hello everyone, This week we added a new section on NewHampshire.com Communities called "Downloads". This section will allow users to upload content or link to files, such as videos, audio files, other documents to share with the public. The Downloads section is currently in a test phase. We have a slideshow of the Salem High School ...

The NewHampshire.com staff would like to invite all of our visitors to Margarita's Mexican Restaurant in Manchester* Friday, Oct. 20 to celebrate the launch of our redesigned site. We'll be celebrating from  5 to 8 p.m. with some food and fun giveaways, including a weekend stay at the Rivergreen Resort Hotel in Lincoln, N.H. donated ...

By Staff Writers Sharon Livingston has seen a change in the housing market first hand. Two years ago, she and her husband offered to buy their Windham Colonial-style house about an hour after it went on the market. “I snapped it up,” said Livingston, who paid $629,000 for the house. “It was such a small market ...