BY MICHELLE KIM2007 got off to an inauspicious start for Weare with a fivehour standoff on Jan. 11 between police and an armed and allegedly suicidal Weare man who recently lost his job. William Lambroukos shot the telephones inside his house with a shotgun and was eventually driven out with pepper spray, accidentally shooting himself in the ...

BY STEVEN ANDREWS Though the damage in town due to the April flooding was great, the community’s volunteer response to help repair it has been just as great. The latest event to benefit the library as it works to repair the Children’s Room will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 26, at Center Woods Elementary, with a concert ...

BY ROD HANSEN Two weeks before the recent April floods, an engineer’s report alerted library officials to potential trouble in the building’s drainage system. An insufficient depth for the drains constructed for a 1991 building addition, as well as possible clogging in drainage pipes, were among problems cited in a report trustees ...

BY ROD HANSEN In a year when budget struggles have already put a strain on library resources, the flooding of April 16 has spelled calamity for the children’s room. “I don’t know how all the water got in; I just know that when I came to work on April 16, there was an inch of water on the children’s room floor,” ...