BY JENN McDOWELL Alice Campbell of Salem, retired and living alone in her home, said she’s not sure how she’s going to deal with heating oil expenses that add up to even more than what she paid last winter, which was about $2,000 total for her small cape home. “As it is now, I shut off my dining room completely ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORSitting at a youth hockey conference, watching what was likely to be another boring prerecorded training video, Kermit Brunelle sighed. On the screen, Don Lucia, coach of the national champion University of Minnesota ice hockey team, was giving a speech. “A lot of people think I have the best job in hockey, and I tell ...

The New Hampshire Association of REALTORS released their market trend report written by Peter Francese, as usual Peter make us really think about the future of New Hampshire’s real estate market. Most REALTORS we’ve been talking to report an increase in activity, not a lot but an increase. June traditionally is a slow month with ...

BY DARRELL HALEN The summers she spent as a playground supervisor in Methuen, Mass., taught Beth McGuire that she loved working with kids. She would spend three decades working as an educator to children, including 18 years in Windham. On June 30, McGuire will retire from her position as principal of Golden Brook School. “I love ...

BY JENN McDOWELLWindham Windham police are still searching for the driver of a large red SUV who rearended a 22- year-old Windham Marine who just returned from two years of active duty in Iraq. He’d just returned home for good five days prior to the accident, having sustained no injuries while there. Mike Tierney, of 4 ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Windham’s Board of Selectmen is planning a special election in September to obtain funding for a secondary access road for the new high school currently under construction. The new road would overlap the current London Bridge Road, connecting the entrance to the high school on Route 111 to Castle Hill Road behind ...

BY JENN McDOWELL A Windham man convicted of breaking six ribs and the tailbone of his infant son has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. “There are no winners in a case like this. It’s just a matter of attempting to provide justice for a 6-month-old child,” said County Attorney James Reams after the sentencing, ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham School Board and the Fire Department are looking to pool their resources to purchase 11 new automated external defibrillators for town buildings and the new Windham High School. The Windham Board of Selectmen gave their conditional approval to the Fire Department to waive the bid process pending some ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham Fire Department will have four new firefighters by early July and hopefully a new deputy chief by the end of that month, according to Fire Chief Tom McPherson. Currently, the department has 12 firefighters, including one lieutenant for each of four shifts. The four new additional firefighters would all be ...

BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham School District moderator will select several residents to join two School Board members to study withdrawing from School Administrative Unit 28. Currently Windham shares SAU 28 with Pelham, but the addition of the new Windham High School could prove too much for the current school administration staff to ...