BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham School Board has decided on a temporary facilities plan to get kindergarten up and running by the state’s deadline of September 2009. The board voted unanimously at its meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 16, to place portable classrooms at one or more of the school district’s existing schools, but ...

 My American Prayer blog has been posted on the 45th  anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech and the same as night Barrack Obama's acceptance speech.We all have pledged With Liberty and Justice for All. With Liberty = the freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happinessAnd Justice = We are entitled to ...

BY JENN McDOWELL School officials for Salem, Pelham and Windham schools are breathing a sigh of relief now that the state has agreed to extend the deadline for instituting public kindergarten. In its definition of an adequate education, the state Legislature included public kindergarten as a requirement. Since then, 12 ...

this is the 4th hole at hoodkroft C.C. in Derry

BY JENN McDOWELLA Derry District Court judge agreed to suspend the trial for a Goffstown man whom police said drove to the home of what he believed to be his wife’s outside love interest, armed with a gun and a 12-pack of beers. Michael Lescatre, 44, of 16 Sarette Road in Goffstown has six months to stay out of trouble with the law. After ...

Leigh Buckley is a wife and mother in Derry, New Hampshire. She is a leukemia survivor, and she is alive and well today because one person chose to join the National Marrow Donor Registry and donated when called. Thousands of people like Leigh need your help. From May 5-19, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is trying to bring 46,000 ...

The New Hampshire Avalanche Squirt ’98 AAA team rolled through the Metro Boston Hockey League regular season, posting 35 wins without a loss. The postseason was no different. The top-seeded Avs, coached by Mike Potvin; his assistant coaches, Joe Silva, Mark Leach and Gary Saklad; and goaltender coches Bill McWhinnie and Bryan Ash, ...

Real Estate is local...even in NH it is local to whatever area you reside in. Pockets of the market are very very busy but it has been a harsh winter...weather wise and real estate wise. Monika and I have had the busiest December and January that we can remember. They are usually very slow months, they were busy for us. February slowed down a ...

Major health organizations make it very clear: Because MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) can be transferred by person to person contact, one of the best prevention methods is good hand hygiene. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada recommend washing with soap and water or using ...

Peter Francese once again brings us his great insight into the state of New Hampshire’s real estate market. One thing Peter says is  “ As to when we will see the bottom of the market, we are probably awfully close to it right now.” We have to agree with him and while we don’t think we’re ...