If you drove by Goffstown Public Works recently, you may have seen fire crews and other emergency personnel putting out a bus fire and treating victims. However, there were no real injuries, as this was all part of a mass casualty incident drill, which involved the Goffstown, New Boston and Weare fire departments, as well as Saint Anselm College ...

BY STEPHEN BEALE The town budget this year might be good news for people down on their economic luck. The total spending for 2009 would be $21.8 million, a decrease of about $118,000. The Board of Selectmen was presented the budget on Monday, Sept. 8. In interviews, selectmen were optimistic they could hold the line on budget ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe county land on Mast Road appears to be the go-to place for government building these days. The Goffstown District Court in a few months is moving out of the town hall and into the second floor of the Bouchard Building owned by Hillsborough County, next to the state prison for women and across from the Goffstown Police ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEA family brought closer together by one fire has been separated by another. In March, Keith Moore and his wife Toni lost most of their 58 Elm St. home to a fire. Since then, he has lived with his daughter, Shannon Moody, and her family at their home on 32 N. Mast Road, scarcely a mile away. But now the family again found itself ...

BY STEPHEN BEALE The town has hired a firm to design a new fire station, recommend where it would be best to build it and help officials educate voters about the project, if they choose to follow through with it. That decision on the design was made by the Board of Selectmen at its weekly meeting Monday, May 12. The board also approved ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe town election on Tuesday, March 11, reversed a string of defeats for proposals to expand the Fire Department. In two previous elections, voters had thrown out plans for 18 and 10 firefighters, but Tuesday they signed off on hiring two. The cost of the new firefighters will be split with a Homeland Security grant, which will ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe future of the Fire Department will be shaped by the outcome of the Tuesday, March 11, town election. On the ballot are a new contract for firefighters, a proposal for two new ones and plan to save up for the purchase of a ladder truck and other equipment. Other articles include the $18.7 million operating budget for all town ...

By Michelle Kim  DUNBARTON – A tinder-dry barn full of sawdust and wood furniture, a dying ember, and freakishly strong winds came together to set the small furniture-making business of a Dunbarton family ablaze Wednesday night, Jan. 9. The 3000-square-foot barn of their home at 111 Stark Highway where Bill and Linda Morse was ...

BY MICHELLE KIM The Goffstown Fire Department presented its 2008 proposed budget to the Board of Selectmen on Monday, Oct. 1, requesting a 9 percent increase in funding for the Fire Department and 11 percent increase for Emergency Medical Services. Fire Chief Richard O’Brien requested approximately $2.1 million for the Fire Department, an ...

BY DAVE CHOATE It was probably the only time the Community Emergency Response Team would get a chance to put out a fire and have fun at the same time, so members like Nicole Lyonnais took advantage of it. “I liked it, but I want a bigger fire,” said Lyonnais with a smile. “I told everyone at my job today that I got to go put ...