BY DERRICK PERKINS Fire and finance department officials are making a break with tradition by enlisting the services of a collection agency to help recoup some of the $132,000 owed to the town in outstanding ambulance bills. In March, Director of Finance Jane Savastano began working with the town’s third-party billing agent ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS Facing rising costs and potentially restricting budget constraints for next year, Fire Chief Michael Walker remains supportive of a move by selectmen to keep the budget under control. “They’re taking on the responsibility and following what they feel is a public mandate to try and find out what’s the ...

BY JENN McDOWELL Windham voters who want to weigh in on constructing a second access road to Windham High School, currently under construction, and a proposed conservation easement in the town forest area should attend a deliberative session on Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m., at the Town Hall. The two articles on the warrant will be ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS The cause of a two-alarm fire in a two-story colonial home at 81 Searles Road on Wednesday, July 23, is under investigation by fire officials, though witnesses say the house was struck by lightning. The fire was reported at about 5 p.m. by neighbors, just as severe thunderstorms blanketed the region. More than 30 ...

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 DERRICK PERKINS Pelham firefighters saluted one of their fallen brethren with a cigar- smoking gathering on Monday, July 21, after learning of the sudden death of veteran firefighter Howard Mastropiero. Mastropiero, 48, a firefighter with the Pelham Fire Department for 11 years, had been vacationing out of state with his wife and ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Supporters of the Hopkinton ambulance service crowded Town Hall during a recent selectmen’s meeting after getting word that board members were considering privatizing the department. About 40 emergency service personnel and department supporters came to the Monday, July 14, meeting after selectmen decided to ...

BY JENN McDOWELLHooksett department heads are going to have a tough time staying within their fuel budgets in the coming year given the default budget they got in March. With both gasoline and diesel fuel topping $4 a gallon right now, fire, police and highway departments are going to have to spend almost double what their fuel budgets will allow ...

BY DERRICK PERKINS Local firefighters have begun honoring the sacrifices made by U.S. servicemen and women in a quiet, weekly nonpartisan show of support while on the job. Donning red T-shirts emblazoned with the words “support our troops” for the first time Friday, July, 11, Pelham firefighters are hoping to create a weekly ...

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 ...