By KATHLEEN D. BAILEY The town of Epsom has completed its paperwork for a grant which Department of Environmental Services river specialist Steve Landry said will put the town and the Suncook River on a better course following the “Mother’s Day Flood” of 2006. The Suncook River, which has its headwaters in Alton and ...

BY JENN McDOWELLTown officials have jumped the first hurdle in buying up homes in the Suncook River floodplain in Allenstown, getting $2.1 million in federal assistance, but there is still a way to go before the town can purchase the homes. “People are going to be lucky if they can make it to the buyout before they’re foreclosed ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter “100-year” flooding two years in a row, residents in towns along the Suncook River got some answers to questions surrounding the river’s change of course in May 2006, which led to worse flooding in Epsom, Allenstown and Pembroke almost a year later. In some cases, the answers residents got left them with ...