BY STEPHEN BEALEParents at the Villa Augustina have taken one giant leap forward in their capital fundraising campaign, considered a critical part of their bid to buy the school this year. The Villa Augustina Leadership Transition Team announced that the group has raised $500,000 for capital improvements. “We’ve completed in time for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) presented the Friends of the Goffstown Rail Trail with $2,400 recently for construction of the new Goffstown Rail Trail. Tom Sexton, director of RTC’s Northeast Regional Office, presented the check at the monthly Friends meeting at the Goffstown Recreation ...

By Darrell Halen A raffle has been organized to raise money for Paddy Culbert, a longtime Planning Board member in Pelham undergoing rehabilitation after suffering a stroke in October. “We really wish him a speedy recovery so he gets back in that chair (at meetings),” said Jeff Gowan, the town’s planning director. Culbert has ...

By JENN McDOWELL Four girls from Candia finally saw their long-term community service project come to fruition with the rededication of the restored Civil War monument on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Becky Petrin, Alicia Frazier, and sisters Erin and Megan Smith, now eighth-graders at Moore School, began the restoration project four years ago by ...