By MATT SCHOOLEYCity school officials are drafting a pay-to-participate policy that would include athletics, a policy that many say would have negative consequences at all three city high schools, but particularly bad at West High School. Facing a budget crisis that could lead to layoffs in the city, Manchester school officials discussed the ...

"Change Has Come to America".  We will now have an open government. Follow the transition. President-Elect Obama wants to hear your vision for America. Its time for us all to unite as one America. We can not stay divided as a red America or a blue America. After all we are the United States of ...

BY JENN McDOWELL With the Manchester Board of School Committee having announced several times they would not authorize the dissemination of 80 pink slips to teachers in Manchester schools this year, communities holding tuition contracts with Manchester’s school district are breathing a wary sigh of relief as they wonder how the ...

This month Peter Francese tackles the foreclosure issue in New Hampshire. His reports are often hard hitting and this is no exception. We've had a busy real estate week and actually have shown a few foreclosed properties, so foreclosures are definitely increasing in our Southern NH marketplace. While the prices of these houses are great ...

Holidays in Chester New Hampshire...a very special time of year.  Three Non-Profit organizations in Chester have pulled together to once again bring you a fun filled festive afternoon guaranteed to get you in the holiday mood. The Holiday in the Village will take place Saturday December 1st. Christmas in the Village begins at ...

BY JENN McDOWELLFIRST Lego League teams from Candia and Hooksett converged on Manchester Central High School on Saturday, Nov. 17, for a qualifying tournament in hopes of making it to the state championships. Cawley Middle School in Hooksett sent their Hawk Bots, while Candia had two teams participating in the event. The Game Freaks came from the ...

Chester New Hampshire is one of those quaint little towns that if you blink you'd miss it while driving through it.What makes Chester so nice is that it is a bedroom community and it has four corners as it's town center. On the southeast corner you have the cemetary and on the north corner you have a church and southwest is a bank ...

BY JENN MCDOWELL Hooksett students have scored well enough to get their elementary schools off the state’s list of schools in need of improvement. However, graduates of middle schools in Hooksett, Candia and Auburn may step in to high schools in which the state is a heavy presence come next year. The Hooksett School District, with ...

BY SAPNA PATHAKKelsey Isham really is a good sport. But after driving in the game-winning run and earning her team a victory over a favorite rival, the Auburn native couldn’t resist going over to remind her opponents of the play. It’s not something you’d usually see Isham do, but this opposing lineup was different. “Well, ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNSeveral Manchester parents told a committee considering the future of West High School – which will see an exodus of Bedford students over the next two years – that a simple solution would be to send all students from Hooksett, Auburn and Candia to the West Side school. “I think the most practical solution is to ...