By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – Police Chief Michael French recently announced he’ll be retiring from the post he’s held for nine years, ending a 34-year law enforcement career spent in Goffstown. On April 1, French will go back to being a regular Goffstown citizen and can look forward to nights uninterrupted by midnight ...

By Darrell Halen A proposed $32 million operating budget and a $7 million warrant article to construct a new police station top the list of warrant articles Salem voters will consider when they gather for the town’s first deliberative session of Town Meeting. That first session will be held Saturday, Feb. 9, at Salem High School, and ...

 By Michelle Kim WEARE – New buildings and bodies are the main requests voters will see before them at the upcoming Feb. 2 deliberative session of Town Meeting, Voters can expect to see articles on the town warrant regarding the operating budget, as well as improvements to the Bolton Field Memorial Complex, a new public works and ...

By Michelle Kim At recent public hearings, the Budget Committee presented its proposed town and school operating budgets and other warrant articles to be discussed at the upcoming February deliberative sessions of Town Meeting. The Jan. 9 public hearing for the town budget was sparsely attended by a few members of the public and heard ...

By Darrell Halen  A $7.3 million proposal to build a new police station was unanimously backed by Salem selectmen and appears to have the support of most Budget Committee members. Plans call for a 26,000-square-foot building that would be constructed behind the current station. The new facility is being requested to accommodate a ...

By Michelle Kim NEW BOSTON – The departure of yet another New Boston police officer may have opened the door for the Police Department to eventually meet its basic scheduling needs. And that news has Chief Chris Krajenka elated. At the Jan. 5 meeting, the Finance Committee decided to approve Krajenka’s request for a new full-time ...

BY MICHELLE KIM Residents will see a lower overall property tax rate this year, due in large part to a drop in the school portion of the tax rate. This year’s tax rate has been set at $14.56 per $1,000 of assessed value, which is 11.5 percent lower than last year’s rate of $16.46. This means the owner of a $200,000 home would be ...

The entire United States Government is guilty of the tax crimes they are blaming Ed and Elaine Brown for. When I think about it, why should the Browns or anyone for that matter pay income tax, or any tax at all? After all, much of the tax money we are made to give the government winds up being wasted and/or used improperly. For example, the FBI ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNFollowing a year in which an $18 million bond proposal drew hordes of people to the polls, Hooksett’s 2007 town warrant – up for discussion at the Saturday, April 7, deliberative session of Town Meeting – is remarkably tame. The town council agreed to shoot for a “zero increase” town budget this ...