Dunbarton News

There is never a slow time at the New Hampshire Republican Party! Lest you were worried, we have three upcoming special elections in the next two months! Rockingham District 8 and Sullivan District 2 have primary elections next Tuesday and then it's on to the general election which will take place on January 12, 2010 .

Area police arrested almost 40 people when they broke up two alleged underage drinking parties over the holiday weekend.

More than two dozen mostly college-age area residents are accused of participating in an underage drinking party inside a martial arts studio early yesterday morning, police allege.

A coal burning power plant is seen Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, in Bow. A coalition of states, including New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, are not happy with a federal proposal to allow polluting plants to meet mercury emission limits by buying credits from plants whose emissions are below the limits.

A Goffstown man died in a single-vehicle crash in Dunbarton on Friday, the police said, adding that alcohol appears to have been a factor in the accident.

James Burke, 30, of Metalak Lane, was arrested Oct. 31 and charged with two counts of possession of drugs.

Mayor-Elect Ted Gatsas resigned his state Senate seat yesterday. The announcement, coming a little more than a week after Gatsas' election to the Queen City's top political office, fulfills a campaign promise and sets the stage for a special election in District 16.

The Concord police responded to a report of suspicious activity on South Main Street on Sunday night and found seven stolen handguns, several drugs and an 8-year-old boy in a tent belonging to two homeless people, according to the police.

With Republican Sen. Ted Gatsas likely to resign after being elected Manchester mayor last week, a battle is shaping up over who will take over his state Senate seat.

Fire crews from more than a half-dozen communities were at PSNH's main power plant this morning for a reported two-alarm blaze but a company spokesman said there never was a fire.

The Concord police arrested a Pembroke man yesterday they say had sex with a 15-year-old girl in a parking area off Broken Bridge Road after she was escorted there by another man.

Concord police Chief Robert Barry said he hasn't ruled out the possibility of pressing charges in a crash last week between a car and a bicycle that left a Dunbarton woman seriously injured.

The Concord Police Department is looking for witnesses to a crash Thursday on Clinton Street in which a Dunbarton woman was struck from behind by a car, suffering serious injuries.

I am saddened and upset to learn that a talented, kind colleague and neighbor has been seriously injured while commuting by bicycle .

A Dunbarton woman is being treated at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after being hit by a car while riding a bicycle on Clinton Street Thursday morning.

Throughout the afternoon yesterday, people gathered at the town common to exercise their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble.

Ann Delude traveled from Dunbarton to take in a freshly cooked local lobster and said she had no problem waiting in a long line that snaked through Prescott Park.

Forget the fried dough and tractor pulls. When the sun goes down at the Hopkinton State Fair, that means one thing for love-hungry teenagers: a chance for romance.

State health officials have reported new cases of eastern equine encephalitis and have expanded the region described as under "public health threat" to include Concord and several nearby towns.

The national unemployment rate jumped almost half a point to 9.7 percent in August, the highest since 1983, reflecting a poor job market that will make it hard for the economy to begin a sustained recovery.