Epsom News

The deadline for implementing New Hampshire's Workforce Housing Law has been extended to Jan.

Roger Ford of Epsom and Stephanie and Erik Teigland of Rye are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Chelsea Ford, to Nicholas Bourassa, both of Greenland.

State emergency management officials have been dispatched to Northwood, N.H., after a thunderstorm and high winds knocked out power and damaged homes along 16 streets.

Sue Holden left her lakefront home for less than an hour yesterday to run an errand in Concord.

Thunderstorms tore across much of New Hampshire on Friday, bringing heavy hail to some areas and setting up an unsettled weather pattern for the weekend.

I first became enchanted with the work of Ralph Van Horn on a visit to the Epsom library, where three "rooms" furnished with his reproduction miniature furniture were on display.

The driver of a Toyota Corolla was sent to the hospital with serious injuries after a collision with a school bus on Route 28 in Epsom yesterday.

FEMA's rejection of its application for a competitive grant has the town seeking alternate funding to stabilize the Suncook River, which changed its course during the Mother's Day flood of 2006.

Route 4 east of Route 107 in Epsom was re-opened Tuesday evening after a motor vehicle crash.

A triple stabbing in Epsom two months ago that left one woman in critical condition may have been over a piece of jewelry, Merrimack County Attorney Katherine Rogers said yesterday.

As part of the Monitor's 200th birthday celebration, we're hoping to publish a special section of historic front pages, showing how the newspaper covered the biggest events of the past two centuries.

Elizabeth Ann Scott, 55, of Borough Road, died Friday, May 15, 2009, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon after a lengthy illness.

The five districts of SAU 53 recently submitted invoices totaling more than $23 million to the U.S. Department of Education for unfunded special education expenses stretching back to 1999.

There was a big dust-up and smoke on the highway about 600 feet from Adam Lucas' car as he drove north on Interstate 93 to Littleton last September.

The Hyla Brook Reading Series presents an evening of poetry with performance poet Neil English on Thursday, May 14, 2009, 6:30-8:30pm at the Coffee Factory, 55 Crystal Ave in Derry.

Climate change has brought awareness to the carbon footprint. Being carbon neutral is the this-for-that method that is sometimes used as an excuse for bad ecological behavior.

The former head of an area charity has pleaded guilty in New Hampshire to two counts of mail fraud in connection with his business, which regulators seized last year.The defendant, Colin P. Lindsey, 41, acknowledged diverting more than $780,000 invested by new customers in his business, Noble Trust Co.

Developer shows off site of proposed 40 house lots EPSOM Abutters and planning board members walked the site Saturday of a proposed 40-house development on 260 acres along Goboro Road near the Chichester line.

Dolores M. Allard, 70, died at home in the company of her family Wednesday, April 8, 2009, after a short illness.

High water on the Suncook River near the Epsom-Chichester town line. The water was up to the top of the word 'campground' on this sign during last year's floods, according to the owner of the Lazy River Campground.