Goffstown News

"Everything our parents said was good is bad -- sun, milk, red meat, college," Woody Allen's character in "Annie Hall" famously quipped.

Fire and building code officials in Bedford and Goffstown want the state adopt new national codes that would make sprinklers mandatory in all newly constructed one- and two-family homes.

Fairness was in the eye of the beholder at the State House last Wednesday when the N.H. House and Senate grudgingly approved the 2010-11 budget.

Parts of Goffstown were without FairPoint phone service on Wednesday. Police said customers in the Elm Street, Goffstown Back Road, Tibbetts, Hill Road and Tirrell Hill Road areas were most affected.

State corrections officers say budget cuts that led to layoff notices for 32 prison-guards have created a powder keg inside the state's already overcrowded and understaffed prisons.

Time was, you could stroll down the street in communities all around New Hampshire -- in Manchester and Nashua, in Rochester and Suncook, in Salmon Falls and Berlin -- and hear folks, most of Canadian descent, chatting in French.

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When I was a kid, my mom's constant refrain was: "Can't we have anything nice in this house?" We were a large family, and we left a trail of destruction in our wake.

A 74-year-old driver struck a teenager Monday afternoon in Goffstown, police said.

Robert and Arlene Gilbert will observe their 55th wedding anniversary on June 13, 2009.

Viewing change Flip to digital signal is tonight Within the Manchester station and on Mount Uncanoonuc in Goffstown, which holds WMUR's tower, technicians will spend a couple of busy hours after midnight working with cables, refrigeration lines, rac At midnight Friday, as part of a historic nationwide transition to digital television, New Hampshire ...

Self-described graffiti "legend" Derek Gagnon will have time to work on his memoir because a judge yesterday sent the tagger to jail for 12 months.

The County has a new neighbor at the Hillsborough County Complex. The Goffstown Court moved from its old location in the lower level of Goffstown's Town Hall to the second floor of the Bouchard Building.

I found this book while cleaning out my barn. It is titled "New Hampshire for Summer Homes" and is the second edition published in 1904.

There is a new park here with fresh grass, new benches and a shiny white flagpole.

Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water by Adsorptive Media - U.S. EPA Demonstration Project at Goffstown, NH, Final Performance Evaluation Report Contact Description: This report documents the activities performed and the results obtained from the arsenic removal treatment technology demonstration project at the Orchard Highlands Subdivision site in ...

Prosecutors want two men accused of being graffiti taggers, one of whom allegedly boasted they were "legends," to go straight to jail for a year.

A self-described graffiti legend was sentenced to a year in jail and, after he made an obscene comment to a news photographer, the judge found him in contempt and added another 30 days.

Graffiti vandalism is a serious crime, and serious crimes should carry serious punishments.

Five of the first nine state prison inmates seeking early release through a new sentence-modification review board will be disappointed by letters sent out on Friday turning them down -- for now.