Greenville News

With barely enough time left to load the sleigh and get the reindeer ready for takeoff, Santa Claus is finally on his way back to the North Pole, after spending the past month in Greenville, giving away presents and posing for pictures at Nennie's Cafe.

Staff photo by COREY PERRINE From left, Billy Clark, wife, Debby, Robin Lizotte, all of Milford and boyfriend Frank Dubuc of Dracut, Mass.

BACKGROUND: Today marks the one-year anniversary of the ice storm that plunged 400,000 utility customers into darkness and caused $150 million in damages.

Many businesses are still struggling to recover from damages caused by last year's ice storm.

The small storm that arrived late yesterday won't go down in the record books, but it certainly changed the look of New Hampshire.

Photo by Jodie Andruskevich^^Flute maker Michael Longrider of Milford uses a hand plane on some red cedar wood to shape a flute he's working on in his basement workshop.

By a vote of 150-11, Mason voters on Tuesday completed the process of making their school district completely independent.

The last test of the season showed E. coli bacteria levels all over the place according to Karen Mattor, volunteer coordinator for the river testing being done by the Souhegan Watershed Association and the Merrimack Local Advisory Committee.

Voters showed overwhelming support of the Mascenic School District on Tuesday, voting to pass all six articles on the ballot, including one to build a new elementary school for $16.5 million.

A former Greenville man will be in prison for a long time and under federal supervision for the rest of his life after pleading guilty to two sets of child pornography charges this summer.

The biggest surprise for the SWA water quality monitoring program this week was the high E. coli bacteria counts noted on the Merrimack River.

A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for producing, selling and possessing child pornography.

New Hampshire's former chief forensic examiner was found dead in a North Carolina lake.

Given how dark it is, the annual 4th of July parade in Greenville, N.H., isn't much to look at.

On Tuesday morning, volunteers from Greenville to Manchester to Tyngsborough, Mass., went tromping through poison ivy-covered riverbanks and over muddy embankments to plunge knee-deep into chilly water, all in the name of citizen science.

Cats have been coming into the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire's Bedford shelter in waves: 40 from a single home in Hillsborough, 14 from a basement in Manchester, another 15 from a Greenville home.

A judge is deciding whether a Greenville, N.H., man is competent to stand trial on charges he repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl.

A former Greenville town treasurer urged a judge to sentence him to death for statutory rape, lawyers said during a competency hearing Monday.