Mont Vernon News

Several local communities are ringing in the holidays this weekend. Herea s a look at whata s happening throughout the area: Today The Mont Vernon Recreation Commission is decking the halls in anticipation of the annual Tree Lighting Celebration.

The Hollis man accused of helping his friends cover up the deadly Oct. 4 Mont Vernon home invasion first lied to police by saying the two alleged killers spent the night with him, but abandoned the alibi when police confronted him with new information.

Photo by Dean Shalhoup Autumn Savoy, 20, enters Milford District Court on Tuesday for a probable cause hearing on three felony charges against him in connection with the Oct.

You had been looking forward to the return of holiday music, but the novelty of "Jingle Bell Rock" wore off pretty quickly.

Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom Diane Claveau, left, Ray Steimel, right, and other volunteers pack 121 boxes with food Tuesday, November 24, 2009, at the SHARE offices in Milford.

" The arrest of 20-year-old Autumn Savoy of Hollis last week brings to five the number of young men charged in connection with the Oct.

The Union Leader and Sunday News have more readers than any other New Hampshire newspaper.

GOP organization supports Friend of the Court Brief before the Supreme Court as part of an effort to secure citizens' federal constitutional right to bear arms.

A Hollis man was arraigned Thursday on a charge that he helped dispose of evidence from the killing of a Mont Vernon woman last month and an attack on her daughter.

The father of a New Hampshire teen charged with burglary in connection with the fatal attack on a Mont Vernon woman wishes his son had learned from a previous mistake.

Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom Autumn Savoy, 20, is escorted by New Hampshire State Police into Nashua District Court for his arraignment Thursday morning, November 19, 2009.

Wed Nov 18, 6:20 pm ET CONCORD, N.H. A New Hampshire man was charged Wednesday with helping two others come up with an alibi in a home-invasion attack that killed a woman and severely injured her 11-year-old daughter.

Mont Vernon police announced an additional arrest Wednesday in the murder of Kimberly Cates.

" Too often teenagers are growing up in a Facebook world, dominated by appearances and surface urges that lead away from the paths of happiness, kindness, compassion and creativity.

BACKGROUND: Motivated by the outrage over the murder of Kimberly Cates, Mont Vernon lawmakers are proposing expansion of the death penalty in New Hampshire.

It's a cliche that a picture is worth 1,000 words, and like most cliches there's an element of truth in it.

Peanut butter and jelly have long been a marriage made in sandwich heaven, but times have changed.

" After more than a year of study and discussion, school start times in Amherst and Mont Vernon won't be changing.

" Educators and school officials across the Souhegan Valley are mourning the loss of one of their own this week with the death of Milford High graduate and Mont Vernon Village School principal Gail E. Westergren.

"Chicago the Musical", the Tony Award winning Broadway smash hit, will be bringing "the story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery" to Manchester this November.