Suncook News

THE BEST SONG ever is "Poor Butterfly," a song that my mother sang on stage as a young woman in a performance at the opera house in Suncook, and which thereafter became her signature song.

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.

The Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire will host the third annual Assistive Technology Summer Institute, presented by Assistive Technology in New Hampshire , on July 22-24, 2009 in Concord, NH.

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.

Allenstown officials hope the $800,000 in federal stimulus money is enough to sell voters on a $1.63 million plan to upgrade a wastewater treatment plant.