Windham News

The midafternoon downpour had excavation supervisor Jim St. Amand ready to call it a day for the crew yesterday at the Interstate 93 widening project at Exit 1. But for all the rain in June - through Sunday, Concord had received about double the average rainfall - I-93 widening jobs have only been slowed, but not thrown off schedule, supervisors up ...

Lawrence: South Lawrence East Elementary School, 165 Crawford St., 9 p.m. Rain date Monday.

The Sometimes always likes to have fun. Still, the four 14-year-old members of the rock band expect to get butterflies tomorrow night when they play to a hometown crowd at Griffin Park in only their second gig.

They crackle, explode and light up the sky on July Fourth weekend. But this year, some New Hampshire towns voted against funding fireworks displays at town meetings in March in order to cut back on spending.

The same idea came to different folks at different times in different places - in Derry, Pelham and Windham.

Bagpipes played. He took an oath. He kissed his wife. A reception followed. It was understandable that Pelham Fire Chief James Midgley later compared his official swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday night at Town Hall to his wedding.

A local man was in serious condition after a head-on crash on Route 111 yesterday afternoon, police said.

A Millville Road woman who worked at the Whitin Middle School was killed, and her husband seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in New Hampshire earlier this week.

Local legislators said today's vote on the state budget is too close to call, but those voting against it will be doing so for wide-ranging reasons.

A motorcycle accident in Windham left a woman dead and a man seriously injured Monday morning, according to police.

WINDHAM, N.H. - A female passenger has died after being thrown from a motorcycle on Interstate 93 south.

A Massachusetts man suffered serious leg injuries in a two-vehicle crash this morning at the intersection of Range and Cobbetts Pond roads.

I had a wonderful recipe for Chicken Cacciatore, but lost it. One of the ingredients was green pepper.

Transportation officials hammered home the importance of erosion control and proper blasting procedures at a meeting yesterday with the general contractor for the Interstate 93 widening project.

School districts hosting public kindergarten for the first time this September will soon see a wave of portable classrooms descend on their elementary school grounds.

I must respond to a recent letter to the editor written by Kevin D. DeChane of Windham, N.H. I can't believe that people still think that voters in any state should be allowed to decide basic human and civil rights.

A proposed law would make it tougher for vendors of counterfeit goods and more attractive for local police departments to go after them.

Federal agents began investigating the sale of counterfeit designer handbags at the Grandview Flea Market two years ago, assisted by an industry expert, according to an affidavit filed in federal court to support arrest and search warrants.

A 50-year-old bicyclist sustained a serious head injury after he was hit on Mammoth road Sunday by a teenage driver who allegedly field to obey a stop sign, police said.

At least two local fire departments are hoping federal stimulus dollars will give them the stations voters have denied.