Franklin
After a year of vacancy, it looks like the Bessie Rowell School in Franklin will once again echo with the sound of children learning. They're just going to be much younger children. The city has applied for a $350,000 grant from the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority to move the city's Head…
February 3, 2012
A young Pembroke woman was found guilty yesterday of using a stun gun on a pregnant driver during a road-rage incident off Interstate 93 last March and faces up to 20 years in prison. Carissa Williams, 23, was convicted of second-degree assault, a felony, as well as simple assault, criminal trespass and endangering…
February 3, 2012
George Washington has a Biblical phrase etched on his tomb. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that all rights come not from a government or king but from a "Creator." These men and the other founding fathers of America were profoundly influenced by the Christian Bible, and in order to understand United States history, students need to read and…
February 3, 2012
A House committee voted overwhelmingly yesterday to kill a bill eliminating sobriety checkpoints in New Hampshire after members of law enforcement and the House's Republican leadership spoke against the legislation. The 12-1 vote by the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee recommends that the full House reject the bill when it comes up for a vote on the floor. Republican…
February 3, 2012
House Republicans want you to make no mistake about it: Jobs are their No. 1 priority. For the second time this year, House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt held a press conference inside the Legislative Office Building to make that point, this time as he officially laid out his caucus's 2012 agenda. Bettencourt said the Republican-controlled House made "tough choices"…
February 3, 2012
Epsom
Requests for a new police officer and firefighter will go before Epsom residents this year, but the town's selectmen and budget committee are divided on whether the expense is necessary. The two articles on the town warrant, which will be presented to voters at a deliberative session tomorrow, are opposed by the selectmen, with the budget committee in support of a new firefighter…
February 3, 2012
Allenstown
Replacing failing highway equipment is top priority for Allenstown officials this year, with several warrant articles up for discussion at tomorrow's deliberative session focused on securing new trucks before the current fleet gives out. The largest appropriation would allow the town to enter into a seven-year lease totaling nearly $125,000 for a new loader truck, with the first…
February 3, 2012
Monitor editorial
It is, as poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, the willing suspension of disbelief that allows readers to see the stately pleasure domes of Xanadu, be caught up in a play or an opera, and weep at the death of a woman portraying a swan. Something similar will be at work on Sunday for millions of the people watching the Super Bowl: the need to suspend, for a few hours, the knowledge…
February 3, 2012
High schools
With just a single goal to their credit over the last three games, the Bow High boys' hockey team was desperate for offense, and even more desperate for a win. They got both against Kingswood (2-8) last night at Everett Arena. Jake Rand and Derek Tillotson each scored twice and Chris Fournier added a goal and three…
February 3, 2012
Hockey East notebook
DURHAM - John Henrion's shooting percentage can be used as a microcosm to define what has been a season of frustration for the University of New Hampshire hockey team. Regarded as having "an NHL-caliber shot" by UNH Coach Dick Umile, as well as several other Hockey East coaches, Henrion has found the back of the net only five times on 91 shots - the second most on the Wildcats.…
February 3, 2012
JV results The Hopkinton JV girls' basketball team lost to Stevens, 46-45, in overtime. Sloane White scored 21 points to lead the Hawks, while Madison Bergathon added eight and Grace Given finished with six, including five of those in the extra period. Tessa Garlow (four points) played well defensively. • After two overtime periods, the Hopkinton JV boys' basketball team…
February 3, 2012
To do tonight
The NHTI Film Society will show Dolphin Tale tomorrow night at 7. The film depicts a boy's relationship with a dolphin, Winter, whose tail must be taken off for it to live. The boy pushes for Winter to receive a prosthetic tail. The film is presented with backing from the Disabilities Advisory Board and the NHTI Student Senate and Campus Activities Board. Admission is by donation,…
February 3, 2012
Boys' Alpine Skiing
The Pembroke boys' team skied to an eighth-place finish in the giant slalom at Crotched Mountain. Hanover won the event with 375 points, followed by Bedford (374), Con-Val (350), Souhegan (349), Hollis-Brookline (348), Bishop Guertin (314), Milford (296) and the Spartans (229). Andrew Goulet was Pembroke's top finisher, placing 19th, while Edward Miner (35th) and Danny Caraway…
February 3, 2012
Hopkinton wrapped up a four-game homestand with its fourth straight double-digit win. The latest was a tight defensive affair, with the Hawks (10-5) shooting a little cold from the field in the first half. "We took good shots, but they weren't landing," Hopkinton Coach Dave Hughes said. "We finished the game well." Hopkinton outscored Stevens (7-8) by nine points in the second half…
February 3, 2012
