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By RAY DUCKLER

The latest candidate for the Monitor’s Hometown Hero award, Lawre Murphy of Boscawen, strongly believed that her partner in keeping seniors on their toes, Brenda Bartlett, deserved the honor more than she did.Bartlett happened to be the woman who...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Boscawen resident is objecting to potential designs for a proposed town flag.Boscawen currently does not have a flag, but at a Beautification Committee meeting earlier this month, resident Josh Crawford proposed the idea. Crawford is a...

By RAY DUCKLER

When Randy and Holly Silver saw their chance two years ago to open a business they’ve always wanted, they wasted no time moving forward.They went to the bank almost immediately after an offer was made to buy the Bittersweet Fabric Shop, a staple in...

By RAY DUCKLER

A proclamation read at the Boscawen Town Meeting last week, celebrating a man’s selfless acts dating back four and five decades, could not be announced quickly to voters on Election Day.Roger Sanborn, 76, had simply done too much. So wrote Elaine...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Boscawen voters approved a 1.1% increase to the town operating budget, a plan to join the Community Power Coalition, the creation of a town forest along Walker Pond and the sale of two historic town buildings at their town meeting Tuesday night. With...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After the moderator read the results of the Merrimack Valley School Board elections Friday night, Julia Jones dabbed away a few tears.Though she is the president of the Salisbury parent-teacher group, she relied only on word of mouth to promote her...

Boscawen voters will be asked to establish an 82.5 acre town forest along Walker Pond, primarily on land acquired in 2021 from a sale with the water district.The town-owned land offers residents an opportunity to access the 200-acre pond, a former...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Merrimack Valley School District voters will weigh a 5.9% budget increase and decide two contested school board races on Friday. The proposed operating budget for the five-community district is $48,298,106, up almost $2.7 million from last year. The...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A former corrections officer was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the April 29, 2023, death of a patient in the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the New Hampshire State Prison.The officer, Matthew Millar, 39, of Boscawen, knelt on the neck...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Boscawen residents will consider a $4.9 million operating budget at their town meeting this year, an increase of roughly $54,000, or 1.1%.Relatively small increases spread across departments, many related to rising wages or insurance costs, make up...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The two drivers of next year’s budget increase in the Merrimack Valley School District are forces hitting its peers across New Hampshire: special education and health insurance.The proposed $48,298,106 budget for the district is up almost $2.7 million...

By GEOFF FORESTER and SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

For Lottie Hanks, the joy of being surrounded by her children and the warmth of having friends around is something she always cherished.That’s how the 101-year-old from Boscawen received the Boston Post Cane, a New England tradition that honors a...

McKenna Marshall of Concord died at Concord Hospital after being found unresponsive in a cell at the Merrimack County House of Corrections in Boscawen, county officials announced.Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office and corrections officials are...

By DAVID BROOKS

There are three common reasons why a long-time local business shuts down these days. Marshall’s Flowers and Gifts, which will close at the end of the year after six decades in Boscawen, is facing all three.The first reason is finding staff, which has...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A walk down Commercial Street in Boscawen foreshadows the town’s future – or at least that’s what Kellee Easler likes to think.It may not seem like much today. The street is the site of a former leather tannery that left behind such a mess the...

By MAGGIE PRITCHARD

Maggie Pritchard is executive director of Lakes Region Mental Health Center and president of the NH Community Behavioral Health Association. She lives in Boscawen. In various aspects of life, we witness the undeniable power of partnerships — be it in...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A Boscawen man is being held without bail after he was charged on Monday with being in possession of child sexual abuse images. Shaun St. Pierre, 42, is facing five felony charges for downloading and possessing child pornography, which was uncovered...

By RAY DUCKLER

She spells her surname H-a-r-d-y, but H-e-a-r-t-y would work just as well.At 89, she drives friends far younger than herself to doctor’s appointments and the grocery store. She chauffeurs four other senior women around, asking each what they would...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

In his last 18 years serving Merrimack County as a police officer, Boscawen Chief Jason Killary has seen it all from unidentified flying objects while on patrol to children drowning in the Merrimack River. “I was training and we’re sitting in the park...

By RAY DUCKLER

Olivia DeAngelis waited for the sharp-ended pole to puncture the ground, creating a small hole less than an inch in diameter.She had never met the woman beside her using this strange, spear-like tool and plunging it into the earth, but they were...

By RAY DUCKLER

Lynn Colby wants high school students to remember that it’s not too late to avoid a catastrophe that will forever alter the course of many lives.It altered Colby’s. Her brother, Skipper Kingsbury, got drunk and drove into a tree three days before...