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People may be tightening their purse strings, but there are glimmers of good economic news from some retail businesses in the Milford area.

Amherst School District administrators are wise to take a wage freeze next year as a way of thanking voters for passing a much needed 6.9-mill school levy on Nov.

A local initiative to study climate change and energy needs has received a boost from the Nashua Regional Planning Commission.

The Amherst PTA has announced that auditions for its 57h annual play, Peter Pan, will be held Tuesday, January 6 and Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at Clark School, Foundry St., Amherst.

BACKGROUND: National health-care reform is expected to be front and center after President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office on Jan.

Traffic will flow at Amherst transfer station in 'roundabout' way for awhile There will be a new - dare we say, jolly good - temporary traffic pattern at the Amherst transfer station starting Tuesday, Dec.

A 24-year-old Amherst, N.H., man convicted of killing a friend in a drunken car crash will not get a new trial.

Selectmen are considering whether to purchase 104 acres of open space that straddles the town line with Bedford for $1.89 million.

It's that time of year when the weather can't decide to be warm or cool, and the dampness of winter approaches, forcing us stay inside more often.

National experts will convene in Concord, N.H. early next month to present the latest innovations on low impact development methods a ' methods for developing land in ways that allow stormwater to be retained, ...

Rosie was helping her mother, Paula Garvey, of Amherst, raise money to fight cystic fibrosis - a disease Rosie has battled since birth - during a fundraiser dubbed Toast for a Cure.

Taxpayers in Hollis and Brookline can expect good news and bad news when they open their 2008 tax bills.

The owner of the Milford apartment building says he's working with the Red Cross to make sure tenants have a place to stay until the 28-unit structure can be occupied.

People may be tightening their purse strings, but there are glimmers of good economic news from some retail businesses in the Milford area.

Antiques, for one. Hard times mean people sell their paintings, furniture and jewelry, and other people - "people with money" - are buying and are also investing in art, said Linda May, owner of Antiques at Mayfair in Amherst.

"It brings in a whole new realm of merchandise," said May, who knows from experience.

Now located at Salzburg Square, Antiques at Mayfair originally opened on Route 101A during the recession in 1991, and "we took right off," she said.

A local woman accused in a civil case last month of embezzling more than $300,000 from the Jasper Swim and Tennis Club over the course of nearly a decade was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday.

Property owners in most local towns will pay a bit more this year, based on new tax rates set by the state Department of Revenue Administration.

Dan Hebert, the state president of the NH affiliate for the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, is the November expert for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Amoskeag Business Incubator's "Ask ...

"Here UpCountry: Poems of New Hampshire" by James Hofford; illustrated by Joyce Paradis; AuthorHouse; paper; 97 pages; $14. Haven't we had a vibrant fall? Is it me, or have there been more sunny days and ...

Marie G. Lalancette, 79, died Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, at the Concord Hospice House after a long period of failing health.

Race to Watch: President 43 of 301 precincts reporting - 14% [ town-by-town ] Updated on 11/04/08 at 8:59 pm Poll results are posted after the polls are closed.