In a powerful blend of modern progress and firefighting tradition, the Town of Derry officially opened its new $21.5 million Central Fire Station with a ceremonial “uncoupling.”
Bedford Fire and police responded to 1750 TapHouse on Route 101 Tuesday after employees reported a fire a few hours before the restaurant was set to open for the evening.
The NH Department of Revenue has set the Town of Derry’s 2025 tax rate at $18.99 per thousand of assessed value. The rate is $0.30 higher than the 2024 tax rate of $18.69, representing a 1.6% increase.
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Attorney General John M. Formella and Concord Police Chief Bradley C. Osgood announce further information related to the October 31, 2025 suspicious death of an adult female near a tent site in Concord.
Derry police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman whose body was discovered Monday afternoon behind a Birch Street business.
The front page of an early October 2025 edition of The Keene Sentinel features stories about city elections, the ongoing drought in New Hampshire and two Medicare Advantage providers leaving the state. It’s all local news.
In the greater Merrimack area, where toxic forever chemicals are concentrated throughout the soil and a long-term cleanup plan is yet to materialize, keeping the contamination local is the best many feel they can do for now. But how well that’s working isn’t clear and guidance is scarce, creating headaches for developers and concern for activists.
Dismas Home of New Hampshire has closed on a property in Rochester that will allow it to serve three times the amount of justice-involved women annually that it does now.
The town of Warner made headlines this summer that no town wants. The town administrator sought a restraining order against a selectman for alleged assault. Shortly afterward, the assault charges were dropped and she was put on leave. A firm hired to audit the town’s finances abruptly quit, citing concerns about the reliability of the town’s records, among other things.
All of it — and more — played out in public during selectboard meetings, where residents were allowed to ask questions and raise concerns. If not for the state’s right-to-know law, it could have played out behind closed doors instead and not led to public scrutiny of the town’s financial practices or conversations about adding cameras to town hall to address safety concerns.