Amherst News

Annual meeting season 2012 is coming up for most area communities. Be sure to check The Telegraph's Town Meeting page for ongoing coverage of local town meeting issues and events.

Submitted photo Teens helping with the editing process of the Making Healthy Choices videos, from left, Sarah Bonta of Hollis, Logan Blake of Brookline, Kyle Magoon of Wilton, Cole Gallant of Brookline, Annie Christman of Amherst, and Nikita Nizhnikov of Amherst.

Officials say several students at a New Hampshire high school had to be sent home after eating brownies laced with laxatives that two other students had brought to school.

Submitted photo Teens helping with the editing process of the Making Healthy Choices videos, from left, Sarah Bonta of Hollis, Logan Blake of Brookline, Kyle Magoon of Wilton, Cole Gallant of Brookline, Annie Christman of Amherst, and Nikita Nizhnikov of Amherst.

A black leather jacket up for auction believed to have been worn by one of the drummers of the Ramones has been withdrawn from bidding after he questioned its authenticity.

She married Maurice Buttrick in 1955. He predeceased her in 2002. They lived in Amherst until moving to Hampton in 1966.

A U.S. auctioneer says an 1878 letter from Alexander Graham Bell that includes rare and elaborate drawings of the telephone he invented has sold for more than $92,000. Bidding on the letter offered by New Hampshire-based RRAuction began in December and ended Wednesday, with the top bid coming in at $92,856. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-RR Auction AMHERST, ... (more)

On short notice yesterday, the Senate postponed today's vote on a controversial eminent domain bill that would challenge the Northern Pass project, giving senators more time to make sense of competing bills.

These drugs have undergone a process called lyophilization, a type of drying process.

Attempting to address key healthcare issues that include patient safety and drug protocol compliance, device designers are now building on the experience of earlier generations of syringes and injectors, incorporating new design features with the aim of making the injection event more consistent across patient populations and less likely to evoke ... (more)