Amherst News

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The annual Pepperell Garden Club Plant Sale will be held on Saturday, May 19. In the event of rain, sunshine or even snow, crowds will line up on the front lawn of the Lawrence Library and anxiously wait.

A section of fabric taken from a "Red Baron" fighter plane is being offered by a New Hampshire auction house.

Upon returning to his home after a day of fishing, James Gotham found a large section of it demolished by a Ford pickup box truck.

The annual Pepperell Garden Club Plant Sale will be held on Saturday, May 19. In the event of rain, sunshine or even snow, crowds will line up on the front lawn of the Lawrence Library and anxiously wait.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen spoke on the Senate floor yesterday on the issue of college affordability.

It took 17 years and two children of her own for Kris Gallo to realize her passion lay in elementary school, not high school.

Meghan Jordan of Amherst graduated from Souhegan High School in 2010 without any debt, but in about two years she could be facing more than $45,000 in student loans.

Cabinet file photo This undated photo by Bernice Perry shows Stephen Dutton and Eugene LeMay at Shepard Park in Milford, one of the local Rotary Club's many projects.

This is the time of year that Jews around the world are 'counting the Omer' , an ancient practice that marks the time ". . . between the barley harvest at Pesach and the wheat harvest which would be given to God as a first-fruits offering at the pilgrimage festival of Shavuot." There are 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot, and each day is a new ... (more)

Thanks to donations from cookie customers, veterans' groups, and Girl Scout troops, Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains loaded 986 cases of Girl Scout Cookies at their Bedford headquarters onto a moving van bound for Pease Air National Guard Base in Portsmouth April 18.