Barnstead News

With its members deadlocked on the question of whether or not to examine the possibility of a joint middle school, Prospect Mountain High School's JMA board opted last week to remove the proposal from its list of Warrant articles for 2010.

Fire displaced a family of eight on Leavitt Lane Sunday afternoon. Firefighters from around the region were called to 27 Leavitt Lane around 2:30 p.m. Sunday for a reported fire around a chimney, Strafford Fire Chief Paul Stover said.

Friends and colleagues were stunned Wednesday evening by the sudden death of Barnstead Selectman Phil Grillo at the age of 59.

A Center Barnstead woman was arraigned in Concord District Court last week on charges of embezzling more than $375,000 from her former employer.

A former Helms & Company Inc. financial analyst is accused of embezzling about $375,000 from the Concord health care consulting and management firm over three years, police said yesterday.

On Friday, five men over 65 gathered at a house tucked away off a dirt road in Barnstead.

Traffic accidents around New Hampshire have claimed four lives since Friday, even before yesterday's snowfall caused dozens of cars to slide off roadways.

A pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle on Route 9 and killed Friday night was a longtime town employee, police confirmed in a statement Saturday.

In a feature story this week about the refurbished bell tower at the historic meetinghouse in Newbury, Selectman Gary Budd said the restoration project - and the meetinghouse itself - had helped build community in his small town.

The Baysider's Facebook page is experiencing some problems, as we are currently unable to upload status updates.

The University of New Hampshire ROTC is preparing for its biggest training of the semester, and for this class's final, the last thing one would want to forget is to prepare.

The Baysider's Facebook page is experiencing some problems, as we are currently unable to upload status updates.

The Baysider's Facebook page was experiencing some problems Friday, as we were currently unable to upload status updates.

A state expert on milfoil control this week fielded questions about the safety and effectiveness of a widely used herbicide that targets this aggressive weed.

A man described as mentally ill and accused of lying to the police in an emergency call this summer, which sent a bomb squad to the McDonald's on Loudon Road, was arraigned on felony-level charges yesterday.

What had originally been planned as a discussion of local infrastructure issues quickly turned into a referendum on healthcare reform, as Alton residents took U.S. Rep.

A 39-year-old woman visiting a miniature horse farm in Barnstead was killed this week after being struck by her own SUV.

Police in Barnstead, N.H., say a woman run over by her own sport utility vehicle has died.

Concerns about winning voter support for a big-ticket Warrant article in the midst of the recession led the school board's Buildings and Grounds Committee to recommend during its Nov.

After reviewing Prospect Mountain High School's proposed operating budget for the 2011 fiscal year, the JMA board voted during its Nov.