Bow News

How does a Republican presidential candidate rise out of fourth place, with less than two weeks before the New Hampshire primary? "There's a rumor you're considering an independent run if you don't get the nomination," a voter asked at a Rotary lunch today.

Evelyn E. Handler, who was the first female president of Brandeis University and of the University of New Hampshire, died Friday afternoon after she was struck by a car while walking on a street in Bedford, N.H. Handler, 78, served as president of UNH from 1980 to 1983 before taking the same position at Brandeis, where she was president from 1983 ... (more)

Barnstead resident Jim Riley, 51, will celebrate more than the holidays this season.

Anyone handy with scissors and a blow-dryer could set up shop in New Hampshire without the state's formal blessing if an effort to eliminate education and licensing requirements for a host of occupations is successful.

Elisabeth Holdsworth of Bow, N.H., and Sean Lazzara of Wells were married at St.