Hampton News

Tobby and Merrill Insurance recently donated $1,000 to the park's department to aid in covering the cost of vandalism that occurred at the park.

Some local organizations need help year round, not only at the holidays. As a result, and given the continued difficulties of the economy, Foster's will continue the Donations List all year.

Talley Westerberg and husband Glen moments after a vote was made to return funding for the Winnacunnet High School social worker position.

Sleepnet was granted another year to live up to its commitment to create 20 new jobs - with 60 percent of those going to people with low or moderate incomes - as part of receiving a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant last year.

Residents and school officials spoke with local legislators about state funding for schools, vouchers for private and parochial schools and abolishing the Department of Education at the School Board meeting Thursday night.

While working at a local restaurant, a Hampton woman was instructed to make daily bank deposits, but twice kept the cash, totaling $1,056.15, police allege.

There will be several contested races at the March 13 election, including the Board of Selectmen, Budget Committee and the Hampton and Winnacunnet school boards.

The Atlantic Ocean, vast and cold, was once again a proving ground for hundreds of local high school students on Saturday during the annual Special Olympics New Hampshire Penguin Plunge at Hampton Beach.

Some local organizations need help year round, not only at the holidays. As a result, and given the continued difficulties of the economy, Foster's will continue the Donations List all year.

James Richardson "Dick" Adams, 93, a longtime resident of Hampton, died Tuesday, Jan.

Residents at Saturday's deliberative session restored funding for the two town attorneys in the town's proposed operating budget and added a $1 million to the two fire station proposal, bringing total cost for the project that will go before voters in the March 13 election to $5.7 million.

The following is an excerpt from the Marblehead Police log: Thursday, Feb. 3 At 7:50 a.m., police received a call about a turkey in the roadway at Puritan Road and West Shore Drive.

Brother and sister team Nikki and Tommy Harter of Seabrook, a senior and sophomore, respectively at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, will participate in this weekend's high school plunge at Hampton Beach.

In advance of the 2012 elections, the Senate has passed a redistricting plan Wednesday that would change the makeup of 18 of the 24 districts in the state.

The rift between a Seabrook Beach Village District consortium and a resident who has filed a petition to restore fireworks use appeared to be unresolved after Wednesday's selectmen's meeting.

Two retired Hampton officials were among the state's top 25 public pension recipients in 2011, and three ranked among the top 10 in the Seacoast.

Members of the School Board and the Budget Committee had their say on the proposed $17.9 million budget for the Hampton School District, and now it's in the hands of voters attending the deliberative session.

8:15 p.m. - Shawn T. Sullivan, 41, of Union, N.H., was arrested on the Spaulding Turnpike in Dover and charged with Driving While Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor and Speeding.

More than 3,000 residents voted in last year's March election, but less than 1 percent of the total registered voters showed up for the town's deliberative session in February.

A Hampton man was arrested last week on charges alleging he tried to entice a minor female child to send sexually explicit photographs to him over the Internet.