Henniker News

State Senate minority leader Peter Bragdon is looking nearly a year ahead. The Milford Republican lays out an optimistic 2010 outlook to move the Senate from its current 14-10 Democratic majority to a GOP majority in a memorandum sent this week to the other nine members of his caucus and the finance committee of the Senate Republican Majority ...

The family of a Hopkinton, N.H., police officer killed in a hit-and-run crash will receive more than $1 million in a settlement with the driver and the Chinese restaurant where police said the man had been drinking.

The family of a Hopkinton police officer who died last year after being struck by a drunken driver will receive more than $1 million as part of a pre-lawsuit settlement, with $800,000 coming from Chen Yang Li, the restaurant that served alcohol to the driver on the night Sean Powers was killed.

Dozens of New England College students were evacuated from Connor Hall yesterday morning after suspicious white powder was found by a campus safety officer.

A residence hall was evacuated Wednesday morning at New England College in Henniker after a note and a bag containing white powder were discovered.

A murderer serving a life sentence who was paroled once until he was accused of child rape in Henniker in 1990 is seeking his freedom a second time.

That is the American veteran. Yesterday they were honored -- not with medals, wreathes or Taps -- but with the comfort of home.

Timothy Buxton, 37, of Old West Hopkinton Road, was arrested Oct. 18 on charges of simple assault and criminal mischief.

Fire crews from more than a half-dozen communities were at PSNH's main power plant this morning for a reported two-alarm blaze but a company spokesman said there never was a fire.

After a recent spate of fatal fires across the state, the town's fire chief wants local residents to use caution.

Treasures: The Dean of poetesses Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:32 Dear Helaine and Joe: I like to attend estate auctions in New Hampshire and recently bought a box of paper ephemera containing a poem by Edna Dean Proctor.

An unusual lawsuit about what a federal judge has dubbed "poetry in motion" continues to pit Drew University against a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire.

A federal judge says New England College in Henniker, N.H., may proceed with its lawsuit accusing a poet of stealing one of its master's programs and its faculty and recreating it at a rival school in New Jersey.

The joint Old Rochester Regional school committee Monday chose Doug White, a school superintendent in New Hampshire, to replace ORR Superintendent Dr.

Stacey Holub , a medical assistant with Sanders Family Medicine in Concord, looks over information on the H1N1 vaccine to determine if Bethany Patten is able to get the shot while running a fever.

Hideaki Miyamura, a potter, glazer and N.H. Artist Fellow, is one of the presenters at the Arts in Education Partnership Conference.

Tomorrow at 7 p.m. the Henniker Zoning Board will hold a public hearing. One of the issues on the agenda is a request from New Cingular Wireless to construct a 135-foot cell tower in West Henniker on Old Hillsboro Road.

News reports in recent months have heralded a new spirit of congeniality between France and the United States.

The Henniker Zoning Board will hold a public hearing tomorrow night to review a proposal for a 135-foot, tree-shaped cell phone tower on Old Hillsboro Road.

In 1908, someone envisioned a Henniker of the future with balloons and dirigibles filling the sky and an elevated passenger train bound for Boston cutting through the center of town.