Merrimack News

MERRIMACK a ' About 114,000 square feet of office space at 40 Continental Blvd. is vacant after Fidelity Investments recently ended its lease at the building, consolidating its local operations at its campus at 2 Contra Way.

Editor's note: This is one in an occasional series about state legislation regarding sex offenders.

President Barack Obama returned to politically important New Hampshire on Tuesday to pitch his plan to funnel $30 billion to local banks so they can lend money to small businesses.

Lawyers for a Merrimack man accused of stabbing another young man to death at a Halloween party have renewed a challenge to a state law that presumes him ineligible for bail, arguing that it is unconstitutional.

" A Merrimack teenager was shot with Taser Wednesday morning after police caught him and a friend burglarizing a Belmont Drive home, police said.

" The Merrimack Chamber of Commerce has issued a call for nominations for the 2009 business of the year and business leader of the year.

A Merrimack, N.H., man is facing second degree murder charges stemming from a stabbing death at a Halloween party last fall in his hometown.

Valley Republican Women will be hosting a Newcomer's Coffee on Monday, February 8, 2010 at 9:30 am in Amherst.

New Hampshire ended the second year of the recession with unemployment up in every county, but also remained below the monthly highs reached earlier in the year, state data shows.

A Merrimack man was indicted this week by a Hillsborough County grand jury on second-degree murder charges in connection with the stabbing death of a Nashua man in November.

Here are school dropout rates for the year ending June 2009 compared to the previous year that ended June 2008.

" New Hampshire's first and only strip club has changed hands. Mark's Showplace, at 390 S. River Road, today officially became The Gold Club restaurant and gentlemen's club, a chain based in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The club, about a quarter mile from the Merrimack line in an industrial zone, got a face lift in preparation for tonight's grand opening, ...

Police are investigating an accident that hospitalized an 11-year-old boy riding his bicycle.

Staff photo by Don Himsel Rick Barnes of Merrimack is concerned with the traffic and speed some drivers use near his home on Lawrence Road in town.

A chimney fire spread into the attic of a duplex at 5 Cub Circle early this morning, leaving a family homeless, Fire Chief Rick Todd said.No one was hurt in the fire, and smoke detectors sounded to alert the residents, who called 911 at 12:30 a.m., Fire Chief Rick Todd said.

MERRIMACK a ' Four teens have been charged in connection with an early-morning burglary last weekend in Merrimack.

THE PILGRIMS came to New England for the "advancement of ye Christian faith." The first colonists in New Hampshire set up a government "in the name of Christ and in the sight of God." John Langdon, governor of New Hampshire in 1786, began a proclamation with the words: "Vain is the knowledge of a Supreme Ruler of the Universe." From George ...

When Merrimack police Officer Gregory Walters was picking a name for the department's new police dog, he chose a nickname he'd been given years earlier -- "Gunny." Before starting with Merrimack police, Walters was a gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps.

All Republicans are welcome to join the Hillsborough County Republican Committee for their monthly meeting at Thomas More College.

Marietta Camille Aldrich, 73, of Exeter Road, died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, following many years of living with multiple sclerosis and cancer.