New Castle News

The Players' Ring theater in Portsmouth ends its 20th season June 1 with William Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens," directed by Glenn Provost.

The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday night to enact an ordinance regulating the use of town roads by cyclists, joggers and walkers, despite the wishes of everyone who spoke during a public hearing on the matter.

A New Hampshire software company that has created the Word Voyage website designed to help students in grades four through 12 with vocabulary and grammar has received $285,000 in equity funding out of $500,000 offering, according to federal documents.

On a family excursion Sunday to the old machine shop museum at Fort Stark in New Castle are, from left, Kris Kucala, son Jacob Kucala, 13, and wife Danielle Moura, of Kittery, Maine.

The old machine shop museum at the Fort Stark State Historic Site, 211 Wild Rose Lane, New Castle, will open for the 2012 season on Saturday, May 26 from noon until 4 p.m. and will be open every Saturday until Sept.

You could easily miss them - the four American flags in a small family cemetery in Strafford, placed there for Memorial Day.

Residents will come together on Saturday, May 26, to celebrate the official opening of a new walking path along Route 1B.

Living on the Seacoast is a wonderful thing, but not if you have to listen to the constant noise of motorcycles roaring throughout Rye and New Castle.

Iola Norton Ballou, 80, of New Castle, died Thursday, May 17, 2012, at her home, after a courageous battle with an extended illness, attended by her loving husband of 60 years, Leo, and her sons.

Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation, will host the first open house of 2012 at Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse in New Castle on Sunday, May 27, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. The open houses will continue every Sunday through Columbus Day weekend in October.

Proceeds from the Great Island Garden Club's sixth annual plant sale Saturday will fund the purchase of plants for public gardens across the town.

Call for Art at La Galleria, La Galleria within La Bella Restaurant of Portsmouth, showcases work by emerging artists, not for profit venue, calling for local artists to submit two-dimensional work, one or two artists featured each month, work will by juried by local artist Jamilla El-Shafei. For information on submitting work, visit ... (more)

Police have decided on a less confrontational way to address the heated debate about bicyclists riding two abreast on town roads.

Con Tutti will celebrate the working world with its concert, "Get A Job!" at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 5, at South Church, 292 State St., Portsmouth.