North Hampton News

To all the hundreds of Seacoast residents from Hampton, Hampton Falls, and North Hampton, and the Hampton Beach service in the morning, who took the time to pay tribute and honor our nation's fallen on Memorial Day, Monday May 28, all of us of American Legion Post 35 thank you.

The town has been searching for a new building inspector since Richard "Red" Mabey retired earlier this year.

Lisa Tetrault-Zhe photo North Hampton School sixth-graders have organized a fund-raiser for a classmate.

If you're looking for a sweet treat after enjoying chili cheese dogs, chicken quesadillas or burgers at Rocky's Famous Burgers, stop downstairs at The Big Lick ice cream shop.

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.

Merrill's Place Restaurant & Bar on Epping Road is being cited by the New Hampshire Liquor Commission for multiple liquor violations, including allegedly serving a 69-year-old North Hampton man who later struck a bicyclist on Epping Road.

It's a phrase worth repeating, year after year as American Legion Post 35 Commander Ralph Fatello likens the setting around him in North Hampton on Memorial Day as a "Norman Rockwell photo happening right before your eyes." Monday's observance, complete with veterans, Boy Scout groups, the North Hampton School chorus and band, and the Winnacunnet ... (more)

Portsmouth Fire Capt. Richard Murphy, left, and firefighter Russ Osgood discuss delivering a baby in the back of an ambulance recently.

Charlie and Cookie Ferreira, of Goffstown, were among the motorcyclists who voluntarily checked their motorcycle noise emissions in Rye on Saturday.

After a long search to become first-time home buyers, Portsmouth Herald reporter Joey Cresta and his fiancee found "The House" for them, a 1930 New Englander.

3:02 p.m. - Kylie Dugan, 23, of Dover, N.H., was arrested on Route 16 in Rochester and charged with a Subsequent Offense of Operating after Suspension.

While Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28 we should honor and remember the ultimate sacrifice of our fallen soldiers all year long.

The only petitioned article that appeared on this year's warrant was soundly rejected by more than 55 percent of the voters at the May 8 Town Meeting.

Hampton Academy seventh-grader Darren Gibaldo sports a new mohawk courtesy of stylist Tyler Sinclair of Hair Excitement in North Hampton.

La Bec Rouge opened Friday under the leadership of new owner Al Fleury. The Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday at the popular Hampton Beach restaurant at 73 Ocean Blvd.

The town's Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, designed to set the standard for allowing workforce or affordable housing to be built in the community, has been praised since its inception in 2009.

An undisclosed amount of cash was taken and the 206 Layfayette Road property was vandalized, police said.

The new redistricting plan will eliminate the current Tri Town district's collective election of representatives by Exeter, Stratham and North Hampton.

Those involved in trying to develop a project that would bring 25 units of affordable housing to town may have gotten off on the wrong foot with at least one member of the Planning Board.

2:50 a.m. - Joshua LaMoth, age 23, of Hampton, N.H., was arrested on Interstate 95 in North Hampton and charged with Possession of a Narcotic Drug and Operating after Suspension.