North Hampton News

First, let us say we believe it is a travesty that the recently passed federal budget cuts Medicare reimbursements by 5 percent in each of the coming two years.

It now appears the state has no intention of divesting itself of North Hampton State Park, Jenness Beach in Rye, or any other state park listed in a Division of Parks and Recreation's Draft Ten-Year Strategic and Capital Improvement Plan released on June 8 as not meeting state park core values.

Rain has dampened swimming opportunities this Fourth of July weekend, with the state posting high bacteria advisories for three ocean beaches, seven lake beaches and a cyanobacteria warning.

The state Department of Environmental Services this week issued a high-bacteria advisory for three Seacoast area beaches due to a higher than average amount of the bacteria Enterocci.

The state Supreme Court yesterday threw out several convictions of a Newburyport surgeon tied to the Bayview Crematorium scandal.

An allegedly intoxicated Rye teenager who crashed his car into Putnam's Ski and Snowboard Shop on Lafayette Road on June 13 waived his arraignment Tuesday in Portsmouth District Court.

Interim Superintendent Kathleen Bodie has named Tara Rossi the new principal of the Dallin Elementary School.

School Administrative Unit 21 will be searching for a new superintendent after Assistant Superintendent Maureen Ward told members of the SAU 21 Joint Board she would not accept the job - at least not until the board conducts a thorough search.

Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, took offense last Sunday to an editorial stating "we would urge our legislators to do what those of us in the real world have been doing for quite some time now and reduce spending rather than looking for new ways to support programs and services we can no longer afford." D'Allesandro wrote that his office is ...

With the potential for both North Hampton and Jenness state beaches to be cut loose by the state, the towns of North Hampton and Rye have both expressed interest in the attractions.

One of the very best pottery shops to buy hand thrown pottery in North Hampton, New Hampshire would be "Great Bay Pottery." You can watch them make beautiful pottery right there inside Great Bay Pottery and even purchase some beautiful pottery to use at home and decorate your house with.

A group of local women have committed to fight breast cancer. Emily Persing of Portsmouth, Whitney Blethen of Kittery, Maine, Janice Szydlo of North Hampton, Ginger Mathews of Stratham and Amy Jones of Lee created the "Seacoast Boulder Brigade," a breast cancer three-day walking team with the goal of raising $20,000. How to help Seacoast Boulder ...

Virginia L. "Ginny" Fowler, 94, formerly of Hampton and North Hampton, died Wednesday, Jan.

Epoch Restaurant at the Exeter Inn, The Meat House, Hannah Fine Foods, and The Loaf & Ladle in Exeter, were among more than 30 Seacoast area businesses chosen as "Best of NH" in New Hampshire Magazine's 2009 contest.

The Rockingham County Grand Jury recently indicted David D. Janvrin Jr. on two counts of assault in the August 2008 case of the death of Scott Eaton at the former Old Firebarn Restaurant in Seabrook.

An apparent drive-by shooting early this morning sent bullets through the side of a Central Road home and into the walls of a bedroom where the homeowners were sleeping, according to police.

A Rockingham County Superior Court judge will now decide whether Board of Selectmen Chairman Craig Salomon can subdivide his Woodland Road property into two lots over the objections of the town Planning Board.

The Friends of the North Hampton Bandstand will kick off the 14th summer concert season on Wednesday, June 24, from 6 to 8 p.m., with the very popular Jumbo Circus Peanuts sponsored by Seacoast Memorials.

Reaction was swift and mostly negative yesterday to a proposal to possibly jettison 27 state parks.

Twenty-seven state parks have been slated for potential sale or give-away by a cash-strapped state Division of Parks and Recreation that wants to jettison properties that don't meet its core definition of state parks.