Suncook News

Time was, you could stroll down the street in communities all around New Hampshire -- in Manchester and Nashua, in Rochester and Suncook, in Salmon Falls and Berlin -- and hear folks, most of Canadian descent, chatting in French.

The Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire will host the third annual Assistive Technology Summer Institute, presented by Assistive Technology in New Hampshire , on July 22-24, 2009 in Concord, NH.

FEMA's rejection of its application for a competitive grant has the town seeking alternate funding to stabilize the Suncook River, which changed its course during the Mother's Day flood of 2006.

Allenstown officials hope the $800,000 in federal stimulus money is enough to sell voters on a $1.63 million plan to upgrade a wastewater treatment plant.

It took a global financial collapse, but Allenstown is poised to accept money that would pay for its sewer plant upgrades.

New Hampshire is no longer under a flood watch, but a flood warning remains for the Suncook River near Chichester.

Most of the state is under a flood watch with flood warnings issued for two rivers - the Suncook in North Chichester and the Saco, near Conway.

Derry firefighters kept an eye on Florence Street as hard rain beat down yesterday afternoon.

Flooding is possible in most of New Hampshire as rain falls Monday and Tuesday, but it's expected to be minor.

Weather forecasters yesterday backed off their rainfall predictions for this weekend, but still kept a flood watch, however tepid, in place.

Reality TV has already done to brides what Stephen King did to clowns. George Jobel and Jeffrey Thayer see no need to further shrew up the image of the lately betrothed.

A Concord Railroad schedule dating to October 1883 is for sale on eBay. It shows stops in Suncook, Manchester, Nashua, Merrimack and other locales.

Through the afternoon, additional ice storm news will be posted at the top of this article in blog style.