Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles that will be released monthly throughout 2017 as part of the celebration of the New Hampshire State Library’s 300th anniversary. The State Library was founded Jan. 25, 1717, and is the first state library in ...

MERRIMACK – Home Health & Hospice Care (HHHC) is looking for people interested in volunteering their time to work in the hospice program with home and nursing home hospice clients in Southern New Hampshire. The 33-hour Hospice Training Program will begin Wednesday, Feb. 22, from ...

More residents of Hillsborough and Rockingham counties can now qualify for help in paying their heating bills this winter because of recently increased eligibility guidelines, said Tracy Desmarais, energy director at Southern New Hampshire Services. “We welcome this decision by the ...

AMHERST – Why is the United States never in the top 10 in worldwide surveys of happiness? Can money buy happiness? And what is happiness? Maria Sanders, who teaches philosophy at Plymouth State University, has been tackling those weighty questions for years. The “Quest for ...

LYNDEBOROUGH - It's hard to think of a more romantic meeting story: Regina Conrad and Paul Hider first met on an eclipse-watching cruise in the South Pacific in 2005. She was living in New York. He lived in New Hampshire. Their wedding favors were flat plastic eye protectors for viewing the ...

MERRIMACK - On Jan. 12, Daniel Webster Council held the 2017 Eagle Scout Recognition Reception at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College. This event honored the 218 Scouts who attained the rank of Eagle in 2016 of whom 15 Eagle Scouts are from Merrimack. The Scouts from ...