EXETER — Superintendent Michael Morgan plans to honor the past, celebrate the present and plan for the future as he begins running School Administrative Unit 16.

EXETER — The Board of Selectmen voted to disband the Water and Sewer Advisory Committee on June 30, two months after four of its members resigned.

EXETER — The owners and former operators of the Exeter Ice House have again taken over operation of the facility.

EXETER — Input of the Board of Selectmen was included in the second draft 35-year lease for the Exeter Sportsman's Club reviewed by the board Monday evening.

EXETER — The Blackford Place Homeowners Association, abutters to The Boulders at RiverWoods, have taken the May 8, 2008 Planning Board approval of the expansion to the Rockingham Superior Court. Attorney Charlie Tucker, of Donohue, Tucker and...

Teens in Grade 6 and up: Register for two sessions of Dungeons & Dragons at Exeter Public Library. The first session is Monday, July 7, from 1 to 4 p.m. when you will learn to play the game and choose your character. Session two is Tuesday, July...

EXETER — The Exeter News-Letter and the American Independence Museum are teaming up this summer for the second annual American Independence Festival trivia contest. The contest is being held leading up to the annual festival slated for...

Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy presents "Then and Now: Chinese Art from 1710 to 2007 and Contemporary Digital Images, Works courtesy of China 2000, New York and Photographer Douglas Prince" on exhibit from Tuesday, July 8 to 30. A free...

NEWMARKET — Although past Town Council chairmen have appointed the council's representatives to the Planning Board and the Budget Committee this is against state statute. The Town Council as a whole has to appoint the representatives, said...

The Lamprey Arts & Culture Alliance offer a new series of summer music performances on Main Street. "Main Street Promenade Serenades" is part of the "We Dig Newmarket" program, a collaborative effort in partnership with the town of Newmarket and the...

NEWMARKET — Planners considered zoning changes for mixed-use redevelopment of the mills that could include the use of a residential density bonus.

EPPING — In memory of their two children, Kaleigh and Shane, Ken and Danielle Lambert of Brentwood will host a public dedication ceremony from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 12, and will donate an engraved granite bench to the Harvey-Mitchell...

Family, friends and co-workers of the late Phil Englehardt will honor the man who presided over a cast of characters at the colorful Honey Bee Donut Shop and in his "Motorcycle Man" book series, at an informal gathering on Wednesday, July 16, at a...

The Lamprey River Watershed Association will survey all 47 miles of the Lamprey River in July and August to map invasive species, trash, severe erosion, storm water culverts and pipes discharging into the river. Survey results will be used to guide...

On the second Tuesday of each month the Harvey Memorial Mitchell Library offers The Eclectic Book Group, whose members always coming across something interesting to read.

The snowy winter and dry spring could mean significantly fewer mosquitoes this summer, according to one local mosquito trapper who has already seen the population cut in half in some Seacoast locations.

For Uncle Sam's birthday, 50 military brides will get a present.

Seacoast Republican Women and Strafford County Republican Women host an evening with Congressional candidates Jeb Bradley and John Stephen on Wednesday, July 9 at 7 p.m. at the Newington Town Hall. Bring your questions and hear the candidates...

The Exeter News-Letter is seeking an energetic, deadline-oriented and committed freelance writer to cover the community of Stratham and the Exeter Region Cooperative School District. This is not a staff position and the correspondent would write...

STRATHAM — At 7 p.m. On Wednesday, July 16, the Great Bay Discovery Center's Bay Views program is sponsoring a presentation by UNH Professor John Carroll. Carroll teaches Environmental Conservation at UNH and will be talking about...

STRATHAM — The Recreation Department's 2008 summer brochure is available at the Recreation Office. All programs at the municipal center unless otherwise noted. For more information, call 772-7450 or e-mail strathamrecretion@comcast.net

EXETER — Local chamber of commerce members, state senators, councilors and others rode to Hampton Beach together Wednesday, among the first to ride on the COAST Summer Beach Bus.

EXETER — Exeter Hospital is breaking health-care boundaries and bringing state-of-the-art mammography technology right to its patients.

STRATHAM — Raising money for cancer research was child's play for a group of 100 Seacoast kids.

EXETER — The Planning Board is seeking the reaction of the Conservation Commission before voting on a density bonus requested as part of the Linden Commons subdivision.

EXETER — Approval for the Marriott Fairfield Inn proposed for the former Wendy's site on Portsmouth Avenue is pending review by the town engineer and fire department.

Everyone is welcome to join in the parade. Floats, tractors, decorated bikes, antique cars, trucks, youth groups, adult groups, horses, farm animals and pets will all celebrate the Fourth of July. Line-up at 9 a.m. at Swasey School and step-off at...

EXETER — A man who supplied the narcotic drug that killed a young woman at a party in Newmarket seven years ago is going to prison.

On July 12, the much awaited installation of the Brentwood Playground at the Community Center will take place and planners need your help.

The Exeter Cal Ripken 12-year-old All-Star team won the District 5 championship recently and will now move on to the state tournament beginning Tuesday at 5 p.m. in Gilford.

EXETER — Shawn Milne and Brooke O'Connor stole a page from Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Gravity Tuesday evening.

CONCORD — Devinne and Seamus Cullinane from Hampton Recreation ... Billy Baker, Luke Wellington, Sydney Peterson, Haley Baker and Melanie Lamar from Exeter Parks and Recreation ... Sean and Erin Colford and Joseph Gaudette from Epping...

BRENTWOOD — Teddy King laughs when he says he's a hamburger kind of guy when it comes to professional cycling.

NEWFIELDS — Right after Jordan Horwitz won Saturday's Newfields 5K Road Race someone at the finish line said he "runs like the wind."

KENSINGTON — The Exeter Junior Baseball League All Stars are scheduled to take on Hudsdon tonight in the 10-and-under Cal Ripken District 5 Tournament at the new Kensington field complex at 7:30 p.m. The Exeter 10s opened the tournament...

PORTSMOUTH — After a bogey on the 12th hole left Brett Wilson in third place, the defending Seacoast Am champion asked himself a simple question.

RYE BEACH — Mary Chamberlain knew she was putting together a good final round, but she had no idea how her 2-under par (70) effort would leave her in the standings of the New England Women's Golf Association Championship.

Joey Payne Jr. didn't win the Northeastern Midget Association (NEMA) Midget event held at the Lee USA Speedway on Friday night, but quite honestly, he was lucky to even be there.

Perhaps the state's new and improved 10-year transportation plan, signed by Gov. John Lynch last week, should be granted a simple modifier — alleged.

Down at the bottom of a story in the June 27 Exeter News-Letter about the accounting process of returning $600,000 left in the Exeter High School building fund to the taxpayers was this, the last paragraph: