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2 mega jackpots offering up dreams of the good life
READER COMMENTS: 0New Hampshire Lottery says ticket sales are rising rapidly as the jackpots for both Powerball and Mega Millions approach record levels.
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Kids Bike Safety Day is a hit in the Mount Washington Valley
READER COMMENTS: 0Seven-year-old Finn Murphy of Jackson is a seasoned veteran of the Mount Washington Valley Bicycling Club's annual Kids Bike Safety Day, and he's got the skills stickers to prove it.
Ceremony for fallen police officers honors service and sacrifice
READER COMMENTS: 0Michael Maloney's sister, Ralph Miller's dad, Edward Graziano's grandson and Leslie Lord's sister came together Friday to help remember their departed relatives: law enforcement officers killed in...
New Hampshire Senior Club Notes
READER COMMENTS: 0Brief items of interest to New Hampshire's club community.
New Hampshire Senior News in Brief
READER COMMENTS: 0Brief items of interest to New Hampshire's senior citizens.
Improvisational play combines fantasy with a big helping of funny
READER COMMENTS: 0For about a year now, a cast of 10 gaming enthusiasts, actors and comedians has been bringing a theatrical version of the game "Dungeons & Dragons" to audiences on the stage of the Players' Ring...
NH Military People: Alvirne alumna graduates from Air Force training
READER COMMENTS: 0Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Kayla M. McWalter graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.
NH Business newsmakers: Rice to co-chair judicial commission
READER COMMENTS: 0Attorney Emily Gray Rice, a Bernstein Shur shareholder and member of the firm's labor and employment practice group and litigation group, has been selected by Gov. Maggie Hassan to co-chair the...
NH woman wants to be a millionaire
READER COMMENTS: 0A big win would mean loans paid off, a new house and help for her family, said Amber Cushing, who will appear on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" on Monday.
Hooksett pantry counting on a successful food drive on Saturday
READER COMMENTS: 0Hooksett residents wishing to do their part need do no more than leave non-perishable goods out by their mailboxes Saturday, as the U.S. Postal Service's 21st annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive...
Adam Sandler is 64th on the Reader's Digest list of most trusted Americans
READER COMMENTS: 0Sandler does have some admirable qualities: He contributes to charity and has been married to his wife for almost ten years. But still the question remains: What has Sandler done to build such trust?
2 police officers receive Union Leader Hero Award
READER COMMENTS: 0Officers Ben Foster and Dan Wood ran into a burning building to wake up 30 people who were sleeping inside.
NH Marines start own website
READER COMMENTS: 0The Granite State detachment of the Marine Corps League recently launched its own website.
Talk on WWII life is today in Francestown
READER COMMENTS: 0A local woman who served as a soldier during World War II will offer a rare glimpse at her experiences during the war at a special talk at the George Holmes Bixby Memorial Library.
Life saving, life changing: Milford students were Hampton beach heroes
READER COMMENTS: 0Last year's senior skip day turned out to be more than a day at the beach for two Milford High School students when they rushed to the rescue of struggling swimmers at Hampton Beach.
Video - Matt Bonner: Luckiest guy in the NBA
READER COMMENTS: 0SAN ANTONIO - Affectionately known as the Red Rocket, veteran forward Matt Bonner has been the Spurs' spot-up 3-point specialist for 9 years now. But a spot in the NBA didn't come easy for Bonner,...
NH Senior News Notes
READER COMMENTS: 0Brief items of interest to New Hampshire's senior community.
Vin Sylvia: Marathoner is on a mission
READER COMMENTS: 0After dropping out at Boston, Heidi Westover will take part in a race in Walpole to assist bombing victims. It will be a grassroots, old-school affair. Registration is on-site the morning of the...
Susan Dromey-Heeter's Budget Vogue: What makes us stop? Fear and loathing on the yard-sale trail
READER COMMENTS: 0In basements and garages around the state, spring cleaning is well under way, which, for better or worse, makes this yard-sale season.
NH Military People: Nashua South grad completes Air Force basic training
READER COMMENTS: 0Air Force Airman Nicholas A. Piper graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.
Another View -- Karen Feldscher: Remembering my friend Cissy Taylor, lost one year ago
READER COMMENTS: 0A year ago, my good friend Cissy Taylor died unexpectedly, just shy of her 65th birthday. Her birthday was May 1, and Cissy - a Kentucky girl - always celebrated with a Derby Day party that I looked...
Birdhouses help bridge generations
READER COMMENTS: 0A wide gap in generations has narrowed with ease on Fridays lately at the Easter Seals New Hampshire campus on Auburn Street.
Amateur radio enthusiasts will make waves in Deerfield
READER COMMENTS: 0This weekend, those strangers and friends, called "hams," will come together at the Deerfield Fairgrounds to celebrate the waves that brought them there for the 13th New England Amateur Radio...
Hampton Beach loves this little mermaid
READER COMMENTS: 0A photo of Geni Pareja-Whipple, 9, will be featured in the chamber of commerce's summer guide.
New Hampshire Club Notes
READER COMMENTS: 0Brief items of interest to New Hampshire's club community.
Hooksett arborist recognized for his ability to work in the cold
READER COMMENTS: 0A Hooksett man has been named the winner of the Cintas and Carhartt Cold Crew competition, an annual contest recognizing American and Canadian cold-weather workers.
New Boston readies for taste of Civil War life
READER COMMENTS: 0As a year-long celebration of New Boston's 250th Anniversary continues, the Civil War will come home to New Hampshire in two special events.
Wheelchair basketball game raises funds and awareness for Granite State Independent Living
READER COMMENTS: 0It was a fundraiser for a great cause, but players were still in it to win at Saturday's Hoops on Wheels, the second annual wheelchair basketball tournament to benefit Granite State Independent...
NH Senior News Briefs
READER COMMENTS: 0Brieg items of interest to New Hampshire's senior citizens.
Nashua woman wins Miss New Hampshire title
READER COMMENTS: 0Samantha Russo, 22, of Nashua, was crowned the newest Miss New Hampshire Saturday night. Unlike many other contestants, this was Russo's first time on the Miss New Hampshire stage.
Windham girl a big backer of Nashua Children's Home
READER COMMENTS: 0Since last year, she's been raising money to help the home; she's now in the process of organizing a summer yard sale to help the cause.
It's all about the hunt for these treasure hounds in Keene
READER COMMENTS: 0Now in its 20th year, the Best O' North East four-day treasure hunters convention brings out hunters, prospectors and the curious from all over New England.
Gail Fisher's Dog Tracks: Dogs can be taught not to pull on leash
READER COMMENTS: 0The goal of "loose leash walking" is to walk together with your dog - with neither you, nor your dog pulling on either end of the leash.
NH Business People: Window dealers win top Solar Gard award
READER COMMENTS: 0Scott and Judith Harlow of Visions Window Tinting LLC in East Hampstead were honored as among the best in North America for 2012 at Seventh Annual Panorama Dealer Meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Big Cat Coffees website accepts NH Humane Society donations
READER COMMENTS: 0Big Cat Coffees in Franklin recently presented the New Hampshire Humane Society in Laconia with $211 in donations, collected through the coffee distributor's website.
NH MIlitary News: 2 seniors from NH receive Air Force ROTC scholarships
READER COMMENTS: 0Jedidiah R. Langlois, son of Robert and Laura Langlois of Hudson, and Bradbury A. Hart, son of Bradbury and Melissa Hart of Amherst, have each been awarded an Air Force ROTC scholarship to attend a...
Library program lets Conway children take over town's heavy equipment
READER COMMENTS: 0Two-year-old Allie Kramer of North Conway seemed at home in the driver's seat of the Town of Conway's backhoe, although she had to slide off the seat and stand up to wrap her arms around the...
Seacoast runners lacing up again for charity
READER COMMENTS: 0A year after they hit the pavement just two weeks after Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney was gunned down, more than 1,000 runners and walkers will lace up once again on Sunday.
Merrimack day care center to hold kids' costume contest
READER COMMENTS: 0The Learning Experience day care center is hosting a children's costume contest on Saturday with a $500 grand prize.
NHCLU's Ebel honored for 'courage to speak'
READER COMMENTS: 0Claire Ebel was celebrated Wednesday as "a State House legend" and persistent defender of civil liberties and individual freedom during her 30 years at the helm of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties...
Setting a life-saving goal in memory of Giovanni
READER COMMENTS: 0While uncertain he will reach his goal of registering 4,000 potential bone marrow donors in the month of April, Michael Guglielmo remains determined to get as close as he can.
Miss New Hampshire competition kicks off tonight
READER COMMENTS: 0The Miss New Hampshire Scholarship Competition returns to the Stockbridge Theatre on the campus of Pinkerton Academy tonight through Saturday for the 67th annual competition.
Run Granny Run, the story about "Granny D":
New Hampshire Celebrities
Chas Guldemond
READER COMMENTS: 0Chas Guldemond was born in Laconia on April 22, 1987 and grew up in New Hampshire. Today he is a pro snowboarder who is shredding up the slopes all over the world and racking up wins in competitions...
Charles Revson
READER COMMENTS: 0"Look kiddie. I built this business by being a bastard. I run it by being a bastard. I'll always be a bastard, and don't you ever try to change me." - Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, to a...
Carlton Fisk
READER COMMENTS: 0Carlton Fisk, the major league catcher who played most famously for the Boston Red Sox, was born in Bellows Falls, Vt., on December 26, 1947. But the Hall-of-Famer is really from Charlestown, where...
Brian Wilson
READER COMMENTS: 0San Francisco Giants right-handed closer Brian Wilson is a native of the state of New Hampshire. Wilson, who was raised in Londonderry, attended (and played for) Londonderry High School, where he...
Bradford Anderson
READER COMMENTS: 0Bradford Anderson, a native of the town of Meredith, in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, has been acting since he was a young boy.
Bode Miller
READER COMMENTS: 0Bode Miller, the first American in 22 years to become the World Cup overall champion is a native of Easton, New Hampshire.
Bob Montana
READER COMMENTS: 0Bob Montana wanted to be a cartoonist since he was seven. Born in Stockton, California on October 23, 1920, Bob was the son of a former Ziegfield girl, Roberta Pandolfini Montana and a top banjo...
B.J. Bedford
READER COMMENTS: 0Barbara J. Bedford (also known as "B.J.") was born on November 9, 1972 in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was introduced to swimming by her three older brothers, whom she aspired to be like. She is the...
Annie Duke
READER COMMENTS: 0Annie Duke is known as the "Duchess of Poker" and is considered one of the best poker players in the world.
Alan Shepard
READER COMMENTS: 0Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space, was born on November 18, 1923 in (East) Derry, New Hampshire. He grew up in East Derry and attended school at the small one-room...
Aerosmith
READER COMMENTS: 0Aerosmith, considered by many to be America's greatest rock and roll band, has its roots in New Hampshire. Two members of the band, lead singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry spent their...
Sully Erna / Godsmack
READER COMMENTS: 0Sully Erna, lead singer for the band Godsmack, hangs his hat in southern New Hampshire. The multi-talented musician can also play guitar and drums.
Robert Frost
READER COMMENTS: 0Robert Frost is New Hampshire's most well-known and most beloved poets. But he was born in San Francisco, California in 1874 to William Frost, a journalist, and Isabelle Moody, a school teacher.
Wolf Moser
READER COMMENTS: 0Wolf Moser was born on December 3, 1974 in Moultonboro, New Hampshire. He graduated from St. Paul's High School, where he began rowing in 1991. Wolf currently resides in Princeton, New Jersey.
Triple H
READER COMMENTS: 0Paul Michael Levesque, better known as the wrestler Triple H, was born on July 27, 1969 in Nashua. He is currently still wrestling under World Wrestling Entertainment's "RAW" brand, works as a...
Topher Grace
READER COMMENTS: 0Topher Grace's connection to the Granite State is the acclaimed Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, where the young actor was discovered by the producers of "That 70's Show."
Tom Rush
READER COMMENTS: 0Folk musician Tom Rush was born in Portsmouth on February 8, 1941. His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord. In an interview he described "growing up" at St. Paul's, but he was sent...
Tom Bergeron
READER COMMENTS: 0Emmy-Award winner Tom Bergeron, the host of ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos, and Dancing With the Stars, divides his time between Hollywood and his home in Greenwich, CT. Yet he...
Seth Meyers
READER COMMENTS: 0Seth Meyers is a comedian. He was born in Bedford, New Hampshire on December 28, 1973 and he graduated from West High School before attending Northwestern University in Chicago. His parents still...
Scotty Lago
READER COMMENTS: 0Professional snowboarder and Olympic Medalist Scotty Lago is a Seabrook native, born on November 12, 1987. He currently owns two homes in Hampton Falls.
Sarah Silverman
READER COMMENTS: 0Stand-up comedienne and actress Sarah Silverman was born in Bedford on December 1, 1970. She was a student of the Derryfield School in Manchester.
Samantha Brown
READER COMMENTS: 0Samantha Brown is the host of the Travel Channel's "Great Hotels, Great Vacation Homes" and "Girl Meets Hawaii." You might be surprised to learn that Samantha grew up here in New Hampshire both in...
Salmon P. Chase
READER COMMENTS: 0Salmon P. Chase, the 6th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Cornish on January 13, 1808. He was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln on December 6, 1864. He...
Ronnie James Dio
READER COMMENTS: 0Ronnie James Dio was born Ronald James Padavona on July 10, 1942 in Portsmouth. His parents moved to Cortland, New York when Ronnie was very young.
Rico Petrocelli
READER COMMENTS: 0Rico Petrocelli was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1997. He started in the 1967 and '69 All-Star Games, and was known as one of the league's best fielders for over a decade.
Recycled Percussion
READER COMMENTS: 0Recycled Percussion was formed in 1995 by Justin Spencer for a Goffstown High School talent show. Did they win? Actually, no. A juggling act took first place.
Ralph Baer
READER COMMENTS: 0Seven years before Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs invented the personal computer and decades before we were interacting with Playstation, Wii and Xbox 360, Ralph Baer was playing ping-pong on...
Mitt Romney
READER COMMENTS: 0Mitt Romney, two-time Presidential candidate, American businessman, savior of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games and the 70th Governor of the State of Massachusetts, was born in Detroit on March...
Penny Pitou
READER COMMENTS: 0Penny Pitou, the first American to win an Olympic downhill medal, entered the New England Women's Sports Hall of Fame November 14, 2001.
New Hampshire Olympians in 2010
READER COMMENTS: 0Biographies about the Olympians from New Hampshire who were a part of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
New Hampshire Olympians in 2008
READER COMMENTS: 0New Hampshire has a history of producing amazing Olympians. This summer, there is only one woman on the U.S. Team from the Granite State. She goes to Beijing, China with aspirations of winning a...
New Hampshire Olympians in 2006
READER COMMENTS: 0The men and women on this page went to Torino, Italy with aspirations of winning a gold medal for their country and bragging rights to the title "Best in the World." These athletes with ties to New...
New Hampshire Olympians in 2004
READER COMMENTS: 0The men and women on this page are headed to Greece with aspirations of winning a gold medal for their country and bragging rights to the title "Best in the World". These athletes with ties to New...
NH People
- Stacey Cole's Nature Talks: Of all wild bird songs, the fox sparrow's sound is the 'sweetest' - 0
- Record Powerball jackpot has Granite Staters dreaming - 1
- Online fund set up for Salem house fire victims - 0
- Hooksett Police Commission walks away - 1
- Win tickets to see the Rolling Stones! - 0
- Bedford native keeps Boston close to her heart - 0
- Nashua aldermen approve lease for community garden - 0
- Work begins on dam repairs - 0
- Peterborough tradition welcomes giant puppets - 0
A Family Promise holding talent search for fall fundraiser
READER COMMENTS: 0New Hampshire Olympians in 2002
READER COMMENTS: 0Just like the Olympic torch that circled the country before landing in Utah on February 4, 21 athletes with New Hampshire ties hope to shine brightly at the winter games in Salt Lake City.
Mia Tyler
READER COMMENTS: 0She was born to rock star Steven Tyler and Andy Warhol muse Cyrinda Foxe at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon on December 22, 1978.
Mike O'Malley
READER COMMENTS: 0Mike O'Malley, who played the part of Jimmy Hughes on the popular CBS television comedy series "Yes, Dear," was raised in Nashua, NH. He was born on October 31, 1966.
Matt Savage
READER COMMENTS: 0Matt Savage grew up on a 165-acre farm in Francestown with his parents. So, what's so special about him? Matt is an autistic savant. Diagnosed with autism at the age of three, Savage couldn't...
Matt Bonner
READER COMMENTS: 0Matt Bonner is known for his strong work ethic. Some would call him a workaholic. Bonner's dedication to his education (he earned straight A's from pre-school all the way through to high school)...
Mary Baker Eddy
READER COMMENTS: 0Mary Baker Eddy is the founder of the Christian Science movement, a religious movement that believes in Bible-based healing. She founded the "Church of Christ, Scientist" in Boston, Massachusetts in...
Mandy Moore
READER COMMENTS: 0Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore was born in Nashua on April 10, 1984. She moved to Orlando, Florida at the age of two months and she continues to reside there with her family. Moore is best known as one...
Kristen Vermilyea
READER COMMENTS: 0The New Hampshire Film Industry is abuzz with the likes of Kristen Vermilyea on the scene. The former actress previously appeared in a few television commercials and on television shows such as "Law...
Kris Freeman
READER COMMENTS: 0He's young, good looking and cocksure. The All-American boy, raised in the north country of New Hampshire, in a rural house his father built off a dirt road lost among the hills.
Ken Burns
READER COMMENTS: 0Ken Burns is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who resides in Walpole, New Hampshire with his wife. He has three children. Burns is best known for his 11-hour film series "The Civil War," a...
Justice David Souter
READER COMMENTS: 0David Hackett Souter is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Though he was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, Souter grew up in the town of Weare, New Hampshire on his family's...
John Irving
READER COMMENTS: 0John Winslow Irving is the best-selling author of "The World According to Garp," "The Hotel New Hampshire," the "Cider House Rules," and "A Prayer for Owen Meany." Irving was born in Exeter, NH, on...
Joanie Laurer (Chyna)
READER COMMENTS: 0WWF's Chyna, also known as Joanie Laurer, was born in 1971 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Laurer went to school at the University of Tampa, where she majored in Spanish and Literature. Laurer...
Jenny Thompson
READER COMMENTS: 0Jenny Thompson was born on February 26, 1973 in Danvers, Mass. Jenny began swimming while living in Massachusetts when she joined the YMCA and become serious about the sport after joining Seacoast...
Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson
READER COMMENTS: 0Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, stars of the highly-rated SyFi show, Ghost Hunters, co-own (with their wives) the Spalding Inn in Whitefield, a beautiful inn that sits in the heart of the White...
J.D. Salinger
READER COMMENTS: 0J.D. Salinger might be an icon of adolescence, a writer who is best known for his short novel "The Catcher in the Rye" and its hero lead character Holden Caulfield. But Salinger's own life as that...
Hannah Kearney
READER COMMENTS: 0Olympic Gold Medalist Hannah Kearney was born in Hanover on February 26, 1986 and grew up in nearby Norwich, VT. She was on skis at the age of two, coming up through the Ford Sayre Program and later...
Grace Metalious
READER COMMENTS: 0Grace Metalious, the author to one of the most notorious and best-selling novels in American history was born Marie Grace de Repentigny on September 8, 1924 in Manchester, NH.
Franklin Pierce
READER COMMENTS: 0He was the first President to be born in the 19th Century. Franklin Pierce was born in the town of Hillsborough on November 23, 1804. His father, Benjamin Pierce, was a two-term Governor in the...
Dean Kamen
READER COMMENTS: 0He's the Thomas Edison of our time, the Bill Gates of New Hampshire. Inventor Dean Kamen is best known for designing the revolutionary Segway, a two-wheeled "human transporter" that uses gyroscopic...
Dan Brown
READER COMMENTS: 0Author Dan Brown is best known for his controversial best-seller, The Da Vinci Code, which was released in 2003 by Doubleday Books. He was born and raised in Exeter, where his father taught...
Christopher Lowell
READER COMMENTS: 0Christopher Lowell is the flamboyant host of his self-titled home-decorating and design Emmy-Award Winning show, "The Christopher Lowell Show." His previous show, "Interior Motives with Christopher...
Christa McAuliffe
READER COMMENTS: 0She was supposed to be the first teacher in space. But a disaster that took place on January 28, 1986 when the Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded 73 seconds after launch over the Florida skies...
Chris Carpenter
READER COMMENTS: 0The St. Louis Cardinals' right-handed ace pitcher Chris Carpenter is a native of Exeter, New Hampshire. He graduated from Trinity High School in 1993, where he earned Athlete-of-the-Year honors when...
Brad Delp
READER COMMENTS: 0Bradley Delp, the beloved lead singer of the seventies rock and roll band Boston passed away on March 9, 2007 at his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire. But his low-key musical legacy will surely...
Adam Sandler
READER COMMENTS: 0Adam Sandler grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire and attended Central High School. At 17, he took his first step toward becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took the stage at a Boston...
Hilary Gehman
READER COMMENTS: 0Hilary Gehman was born on August 15, 1971 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. She graduated from Kingswood High School and, for the last few years, has coached the Georgetown University novice women's crew...
Janet Evanovich
READER COMMENTS: 0Novelist Janet Evanovich divides her time between her home in Hanover, New Hampshire and Naples, Florida. She was born on April 23, 1943 in South River, NJ, where she graduated from South River High...
Jodi Picoult
READER COMMENTS: 0Novelist Jodi Picoult makes her home in Hanover, New Hampshire. Picoult, who was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003, has written over a dozen novels since 1992. She was...