Residents interested in helping to shape the future of Sheehan-Basquil Park are encouraged to attend a community-input meeting.
Two animal-rights groups held a protest Saturday outside the new Living Shores Aquarium at Story Land, questioning the commitment to animal welfare and giving a special nod to Lolita, an orca in Miami.
GLEN — Children’s theme park Story Land opens the doors to its new Living Shores Aquarium on Monday, Nov. 4.
A new event featuring work from more than 40 members of the League of NH Craftsmen is designed to bring their goods to people who live on the Seacoast.
Some people turn to a travel agent to help plan a fabulous vacation. If you’re trying to go on a haunted one this Halloween, though, you might want to ask a different kind of expert. Enter Greg Newkirk, a paranormal investigator, travel writer and monster hunter.
The Board of Selectmen took first prize, the pumpkin captained by Chet Bowen.
People at The Music Hall in Portsmouth were excited to see “The Lighthouse” on Saturday night.
When elite marathoner Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run 26.2 miles in under two hours, a New Hampshire man shared in the achievement.
The event will feature two comedy acts headlined by Ace Aceto.
For a 35th year, the Pumpkin People -- and the people who love them -- are back in the Mount Washington Valley.
Of the 117 films to be shown, 51 have ties to the state, the festival director says.
Proving that all that glitters is definitely not gold, the 200-year-old mica mine and former tourist attraction may be getting spruced up with a new ownership group in place.
The Veterans Count Lakes Region Chapter is hosting the event at Funspot in Laconia.
Since 1982, the Meredith Rotary Club has donated more than $2 million to area nonprofit groups.
LINCOLN — The 44th annual New Hampshire Highland Games & Festival entered the history books on Sunday afternoon, drawing an estimated 35,000 people to Loon Mountain Resort over the weekend for a celebration of all things Scottish.
A charity motorcycle ride to benefit the annual Laconia Christmas Village extravaganza will be held on Sept. 28.
GILFORD — For the past 21 years, Greg Goddard’s life has revolved around the weather. As the general manager at Belknap County-owned Gunstock Mountain Resort, he checks the daily forecast up to six times a day, hoping for sun during the summer and cold weather or snow during the winter.
ROCHESTER — The Rochester Fair is set to begin on Sept. 12 and as volunteers work to bring new life to the event, the organization’s former shareholders and directors are arguing they are owed more than $102,000.
The race will start in front of the Manchester Police Department at 405 Valley St. and end inside Gill Stadium, 396 Valley St.
Attracting more than 140 show cars and hundreds of attendees, the event raised more than $8,800 for the Travis Mills Foundation.
The band is also working to get city approval for a concert.
Cinemark plans to open its first cinema in the state by November.
Shooters work their way through “stages” that look like the movieset version of a Mexican cantina, the Gilded Lilly saloon, a mining town, a jail and the fabled “Boot Hill” cemetery, complete with sun-bleached steer skull.
With suitcases full of handmade dresses, skirt supports, petticoats, corsets and wigs, Taylor Shelby and a group of five friends flew to Venice’s Carnival in February with one goal in mind: to live like 18th-century women of means.
COLEBROOK — Along with Canaan, its sister community across the Connecticut River in Vermont, this town is ready to celebrate the largest land animal in both states at the North Country Moose Festival.
The fire department deployed its ladder truck to rescue a teenager who became stranded on a zipline suspended 40 feet in the air over a pond at a popular Weirs attraction.
THOMPSON and MESERVE’S PURCHASE — Anachronisms were the order of the day this weekend at the Cog, which for a fourth year hosted the celebration of steam, art, and of alternate pasts and futures known as the Railway to the Moon Steampunk Festival.
Derry historian Paul Lindemann said there is no list for what would have been inside the time capsule. He thinks it was likely there were Alan Shepard artifacts in the capsule.
Founded in 1719 by Scots-Irish Presbyterians fleeing religious persecution in Northern Ireland, Nutfield was the precursor community to Derry, Londonderry, Windham and the Derryfield neighborhood of Manchester.
THOMPSON and MESERVE’S PURCHASE — For a fourth year, the Mount Washington Cog Railway will serve as both inspiration and backdrop for whimsical as well as practical creativity when it hosts the Railway to the Moon Steampunk Festival.
An army of community children attacked a group of police officers with water balloons in Hudson, and the officers fought back.
Owner Josh Rutstein says the concept is like the opposite of an escape room, with players following clues and solving problems to break into a series of rooms, and it uses a unique smartphone app system.
One organizer said the festival lures not only riders who come for the day, but people who are increasingly buying second homes on or near the trails.
PORTSMOUTH — “America’s Tall Ship” is in Portsmouth this weekend for people to tour for free.
“We have rules and processes for what kind of events can happen on our reservations,” said Jack Savage, vice president of communications and outreach for the society. “None of that was followed.”
MASON — It’s a moment no one who saw it live will ever forget — a plane flying under a railroad trestle in Greenville.
LOS ANGELES — Spinning wheel got to go ’round ... That’s what insiders are saying about the latest attempt to have the Woodstock 50 show go on.
Stuntsmen had been putting on a show.
To celebrate AARP's 60th anniversary, the organization has vowed to install a "fitness court" in every state. The Queen City was selected as the New Hampshire community to receive one.
Former Gov. John H. Sununu, the chairman of Waterville Valley Holdings, said the transaction allows his group to build on its recent investments at the resort, which include new trails, lifts, snowmaking and base lodge expansion.
Commented
Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles.