The Derry Town Council has approved working budgets for Human Services, Finance, the Tax Collector’s department, Assessing and “Other Municipal Obligations.” The departments are grouped under the heading “Finance” and are supervised by Chief Financial Officer Frank Childs. The heading…
A Derry man will face charges after allegedly spitting at an ambulance after the Derry Fire Department was called to his neighbors’ home. Robert Lebel, 52, of 12 Beacon Hill Road, was arrested after he came home Thursday, March 13,…
Sometimes events are such that they just beg for comment, and that’s what happened this past week, both at the Derry Town Council and at the Hooksett School Board – the latter a matter of concern because it involves both…
A routine public hearing on grant acceptance turned into an exploration of Town Council etiquette and relationships in a snowy night meeting Dec. 17. The Town Council held a public hearing on a proposed grant from the New Hampshire Department…
Derry got off relatively easy in a pair of winter storms last week. The first storm, on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 9 and 10, was significant in the number of accidents, according to Fire Chief George Klauber. There were a…
A structure fire left a local family and their home with little harm, but also created an opportunity for Fire Chief George Klauber to warn residents about an often-overlooked holiday hazard: the lit candle. The Fire Department responded to a…
Five members of a Derry family on their way to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport to travel to San Diego, Calif., for Thanksgiving went instead to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the SUV in which they were traveling was involved…
In the public comment portion of the meeting, abutter George Mayurinik expressed concern that the long driveway would run along his property line. “It will be right outside my living room window, and right by my deck,” he said. His…
After extensive debate, including an individual poll on each of the eight conditions for a special exception to a wetland setback, the Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) rejected a developer’s request to build a multi-family townhouse within the Prime Wetland…
The Town of Derry will continue to provide ambulance service to Auburn and Chester, after a majority of the Town Council voted to approve a new five-year contract with each town. Councilors Neil Wetherbee, Brad Benson, Phyllis Katsakiores, Tom Cardon…
