12/03/04 - Rain might have dampened the city streets on Sunday, Nov. 28, when Dover's holiday parade was scheduled originally, but it didn't seem to dampen the spirits of the crowds that turned out the following night, Monday, Nov. 29, for the postponed Magical, Musical Holiday Parade.

12/03/04 - Avis Goodwin Community Health Center wishes to alert all businesses that anyone soliciting any donations for Avis Goodwin Community Health Center will have appropriate identification with them.

12/03/04 - Avis Goodwin Community Health Center (AGCHC) of Dover and Rochester, will be gift-wrapping at Barnes & Noble in Portsmouth on Dec. 8, 13 and 22.

12/03/04 - The following holiday events will take place in Dover on Saturday, Dec. 4. l Care Pharmacy's Annual Christmas Open House: Santa will be visiting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will also be refreshments and specials.

12/03/04 - The Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation of New England (www.starlightnewengland.org), is seeking New England area residents, corporations, and businesses to sponsor teddy bears for its annual Bear Hugs are the Best Medicine delivery drive.

12/03/04 - Boy Scout Troop 154 of Durham will be selling Christmas Trees the weekends of Dec. 4 and 5, and 11 and 12, at the Durham Marketplace Shopping Center on Mill Road between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

12/03/04 - The Dover Coalition for Youth is a community-based organization, coordinated by the Police Department, that promotes safe, drug-free, and violence-free initiatives in the city.

12/03/04 - Somersworth downtown will be bustling on Dec. 4, as it serves as the host of planned holiday activities. The excitement will center around the annual Christmas parade at 4 p.m.

12/03/04 - The Trustees of the Woodman Institute museum announce that on Nov. 17 the Institute purchased the Keefe House at 15 Summer St., adjacent to the museum grounds.

12/03/04 - The Fifth Annual Winter Solstice Celebration will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5, at the Madbury Town Hall. The snow date is Saturday, Dec. 11. Young and old are invited to help decorate the town solstice tree.

12/03/04 - With decorative lights, candles and electronics being used in and around the home this holiday season, the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) wants to help keep families safe from fires and injuries.

12/03/04 - More than 200 friends of the animals gathered at The New England Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham on Saturday, Nov. 13, for the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' (NHSPCA) annual benefit auction.

12/03/04 - For most of my life the holidays represented a time for friends, family and great food. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite because I don't have to go to a mall and buy things I know will be returned soon after the wrapping paper has been torn off.

12/03/04 - New Hampshire author Titia Bozuwa will read from her recently published book, "In the Shadow of the Cathedral: Growing Up in Holland during World War II," on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 10:30 a.m. at the Durham Public Library in the Mill Road Shopping Plaza.

12/03/04 - The Portsmouth Men's Chorus invites the community to join them for their Christmas Concert in a spirit of goodwill to help raise funds for Seacoast Interfaith Hospitality Network, a coalition of local faith communities who provide homeless families with services to help them return to permanent housing.

12/03/04 - The Concord Community Music School's annual Christmas Folk Concert with Susie Burke, David Surette and Kent Allyn is scheduled for Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in the School's Recital Hall, 23 Wall St., downtown Concord.

12/03/04 - The first TubaChristmas concert in Wolfeboro history will be Saturday, Dec. 11, from 2 to 3 p.m., at All Saint's Episcopal Church, 258 South Main St. This popular holiday event is sponsored by the Harvey Phillips Foundation, and the concert is free and open to the public.

12/03/04 - From 1 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, the New England Language Center will be holding a Russian Christmas Bazaar at its Gallery of International Arts in Rochester.

12/03/04 - New Hampshire Theatre Project announces classes for all ages, beginning the week of Jan. 10, 2005. Classes are: Creative Drama (ages 6-8) on Mondays from 4-5 p.m.

12/03/04 - Come and experience the joy and magic of Tchaikovsky's glittering holiday fantasy "Nutcracker," presented by the Boston Dance Company and Edra Toth's Academy of Dance and Music.

12/03/04 - More than 70 Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce members and guests, as well as D.F. Richard Energy staff and representatives, made new business contacts at a recent Business Open House at the D.F. Richard Energy location at 124 Broadway in Dover.

12/03/04 - The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly Business Open House on Wednesday, Dec. 8, from 5-7 p.m. at Unicel, located at 550 Central Ave. in Dover.

12/03/04 - The Citizens Bank Foundation has announced its seventh annual Technical Assistance Grant Program to provide grants to New Hampshire non-profit organizations that assist in providing credit services. The grants range in size from $3,000 to $10,000.

12/03/04 - Avis Goodwin Community Health Center (AGCHC) of Dover and Rochester, and Papa Gino's in Dover and Rochester, have teamed up for a fund-raiser.

04/09/04 - The following are local births at Wentworth-Douglas Hospital...

12/03/04 - To the Editor: Editor's note: The writer is responding to the letter "Fallujah killing can't be tolerated" by Lynn Rudmin Chong, DCN, Nov. 19, 2004.

12/03/04 - The following people passed away recently. . .

12/03/04 - It's December. The Christmas shopping season that began just before Labor Day is now reaching a frenzied state. If you are not one of those fortunate few who managed to finish holiday shopping before Thanksgiving, I have a few words of advice for you.

OOPS, one of those weeks with too much to do and no ideas for a column and a deadline fast approaching. Sometimes I just sit down and write non-stop and then there are those other times, like now, when I sit here staring at the computer screen hoping something will come.

12/03/04 - Dover Arena hosted their first Olympic Speed Skating Expo on Saturday, Nov. 20, on Charles E. Holt Rink in Dover. Guest skaters from Montshire Speed Skating Club, from Laconia, and Norwich, Vt.,

12/03/04 - Dover Recreation has announced that sign-ups are ongoing at the Butterfield Gym for the high school boys Northeast League basketball program, and the high school girls basketball program.

12/03/04 - In support of its mission to support local organizations that have an impact on the Seacoast community, the Flatbread Company restaurant in Portsmouth will donate a portion of profits to the Seacoast Rugby Club for every pizza sold from 5 p.m.

12/03/04 - The day after Thanksgiving is a phenomenon: still loaded with turkey, still bloated with pie, we go forth before the break of day to conquer the world of retail.

12/03/04 - YMCA of the USA, and JCPenney After School, together are helping get children off the streets and into safe, productive and rewarding environments after the school day ends.

12/03/04 - A recent national survey released by the Alzheimer's Association shows that 13 percent of American adults have cared for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease, and one in 10 are currently serving as an Alzheimer caregiver.

12/03/04 - Polius (Paul) A. Raslavicus, M.D., FCAP, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, was named Pathologist of the Year by the College of American Pathologists.

12/03/04 - Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a board certified lactation consultant and a health psychologist in the University of New Hampshire's Family Research Laboratory, has been elected to the La Leche League International Board of Directors.

12/03/04 - Even Santa's elves will find plenty of gifts at this year's Day Out Holiday Fair, which will be held Dec. 9, 10 and 11, at The Homemakers of Strafford County, 215 Rochester Hill Road, Rochester.

12/02/04 - BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s president, an influential Sunni Muslim, threw his support Wednesday behind holding the Jan. 30 election on time despite insurgent threats he said have paralyzed voter registration in some Sunni areas of the country.

12/02/04 - GENEVA - From Armenia to Zambia, thousands of activists turned out to sing in mighty cathedrals, light candles in city squares and march and hold dance-athons on World AIDS Day as the United Nations focused on protecting women and girls, often sidelined in the fight against the disease.

12/02/04 - BOSTON - A 34-year-old woman survived a beating by three neighbors by playing dead until they wrapped her body in tarp and stashed her under the apartment building's porch, where she escaped, police said.

12/02/04 - BOSTON - In the hours before Boston radio station owner Bradford C. Bleidt tried to take his life, he carefully compiled documentation of his massive fraud scheme, wrote notes to go with the records and made a tape for his wife in which he confessed to why he had grown distant.

11/18/04 - PORTLAND, Maine - A 51-year-old woman arrested last month as a suspect in a 1976 Florida murder was married last weekend in a jailhouse ceremony.

Get behind the lens with our award winning photographers. Check out their photos, read their bios, and see why Portsmouth Herald Photographers are consistently judged as some of the best and most talented in the New England area.

Read the work of many of your favorite Seacoast Newspaper columnists. Whether it be the cerebral slapstick humor of John Breneman or the witty humor of baby-boomer columnist Paul Briand you'll enjoy getting behind the stories with enlightened and often humorous takes on current news.