10/08/04 - RAYMOND - Firefighter Rick Abelli is on his hands and knees. His hands are sweeping the floor in front of him, making sure the route ahead remains clear and level as he continues a steady crawl forward.

10/08/04 - PLAISTOW - Timberlane Regional High School has joined schools across the nation in fighting the war against obesity by prohibiting the sale of junk food.

10/08/04 - RAYMOND - Selectmen voted unanimously Monday night to "grandfather" 100 percent insurance coverage for current town employees, while employees hired after Jan. 1, 2005, will be required to pay 15 percent of their insurance coverage.

10/08/04 - KINGSTON - With a homecoming theme of historical time periods, students from Sanborn Regional High School turned the school and surrounding town into "The Land That Time Forgot" on Oct. 2.

10/08/04 - EPPING - A $66 million Powerball winner at the center of a nasty court battle over her charitable giving claims her confidant and so-called "chief adviser" took advantage of her fortune and has left her in financial ruin despite the millions she won.

10/08/04 - KINGSTON - In a grand celebration of success befitting a project that has had more than its share of setbacks, the communities of Kingston and Newton, along with many people from Fremont, came together Saturday to break ground for a new building.

10/08/04 - RAYMOND - The Raymond School Board ate $45,000 of the food service department’s projected deficit Wednesday night. The board worked to solve the department’s budget problems, which may call for a reduction in benefits for food service employees.

10/08/04 - DANVILLE - The Knights of Columbus "People Helping People" program did another good deed for a neighbor in need, a woman in Danville whose roof required immediate attention.

10/08/04 - DEERFIELD - When a town of 3,400 welcomes more than 100,000 guests for a four-day autumn gathering, organizers start planning nearly a year in advance.

10/08/04 - SANDOWN - Attorney Gordon Graham has moved quickly on the petition signed by selectmen Sept. 27 to seek superior court permission to hold another special Town Meeting.

10/08/04 - PLAISTOW - Bicycling 27 miles will be nothing compared to Vanessa Underwood’s last challenge.

10/08/04 - NEWTON - Touchdown Club president Jim Frati came before the Sanborn School Board Wednesday night to give an update on his group’s progress and to seek direction from the board.

10/08/04 - KINGSTON - By participating in Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play last Friday, the Touchdown Club of Sanborn Regional High School may be one step closer to achieving its goal of creating a junior varsity football team.

10/08/04 - KINGSTON - As part of the Sanborn Regional School District’s emergency management plan, the D.J. Bakie School performed one of two yearly lockdown drills last week.

10/08/04 - KINGSTON - Multiple charges are pending against two area brothers following an alleged assault with a shovel that sent one victim to the hospital.

10/08/04 - PLAISTOW - The sting stung fewer outlets, and the police are pleased. Last year clerks in four Plaistow stores sold alcohol to an 18-year-old undercover buyer. This year three teenagers sent into 11 local businesses found only one willing to sell them booze. Police said the sting’s results were encouraging.

10/08/04 - SANDOWN - Closed to through traffic for about a month now, the newly repaved Odell Road is due to open today to vehicles traveling between Main Street (Route 121A) and Fremont Road.

10/08/04 - SANDOWN - An early Saturday morning crash has left a Manchester man dead and law enforcement officials still investigating the cause of the accident.

10/08/04 - NEWTON - Police arrested a Newton man last week and charged him with aggravated felonious sexual assault after he allegedly touched a female relative inappropriately.

10/08/04 - ATKINSON - Atkinson Academy students roared with laughter as an actor dressed in a tutu lightly smacked an actress with his wand while teaching a valuable lesson about respecting others for their differences.

10/08/04 - SANDOWN - Maureen Platt, longtime reading consultant at Sandown North Elementary School, is the mother of two sons serving in the military in the Middle East. One is currently home on leave from duty in Iraq, while the other is stationed in Kuwait. Both are due to complete their military service next March.

10/08/04 - NEWTON - The town’s lawsuit against a commercial property owner for building code violations recently failed at Rockingham County Superior Court, but still initiated efforts by the owner to get the property up to code.

10/08/04 - HAMPSTEAD – In a 3-2 vote Monday night, the Planning Board narrowly approved the development of land along the intersection of routes 121A and 111 for a Citgo gas station.

10/08/04 - HAMPSTEAD - There was a steady, strong turnout for the fourth Ordway Park Harvest Fest in Hampstead last Saturday, despite weather that was cooler and cloudier than expected.

10/08/04 - ATKINSON - Speeders beware. For the past month, the Atkinson Police Department has been cracking down on speeding motorists on the major town roadways, or as Police Chief Philip Consentino called them, speedways.

10/08/04 - RAYMOND - All town meetings will take place at Raymond High School as of next Monday and will, at least temporarily, solve space problems at the Town Hall.

10/08/04 - DANVILLE - Maren Denison is no stranger to meeting famous politicians. When she was just a baby, Maren was plucked from her mother’s arms and kissed on the cheek by the governor of Texas while visiting relatives and attending a Fourth of July picnic. That governor went on to become President George W. Bush.

10/08/04 - RAYMOND - Selectmen approved plans last week for a bike race challenge that will raise money for local scholarships.

10/08/04 - RAYMOND - An engineer’s review, ordered by the town, states that a resident’s parcel of land located on the Lamprey River needs to have soil tests and site alterations before it can be used to store paving equipment.

10/08/04 - BOSTON - A New Hampshire man pulled over for a traffic violation faced charges including assaulting an officer and resisting arrest after he fought with police.

10/08/04 - EXETER - Originally a drinking establishment frequented by Revolutionary soldiers, Folsom Tavern is now a centerpiece of the American Independence Museum.

10/08/04 - RAYMOND - The members of The Greater Raymond Area Chamber of Commerce will hold their ninth annual Business Expo and Job Fair on Saturday, Oct. 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Raymond High School gymnasium. This is the first year for the addition of the job fair to the expo.

10/08/04 - The Rev. Canon Mark Pearson of the Trinity Church in Plaistow provided the community with a healing service last Sunday.

10/08/04 - EXETER - As the mother on the sitcom "Family Ties," Meredith Baxter grappled with a host of parenting challenges, most resolved by the end of the 30-minute show.

10/08/04 - ATKINSON - William Wildman, Jr. might easily have looked elsewhere for a life of limitless promise and success. In recent years, though, he has been awakened to his true vocation-the ministry. "The one thing that I believe drew me here in particular," said Wildman," is the feeling that this was home, the place where God wanted me to go."

10/08/04 - Although Granite State voters expect a certain level of attention from presidential candidates in the months before our first-in-the-nation presidential primary, after the primary we are usually left to watch the general election battle from afar.

10/08/04 - The following people passed away recently. . .

10/08/04 - Area police made the following arrests and conducted the following business recently...

10/08/04 - The streak is now a school-record 16 wins in a row, including 11 straight victories this season as the Sanborn Regional High School boys soccer team is on a roll.

10/08/04 - Serving as the opponent for Salem High School’s Homecoming, Timberlane Regional High School managed only one victory against the Blue Devils as the girls volleyball team earned a 3-0 victory over Salem.

10/08/04 - The top seeded and undefeated Raymond High School girls soccer team remained perfect at 13-0-0 with a 6-0 win over Conant followed by an impressive 1-0 victory over top-four Belmont.

10/08/04 - From the frying pan into the fire for the Timberlane Regional High School football team, which is looking to rebound after last Saturday’s 21-7 loss to Exeter.

10/08/04 - The Seacoast Hawks are hoping to ride the momentum of a five-game winning streak as they open the New England Football League playoffs Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Raymond Pop Warner Field, where the Hawks will host the Monadnock Marauders.

10/08/04 - They have become an impenetrable force … an immovable object … an impassable gate through which none may pass. "The Great Wall of Raymond" may be a fitting name if it wasn’t so cliché.

10/08/04 - Plaistow’s Craig Fram was first in his age group and 15th overall at the McCourt Classic 5-miler in South Boston, Mass. Fram, 44, finished in 25 minutes, 19 seconds, for a 5:04 pace. Hampstead’s Mike Shuffleton ran 27:45, followed by John Mulvey of Newton (41:59), Debbie Ian of Atkinson (42:13) and Andrew Ian of Atkinson (42:57). Mark Carroll of Lincoln, R.I., was first in 23:56.

10/08/04 - RAYMOND - The big screen comedy "When Harry Met Sally," starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, is a fictional look at a relationship between two friends. However, the real-life Raymond version features Harry and Sally Richard, who meet, fall in love, and open a business selling used farm and light-industrial equipment.

10/08/04 - ATKINSON – Little Shop on the Corner has opened its doors at 3 Main St., in the space occupied for five years by the Book Mouse Book Shop, a children’s book store.

10/08/04 - KINGSTON - Beth Chapman of Westland Dog Training in Kingston has returned to dog training after taking a couple of years off to train her own two yellow Labrador retrievers for competitions.

10/08/04 - BOSTON - Johnny Kelley won the Boston Marathon twice - a heroic feat by any measure. But it was his staggering achievement of finishing the race a record 58 times for which Kelley will forever be known as an "icon for all of running."

10/08/04 - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A prosecutor cast Alexander Pring-Wilson Thursday as unstable and arrogant, saying the Harvard graduate student went berserk with rage when Michael Colono ridiculed him for stumbling drunk down the street.

10/08/04 - BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rockets struck a Baghdad hotel housing foreign contractors and journalists late Thursday, drawing return fire and underscoring the precarious security in the heart of the Iraqi capital. Outside Baghdad, roadside bombings killed two more American soldiers.

10/08/04 - KABUL, Afghanistan - A loud explosion rattled the Afghan capital near the U.S. Embassy early today, prompting American officials to order diplomatic staff to take shelter in an underground bunker.

08/26/04 - HERKIMER, N.Y. - State police charged a father with endangering the welfare of a child after his 2-year-old daughter was brought to a hospital with a blood-alcohol level almost double the legal limit for an adult.

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