11/26/04 - FREMONT - Sam, a 3-year-old golden retriever, is a survivor. Sam has been lost in Rockingham County since May 17, when he got away from his owner while on a walk in Candia. He has been spotted most recently in Fremont and Raymond, walking along the road or grabbing a bite to eat in a farmer’s barn.

11/26/04 - PLAISTOW - Until last week, Penelope Gavriel believed her son, U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Dimitrios Gavriel, was working in a military intelligence office somewhere in Iraq.

11/26/04 - Do you know where your teen’s diary is? It could be posted on the Internet.

11/26/04 - KINGSTON - Local police and fire officials say they were disappointed by last Wednesday’s Seabrook Station emergency drill.

11/26/04 - PLAISTOW - The Board of Selectmen took a field trip to the town highway garage and met with department heads this week as they continue to scrutinize the proposed 2005 budget.

11/26/04 - RAYMOND - Baskets of food fit for a feast were distributed to 26 local families and individuals who were not expecting the typical Turkey Day trimmings this year.

11/26/04 - KINGSTON - Nichols Memorial Library’s board of trustees will ask voters in March to either put funds aside into a capital reserve for a new library in the future or approve a bond to build the new facility in 2005.

11/26/04 - Updating values on homes can be an expensive and long process for municipalities, not to mention confusing to residents. In 2001, the state mandated every town undergo a total revaluation every five years. This week, a Department of Revenue Administrations official outlined the process for Rockingham News, explaining how it affects towns.

11/26/04 - RAYMOND - Dunkin’ Donuts on Route 102 recently purchased adjacent land to expand its parking lot and reconfigure its drive-thru lane.

11/26/04 - KINGSTON - Former teacher Rhoda Watson, 84, loves to read. Three years ago she started volunteering at D.J. Bakie Elementary School and now, 10 children she’s tutored are able to say they love to read.

11/26/04 - DANVILLE - You can get by with a little help from your friends. But sometimes help comes from someone you don’t even know.

11/26/04 - KINGSTON - In January the Sanborn Regional School District will start testing students through a computer based program on reading, grammar and math.

11/26/04 - KINGSTON - The Sanborn Regional School Board is expected to make a final recommendation to an oversight committee on the 2005-06 budget on Dec. 1.

11/26/04 - Local food pantries are usually busy this season, but this year the Fremont Food Pantry and Rockingham Community Action organizations are finding themselves unusually busy.

11/26/04 - FREMONT - First-, second- and third-grade girls in Brownie Troop 2111 are collecting personal-care items such as toothbrushes and baby bottles for pregnant women at New Generation Shelter in Greenland.

11/26/04 - PLAISTOW - A local community program, organized by students at Timberlane Regional High School, is celebrating its 25th anniversary the same way it celebrates every year: By helping people.

11/26/04 - Christmas trees aren’t just for decorating this year. In the spirit of giving, Andy Gagnon, owner of Lover’s Lane Tree Farm on Route 108 in Haverhill, has decided to donate all of the net proceeds from his Christmas trees to the Holy Angel food pantry.

11/26/04 - NEWTON - At the request of one of its citizens, the town of Newton is addressing safety concerns over a road intersection.

11/26/04 - Patrick Holland, 14, of Sandown, recently had a huge party at the Radisson Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. It was in a room filled with giant posters of photographs of people important to Patrick, as well as of the memorial to his mom that he created at his church, St. Mathew’s in Sandown, and a poem written by his soon-to-be adoptive mother in memory of Patrick’s deceased birth mother. The hotel donated the space and food, and Violet Nine, a favorite band of Timberlane High School students, donated their time.

11/26/04 - NEWTON - Sandra Mercurio has owned and operated Brandy Rock Farm for eight years, but she says the pas year has been the most rewarding.

11/26/04 - SANDOWN - Channel 17, Sandown’s public cable access television station, may be showing religious programs as early as next week.

11/26/04 - DANVILLE - Traveling around New Hampshire and Vermont donating books to rural libraries is what Duncan McDougall of the Children’s Literacy Foundation does each day, but it’s the traveling that he does in his mind, while reading a book, that McDougall tries to share with each child he meets.

11/26/04 - ATKINSON - A Rockingham County Superior Court judge has upheld a Zoning Board of Adjustments (ZBA) decision to deny the administrative appeal of a resident to subdivide a parcel of land.

11/26/04 - RAYMOND - A Raymond woman was on the nationally syndicated television show "Live with Regis and Kelly" by telephone on Thursday, Nov. 18.

11/26/04 - RAYMOND - The controversial subject of the town swapping land for 14 acres of contaminated land at the old tannery site for a future town hall or police station is once again at the forefront.

11/26/04 - RAYMOND - Since selectmen approved a $7.7 million budget on Nov. 1, residents have voiced their concern and confusion surrounding the budget and the proposed pay-as-you-throw garbage program.

11/26/04 - KINGSTON - The Sanborn Regional School Board approved a change to the school district’s student dress code policy last week.

11/26/04 - EXETER — Exeter Hospital will serve as a Seacoast-area distribution point for the influenza vaccine, one of several across the state to receive a portion of the 60,000 supplemental doses that entered the state last week.

11/26/04 - STRATHAM - When children of most parents participate in a play group, they are actively engaged with others their age, communicating, playing, having fun. When the children at the Richie McFarland Children’s Center take part in a play group, each tiny gesture, each moment of sharing with another child can be cause for a parent’s celebration.

11/26/04 - RAYMOND - Taxpayers will not have much choice when deciding whether to approve the Raymond School District’s proposed operating budget next March because it will not be much more than the default budget.

11/26/04 - For many people, the holiday season centers on the birth of a child. Despite the attendant commercial craziness and hype this time of year has, unfortunately, come to signify, it is the child who captivates so many hearts.

11/26/04 - The following people passed away recently. . .

11/26/04 - Area police made the following arrests and conducted the following business recently...

11/26/04 - After graduating only one senior from last year’s team, which competed in Class I, the Raymond High School girls basketball team is making the move to Class M, hoping the combination of experience and the influx of young talent will propel the Rams to a berth in the postseason tournament.

11/26/04 - After graduating four of its top players from the 2003-2004 team, the Sanborn Regional High School girls basketball team is preparing to start a new campaign as the Indians are looking to build on last year’s 5-16 record, which included a 4-14 mark in Class M play.

11/26/04 - It’s tough to smile when talking of the death of a friend and teammate, especially when that teammate is 14 years old and with what should have been virtually her entire life ahead of her.

11/26/04 - As he was in life, so he is in death. Dimitrios "Dimmy" Gavriel was one of those large-than-life men who was the size of a bear, had the heart of a champion, and had the ability to touch, in a positive way, virtually all who knew him.

11/26/04 - The Seacoast Hawks of the New England Football League are hoping the strides made this past season will translate to greater success both on and off the field.

11/26/04 - LOWELL, Mass. - The University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team entered Tuesday night’s game against UMass-Lowell hoping to grab a share of first place in the league standings. Lowell, meanwhile, was seeking its first Hockey East victory.

11/26/04 - It’s raining lightly as I write this, the weatherman is warning of fog on the highways for the morning commute, and the sky is gray and gloomy. To make matters worse, the short- and long-range weather forecasts are calling for more rain.

11/26/04 - MANCHESTER - The Boston Red Sox will bring the World Series trophy to Manchester on Nov. 30, it was announced on Monday.

11/26/04 - DURHAM — The players on the University of New Hampshire football team have accomplished too much this season to let a little national disrespect ruin their moment.

11/26/04 - KINGSTON - Opportunity seems to pride itself in making unexpected visits, according to Rick Korn, owner of Rick’s A Café and Grille in Kingston.

11/26/04 - PLAISTOW - About three years ago, Charlene Dow of Plaistow bought a framing business from her former employer when he retired from the business, Tom’s Custom Framing. Now known as Framing Impressions, the shop is located next to Larry’s Clam Bar, about a half mile north of the traffic lights at Routes 125 and 121A.

11/26/04 - RAYMOND - Steve Hardy, owner of Strikers East Bowling Lanes, has what some people only hope for: A job that’s right up his alley.

11/26/04 - ALBANY, N.Y. - There are high hopes here for an electric transmission cable that can carry three to five times the power of traditional cable.

11/26/04 - Vanilla Ice is back in action on the Billboard Charts. But don’t call it a comeback.

11/26/04 - BOSTON - Customers in search of a cheap airfare, antiques or a stock trade can scan the Web for good deals. But when it comes time for companies to buy group insurance policies, they’ve largely been beholden to brokers using old-fashioned tools of fax, e-mail and the telephone to track down the best bargain.

11/26/04 - BOSTON - The U.S. House Committee on Government Reform will come to Boston in January to hold a hearing on widespread water leaks in the $14.6 billion Big Dig project, according to U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a member of the committee.

11/26/04 - BOSTON - In a city where centuries-old meeting houses, churches and burial grounds seem to dot every corner, it’s not easy to find buildings dating to the earliest years in Boston’s 374-year history.

11/26/04 - BAGHDAD, Iraq - Leading Sunni Muslim politicians Thursday urged postponement of the Jan. 30 national elections, and a senior official said the government had agreed to meet outside the country with Saddam Hussein supporters to try to convince them to abandon the insurgency.

11/26/04 - VIENNA, Austria - Iran insisted Thursday it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union committing it to freeze all parts of a program that can make nuclear weapons-grade uranium - a move that diplomats said threatened to scuttle the deal.

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.

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