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Town Council Chairman John Farrell plans to hold an educational session before its Nov. 3 budget meeting to discuss how the new rules are likely to affect the municipal budgeting process.

A local judge has vacated a preventative detention order so that a city man can receive therapy and medication following an assault on his girlfriend and a Nashua police officer earlier this month.

The James W. Foley Freedom Run is taking place Saturday morning in Rochester, and the slain journalist's mother says a free press is key to having an informed citizenry here and in other countries.

The Planning Board approved the capital improvement plan developed by the CIP committee over the last several weeks, which calls for a few small items for next spring's ballot on the town side, and a number of big-ticket items in years ahead on the school side, including building a new elementary school.

A teary-eyed Seth Winkley expressed remorse for the 2017 crash that killed his passenger, Jasmine Marston, before a judge on Wednesday sentenced him to at least four years in prison.

DURHAM - A viral video of a plucky mouse feasting off slop trays has some students avoiding the University of New Hampshire's largest dining hall and the school calling pest control.

MERRIMACK ' Decked out in fishnet stockings and devil horns, a local man in makeup was arrested after allegedly trying to break into a Grouse Lane home early Tuesday morning.

Forget Prince, Madonna or Cher. For 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, sitcom audiences across the country were on a first-name basis with Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Ross, Joey and Phoebe, the colorful cast of the sitcom 'Friends.'

Martin Barre is running a little late, but he has a good excuse.

Engelbert Humperdinck, whose legacy of love songs stems 50 years, 64 gold albums and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, will scroon his way into New Hampshire this fall.

'Alice in Wonderland' has gotten some diverse treatment in film over the years, but Manchester Community Theatre Players MCTP isn't looking to replicate those trips down the rabbit hole.

Opera and Broadway star Renee Fleming returns to the Music Hall 28 Chestnut St., for a 4 p.m. concert Sunday.

'In the last few years, I've been absolutely enamored with nuclear physics,' said singer, songwriter and Boston-based music teacher Livingston Taylor.

Can anyone get too much of Monty Python?

The 12th annual Old Ways Days will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at Dave and Anne Emerson's Old Ways Traditions, on the 1785 Hamm Farm, 418 Shaker Road.

Models cast from the University of New Hampshire student body will walk the runway in a fashion show designed to conjure 'Afrofuturist' styles.

Colby-Sawyer College worked with New England high schools to put together the exhibit 'Artist Teachers and the Next Generation of Creative Makers,' on view through Nov. 16 on campus.

Teams armed with catapults and air cannons will go for distance and accuracy at the Extreme Chunkin competition at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Saturday and Sunday.

'Frost Heaves,' the comedy show from the 'most under-appreciated town in New Hampshire,' comes to the Franklin Opera House at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and town spokesman Fred Marple is thrilled ' well, mostly.

John Lodge, of the Moody Blues fame, will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center, 39 Main St.