Meghan Carey

Atkinson separates elderly affairs from police

ATKINSON — The ink is on the paper. Months after the state attorney general's charitable trust unit began looking into police Chief Philip Consentino's elderly affairs program, the selectmen signed off on a plan to separate it...

Teens make instruments and music in unique style

Teens make instruments and music in unique style True garage band plays to a different beat By Meghan Carey mcarey@eagletribune.com ATKINSON — These aren't band geeks. When Connor Briggs, 16, found himself strumming boring...

Plaistow hires Bay State man as town manager

PLAISTOW — There really is a new town manager. Sean Fitzgerald, of Peabody, Mass., has signed a three-year contract and will begin on Nov. 24, selectmen announced yesterday. Fitzgerald, 38, has 15 years of experience working in...

Salem High sex photos spurs meeting

SALEM — Obscene photos of underage students circulated at Salem High School last week, but a meeting for parents last night focused on keeping their children safe in a high-tech world. The sexually explicit photos were sent by...

Seniors get update on food safety

PLAISTOW — Carol Collins of Danville always went by the old school rule for frozen meats — hard as ice and it's good for life. But that's no longer OK, according to dietary nutritionist Lauren Malinowski. After three months,...

Plaistow still without town manager

PLAISTOW — There should be an announcement soon. That's been the catch phrase of the Board of Selectmen for the last six months regarding the search for a new town manager. They were close in May but had to restart the search...

Atkinson residents heads to Lesotho today

ATKINSON — Nicole Evans is about to call a round mud hut with a thatched roof home. The Atkinson resident leaves today for Lesotho, a small South African country where she'll serve in the Peace Corps for two years. She applied...

NH youngsters share White House dreams

If one of Hannah Blaikie's parents were elected president Tuesday, she would have been "screaming her head off" and packing her bags for a move from Derry to the White House. Life as the president's daughter, the 7-year-old is...

Plaistow board weighs water tower repairs

PLAISTOW — The water tower on Main Street could stay up as a cell tower for the next 25 years, but not unless its foundation is restored in the next couple of years. The results of a $5,000 assessment, funded by voters at last...

Sandown woman skis on the wild side now

For Jen Allen, ski practice used to mean getting in a van with the rest of the Timberlane Regional High School team at 5:45 a.m. on Saturdays and driving three hours to Wildcat Mountain Ski Area. But now it means hiking up the...

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