Assessors overturned by tax board, home value restated GROTON -- In a rebuke to the town's assessors office, a state appellate court found in favor of a local resident's appeal that his home had been assessed too highly and ordered that its assessed value be reduced from $499,600 to $360,000. Full Story
Correspondent SHIRLEY -- Two big, rusty culverts on the Sampson Pond bridge off Fredonian Street collapsed over the weekend, closing the bridge to traffic for at least the next few weeks.
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SHIRLEY -- The bridge that spans Catacunemaug brook by the Sampson mill pond links Fredonian Street with Shaker Road and is a well-traveled route to Phoenix Park and the state prison, MCI Shirley.
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While the need for belt-tightening is very real and shared by many local towns, cutting bus services for children so far from school is a poor choice.
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Manchester, N.H. - The following area students have been named to the dean's list for the spring 2008 semester at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.
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