LaBarre Jurors, We Thank You

The citizens of Rockingham County and the state of New Hampshire owe a true debt of gratitude to the men and women who served on the Sheila LaBarre jury.
These jurors were forced to put their lives on hold, go to court for six weeks, listen to gruesome testimony day after day, and then make the [...]

Epping Wraps Its Arms Around Family In Need

The sounds of paintbrush strokes, wood splitters and buzzing chain saws filled the air outside the home of Dan and Debi Bennis.
With little time to keep up their home as they care for their disabled daughter, the Bennises got a big helping hand Saturday when more than 40 volunteers determined to make a difference showed [...]

GUILTY

A woman who claimed she was an angel sent from God to punish pedophiles was sane when she killed two boyfriends whose remains were found scattered around her farm, a jury found Friday.
Because Sheila LaBarre already had admitted that the state could prove her guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, the jury’s only task [...]

LaBarre Jury Gets Case

Over the six weeks of her trial, the fury and violence of Sheila LaBarre has not been disputed, nor has the fact that she lured men to her farm and eventually tortured them to death, then tended blazing fires that reduced their bodies to ashes. And yesterday, as they handed the case to jurors to [...]

PSNH Says It Will Remove More Trees

Residents angered by Public Service of New Hampshire’s decision to chop down several large trees in Epping aren’t the only ones seeing more trees disappearing around power lines.
PSNH recently sent a letter to several communities warning that people will notice changes in the way trimming is done around transmission lines after tougher rules were adopted [...]

Why Are All The Trees Being Cut Down?

A huge stump is all that’s left of an old tree that once stood tall in front of Epping Community Church.
Just down the road, Grace Lavoie has two stumps in front of her Main Street hair salon. More stumps sit on her neighbor’s front lawn.
Over the past few weeks, the landscape of the town [...]

NE Dragway Collects Over 1000 Meals For The NH Food Bank

EPPING, NH — Fans of the New England Dragway’s Jet Wars event donated over 1000 meals to the NH Food Bank on Saturday. The Dragway’s promotion offered $5 off admission to anyone who brought urgently needed items to fill the truck parked at the gate, such as canned tuna, chicken, soup or beans, peanut butter, [...]

Epping Library News – June 16th 2008

The staff of the Harvey Mitchell Memorial Library would like to express its gratitude to all the library friends and families who stopped by during Amanda’s last day to wish her well. After nearly 4 years of service, director Amanda Reynolds-Cooper has taken the director’s position at the Lane Library in Hampton. Epping’s library folk [...]

LaBarre Dragged From Courtroom After Outburst

Sheila LaBarre began screaming in court today, insisting she never hurt an animal, and was dragged from court.
“I didn’t harm my animals, I didn’t kill any animals,” she screamed at a psychiatrist hired by the state, who was testifying that he believed that it was possible LaBarre had harmed a number of her pets who [...]

105 Seniors in Class of 2008

Under sunny skies, with blue and white balloons billowing in the breeze behind them, 105 graduating seniors closed the chapter on their Epping High School career Friday night.
“Graduation is both an ending and a beginning,” Principal Dixie Tremblay told the graduating class, saying it was a time for students to look back at the memories [...]

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