LaBarre farm property sells for $600,000
May 28, 2009 by admin
Filed under LaBarre, Top Stories
The Epping farmhouse and property where Sheila LaBarre murdered two men sold for $600,000 at an auction this morning.
Nearly 100 people, many of them spectators, turned out for the auction at 70 Oak Hill Lane held by James R. St. Jean Auctioneers of Manchester.
The couple who placed the highest bid refused to provide their name [...]
Epping Blogger Gets 6-Month Test Drive Of Unreleased Car
How would you like to try out a new car for six months for free?
That’s what one Epping man is getting to do after Ford chose him to test drive a car that isn’t even for sale in the United States yet. All he has to do is be honest and make Web videos about [...]
Epping track wins first meet
The Epping High School boys track and field team won its first meet in what coach Peter Foster called a “long, long, long time.”
Mike MacLeay, Dan Degrandpre, Chris Dunleavy and Dave Deschene won events for the Blue Devils, who racked up 171 points. Sant Bani (129), Sunapee (91½), Mascomba Valley (72½) and Moultonborough (27) rounded [...]
Loon Program in Epping
Looking forward to the lazy days of summer, listening for the haunting calls of the loons on the lake?
Come to the Harvey Mitchell Memorial Library in Epping on June 10th for “Nature for All to See”, a narrated slideshow about the common loon by New Hampshire photographer John Rockwood. Having [...]
Market Basket coming to Epping
Market Basket plans to build a grocery store in the new Brickyard Square shopping center on Route 125.
The identity of the grocery store had been kept quiet until selectmen made it public at their board meeting last night.
Officials from Waterstone Retail Development, the Massachusetts developer planning the shopping center, would not confirm last [...]
Tempers flare over Epping TV job change
Charges of bullying and character assassination flew at last night’s selectmen’s meeting as the coordinator of the town’s cable access channel fought to keep his job.
The accusations came as Bill Channell pleaded with selectmen to allow him to continue in the part-time position he’s held for seven years.
Channell accused one of the board’s newest [...]
Library Notes for the week of May 18, 2009
Baby Wearing 101 – a class for new parents!
Join local mom Taylor Carroll on Monday, June 1st at 7:00 pm to learn how to make your own baby wrap so you can carry your infant securely and still have both hands free! Bring about 5 yards of fabric that you like [...]
Zampa Wine dinner includes all that Jazz
May 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under Entertainment
A tasty mix of music and gastronomy is in store at Zampa in Epping, as the popular restaurant welcomes winemakers and musicians Kevin and Barbara Brown on Wednesday, May 20. The Browns, owner-operators of R&B Cellars of California will be on hand to share their fine wines and their prodigious jazz talents, with Kevin on [...]
Francoeur named head football coach at Epping-Newmarket
Ryan Francoeur has been named the new head football coach of the Epping-Newmarket High School football team.
Francoeur takes over the program after the departure of Rich McFadden. McFadden, who was the Blue Devils coach the past seven years and the pioneer of the program, left for personal reasons.
Francoeur, a 29-year-old who lives in Somersworth and [...]
Will Dan Harvey Buy Back The LaBarre Property?
Some might call it a house of horrors, but that doesn’t faze Dan Harvey.
The 88-year-old lifelong Epping farmer used to own the now infamous farmhouse where Sheila LaBarre savagely murdered two men and then burned the dismembered body of at least one of them.
When the foreclosed property at 70 Oak Hill Lane goes up [...]
