Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Nor’easter of 2010 Knocks Out Epping

February 26, 2010 by admin  
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By Epping News Staff
Remnants of the Ice Storm of ‘08 are still visible, but Epping and the rest of southern New Hampshire took another blow last night when high winds from a February nor’easter knocked out power in most of the town.
Police Lt. Michael Wallace told Jason Schreiber of the  Manchester Union Leader that his [...]

Epping Misses Out on Bootleggers Footwear

August 18, 2009 by admin  
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According to a story by Lara Bricker on Seacoast Online, Bootlegger’s Footwear Centers, one of the largest independent family footwear retailers in New England, is set to open a new store in Stratham at the end of September. The story states that the company looked originally at a site in Epping, but because of timing [...]

Epping News Digest 7/27/09

July 27, 2009 by admin  
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There were a few stories of note this week involving Epping.
Leading off, there is the story in the Union Leader about Epping resident and 1989 EHS grad Christina Carleton, who saved the life of a three-year-old boy at Pawtuckaway State Park. The boy was unconscious and Carleton performed CPR and mouth-to-mouth to revive the boy. [...]

News Roundup – July 17th

July 17, 2009 by admin  
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Here is your weekly news roundup for this third week of July.
It was actually a fairly slow week for news, The Union Leader reported on a “prank” pulled by teenagers at the Epping McDonalds. Apparently one occupant of a car ordered at the drive-through window, while another got out of the car, then ran to the [...]

Weekly News Digests Coming Soon

July 14, 2009 by admin  
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Here at Epping News, we want to bring you all the news stories on our town. To this point, we have done that by bringing you excerpts of news stories published by newspapers such as the New Hampshire Union Leader and the Portsmouth Herald. However, the Union Leader has raised concerns about fair use of [...]

Union Leader – Epping Police have beef with McDonald’s prank

July 14, 2009 by admin  
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A real-life “Hamburglar” struck Sunday night when police say a teenager pulling a prank ran through the McDonald’s drive-through and snatched an Angus Third Pounder burger from an employee’s hand as she passed it through the window.
The hamburger heist happened around 8:30 p.m. when a car pulled up to the drive-through speaker and the driver [...]

Seacoast Online – Epping teen must tour county jail, attend AA meetings

July 10, 2009 by admin  
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A teenager who crashed and flipped his Subaru, fled the scene, then spit at a patrolman, was given a suspended jail sentence, ordered to tour a jail and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Edward Burke, 19, of 116 Dearborn Road, Epping, appeared in Portsmouth District Court Wednesday, pleading guilty to charges of conduct after an accident and [...]

Union Leader – Epping police take barking dog into custody

July 10, 2009 by admin  
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A dog in an Epping neighborhood barked up the wrong tree and ended up in police custody.
Police took the unusual step last Sunday of seizing the barking dog from a Camp Lee Road residence after neighbors got fed up and complained.
Epping police Sgt. Jason Newman said the dog was removed by police because it [...]

Twitter leads Epping police to litterbug

June 25, 2009 by admin  
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*Updated with Comment From Epping Police*
From the New Hampshire Union Leader
When police received a report of someone tossing two bags of trash from a vehicle on Prescott Road Tuesday, they immediately turned to Twitter to try to catch the culprit.
A witness had provided a partial license plate number, so police decided that the fastest way [...]

Standoff with SWAT team follows graduation party

June 21, 2009 by admin  
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A father was arrested early this morning after police said he fired a rifle several times during an armed standoff at his daughter’s high school graduation party.
Bruce Richards, 50, of 53 Jenness Road, faces several charges after the hour-long standoff that began just before 1 a.m. outside his residence.
Police were first called to the home [...]

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