Twitter leads Epping police to litterbug
*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 [...]
Standoff with SWAT team follows graduation party
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 [...]
Murder Charge For Hutchinson
Walter Hutchinson will be back in court again this afternoon, 18 years after trying to strangle a Brentwood woman on his front lawn. But this time he’ll be facing murder charges. Hutchinson, 52, of Epping, was already convicted in 1991 for attempting to murder Kimberly Ernest, his girlfriend at the time. During that trial, a [...]
$5000 Embezzled From Cub Scouts Pack Bank Account
The young members of Epping Cub Scout Pack 136 sold countless quantities of popcorn to raise money for special trips and summer camp. Now many are in jeopardy of not being able to attend the August camp after an adult associated with the group allegedly embezzled more than $5,000 from the pack’s bank account, according [...]
Market Basket coming to Epping
Update: Epping Market Basket Set To Open on April 14 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
LaBarre’s foreclosed property to be auctioned
The Epping property of suspected serial killer Sheila K. LaBarre is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction later this month. The auction for the circa-1777, Cape-style farmhouse and 119.2 acres of land is scheduled for 11 a.m. May 28 at the property on 70 Oak Hill Lane in Epping. LaBarre was convicted last [...]
Decent opening night at All-Star Speedway
The rumors of All-Star Speedway’s demise turned out to be just that, rumors. The storied Epping oval held its first race of the 2009 season last Saturday, and although it wasn’t a rousing success, it could have been a lot worse. Around 30 cars signed in across the board for opening night, but it actually [...]
Beach Bus from Epping to Hampton won’t be back
The so-called Beach Bus that ran on weekends last summer linking Epping, Exeter and Hampton Beach will not be returning. Rad Nichols, executive director of the Dover-based Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation, said they decided to discontinue the service this summer due to lack of funding. The bus was piloted by COAST last summer to [...]
