EPPING — The biggest news in Epping this year wasn’t a rise in the tax rate or more development on Route 125, but the loss of a native son who gave everything he had in his short life. And he gave it to Epping.Ryan O’Day died April 4 at the age of 28, while waiting for his second heart transplant.A native of Melrose, Mass., O’Day moved to Epping at a young age. He underwent open-heart surgery at the age of 6 months. He received his first transplant at 12 and despite 16 […]