Salisbury

REGIONAL – Ray Pike, the Salisbury harbormaster for 16 years, was enjoying a scenic hike in the White Mountains last fall along a ridge high enough to see maybe as far as Canada when he stumbled and fell. He ended up in the hospital for weeks and for almost a year...

SALISBURY – Eric Cotton took time off from his job at a restaurant in Portsmouth. NH, last Friday to be among the first to test out the banks, bowl and half rails of the new concrete skate park at Partridge Brook Park. The “ripper” from Sweden, who lives in Dover, NH,...

SALISBURY BEACH — When the historic carousel with 44 “carvings” was turned on for the first time here on the Friday night before the Fourth of July, it was a “commencement” of a new era for a beach that is experiencing major revitalization. That is how Amy Moore,...

SALISBURY BEACH — Children and parents pressed their noses last week against the glass of the new Carousel Pavilion hoping the painted horses and other animals inside would come to life. Like generations of beachgoers before them, they hoped to be allowed inside the...

SALISBURY — The proposed Big Block housing complex on the beach front here is again before the town for approval. The mixed-used project, which could be the long-sought catalyst for the beach front development, would replace an aging group of bars and arcades with 235...

SALISBURY – With mixed emotions all around, Town Manager Neil Harrington returned full-time to his desk at town hall last Wednesday after the results of the Salem special election proved he will not be the Witch City’s 50th mayor. “I know he really wanted to be mayor...

REGIONAL — Salisbury residents will have to wait until mid-May to learn if the town needs to find a successor to its long-time town manager, a task town leaders say will be difficult. Neil Harrington, who for almost 20 years has been the Salisbury town manager, beat...