Temperatures plummeting in the region

Greater Nashua has frozen solid. As temperatures plummet to single digits and the wind chill factor dips below zero, all manner of daily life in the Nashua region has been affected one way or another by the frigid temperatures. From school kids getting a lift from mom or dad instead of walking to a booming soup trade at Collins Brothers Chowder, the coldest stretch of the winter is on many people minds. Trish Beaulieu, the principal of Charlotte Ave. Elementary, said about 20 percent of her students, about 100 children, walk to school on a regular basis. Her advice to parents is to dress their children in layers and to keep their hands and face covered. “We try before they leave to have them come inside and zip up and put on their hats and hoods because it is important that they are covered,” she said.