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News and Information for the Town of Bedford
December 2006 - Posts
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In star-studded year, West girls tennis take top billing BY SAPNA PATHAK While others celebrate the end of the year with eggnog, presents and relished time with friends and family, we took a look back at 12 months worth of Neighborhood athletics. The Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY Patroling Bedford may keep police officers on their toes, but one event took Sgt. Rob Gagliardi’s breath away. Last year, Gagliardi took part in the annual Special Olympics of New Hampshire’s “Penguin Plunge” – Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY The town council is revisiting the need for wetlands ordinances, but this time it is forming a Bedford Conservation Commission subcommittee to further study the issue. At its Dec. 21 meeting, the council approved the subcommittee, which Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK When you lose three of your top players – also three of the best in the state – it’s normal for other teams to question how you’ll bounce back. Central answered that question on Tuesday, Dec. 19, when its boys basketball Read More...
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School board looks to bond furniture and equipment with 19 percent tax increase BY KEVIN SHALVEY The Bedford School Board voted to approve a preliminary budget for 2007-08 that includes bonding high school furniture, first-year equipment and stadium bleachers. Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY Peter Woodbury School teachers Kristen Possee and Rosemary Nunnally were awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. They were two out of five teachers recognized statewide by the New Hampshire Department Read More...
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Overlooked West wants to sneak past city, state foes BY MATT STOUT Manchester West lost more than half of last year’s varsity roster to graduation, has less height than it normally does and, in most girls basketball circles, will probably not come Read More...
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Girls close McKelvie record book as repeat champions BY MATT STOUT Lorri Thornton said there was only so much she could say and do as the coach of the McKelvie School girls soccer team. The rest was up to her players. They responded. McKelvie – Read More...
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Council OKs Marcoux as new town manager BY KEVIN SHALVEY Russ Marcoux is Bedford’s new town manager. But before he takes over from Acting Town Manager and Police Chief David Bailey, Marcoux needs to fulfill his contract in Derry. Marcoux, current Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY As the middle/high school nears completion for its fall 2007 opening, town and school officials are looking for the best way to solve traffic issues at the site. Options range from a connector road between Wallace and Nashua roads, an Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY The burnt-red, nine-room house at 104 Pulpit Road has stood on the same spot since 1814, and now that former owner Bobbie Lattig has sold the 68 acres on which it sits, she wants to donate the house to the town of Bedford. As she presented Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT MANCHESTER – It isn’t often a player who scores two points on 1-of-2 shooting against his team’s biggest rival has a fan club waiting for him after the game. But there they were, five college-aged girls calling out to Saint Read More...
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New St. A coach brings resume of achievement, focus on basics BY MATT STOUT If someone had told Rick Senatore five years ago he’d be taking over a college lacrosse program, he probably would have laughed. If someone told him 10 years ago he’d Read More...
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BY SUSAN CLARK If the Bedford Town Council reached a super-majority vote this week, Bedford has a new town manager – Russell R. Marcoux, 59, of Derry. The council was scheduled to make its final decision Wednesday, Dec. 6, and name Marcoux as successor Read More...
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Bedford firefighters show off in 2007 calendar BY KEVIN SHALVEY The Bedford Fire Department had to change the name of its third annual calendar to “Bedford’s Bravest.” “We had to change it from ‘The Boys of Bedford Fire’ Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY With a high school coming to Bedford, administrators are discussing whether a full graduation ceremony at McKelvie Middle School is necessary. “My personal feeling is it’s a decision we want to make cautiously, and it’s Read More...
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