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News and Information for the Town of Bedford
April 2007 - Posts
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BY MATT STOUT This time last week, Adam Lawrence’s Manchester West team was trying to figure out what a baseball diamond still looked like. Now, the Blue Knights are trying to discover themselves. Forced to cram its first seven games into eight Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Leading up to its early season match on Friday, April 20, Shawna Morley needed only three words to get her West’s boys tennis team fired up: Concord vs. West. A simple mention of the longstanding rivalry and Morley’s motivational Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY The purchase of a house in Bedford could eventually reroute Gault Road away from the five-way intersection near McKelvie Middle School, soon to be McKelvie Intermediate School. At their Wednesday, April 11, meeting, Bedford town councilors Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY (Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of articles detailing Staff Writer Kevin Shalvey’s experiences at the Bedford Citizen’s Fire Academy.) With dark smoke flowing out the door, the four Citizens’ Fire Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY Over the past two years, report cards grading Bedford students have changed. For about two years, the Bedford School District has been issuing parent-friendly elementary school report cards. Starting next school year, the new grading Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT Terry Wilson laughed after he said it, but the Gilford coach, like many of his peers in Class M-S, isn’t thrilled to notice it. “Hi, I’m Coach Wilson,” he said during player introductions prior to his team’s Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT It doesn’t matter that it lost its top four players. It doesn’t matter that it opened with its first loss since 2005. For the Derryfield School girls tennis team, the faces change, but the skills, expectations and, in some cases, Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY For Zita Lamb, the flooding in Bedford on Monday, April 16, brought back some bad feelings she had toward the town after last year’s Mother’s Day floods. The town didn’t fix her property’s flooding problem when Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY During the past 15 years, Bernie Ruchin hasn’t opened his windows facing Tinker Road because of the dust flying off the road. “We don’t even use the front door anymore because of that dust,” he said. He’s Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY Nine McKelvie Middle School students had a first-hand glimpse of book binding at Nashua High School North. “It’s really efficient until they have to put all the pages in order,” said eighth-grader Daniel Kassler. Much Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It’s not the seniors coming back to lead the team to another Class L title. It’s not the idea that it might be one of the deepest rosters in the state. Shawna Morley is most excited about her youngest players, the ones who’ve Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY When Chef David Soha was given almost 5,000 pounds of ice with 51 hours to create a sculpture, he had two main objectives: create something beautiful and waste nothing. And, luckily, these are just natural extensions of culinary theories, Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY Did you ever wonder why clusters of stores, restaurants and office buildings line South River Road/Route 3 instead of being scattered through town? This is because of a move by town planners to create a viable business area – otherwise Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY (Editor’s note: This is a series of articles detailing Staff Writer Kevin Shalvey’s experiences at the Bedford Citizen’s Fire Academy.) Cutting through the metal frame of a car is, I found out, much easier than sawing Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY Of the 33 stores and restaurants selling alcohol in Bedford, 11 sold to a minor after checking their underage identification. “Either they are looking at [the ID] and not reading it or reading it wrong,” said Police Chief Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT There isn’t much change around Notre Dame Avenue when it comes to the Manchester West girls tennis team. The balls are still green, the days still occasionally windy and the team still buzzing with excitement. After a season that seemingly Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT At this point, Manchester West baseball coach Adam Lawrence will take “interesting.” After losing eight seniors, including five pitchers, from last year’s 10-9 team, Lawrence chose that exact word to describe his expectations Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY Although it was definitely a real fire, it wasn’t all that dangerous. My Citizens’ Fire Academy classmates and I, after an hour-long lecture on how to use fire extinguishers, were ushered outside to try out the extinguishers Read More...
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BY KEVIN SHALVEY When the Manchester West Theatre Knights were leaving the New Hampshire State Drama Festival at Salem High School, their director saw something that hadn’t happened before. “When our kids were leaving the building, they were Read More...
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