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News and Information for the Town of Bedford
August 2007 - Posts
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE The School Board has awarded a $695,000 contract to build three sports fields between McKelvie Intermediate School and the SAU building on County Road. The board granted the bid to JGE Enterprises of Bedford, including building a Babe Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE Keeping Bedford adults active, building playgrounds and breaking a record in the Senior Games competition sums up George Potter’s diverse and community-minded talents. Potter, who is retired, serves as chairman of the Bedford Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE Three generations of seventh-grader Ashley Palis’ family recently toured her new school – the Ross A. Lurgio Middle School. Ashley’s mother Robin Palis, who grew up in Bedford, said she was very impressed with the Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It didn’t matter it was the first-ever game in program history. Not to Stuart Pepper, that is, who stood surrounded by Bedford High School’s boys soccer team and gave the same type of postgame speech he would have if the squad Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR The Bedford High School girls varsity soccer team – freshmen and sophomores only – was playing in its first-ever game. Its opponent, Milford, reached last year’s Class I quarterfinals and was the 2005 runner-up. Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE According to attorney Bill Tucker, the Stop & Shop Corporation has recently entered into an agreement with Starbucks that all new stores will have a Starbucks in them. As soon as current contracts with Dunkin Donuts or Green Mountain Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE The conceptual site plan for the proposed 98,165-square-foot Kohl’s Department Store and 6,907-square-foot Texas Roadhouse Restaurant on Kilton Road met vehement opposition from neighbors at the Bedford Planning Board presentation Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE Ask anyone who has strolled through and the reaction is the same – Bedford High School is beautiful and impressive, especially the theater. Quite a few parents said they wished they could go back to school to attend here. With Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR The Bedford Barracudas swim team recently finished another strong regular season, finishing 5-0, something that team president Karyn Russell Merriman said has become the norm. Coming in second place to Seacoast Swimming School in Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Flying down the side of a mountain, reaching speeds of 50 mph, Erik Gosselin welcomes a bad fall every now and then. Indeed, the Bedford High sophomore looks at each fall off his mountain bike as a learning experience, rather than a reason Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE More than a week after a homemade explosive device and two chemical-filled containers were found on Regency Drive, police continue to search for suspects in the case. Bedford police detective Matt Fleming said the department is working Read More...
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BY SUSAN CLARK Three retail plans – a proposed Kohl’s and restaurant off Kilton Road, fast food on Route 3 and an in-store Starbuck’s for Stop & Shop – could soon be approved for the town’s performance zone. The Planning Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE "Search Inward, Look Upward, Reach Outward” is the message inscribed on the brick the Hughes family donated to the newly rebuilt Ann DeNicola Memorial Playground. It is also the philosophy behind the Color My World charity Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE Clark Abel’s first car was a 1927 Chevrolet Coupe in 1956. That was the beginning of a lifelong hobby of collecting and restoring classic automobiles. “My father said he knew where this ’27 Chevy was for $25. He surprised Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Entering her second year as a Granite State Senior Games competitor, Lisa Maronski of Bedford looked to expand on her two gold and two silver medals in the 2006 event. On Saturday, Aug. 11, at the Goffstown YMCA, she did just that. Read More...
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BY IRENE LABOMBARDE Val Touba loves the outdoors and volunteering to help build the next generation of strong men through Scouting. Touba has been involved with Boy Scouts for most of his life. As a boy, he advanced from Cub Scouts to Eagle Scout, the Read More...
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BY SUSAN CLARK Last year, a study revealed that the Bedford Police Department was understaffed and needed to grow to meet the needs of the community. Following the Municipal Resourses Inc. study recommendations, the department has welcomed six new patrol Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Resident Bernard Hendrigan was awoken by his wife, Pauline, at about 4 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6, after she heard a bang and saw sparks and small flames on the street in front of their 21 Regency Drive home. After the noise died down, the two Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR While the Jutras American Legion baseball team watched Sweeney and Keene finish a suspended game, manager Ed Coulombe may have secretly hoped Keene would rally from a 6-2 sixth-inning deficit. But Keene lost, and that meant Jutras Read More...
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BY SUSAN CLARK Though the Town Council has appointed a new member, a Superior Court judge may still intervene in the selection process. At its Wednesday, July 25, special meeting, the Town Council unanimously appointed resident Bill Jean to replace former Read More...
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(Editor’s note: During the month of August, we will spotlight volunteers in our towns. This is the first in a weekly series celebrating those who work, without pay, to better their communities.) BY IRENE LABOMBARDE In the 15 years she’s lived Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Manager Ed Coulombe’s night didn’t start off very well. As he and three players pulled out of the Jutras American Legion Post parking lot in Manchester, en route to a must-win game at Milford, a woman ran a stop sign, Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Mike Lavery remembers the moment well – wading in Mirror Lake, surrounded by thousands of swimmers, the Bedford native faced his toughest mental challenge to date. One year later, he did it all again. After a taxing introduction Read More...
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