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News and Information for the Town of Bedford
January 2009 - Posts
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Although it has had its share of big wins early, the Bedford High School boys basketball team is learning quickly what varsity basketball is all about. The Bulldogs have three victories, two against Class I teams with winning records, Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Allowing more than four goals per game is not a recipe for a successful season. On the other hand, scoring more than four goals per game can help even things out. Despite giving up 39 goals in its first nine games, the Manchester West Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE A three-alarm fire crushed a garage and consumed most of a Westview Road home when area fire departments were called in to help Bedford control the blaze. The owners of 22 Westview Road were home at the time of the fire on Friday, Jan. Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY It was the fourth home game for the Bedford boys basketball team, but there was one difference when the Bulldogs took on Coe-Brown – the camera was rolling. For the first time, BCTV recorded a Bedford basketball contest, and this Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Spending a year and a half on a proposal for a policy change in how class schedules affect upperclassmen may prove worthwhile for members of the Bedford High School’s Community Senate. The students were praised by School Board members Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The deliberative session is far more than just deliberation. It also makes important decisions that affect how much money the school district can spend and the kinds of choices voters will have at the elections in March. Voters who sit Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Bedford Bulldogs lost a 2-0 lead, watched a teammate leave the ice on a stretcher and still had two minutes of hockey to play. That’s not an enviable task, especially for a team without a senior on the roster. Then again, Bedford Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Bedford Bulldogs swim team has already shown Division II foes its bite. Two meets into the season, Bedford has already had a long list of swimmers qualify for state competition, and in its most recent contest, the Bulldogs nearly Read More...
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Brigette Comeau of Bedford spent her winter vacation from Saint Michael’s College on Jan. 3 to 10, volunteer teaching and working with youngsters in two inner-city middle schools in Buffalo, N.Y. Comeau, a senior education and religious studies Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY As much as she enjoys teaching, Barbara Tsiaras wanted to be somewhere else other than the classroom on Tuesday, Jan. 20. Would the Lurgio Middle School seventh-grade teacher like to have been in Washington, D.C., on Barack Obama’s Read More...
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BY PATRICK O’NEILL Intercession was a huge success at Bedford High School last year as teachers developed a range of experiential learning programs for students. This year, teachers hope to build on that success. In April, teachers Craig Sheil and Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE An effort to receive public input on a $12 million bond for the town road system and $1 million for the Nashua Road intersection with Route 101 met with limited success at a recent public hearing where only a few residents turned out Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bedford High School wrestlers are certainly studying their opponents, and a lot of the time it’s before they’re even stepping on the mats. Darrin Root said he insists his young team learn from its opponents, down to the smallest Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Manchester West boys basketball players have heard the “warm up the bus” chants before. Usually they’ve been the ones getting on board for the long ride home after a lopsided loss. So far this year, fans of the Blue Read More...
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BY SUSAN CLARK For many staff and patrons, checking out books at the Bedford Library’s circulation desk may not be the same without Betty Folsom. That was the sentiment during Folsom’s retirement party on Friday, Jan. 9, when about 100 well-wishers Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Because of an accounting error, the Bedford School District’s surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, was actually $1,526,231 instead of $2,096,577 – a $570,346 difference. Since the school district had already used Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE School Board members said they shaved the budget as close as they could without causing any bleeding, but several residents said they might be comfortable with some bleeding. The speakers at the Monday, Jan. 12, public hearing told the Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY If you could control the size of your tax bill, would you take that opportunity? Few people actually do, but all voters have the ability to both question and change the amount of money being spent by their local town and school officials Read More...
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BY SUSAN CLARK Each year on the first Wednesday in March, Bedford voters are called to hear and vote on the town’s proposed budget. For Bedford, this annual gathering of voters is called the Budgetary Town Meeting – its form of traditional Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The School Board has taken $372,000 out of the 2009 proposed operating budget, bringing the amount to $56.8 million. Actual appropriations will be higher for 2009- 10 since that number does not account for salary increases for the three Read More...
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