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News and Information for the Town of Bedford
October 2009 - Posts
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Jay Heaps, a Major League Soccer player with the New England Revolution and former Bedford resident, was a special guest at the Bedford Athletic Club’s recent player appreciation night. Approximately 85 boys and girls from the BAC, a new Bedford Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The question awaiting answer during the Class L field hockey preliminary round was who would win – Bishop Guertin, Londonderry or impending darkness. After more than two hours, a pair of sudden death overtime sessions and nine rounds Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Kurt Hines, Bedford High School’s head football coach, has led the Bulldogs to two wins and some close losses in the program’s second year, and one opposing coach in particular has taken notice. “This team has come leaps Read More...
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On Friday, Oct. 23, at approximately 11:45 p.m., officers from the Bedford Police Department located two suspicious vehicles behind a closed business on Chestnut Drive. They began to check the building and observed through a window a subject duck under Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN While donning a torn white shirt and wearing makeup, Erin Johnson, 17, moved like a zombie across the Bedford High School gymnasium floor. Johnson, along with more than 100 other zombies, danced to the hit Michael Jackson song, “Thriller,” Read More...
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BY JILLIAN JORGENSEN Cemetery regulations will be up for discussion at a public meeting Monday, Nov. 9, following complaints from some in town over new cemetery regulations drafted by the cemetery trustees and approved by the Town Council in February. Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY In the case of the Bedford girls soccer team, the grass is never greener on the other side. That’s why the speedy Bulldogs are trying to keep sod out of the equation. Following a 1-0 win against Hollis-Brookline on Monday, Oct. Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Rather than their usual positions on the sidelines of a football game, members of the Bedford Jaguars spirit teams took center stage at Bedford High School during the third annual Season Premiere Cheerleading Competition on Saturday, Read More...
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BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Bedford homeowners will soon be getting their property tax bills in the mail, and can expect to pay an average of $152 more than last year. Town Manager Russ Marcoux said bills will be in the mail by Nov. 1 and due on Dec. 1. The new Read More...
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BY JILLIAN JORGESEN Community leaders are hoping to convince the Executive Council and Gov. John Lynch to give widening Route 101 another look for inclusion on the 2010 Ten Year Transportation Improvement Plan. “You’ve got a 1950s road trying Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Staff Writer During the weeks leading up to this year’s first day at Bedford High School, Bill Jennings knew a group of aspiring video journalists could talk the talk. More than a month into the school year, that group of students Read More...
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BY JILLIAN JORGENSEN The town manager presented a $22,410,681 budget to the Town Council on Oct. 14, meeting the Town Council’s guidance of no more than a 2 percent increase over the town’s portion of the 2009 municipal tax rate. The town Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Portsmouth’s Jessica Smith recorded three goals against Bedford during a recent field hockey game, but it wasn’t due to any deficiency in the Bulldogs. “I’ve seen a drastic improvement since the first time I played Read More...
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Gary Hirshberg, president and “CE-Yo” of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt producer, will be the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Business Review’s first annual Health Care Forum, presented by MVP Health Care. Read More...
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At a recent meeting of Bedford Taxpayers Association (BTA), the Board of Directors discussed the upcoming town and school budget process. Due to present economic conditions and state budget woes, the BTA board considered the impact of both future budgets Read More...
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By Ginger Kozlowski Bedford residents will have a chance to get their first good look at the new Village Common with a new event called Pumpkins in the Park. Michelle Moore, who is helping organize the event, said this is meant to become an annual event Read More...
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Montgomery Proulx, 20, of Manchester, was sentenced by Judge James O’Neill to serve 10 years to life in the New Hampshire State Prison for selling a fentanyl patch to Evan Schwager, 18, of Bedford, said Hillsborough County Attorney Marguerite Wageling Read More...
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By JILLIAN JORGENSEN Whether underage teens are drinking at house parties, the town pool or at the school dance, Bedford police have said they will not tolerate it, and some recent arrests echo that sentiment. “Basically, we have a zero tolerance Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Emma Carole has worked construction before, so she knows the importance of having a blueprint for her current project. The Bedford girls volleyball coach helped build the Trinity High School program, and though the Bulldogs have struggled Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Last season, the Bedford golf team fell just shy of winning the Class I state championship. This year, the players raised their games, dropped their scores and, in the program’s third year, won the title. The Bulldogs cruised to Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN Bedford High School’s students, staff and visitors have recently noticed some unusual, larger-than-life art pieces on school grounds. Among them: a big blue chair. A red ladder. Another chair that’s also 12 feet tall. These Read More...
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BY JILLIAN JORGENSEN In his year at Bethany Covenant Church, Pastor Joel Kruggel said he has tried to meet the changing needs of the community while keeping the church connected to the world beyond Bedford. “The world’s changing,” Kruggel Read More...
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BY JILLIAN JORGENSEN Town officials and others pleaded their case to representatives from the state Department of Transportation and the Executive Council to put a long-awaited upgrade of Route 101 back on the state’s Ten- Year Transportation Improvement Read More...
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