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BY STEPHEN BEALE The town has hired a firm to design a new fire station, recommend where it would be best to build it and help officials educate voters about the project, if they choose to follow through with it. That decision on the design was made by...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK In a league noted for parity, where a Class L cellar dweller routinely topples a team in the penthouse, Goffstown High has constructed, in more ways than one, an exceptional baseball program. Following a 9-8 victory over four-win Exeter...
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BY JENN McDOWELL The town of Weare has joined five other towns in the state and members of the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation in a lawsuit against the state declaring the current districts of the House of Representatives unconstitutional. The suit...
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BY KATHIE NORTHRUP The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has recognized Hooksett’s Lilac Bridge as an important state resource and approved its listing to the State Register of Historic Places on April 28. Designed by John W. Storrs,...
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BY GRETA CUYLER A police officer was arrested by state police and charged with driving while intoxicated early Sunday, May 11, according to Hooksett police. Officer Benjamin Beauchemin has been placed on administrative leave with pay. Beauchemin was off...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Hooksett voted down a $1.5 million bond to expand the sewer plant, downed the proposed $15.7 million 2008- 09 town operating budget and elected two new members to the Town Council. A total of 1,000 Hooksett voters turned out at the polls...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE What began as a meeting on a proposal to lower speed limits to 30 mph or less ended with a suggestion to increase them to 40 mph on some town roads. On Monday, May 5, the Board of Selectmen swiftly defeated a proposal for establishing...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR An annual tradition, the Bedford Rotary Memorial Road Races return for its 34th year. And on Saturday, May 17, yet another facet is added to the already popular event. Brian Moyer, who has co-directed the races the last 12 years,...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR It was an otherwise routine conversation between Danny Gorman, the uncle, and Danny Gorman, the nephew. “Are you looking forward to the upcoming tennis season?” asked the elder Gorman. “Can’t wait,”...
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BY DARRELL HALEN When thousands of bicyclists ride through Massachusetts to raise money for cancer victims, Windham’s Steve Horaj will be among them. Horaj will put his endurance to the test when he rides 163 miles over just two days. He will be...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY As president of the Bedford Men’s Club, Mike Carbonneau made sure things got done. Now, four years after his death, the club is making sure that Carbonneau continues to have an affect on the community. The Men’s Club has taken...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Town Clerk Barbara Lessard was one of many town employees across the state to announce her retirement this year, citing the state of the New Hampshire retirement system as a reason for doing so. After putting in 23 years of service as...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Rising two stories, with a 5- mile indoor track, a climbing wall stretching from the first to second floor and other amenities, the Workout Club and Wellness Center proposed for Donald Street at Route 114 would have been the first of...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK Rich Fortier, Pembroke Academy’s girls lacrosse head coach, reviewed the list of names, pen in hand. When he handed back the roster, 15 of the 21 players had check marks next to their names. “Those are the players with two...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK Two victories don’t seem like much. To perennial powers, that’s merely a week’s worth of work. But to the third-year Pelham girls lacrosse team, they’re worth much more. In a historical sense, Pelham’s pair...
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BY TOBY HENRY School officials have selected a Goffstown firm for the renovation job to build Auburn’s first kindergarten. Auburn School Board Chairman Elaine Hobbs said the board picked the $204,000 bid put forward last month by the Pidela Corp....
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BY PATRICK O’NEILL Residents canvassed back yards, fields and the side of the road to clean up litter at the Greenfield Farms neighborhood for their second annual Greenfield Farms Goes Green Day. Aimed toward providing a safer and cleaner neighborhood...
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BY JIM DEVINE Police have charged three teens and a juvenile with arson related to the fire that damaged and closed the skate park early this month. Thomas Kostarellas, 17, of Dracut, Mass., and Marc Patenaude, 18, of Pelham, were charged with arson and...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Windham police Capt. Pat Yatsevich said he’s ready to retire after a long battle with illness, but worries about how the current funding and decision-making concerns surrounding the New Hampshire retirement system will affect his...
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The Pembroke Academy track and field teams competed in Pelham on May 6 and Coe-Brown Academy in Northwood on May 10, finishing in the middle of the pack at each meet. The boys were second behind Milford at the meet hosted by Pelham High, while the girls...
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BY JENN McDOWELL A total of 61 Dunbarton voters attended a special town meeting and voted by secret ballot whether to establish a revolving fund for special police details. Only eight votes made the difference, with 34 voting in favor of setting up the...
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I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the SAU and the HDMS in particular. We've been experiencing so much difficulty with the teaching staff, the guidance counselor, and the principal just trying to get schoolwork and homework coordinated, completed,...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Keeping in line with housing values, certain exemption allowances will be decided at Town Meeting. At the Wednesday, May 14, meeting, voters will decide articles 24, 25 and 26 that seeks to modify property tax exemptions for the elderly,...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY You can’t beat the asking price, but to own a historic Weare home, someone had better have a large trunk. The 100-year-old house located at Country Three Corners is available for free to anyone who wants it, although to be preserved,...
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Some people cross your path and are never forgotten. Dick Withington was one of those people. Dick was an auctioneer based out of Hillsboro. I met him one day at an estate auction in Hooksett. He was sitting in the crowd and welcomed me as I sat beside...
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