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News and Information for the Town of Goffstown
February 2007 - Posts
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BY SAPNA PATHAK At this year’s NHIAA spirit championship, the Goffstown Grizzlies took 10th place. But on the bus ride home, their head coach made them cry. Tears of joy and sorrow followed as Doris Gamache handed each of her cheerleaders a letter Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN While creating a project for a school fair recently, Villa Augustina eighth-grader Rita Pratte burned herself with hot glue. This accident may have introduced trauma into the lives of many adolescents, but Pratte saw the event through a Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN In a world where family members, friends or neighbors can also be predators, fear often serves as a defense mechanism for children. That was one of the messages delivered by Kim Fillmore, a victim’s advocate with the Hillsborough County Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN The Goffstown School District won’t have to make up for an expected shortfall in state education aid because that money wasn’t anticipated in the budgeting process, members of the school board said. “We’ve presented Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN Goffstown may have violated state law by putting an article on the town warrant without first consulting with the school board and county commissioners, according to a letter from the superintendent of schools. However, selectmen have decided Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t clean and it certainly wasn’t soothing to the nerves. But it made for the second-best win Wayne Thomson ever saw his team pull off. Entering the quarterfinals of this year’s Class I girls Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN Susan Carr is concerned about global warming and climate change. So she’s doing her part to help bring action at the national and local levels to tackle the problem. Carr went to the transfer station, a firemen’s breakfast Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN With years of experience as a musician, one local teacher is seeing her dreams come true on a national level. Georgia Paris, a Weare resident and fourth-grade teacher at Goffstown’s Maple Avenue Elementary School, has seen two of her Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN No sticks. No stones. No dissing. It’s a simple message, placed on stickers and banners as well as badges worn by Mountain View Middle School staff during the school’s annual “No Name-Calling Week.” The message falls Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN A petitioned warrant article meant to broaden the public’s knowledge of how their officials vote may carry with it some unintended consequences, one Goffstown selectman said. Article 27, submitted by petition by resident Guy Caron, Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It took one year away from the gymnastics mats to calm Kayla Chase’s nerves. Chase returned to the roster of Goffstown High’s girls gymnastics team to compete in her second NHIAA Girls Gymnastics State Championship meet, hosted Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN A measure for expanded elderly tax exemptions survived the recent town deliberative session of Goffstown Town Meeting, escaping two proposed amendments that would have weakened the measure considerably on the March ballot. The elderly tax Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN With major cuts proposed to Goffstown’s road plan and many public works projects still off schedule due to last year’s flooding, the town will do best to put some bridge repair projects out to bid. That was the word from Department Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT The Goffstown and John Stark indoor track and field teams didn’t enter the Class L and I-M-S Championships at Dartmouth College’s Leverone Field House with a ton of fanfare or participants. But those who competed left with solid Read More...
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Former town assessor Ron Mace retired on Jan. 26, after working a total of 35 years with the town. Mace worked part time for the town for 17 years prior to becoming the first full-time assessor in 1989. He was employed as the assistant assessor for the Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN Talk at the deliberative session of the Goffstown School District Meeting on Monday, Feb. 5, often came down to keeping the quality of education high and local taxes low. Approximately 150 voters attended the meeting, and agreed to put the Read More...
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BY MATT HERSH In eight years, Salem police Lt. Fred Rheault hasn’t once missed his annual chance to dive into the frigid Atlantic Ocean in February. “The water is paralyzing, and running across the sand is like running across glass because Read More...
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BY ROD HANSEN With attempts to increase local recycling falling flat, Goffstown voters may again be asked to consider pay-as-you-throw trash collection. “We’ve tried to encourage recycling, and it just hasn’t worked. Pay-as-you-throw Read More...
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