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News and Information for the Town of Goffstown
August 2007 - Posts
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BY DAVE CHOATE Special Olympics of New Hampshire has been very special for Tamy Pinard. Pinard has been a coach, a supervisor and a jack of all trades for the Special Olympics over the last four years, often putting in more than 30 hours per week as a Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Goffstown and state police responded to a bomb call the morning of Sunday, Aug. 26, and safely detonated a device found in a mailbox. Al Baines of Catamont Road discovered a roughly 6- to 7-inch tube with electrical tape serving as a detonator Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE The Grasmere Town Hall may look like it is in the midst of a major renovation, but at the moment the changes are mostly cosmetic. Until money meant for the building is freed up, it will likely remain that way. Right now, the first floor Read More...
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For many Goffstown football players, the season began in January – indoors – in the weight room. Twenty-two Grizzlies spent eight months pumping iron with strength and conditioning coach Kurt Hines. Three joined the coveted 1,000-pound club Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Last season, the Goffstown boys soccer team finished below .500 but made the playoffs. This year, head coach Randy Lovering wants to host a postseason match. To do so, he said his team must finish with a winning record. In its first Read More...
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Amy Walker, a 24-year-old Goffstown resident, died on Monday, Aug. 20, in a single-car accident. At approximately 9:10 p.m. members of the New Hampshire State Police Troop-D Concord were advised of a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 93 southbound Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Just five years before The Goffstown News swung into business, a mysterious man from Manchester came by the town with a camera and an unusual mission. Arthur Blackman took hundreds of pictures of houses, roads and trees throughout the town. Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Back in its infancy in 1957, The Goffstown News cost $4 for a year’s subscription, was housed on Main Street and covered Francestown in addition to five other towns. On its 50th anniversary, many things have changed at the paper, Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Don Dumais is a dentist who plays rugby. But despite the stereotypes, the Bow resident said there are few teeth lost in the sport, though he can remember a few instances where one player’s mouth met another player’s skull, Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE On this cool summer night, they traded in their notepads and pens for gloves, their cameras for bats and their questions for shouted encouragements. At the Crispin’s House softball tournament on Friday. Aug. 10, members of The Goffstown Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE The UpReach Therapeutic Riding Center’s activities revolve around horses, but the therapy it aims to perform is about much more than that. Volunteer Deborah Coon teaches a riding and a driving class for the center, both of which can Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Burglaries are up from the first six months last year in Goffstown, but the Police Department said that probably isn’t a cause for alarm. During his presentation at the selectmen’s meeting, Chief Michael French informed the Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Steve Beal knows the pain of a heartbreaking loss. He’s felt the frustration in watching the opposition celebrate a coveted championship. He thought playing – and losing – in national tournaments himself would make him Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE It was probably the only time the Community Emergency Response Team would get a chance to put out a fire and have fun at the same time, so members like Nicole Lyonnais took advantage of it. “I liked it, but I want a bigger fire,” Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Among Crispin’s House fundraisers, the annual softball tournament isn’t so much about dollars as it is about sense. “We do it to raise some money, but more than anything it brings a lot of good groups of people into Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Last summer, the discovery of a high concentration of E. coli in Glen Lake forced the town to close it for several weeks. This summer, Rebecca Caron made sure there were no surprises. “It’s important to just start taking care 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 DAVE CHOATE A group of 260 children had a chance to find out just how fun it was to stay at the YMCA when a road closure kept some of them there longer than usual. On Monday, July 23, police Capt. Michael Sullivan said a “very large” tree Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Denise Herman and Ashley Gelinas had lost a dear friend. Herman was the mother of an Army reserve member who was friends with Daniel Gionet, while Gelinas was his oldest friend. When Sgt. Gionet died in Iraq last June, he left friends like Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Though the Matty Dobens tournament, established in 1988, was originally open solely to Manchester teams, the early 1990s saw a reformation allowing District 1 teams throughout central and southern New Hampshire to participate. Enter Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK 15s take title easily Goffstown’s 15-year-olds became the town’s second Babe Ruth baseball squad to bring home the state title this year. After waiting more than three hours for rain and thunder to clear, Goffstown’s Read More...
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