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News and Information for the Town of Goffstown
September 2007 - Posts
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BY STEVEN ANDREWS A longtime public servant was lost when Bruce Hunter, 74, died Sunday, Sept. 23, following a lengthy illness. An active member of the Goffstown community, Hunter served the town in many capacities, including as a three-term member of Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Girls volleyball coach Lorraine Connell and her John Stark team made the mistake of looking past Fall Mountain and suffered a swift defeat. They made sure Bedford didn’t get the same chance on Sept. 19. The Lady Generals whipped the Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR It was a scene you’d most often see following a championship game. One team was elated; the other sat quietly in disbelief. But it wasn’t a title game, nor did it have immediate postseason implications. It was, in fact, Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE A heated discussion involving board members, two sides of a property debate and a member of the Conservation Commission ended with the board voting unanimously to push the proposal back to Oct. 25. Janice Bournival had proposed to keep Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Town offices are entrusted with providing information to their residents every day, so it’s little surprise that the offices for Goffstown, Weare, New Boston and Dunbarton fared well in our of Right to Know Law investigation. In Goffstown, Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Two of the four police department we surveyed in last week’s Right to Know study contest our conclusion that they were not following the law. The Goffstown and Weare police departments did not fulfill our request for a log of arrests, Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Varsity boys soccer coach Randy Lovering came into the season with heightened expectations for his squad, and a 2-4 start has done nothing to diminish that. “We’ve played a lot of good teams, and we have a top-heavy schedule Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY It’s been a difficult beginning to the 2007 season for the John Stark field hockey team. It certainly didn’t get any easier with last week’s road loss, a 10-0 decision to Bow on Sept. 12. That game marked the second Read More...
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BY CHRISTINE HEISER All of the school districts in the area covered by Neighborhood News papers complied with a request for school meeting minutes. But in more than half the school districts, requests for teacher salaries were met with confused looks Read More...
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BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Have you ever wondered how much your child’s teacher is paid? How about what happened at the last school board or selectmen’s meeting? Or whether your neighbor was arrested in that commotion last week? You have every right Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Division II foes take note: Goffstown football is on the rise. That’s according to Tony Johnson, head coach of the three-time defending champion Bishop Guertin Cardinals. Though Johnson’s squad thumped the Grizzlies, 48-10, Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY It’s early in the season, and both John Stark and Pelham’s girls volleyball teams were in – no surprise here – early season form. Neither squad found consistent rhythm in the contest, but visiting John Stark returned Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE Cell phones are not usually the first item on a list of recyclables, but the Friends of the Library would like to change that. Tammy Gross, who heads the recycling program for the Friends of the Library, said there is a collection box near Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE While scores for the Adequate Yearly Progress tests show that the Goffstown School District has passed and the Weare School District has not, the districts’ respective superintendents say the reality is a lot more complex than the Read More...
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BY DAVE CHOATE The results were less than successful, but Grizzlies coach Matt Leonard said he still saw some encouraging signs in defeat. “I think we’re there. This is the season, talent-wise, where I think, no doubt, we’re talking Read More...
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A 19-play fourth-quarter drive, capped by one of the team’s few passes, produced a 25-20 victory for host Goffstown in its season opener against Keene on Saturday, Sept. 1. “This year we decided to really ratchet up our offense, tighten down Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Salem ended Goffstown’s field hockey campaign the last two seasons, including a 2-1 defeat in the 2005 title game. This year, the Grizzlies opened against the two-time defending state champs. Though the result was similar, a Read More...
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Ryan Beal is critical of himself, but he passes tougher judgment on the professional baseball players he so idolizes. And when Beal is watching his favorite Boston Red Sox players on TV, he finds himself most analytical of the game he loves to play. “I’ll Read More...
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