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News and Information for the Town of Goffstown
January 2008 - Posts
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By Ryan O’connor You’ll have to excuse Liam House-Myers if he seems more graceful in skates than shoes. Growing up in Alaska, he has laced ’em up and hit the ice nearly every day since he was 6. When the ice melted on his home rink, Read More...
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By Rryan O’connor The 25th annual Kiwanis cheerleading competition at Southern New Hampshire University featured dozens of high-caliber routines from top-notch squads. Neither John Stark nor Goffstown placed on Saturday, Jan. 26, but the event proved Read More...
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By Rryan O’connor Winning the Division II state title in 2006, the Goffstown wrestling team was rewarded with a promotion to D-I. Though the Grizzlies have earned some success, they haven’t been able to maintain the dominance they exhibited Read More...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) presented the Friends of the Goffstown Rail Trail with $2,400 recently for construction of the new Goffstown Rail Trail. Tom Sexton, director of RTC’s Northeast Regional Office, presented Read More...
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By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – Goffstown voters can expect proposed zoning ordinance articles that prohibit churches and houses of worship in the industrial district and would add surface water to the wetland conservation ordinances as some of the Read More...
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By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – Police Chief Michael French recently announced he’ll be retiring from the post he’s held for nine years, ending a 34-year law enforcement career spent in Goffstown. On April 1, French will go back to being Read More...
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Girls basketball Hornets 35 – Bulls 20 Sydney Dubois notched 12 points to lead the Hornets to the win, while Rachel Willard added six. Brianna Fontain and Haili Campbell each scored eight points for the Bulls. Raptors 32 – Clippers 18 Kalie Read More...
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Level 4, 5 and 6ers compete at Judges The Granite State Gymnastic Center level 8 and 9 gymnasts recently competed at the 11th annual Winter Carnival Meet, hosted by Gymnastics at Brentwood Commons. Several athletes with Neighborhood ties placed at the Read More...
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The Goffstown High School boys Alpine ski team beat four schools in team competition on Jan. 10 at Cranmore in North Conway, led by the one-two punch of Milos Bohonek and Thomas Joy. Among 70 entrants, Bohonek and Joy finished first and second, respectively, Read More...
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By Chris Quartarone The Saint Anselm women’s basketball team left the court against Northeast-10 Conference foe UMass-Lowell positively jubilant. A last-second layup gave the locals a thrilling 61-60 victory on Jan. 4 and improved the Lady Hawks Read More...
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By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – Residents can expect a school operating budget of $34.8 million and only a few other articles to be on the table for this year’s upcoming Feb. 4 deliberative session of the school district meeting. The 2008-09 proposed Read More...
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By Michelle Kim Driving past the New Hampshire State Prison for Women on Route 114, it can be remarkably easy to look past the institution despite its highly visible location. For many area residents, the lives of the women inside remain a mystery, shrouded Read More...
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By Ryan O’connor GOFFSTOWN – Losing a standout player to injury prior to the season is never easy. Just ask Goffstown girls basketball coach Dave Michaud. When senior captain Kira Murphy went down with a torn medial collateral ligament during Read More...
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By Chris Quartarone GOFFSTOWN – The Saint Anselm men’s basketball team has neither won nor lost more than two games in a row this season. Even within a single game, consistency has eluded the Hawks. St. A, down 17 points in the second half, Read More...
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By Ryan O’connor He’s not ready to admit it just yet – not to himself, not to his players and certainly not to the media – but Mike Smith is inching closer to an increasingly probable reality. Prior to the season, the John Stark Read More...
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By Michelle Kim At recent public hearings, the Budget Committee presented its proposed town and school operating budgets and other warrant articles to be discussed at the upcoming February deliberative sessions of Town Meeting. The Jan. 9 public hearing Read More...
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By Michelle Kim DUNBARTON – A tinder-dry barn full of sawdust and wood furniture, a dying ember, and freakishly strong winds came together to set the small furniture-making business of a Dunbarton family ablaze Wednesday night, Jan. 9. The 3000-square-foot Read More...
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By Ryan O’connor CONCORD – Walking into Concord’s Douglas N. Everett Arena wearing a Bow Falcons cap and a Goffstown Grizzlies sweatshirt, John House-Myers received his share of grief from students and parents in attendance. “What Read More...
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By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – For one night on the weekend before the New Hampshire primary, the normally tranquil campus of Saint Anselm College was transformed into the nerve center of the great American pageant known as a candidates’ debate. Read More...
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By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – A Goffstown man allegedly driving under the influence with a suspended license collided head-on with another Goffstown driver in Manchester, sending her and her elderly mother to the hospital, on Saturday, Jan. 5. Dennis Read More...
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By Michelle Kim As a kid, Brian Penney used to bring home all sorts of creepy, crawly critters, much to his mother’s dismay. “Whatever I could catch as an 8-year-old, I’d bring them home. And I’d have to go release them,” Read More...
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By Michelle Kim When Ed Neveu took on the job of Building Inspector and Health Officer more than 14 years ago, it was supposed to have been his “retirement” job. After building homes for 39 years, not having to get up at 4:30 a.m. seemed like Read More...
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By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – Efforts to save the Villa Augustina school began taking shape over the holidays with a written list of conditions from the Religious of Jesus and Mary trustees and another generous gift from a Villa family of $10,000. Read More...
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