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News and Information for the Town of Goffstown
June 2008 - Posts
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Crispin’s House Inc., a nonprofit program for at-risk youth, hosts its annual one-pitch softball tournament on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Goffstown Junior Baseball Villa Augustina Fields, starting at 9 a.m. Al Baines, president of Crispin’s Read More...
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In Goffstown Babe Ruth action: Red Wings 6 – Sea Dogs 5 Dante Distaso belted a walkoff home run on the first pitch in the bottom of the seventh as the Red Wings captured the minor league title with a win over the scrappy Sea Dogs. Riley Palmer and Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Parents at the Villa Augustina School are hoping to not only preserve what they had this year – a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade Catholic school – but also expand upon it by adding a daycare program this fall. Greg Read More...
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BY CAROLE KLEMENT HUXEL From January to December in 2011, Goffstown will pull out all the stops to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the town. The village of Goffstown was incorporated in 1761, and 250 years later, there are almost 18,000 people living Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE A family brought closer together by one fire has been separated by another. In March, Keith Moore and his wife Toni lost most of their 58 Elm St. home to a fire. Since then, he has lived with his daughter, Shannon Moody, and her family Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Weeks before Goffstown’s varsity baseball squad earned the first Class L title in program history, another group of Grizzlies celebrated a similar accomplishment. With a 5-1 victory against Salem, on May 26, the GHS JV team Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Throughout the season, Matt Benson and his players committed to never look back, only forward. Now the Goffstown baseball coach has no choice but to glance into the past. He is, after all a state champion. Benson and the thirdseeded Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE They were supposed to be the last graduating class of the Villa Augustina. Instead, the 19 eighth-graders who received their diplomas on Sunday, June 15, seemed destined for a less historic yet far happier honor – they are graduates Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE There are many ways one could measure how bright a valedictorian is. There are the spotless, straight-A transcripts, the accumulation of advanced placement courses, or the acceptance into an Ivy League college. Tyler Clites, of Dunbarton, Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE High school bands, move on over. Now elementary schools are getting into the marching band act, beginning here in Goffstown. The 68-student Maple Avenue Elementary marching recorder band made its debut at the town Memorial Day parade Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Matt Benson and his nine seniors know all too well how easy it is to trip and fall at the Class L championship threshold. Last year, Goffstown stumbled in the semifinals to upstart Trinity, a squad that entered the postseason as Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The annual Old Home Day celebration successfully returned to Goffstown Village on Saturday, June 7, after a hiatus of two years. The celebration had been rained out in 2006. It was also canceled the following year, when the town weathered Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Jeff Perkins hung from the fence, watching a home run fly far over his head, far over the batting cages that stood as the backdrop of the Little League baseball field he patrolled as center fielder. Perkins’ good friend and teammate, Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The town has found a way to make money off trash. After switching to a new contract at the start of the year with Integrated Paper Recyclers (IPR) of North Andover, Mass., the town says that it has turned an expenditure into revenue. Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Overwhelmed from the moment he stepped off the airplane, Ben Prieur was reduced to monosyllables. “Wow,” he wrote in his journal, summarizing his initial reaction to being in Uganda. “Despite of all of the preparations Read More...
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