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News and Information for the Town of Goffstown
August 2008 - Posts
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Last year, the Goffstown girls soccer team took a couple steps forward. This year, the Lady Grizzlies hope to make a giant leap in that same direction. Goffstown improved on a one-win 2006 with four victories in ’07 and handed Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE An aquatic weed that makes swimming dangerous, boating difficult and diminishes other animal and plant life in the water has taken over half of Namaske Lake in Pinardville, according to a state official. Amy Smagula, a limnologist and Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The Goffstown School District has successfully appealed a state decision that it was in need of improvement. Three students who refused to take an exam last fall set off a domino effect that ultimately resulted in the declaration that Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL A Bedford resident concerned about a proposed animal processing plant in Goffstown is holding an open house to get signatures for a petition to send to the Goffstown Zoning Board. Danielle Mazzella, who lives at 487 Joppa Hill Road in Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE One of the more recent additions to the force at the Goffstown Police Department might be the only one who rides around in a cage most of the day. But Kjel has some perks other officers don’t: he gets to bite the bad guys. Kjel Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The economic slowdown could have an effect on when the new town fire station gets built, how much conservation land the town saves in the next few years, and when other vital improvements to town facilities and equipment are done. With Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL A Goffstown resident on Joppa Hill Road is looking to start an animal processing operation on his property, right on the town line with Bedford, something that has many residents in both towns talking. Negash Abdelkader of 83 Joppa Hill Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Youth librarian Denise Schaaf is planning to launch a video game rental program next month. The only problem: She is not quite sure where the videos will go. “We don’t have a place to display them,” Schaaf said. “I Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The Goffstown Board of Selectmen has decided it will not try to stop a church from building in an industrial zone. “My reaction is a happy one, of course,” said Joe Johnsick, the founder and pastor of Goffstown Harvest Christian Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR In 2005, when Pete Kiro established Goffstown’s first American Legion baseball team in 20 years, he promised his squad would reach the playoffs by its fourth season. Perhaps Kiro has a crystal ball. More likely, after serving Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Standing in the dugout, watching the group of 11- and 12-year-old Little Leaguers prepare for possibly the biggest game of their lives, Paul Gagne, Bob Gurskis and their fellow Goffstown coaches had but one thing to say to the eager Read More...
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Imagine 12 high school students giving up a week of their summer vacation to study politics at a college level. You don’t really need to imagine, all you have to do is stop by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. From July 12 to 19, 12 students Read More...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK Crispin’s House Inc., a nonprofit program for at-risk youths, hosts its annual one-pitch softball tournament on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Goffstown Junior Baseball Villa Augustina Fields. First pitch is 9 a.m., but some teams have Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Goffstown pays its school and town employees less than its neighbor to the south, reflecting the economic disparities between the two communities. A comparison of the incomes of the top 25 earners among the four local governments using Read More...
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