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News and Information for the Town of Goffstown
November 2008 - Posts
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Since arriving at Goffstown High School, Steve Fountain has spent more time behind a desk, less behind the wheel. Fountain, in his first year as the school’s athletics director, comes to GHS after serving as a football coach at Read More...
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BY CAROLE KLEMENT HUXEL Maple Avenue Elementary School Principal Mark Boyd marched into the cafeteria dressed from head to toe in a Pilgrim costume on Thursday, Nov. 20, to carve a turkey for the school’s annual Thanksgiving feast for the students. Read More...
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BY CAROLE KLEMENT HUXEL Angelina Koyiades did not know how to knit when she moved into the Hillsborough County Nursing home in 2006, so it’s a surprise to her that she’s about to donate her 1,000th hat to a local charity. Her hobby was ballroom Read More...
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Down 12 points with halftime approaching, the Goffstown Screamin’ Eagles middle school varsity football team needed a big play. Instead, the locals made several and won the Northeast Junior High Football League championship, beating Lowell on Sunday, Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Next to their protective, fireresistant clothing, the oxygen bottle that allows firefighters to breathe amid smoke and flames might be one of the most important pieces of equipment they use. Goffstown Fire Chief Rich O’Brien announced Read More...
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BY DAVID SUITOR A determined Grizzlies football team committed early turnovers against their unbeaten hosts, and Souhegan High School took advantage on Saturday, Nov. 8, winning the Division III semifinal- round contest, 42-18. Despite the loss, which Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Saint Anselm College seeks to double the enrollment of Hispanics, African-Americans, and other minorities, and to create a campus environment that welcomes students of other Christian denominations, religions, and different sexual orientations. Read More...
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If you drove by Goffstown Public Works recently, you may have seen fire crews and other emergency personnel putting out a bus fire and treating victims. However, there were no real injuries, as this was all part of a mass casualty incident drill, which Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The speaker at the Goffstown High School assembly for Veterans Day was a familiar face to students and staff. On an ordinary day, Brenda Fletcher-Kennedy is the school nurse, a position she has held for a decade, but on Nov. 10, she spoke Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY After dropping six regularseason contests by one goal, the Goffstown girls soccer team’s postseason ended in similar fashion – in the first round of the Class L tournament following a 1-0 loss to Salem. “At the beginning Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Prior to 2008, the Goffstown volleyball team never earned more than five victories or hosted a playoff game, let alone win one. And when the Goffstown High School gymnasium was flooded and deemed unusable prior to the squad’s Read More...
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BY MICHAEL CLEVELAND Dan and another young man work on a wall around the riding arena at the Upreach Therapeutic Riding Center. Several yards away from them, several other relatively young men are doing the same kind of work on another section of wall. Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE Selectmen say they are prepared to make painful cuts to the budget in order to save cash-strapped homeowners from having to pay more in taxes next year. Selectmen said they could achieve their goal between reductions in one-time capital Read More...
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