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• ADs say divisional format brings more flexibility to schools

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY When the next fall sports season arrives, expect a change in the landscape of New Hampshire athletics. Beginning with the 2010- 11 fall schedule, all sports will use the divisional format, including the possibility of petitioning up or Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:30 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, high school sports, Bedford, Manchester, Windham, Salem

• After working deep in loser’s bracket, Goffstown 11- and 12-year-old all-star season ends

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Goffstown’s 11- and 12-year-old all-stars worked deep into the losers’ bracket of the District 1 baseball tournament, but fell just short of a chance at redemption. On July 6, Windham came away with a 2-1 victory to send Goffstown Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:57 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Sports, Bedford, baseball, Manchester, Atkinson

• Plan would allow teens to graduate in 10th grade

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Many high school principals in the area are open to New Hampshire Education Commissioner Lyonel Tracy’s potential plan that would allow qualified students to graduate following their sophomore year of classes. Tracy has been considering Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:20 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, college, Pelham, Bow, Salem, education, high school

• Slaughterhouse rehearing denied

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The Zoning Board has denied a request for a rehearing of its Sept. 2 decision against a special exception for a Goffstown man who wants to build a slaughterhouse at his home for kosher and halal meat. In his rehearing request dated Sept. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:53 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, zoning, slaughterhouse

• Planners see opportunities with mountains, river

  BY STEPHEN BEALE Alan Yeaton is as an optimist. Such an attitude may be a prerequisite for being a member of an economic development council in a town that has had some well publicized difficulties with attracting economic development. The obstacles are Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:27 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, recreation, Economic Development, Town Council

• Slaughterhouse scares off potential home buyer

  BY JENN McDOWELL Days after the Cherrys thought they had sold their 12 Millstone Terrace home, the potential buyers were scared away from the sale after hearing about plans for a proposed animal processing operation just down the road on the Bedford/Goffstown Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:53 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, slaughterhouse, real estate

• Slaughterhouse plans denied special exception

  BY JENN McDOWELL A Goffstown resident who wanted to convert part of a barn on his property into a small animal processing operation will have to go back to square one. A packed Mildred Stark meeting room at Goffstown Town Hall erupted in applause from Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:39 PM by Goffstown Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, zoning, slaughterhouse

• Woman opposing processing plant circulates petition

  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... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:15 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, slaughterhouse, petition

• Residents in two towns concerned by proposed slaughterhouse

  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... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:26 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, slaughterhouse, kosher

• Goffstown pays less than Bedford to town, school employees

  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... Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:35 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, taxes, Bedford, town employees, school employees

• Goffstown 10 and 11s oust Bedford for state title

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR As it turned out, the difference between these two teams was negligible. The Bedford 10- and 11- year-old Little League all-star team, undefeated prior to a 14- 2 setback against Goffstown on Saturday, July 19, met the same foe Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:38 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Sports, Bedford, baseball

• Bedford beats Goffstown, which needs a win for a rematch

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bedford may have knocked off Goffstown with a 6-3 victory, but the head coaches for both teams had a feeling they may be seeing each other again soon. Although Bedford won the winners bracket final in the 10- and 11-year-old state Little Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:51 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Sports, Bedford, baseball

• After loss, Goffstown wins three to reach losers bracket semis

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR Prior to the losers bracket quarterfinals against Manchester Westside, the Goffstown 11- and 12-year-old Little League allstar team maintained a 1.24 ERA and a .333 batting average. Following a 10-0 mercy-rule win on Monday, July Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:46 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Sports, Bedford, baseball, Manchester, Pelham

• School-best D-II record earns GHS home ice

  BY RYAN O’CONNOR Home ice is nice, but Goffstown head coach Peter Bedford is more focused on the hot product skating on the cold surface. “I don’t care where it is, it could be in the pond out back … To me it’s an opportunity,” Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:23 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, high school sports, hockey, Bedford, Bow

• Screamin’ Eagles send all teams to Fla.; two win

  BY JERRY LIPTAK It was, admitted Lisa Roy, a rather inauspicious start. On Oct. 13, the Screamin’ Eagles Division 14 spirit squad took the floor at Bedford High School, exhibiting a routine that was, well, routine. “The girls were like, ‘I’m Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:29 PM by Goffstown Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, cheerleading, Bedford