Goffstown News

Crispin’s House tournament on deck

The seventh annual Crispin’s House One-Pitch Softball Tournament takes place Saturday, Aug. 8, at the Villa Augustina fields. First pitch is set for 9 a.m. Al Baines, president of Crispin’s House and tournament director, said Main Street Eye Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:48 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, Sports, softball, fundraiser, Crispin's House

Goffstown High School staff, students raise money for cancer patient

By Danny Deconinck The Goffstown community came together recently in support of 17-year-old Shayne Pouget. Pouget was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease in September 2008 and has struggled with his condition ever since. Luna Salon in Goffstown sponsored Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:15 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, fundraiser, Goffstown High School, cancer

Parents set to buy Villa Augustina

BY STEPHEN BEALE Every year, about 50 Catholic schools close. The Villa Augustina School will not be one of them. In December it seemed like it would be, when the religious order that founded it almost a century ago said it did not have the personnel Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:07 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, fundraiser, Villa Augustina, donations, school

Villa Augustina hits $500,000 mark

BY STEPHEN BEALE Parents at the Villa Augustina have taken one giant leap forward in their capital fundraising campaign, considered a critical part of their bid to buy the school this year. The Villa Augustina Leadership Transition Team announced that Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:39 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, schools, fundraiser, Villa Augustina

Goffstown group gets $2,400 for rail trail

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...

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:43 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, fundraiser, traveling in NH, grants

Just cause – Team seeks support for cancer walk

BY MICHELLE KIM Jennifer Oliver was at the end of her chemotherapy treatments when she first heard about the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk. “I saw this ad and I said to myself, ‘I have to do this’,” said Oliver, a 51-year-old mother Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:36 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, fundraiser, breast cancer, walking

Crispin’s House softball tourney a success

BY DAVE CHOATE On this cool summer night, they traded in their notepads and pens for gloves, their cameras for bats and their questions for shouted encouragements. At the Crispin’s House softball tournament on Friday. Aug. 10, members of The Goffstown Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:39 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, Sports, softball, fundraiser

Play ball! – Crispin’s House tourney raises spirits, awareness

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Among Crispin’s House fundraisers, the annual softball tournament isn’t so much about dollars as it is about sense. “We do it to raise some money, but more than anything it brings a lot of good groups of people into Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:54 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, Sports, softball, fundraiser

In concert – Bands work together for benefit event

BY ROD HANSEN It’s only rock ’n’ roll, but sometimes loud and boisterous music can serve a higher purpose. Such was the case at the Sexual Assault Awareness Benefit Concert on April 27, when a trio of local bands cranked up their amps Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:58 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Goffstown, Arts, fundraiser, concert, YWCA