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BY CAROLE KLEMENT HUXEL Jyl Dittbenner has been teaching at Villa Augustina for seven years, and each year she organizes a junior high sleepover to participate in the World Vision 30-Hour Famine. The 30-Hour Famine is an international youth movement to 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 SAMUEL PERRON Contributing Writer In July, seven Goffstown High School students and three teachers spent a week in Nicaragua. Along with experiencing a very different way of life, they worked with some organizations on important social and environmental 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 JENN McDOWELL The state’s standards for measuring adequacy among New Hampshire school students were raised this year, and based on the results from the New England Common Assessment Program test scores students took in fall 2007, Goffstown schools Read More...
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BY STEPHEN BEALE The owners of the Villa Augustina School are ready to sell it to parents. That news prompted a joyful response from parents who have been believing against the odds that they could save the school from shutting down. “Yes, we did Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR The Grizzlies had the Division II playoffs in sight, but on one rain-soaked Saturday afternoon they allowed the postseason to evade their grasp. Though many local football and soccer games were postponed Nov. 3 due to inclement weather, Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR John Stark was a leaping, kicking, flipping example of the old adage, “Save the best for last.” Of the 38 competing squads at the New Hampshire Fall Spirit Championships, the Lady Generals were one of the final groups Read More...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK Despite thoroughly outplaying their hosts for 75 of regulation’s 80 minutes, the Lady Generals faced overtime at Merrimack Valley. After the John Stark girls warmed up for the extra period, their fifth-year head coach, Heather Doucette Read More...
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BY RYAN O'CONNOR Receiving second life and a fresh set of downs at the opponent’s 7-yard line, John Stark looked poised to move ahead 9-0 in the Oct. 13 fooball contest and put the visiting foes in an early hole. But the ensuing events mirrored Read More...
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A stunning running game and crippling defense led Goffstown football to another victory, 34-7 over host Merrimack on Saturday, Oct. 14. The win improves Goffstown’s record to 5-2 overall, 4-2 in Division II. The Grizzlies are in sole possession Read More...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK Two drives into their Division-III football contest on Friday, Oct. 5, against host Kingswood, the John Stark Generals had more than set the game’s tone. They’d set the inevitable outcome in stone. Stark marched efficiently Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The efforts of the Goffstown High girls volleyball team against Manchester Memorial didn’t suggest a squad hoping to improve to 3-9 this season. But the Grizzlies earned a 3-1 road victory on Friday, Oct. 5, for that third win of Read More...
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Though Goffstown High School will not play postseason golf this season, varsity coach Jarrod Brooks reflects on the year as one of learning and growth. The Grizzlies, who finished 11-22 on the season, compiled an average team score of 206 among five golfers. Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Who needs all 11 players? Forced to play down one player for most of its match against Salem, the Goffstown High School boys soccer team held on for a 2-1 road victory on Friday, Sept. 28. Goffstown’s Tyler Ellis went hard into Read More...
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