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News and Information for the Town of Hooksett
March 2007 - Posts
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BY MATT STOUT More than 36 years of coaching hockey can go by in a blur, and perhaps, in some ways, it has for Rene LeClerc. Yet, on this night, his final night as the coach of the Southern New Hampshire University men’s ice hockey team, LeClerc Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN People throughout Hooksett and beyond knew James Oliver as a street-savvy, straight-talking policeman. But his friends and family also knew him as a man who loved repeatedly watching “The Lion King” with his grandchildren, Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It did something that hasn’t been done since 1985. It beat a Class L perennial powerhouse to get there. And it gained unwavering confidence in the process. This year’s Trinity High boys basketball team will indeed be remembered Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT Sitting inside one of the many locker rooms buried in the bowels of Lundholm Gymnasium, the Manchester Central boys basketball team did as it usually does following a game Thursday, March 15. Coaches talked and players listened. Players Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN Hooksett’s Solid Waste Department recently got an image makeover to reflect the town’s push for more recycling. The head of the department, now called the Hooksett Recycling and Transfer Department, Diane Boyce, has been Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN Forging an ironclad guarantee to fully keep Hooksett’s taxpayers off the hook for repayment of an $18 million bond designed to jump-start the Exit 11 business district may not make the most business sense, a bond expert told the Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN James Oliver’s friends and family described him as old school, a cop’s cop, and, above all, a man who lived to help people. Oliver, 69, who led Hooksett’s police force for 21 years, died on the morning of Monday, March Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN Hooksett police said two people found dead inside a Pine Street home likely overdosed on drugs. On Thursday, March 8, police found Harold Bulger, 23, and his girlfriend, Jessica Thyng, 28, from Hudson, dead inside the home Bulger shared Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN HOOKSETT – Voters enthusiastically backed the town’s teachers on election day, Tuesday, March 13, by approving a new three-year contract 1,206- 315. Voters nixed a teacher contract proposal last year, and school officials Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK MANCHESTER – They might have been the longest eight minutes of Mike Wenners’ life; they were perhaps also the most pridefilled and validating. It took a seemingly never-ending quarter of basketball to seal one of Wenners’ Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN Complaints of loud bass noises emanating from the Space Center, a popular Route 3 children’s amusement operation, have prompted lawsuits from Hooksett town officials. “It’s just bass from the music,” said Mitch Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN Hooksett town councilors said they want to pay nonunionized town employees – whom internal studies have shown are poorly paid compared to their counterparts in nearby communities – based on merit, not based on a flat cost-of-living Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN Hooksett’s governing board has a long history of procrastinating on projects needed to prepare the town for growth, longtime Hooksett Planning Board Chairman Richard Marshall recently told the town council. Marshall was asking Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK It began the night as Salem High’s Davis Gym. It finished as official headquarters of “Savage Nation” and the No. 1-seeded team in the Class L tournament. Salem’s road to the top spot was marked with an impressive Read More...
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BY NICHOLAS BROWN A 3,500-foot stretch of Hackett Hill Road could make or break the $18 million development deal that’s been led by retail giant Cabela’s, a company spokesman said. But if all goes well with negotiations between the Nebraskabased Read More...
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