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News and Information for the Town of Hooksett
February 2009 - Posts
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BY JERRY LIPTAK At the girls gymnastics state championships, the hosts won the title, but the guests – teams and individuals – still enjoyed the show. Salem High beat second-place Pinkerton and third-place Central on Saturday, Feb. 21, for Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett Budget Committee made deep cuts in the proposed Police Department budget, including significant erasures in the wages and benefits lines. The committee cut more than $200,000 from the $4.1 million budget that was recommended Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett School Board is bouncing around the idea of dipping into spring holidays to make up for the lost instructional time if Hooksett students miss more than two more school days for weather-related cancelations. Currently, Hooksett Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER Hooksett resident Lee Scott wants to reduce his carbon footprint and his energy bills – that is, as long as his property taxes don’t skyrocket in return. That’s why Scott has been working tirelessly with the Hooksett Read More...
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BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Lunacy. An apt description of the idea a bunch of high school kids could design and build a robot capable of playing a game under conditions similar to the moon’s surface in just six weeks. But that is exactly what teams involved Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER Dennis Couture may not have the ability to speak, but that’s not keeping his mom and dad from speaking out loud and clear for him. “Dennis never worked and never will work. He is at the mercy of everyone and everything,” Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY State and town officials across New Hampshire have been preparing for the passing of the latest economic stimulus proposal, and now that it’s official, the waiting game begins for potential projects. Several towns in the area began Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER A proposal to convert Hooksett’s sort-and-dump recycling system to a single-stream system is being met with guarded optimism by the local government, but a few town councilors are worried the switch could decrease recycling revenues. Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER Hooksett school district and Police Department officials will meet in a closed-door session on Friday, Feb. 20, to air out any disagreements about alleged weapons and drug issues at Cawley Middle School. The meeting, originally scheduled Read More...
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BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Hooksett District Court was on the list of the governor’s budget cuts, but was removed from that list shortly after it was announced. To cut costs, Gov. John Lynch proposed consolidating eight district courts and save nearly Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER Hooksett Sewer Commission Chairman Sid Baines says a $9.4 million warrant article that taxpayers will vote on in May should be a no-brainer. That’s because not a cent of the price tag will affect local property taxes and the article, Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Central girls gymnastics team hopes its next trip to Salem High School has a different ending. On Thursday, Feb. 5, Central managed 128.7 points to finish ahead of Keene, but fell to Salem’s score of 132.2 and Pinkerton’s Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Central fell just short of winning the state track and field title, settling for runner-up to Bishop Guertin at the Class L girls championships on Sunday, Feb. 8. The Little Green collected 58 points to Bishop Guertin’s 59 at Dartmouth Read More...
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BY JEFF ABKOWITZ The cycle is continuous. It has no real beginning or end. When Richard Bloom, a 43- year-old resident of Hooksett wakes up, reprisal sets itself in motion once again, leaving him to ponder how much longer he has. It goes beyond the 18 Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett Town Council will consider adding a $9 million article to the town warrant to address upgrades and repairs to the local wastewater treatment plant. Hooksett taxpayers would only be responsible for raising $2.3 million through Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER The Hooksett Safety Center on Legends Drive may have been leaky since the first year it opened 12 years ago, but town officials have decided now is the time to do something about it. Interim Town Administrator Carol Granfield said the Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The intensity of the postseason is still weeks away, but no one told the Central and Trinity boys basketball teams. The Little Green knocked off the undefeated Pioneers, 56-48, on Friday, Jan. 30, in a high-octane game that set up a three-way Read More...
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BY LAUREN SAUSSER If you’re wondering if Hooksett will ever construct its own high school, don’t ask any of the members of the Hooksett High School Committee. Because they don’t know. The committee has made no hard decisions yet about Read More...
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