July 2009 - Posts

• For Hooksett, fair is foul

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Donald Pare has video evidence that baseball is indeed a game of inches. Pare’s 11- and 12-year-old Hooksett Little League team was eliminated from District 1 play after consecutive losses, including a 5-4 setback to Salem National Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:49 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Sports, baseball

• Hooksett Police Commission may increase to five

  By Lauren Sausser The Hooksett Town Council unanimously voted at its meeting July 8 to add two members to the Police Commission, but it will take an act of the Legislature and approval of town voters to make it happen. The Hooksett Police Commission, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:46 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town council, voting, Police Commission

• Stephen Southerland aims at career in painting

  By DARRELL HALEN When he was a kid, Hooksett’s Stephen Southerland liked to draw while listening to stories. As a student, he drew while learning history lessons. But art became more than a hobby. Now 22, Southerland has accumulated a portfolio Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:42 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, painting, Southerland, Currier Museum of Art, artist

• New Hooksett School Resource Officer in; Defina out

  By Ginger Kozlowski The Hooksett Police Department has removed officer Jason Defina as the town’s school resource officer, putting Sgt. Gary Blanchette in the position as of Aug. 13. Defina has served as the school resource officer since April 2008. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:29 PM by Hooksett Editor | 18 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, school, resource officer

• Dance draws hundreds to Space Center

  By Ginger Kozlowski Skee ball, bumper cars and laser tag generally draw a fairly young crowd to the Space Center in Hooksett, but on May 30, there was a decidedly different mood at the building. As many as 500 people, coming from as far away as Boston, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:53 PM by Hooksett Editor | 3 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Space Center, Rave, dance

• McHugh chosen for Hooksett police commission

  By Lauren Sausser Joanne McHugh was chosen to replace Marianne Maksalla on the Hooksett Police Commission on June 24 by the Hooksett Town Council. Also under consideration were Clark Karolian, Richard Sullivan and Steven L’Heureux. There was some Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:40 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, town council, Police Commission

• City high schools consider forcing payment for extracurriculars

  By MATT SCHOOLEY City school officials are drafting a pay-to-participate policy that would include athletics, a policy that many say would have negative consequences at all three city high schools, but particularly bad at West High School. Facing a budget Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:26 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Candia, Auburn, Manchester, School Board, budget, athletics