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• Officer Defina fired, vows to fight

  By DanO’Brien Hooksett police officer Jason Defina, the school resource officer who was reassigned last spring despite community objections, was fired by the Hooksett Police Commission on Sept. 8. Defina, 35, a Marine Corps veteran who has been Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:12 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, school, resource officer

• Students support Defina’s return

  By Lauren Sausser Hooksett Police Chief Steve Agrafiotis made no indication of whether he’d reinstate former school resource officer Jason Defina into that position again, even after two teenage girls pleaded for him to do so at a Police Commission Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:27 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, school, resource officer

• 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

• Hooksett school officer back to work – for now

  By Lauren Sausser School resource officer Jason Defina is back to work after an extended suspension from the Hooksett Police Department for what his superiors deemed incompetence and untruthfulness. Defina was suspended without pay for more than 20 days Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:41 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, school, Police Department, officer, suspension

• Police commissioner asks for truth on safe school reports

  By Lauren Sausser The Merrimack County Sheriff’s Department will conduct an independent investigation of the Hooksett Police Department in order to determine if officers knowingly attempted to conceal safe school reports filed by the school resource Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:34 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, school, investigation

• Knives in school

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER According to safe school reports recently released by the Hooksett Police Department, eight counts of confiscated knives and reported knife possession by Cawley Middle School students have been filed during the past two school years. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:11 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, School Board, school, Police Department, knives

• Hooksett school officer is suspended

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER Hooksett schools will operate without the full-time presence of school resource officer Jason Defina until Jan. 19 – the date when Defina’s temporary suspension from the Hooksett Police Department will be lifted. For reasons Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:17 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, school, resource officer

• Annual Firefighter’s Challenge brings out student competitiveness

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER Oct. 31 happened to be one of many Cawley Middle School eighth-graders’ favorite day of the year. But not because it was Halloween. More than 200 students gathered on the soccer field, and all were dressed in a rainbow of colors Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:25 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Cawley Middle School, school, Annual Firefighter's Challenge

• Sign to note former Martin’s Corner School

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER In the 1950s, when Hooksett resident Kathie Northrup was only an elementary school student, she said she can remember when there was little more on Route 28 Bypass than a small three-room schoolhouse, a few houses and swampland. “It Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:55 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Hooksett Heritage Commission, school, Martin's Corner School

• Many changes at SNHU

  BY LAUREN SAUSSER As more than 650 new freshmen moved into Southern New Hampshire University’s dormitories on Sunday, Aug. 31, the Hooksett campus was still in the throes of preparing itself to accommodate students for the academic year. According Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:17 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Southern New Hampshire University, school