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• Many 11th-graders fail state test

  BY JENN McDOWELL Results from the first year of 11th grade New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) testing show local high school students are performing below statewide averages in math, reading and writing. Acting Superintendent of the Manchester Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:11 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Manchester, Central High School, West High School, Memorial High School

• Memorial, Central, West all earn invitation to Meet of Champions

  BY JERRY LIPTAK The coaches from Manchester Memorial, West and Central, realizing their respective wrestling squads had little chance to pin down a Division I team title, focused on sending as many wrestlers as possible to the Meet of Champions. And from Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:47 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Manchester, high school sports, Central High School, West High School, Memorial High School, wrestling

• In final turn, CHS takes baseball showdown

  BY SAPNA PATHAK He thought about it all night. What would he say? What would he want someone to say to him had the tables been turned? Brandon Czaja still doesn’t know. The Central High first baseman said he’d remain quiet after coming up Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:20 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Hooksett, high school sports, Central High School, Memorial High School, baseball

• Rising MHS eyeing playoffs

  BY SAPNA PATHAK When Joe Belanger first met his new head coach, the idea of having a basketball mentor lead a tennis team “had to be a joke.” A year later, Belanger is the first you’ll hear explaining why Aaron Abood was the best person Read More... Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:38 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Auburn, Manchester, high school sports, Central High School, Memorial High School, tennis

• High school changes - Manchester proposes shifting Hooksett, Candia and Auburn students to West High

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN Several Manchester parents told a committee considering the future of West High School – which will see an exodus of Bedford students over the next two years – that a simple solution would be to send all students from Hooksett, Read More... Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:44 AM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Hooksett, Candia, Auburn, Manchester, Education, Central High School, West High School, Memorial High School

• Experience counts - Older grapplers win, reach Meet of Champions

  BY SAPNA PATHAK NASHUA – Call him Mr. Overtime. It’s simply the best way to describe Nick Berube when he steps onto the wrestling mats. After winning all four of his matches that went into extra periods during the regular season, the Memorial Read More... Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:29 PM by Hooksett Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Central High School, Memorial High School, wrestling

• Swimmingly friendly - As a rule, these foes buoy each other in the water

  BY MATT STOUT DURHAM – In most sports, it’d be considered a strange scene, as if some mistake had been made. There was Steve Van Der Beken, the coach of the Manchester West and Central swim teams, waving his arms frantically, hopping around Read More... Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:58 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Auburn, Manchester, Central High School, West High School, Memorial High School