November 2007 - Posts

• Pelham tax rate up 13 percent

  BY DARRELL HALEN Pelham property owners who recently received their new tax bills saw small increases in the state education and county portions of their bill, but a 14.3 increase in the local school tax and a 20 percent jump in the town’s portion. Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:32 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Merrimack Valley, taxes

• Yes, it fell short, but team showed remarkable resiliency

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Trailing by 16 points in a playoff football game makes a ready excuse for a group of 12- year-olds to become rattled. The Pelham/Windham Razorbacks decided to forego that option and came storming back to take a second-half lead in the Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:48 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Merrimack Valley, high school sports, football

• PHS to install surveillance cameras

  BY DARRELL HALEN A federal grant, matched by the Pelham Police Department, will enable surveillance cameras to be installed at Pelham High School. The cameras, which will monitor the school’s perimeter, are capable of taking high-resolution pictures, Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:37 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Merrimack Valley, Surveillance cameras, High School

• Route 28 crash kills Pelham man

  BY DARRELL HALEN A Pelham man was killed when his 2005 Toyota Prius collided with another vehicle on Route 28 in Windham. Robert Saitow, 51, of Vassar Drive, Pelham, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The accident occurred at 5:13 p.m. on Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:29 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Merrimack Valley, Windham, Accident, Dube, Saitow

• Pythons finish 11-0 while collecting state title

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY As the final seconds ticked down on the Harris Field scoreboard in Pelham, two Python players snuck around the outskirts of a celebrating group in blue uniforms. They had one target in mind. With one swift tip of the Gatorade cooler, Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:03 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Merrimack Valley, high school sports, football, Pythons

• Pelham roughs up Bow, prepares (again) for Gilford

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Pelham High School football team won’t have to dig too far into the archives to find game film for the Division V title game. After overcoming a sloppy first half, the Pythons rolled past Bow High School 42-7 at home to set Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:41 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Merrimack Valley, high school sports, football, Bow

• Driver clips Pelham officer at accident scene

  BY DARRELL HALEN A Pelham police officer narrowly escaped serious injury when a pickup truck grazed him, tearing the portable radio off his duty belt and breaking his Taser gun holster. Master patrolman Eugene Stahl was responding to a singlecar accident Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:38 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Merrimack Valley, police, Accident

• Trying on their future – Internships give hands-on experience in students’ fields of interest

  BY DARRELL HALEN Several times a week, while dressed in hospital scrubs, Salem High School senior Courtney Morgan is busy helping people at Parkland Medical Center in Derry – preparing rooms, making beds, walking with patients, getting them something Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:25 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, Schools, Salem, students, jobs

• Close encounter – Pelham, Gilford separated by slimmest of margins

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY With two undefeated teams going head to head, there was plenty of electricity in the crowd Friday, Nov. 2, as Gilford and Pelham squared off at Pelham High School to close out the regular season. Strangely, in the first quarter, the only Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:08 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Pelham, football, sports, students