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News and Information for the Town of Salem
March 2008 - Posts
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BY JIM DEVINE SALEM – Although the school district budget passed March 11, the failure of a deficit spending article for ballooning special education costs has put pressure on supply purchases, school officials said. “It’s not necessarily Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE When Audrey LaRoche asked to see the Boston Post Cane just given to her grandmother, Hilda Telfer, her grandmother held it tight without saying a word. Telfer, who was born when Theodore Roosevelt was still president, received an ebony stick Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE A man convicted on simple assault charges in February was arrested this weekend after poking and sticking his 7-year-old son with a pencil-shaped video game controller. Police arrested Edward Mahon, 46, on Sunday, March 23, after his stepdaughter Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE More than 260 voters turned out to decide on projects amounting to a 10.7 percent tax increase at the town’s second deliberative session Saturday, March 15. Of items narrowly defeated by residents was a 3 percent pay increase to department Read More...
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BY JERRY LIPTAK The Salem boys basketball team reclaimed the Class L title Saturday, March 15, by flat-out steamrolling Trinity in the second and third quarters, turning a 16-8 first-quarter deficit into a double-digit lead. The 66-45 final score, posted Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL As the September 2009 deadline for instituting public kindergarten in 11 school districts throughout the state approaches, school officials grapple meeting that deadline, space issues, state funding and meeting the deadline. Some said Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR What Trevor Dearden wants, Trevor Dearden goes and gets. His coach, Ryan Carr, knows that better than anyone. He learned it three years ago, when Dearden competed in his first New England wrestling championship. Prior to his 119-pound Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR It’s tough enough as defending state basketball champs and the lone undefeated squad in the Class L, but to face a rival in the quarterfinals – where the top seed generally earns a cakewalk against a .500 team – Read More...
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Salem School Warrants Unofficial returns, • denotes winner Article 2: To approve the school district’s operating budget in the amount of $53,539,584 for fiscal year 2008-09. • Yes................................2,665 No................................2,212 Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE SALEM – Although multimillion- dollar decisions for a new police station and high school renovations have been made, plenty of money matters are up for consideration at Salem’s second deliberative session. Nearly $5 million in Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE The long-awaited plan for a new police station will have to keep waiting following insufficient support at the polls. The $7.1 million bond article proposed to build the new station on Veterans Memorial Parkway received only 54 percent of Read More...
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BY JENN MCDOWELL As police in Salem, Plaistow and Haverhill, Mass., searched for the suspected perpetrator of bank robberies in their towns, their suspect was allegedly busy stealing sweatshirts and baseball hats from the Bob’s store in Salem. Authorities Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Like the NFL’s New England Patriots and Oyster River in New Hampshire Class I, the Salem boys basketball team finished the regular season undefeated. By thrashing Alvirne in Hudson, 73-59, on Friday, Feb. 29, the Blue Devils Read More...
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BY JENN MCDOWELL After 23 years as Salem’s town clerk, Barbara Lessard is retiring to get some much deserved down time to play golf, volunteer and do her own thing. “I just kind of want to relax and see what each day brings,” Lessard Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE SALEM – A selectman wants plans for a skate park to get rolling years after residents already paid for the project. After learning two weeks ago that town-funded materials for a skate park have been in storage for two years, Selectman Read More...
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