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News and Information for the Town of Salem
April 2008 - Posts
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY SALEM – Timeouts are designed to give teams the chance to catch their breath, regroup and grab some momentum. When Salem High School called a timeout midway through the second half of its girls lacrosse game against visiting Bow Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN When Lorraine Moore, dressed as Pocahontas, finished singing along to the song “Colors of the Wind,” the audience watching her cheered and applauded loudly. Lorraine smiled and bowed. Her performance was part of “A Disney Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Salem school officials said a proposed amendment to the public kindergarten mandate allowing districts to temporarily contract with private establishments will neither hasten nor simplify the road to establishing kindergarten programs. Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR To be competitive this season, Curt Killion knew his Salem girls tennis squad had to win at the bottom of the ladder and then sneak another victory somewhere in the middle sets. “Basically we needed to win our (No.) 5 and Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN When delegates from the Dominican Republic offered a resolution at the United Nations to establish a training program for midwives, doctors and nurses in Third World countries, representatives of other nations expressed their support Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE Planners will meet next week to review traffic impact plans for a new Lowe’s location at the state line of Route 28. The Stateline Shopping Center straddling the Salem- Methuen, Mass., border, is presenting a plan for a 200,000- square-foot Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE It may be a promotion, completion or accomplishment, but the School Board won’t be callings eighth-graders “graduates” at their June ceremony this year. On Tuesday, April 15, the School Board unanimously agreed to forego Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN Grateful for the medical treatment his young son received when he battled cancer, and with a desire to help families dealing with the disease, Dane Hoover Jr. will soon endure the challenge of running the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. He’s Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE Police said the conflict over a girlfriend that led to a Pelham man’s stabbing death last week could have been resolved with just a phone call. At the probable cause hearing for Scott Hanks, 49, which took place on Tuesday, April 15, Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE Selectmen voted to create a charter reform committee but plans for the panel have yet to be nailed down. In a unanimous vote on Monday, April 14, selectmen approved a proposal by Selectman Michael Lyons to create a seven- person panel to Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE A look at the town’s charter by the new town manager has revealed the Municipal Budget Committee has no standing in the town’s government operations. According to an interpretation of state laws, Salem Town Manager Jonathan Sistare Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Edward Kruczinski and his family had a hard time finding a place to live since the mortgage on their Allenstown home was foreclosed on the day after Christmas in 2006. While Kruczinski, his wife, Carolyn, and their three teenage daughters Read More...
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If you missed last week’s Field of Dreams cleanup, relax knowing that spring cleaning is a week late this year. Plans for the annual cleanup of the Field of Dreams park on Saturday, April 5, were postponed another week due to the prolonged winter Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE A Salem man is in jail on charges of fatally stabbing a Pelham man after the two fought over a woman both men had been seeing, police and neighbors said. Scott Hanks, 49, of 87 Lake Shore Road, was arrested on Sunday, April 6, on first-degree Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR They have yet to be the grooms, and they haven’t exactly been the best men either, but they’re definitely in the wedding party each year. In fact, the Salem boys tennis team has nearly perfected the role of head usher. Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR For Aly Higgins, Sara Halbich, and Taylor and Tatum Dyer, it was another year, another field hockey title. The senior quartet – along with juniors Nicole Rozumek and Kyleigh Keating and sophomore Chelsie Muldowney – Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE SALEM – To Selectman Chairman Elizabeth Roth, spring floods are a matter of when, not if. Nearly two years after the Mother’s Day flood that closed dozens of local roads and displaced entire neighborhoods of residents, Roth said Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE Salem resident Frank Mallicoat will be taking over as the weekend anchor of FOX25 in the coming weeks, according to a company announcement. Mallicoat, who originally came to work in New England as a sports director at Manchester’s Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE For Marty McCue, a high school television production teacher, videotaping the antics of his 2-year-old pug Max has paid off with a national audience on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and a chance at a cash prize. The Read More...
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BY JIM DEVINE A local Job Corps participant and a Connecticut man were arrested in Vergennes, Vt., on charges they set another teen on fire in a bathroom. Deputy State’s Attorney Christopher Perkett said Vergennes police arrested Joshua Bonifas-Kelly, Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Police ended a three-month investigation into the theft of 330 iPhones from the Apple Store in Salem when the two suspects in the case were arrested and charged with felony theft by unauthorized taking. Christopher Nashed, 22, of Sandown Read More...
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