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News and Information for the Town of Salem
August 2008 - Posts
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY It took Mike Ball an intramural football game to find out that he could bounce back from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. After suffering a knee injury in the first half of his first-ever Southern New Hampshire University men’s Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS With commercial space in Salem nearly fully developed, Planning Board members say the only way to go is up. A proposal to raise the height limits on commercial space around town is currently under discussion, though it may be put before Read More...
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BY JENN McDOWELL Salem police arrested 20 people, all of them under 21, in connection with a large underage drinking party that got out of control. One of them was arrested after fleeing the party when police showed up. He was charged with destroying Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Selectman reviewed for the first time the proposed $33 million operating budget that covers the cost of leasing five new vehicles, roadwork and bridgework in the 2009 fiscal year. The proposed budget, reviewed Monday, Aug. 25, comes Read More...
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BY CHRISTINE HEISER Elsie Talanian, longtime Salem Observer employee and town icon, is retiring. One of the most familiar faces in town, Elsie, 88, cites health reasons for stepping down from her position, which she’s held for 42 years. She’s Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Private kindergartens are quietly adjusting for what many see as a significant future drop in their enrollment when state-mandated public kindergartens begin next autumn. For some private kindergartens, that will mean gearing toward Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Under the gun to put in place a public kindergarten by September of next year, School Board members are leaning toward accepting the state’s offer of leasing portable classrooms. “In order to have something in place by next Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Information posted on the social networking Web site MySpace led police to two Massachusetts men who allegedly stole up to $50,000 in guitars from music stores in Salem and Manchester. Justin Ray and David Rousseau, both 20, of Lowell, Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Authorities are looking for a man who allegedly kicked in the door of a coworker’s car and tore off the rearview mirror after being refused a ride home from work. David Angelone, 28, of Salem, fled the Ruby Tuesday’s parking Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Police stepped up their security presence at the Mall at Rockingham Park after officials discovered a note in a changing room threatening to bomb the facility on Wednesday, Aug. 20. The note, which was found in a public changing facility Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Salem police have located and arrested a man in connection with a fraud that cost a Stewartstown restaurant owner $4,000. After a barrage of media coverage, which included the release of security camera photos, police arrested Ross Read More...
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BY JENN MCDOWELL Vincent and Barbara Ferrero of 52 Mary Ann Ave. in Salem used to have to park their car on Shore Drive and walk a grocery cart down the rutted dirt road to get to their home. The Ferreros, who have lived at their home now for 43 years, Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY After 14 years in middle school, David Rozumek is moving up. Rozumek, a physical education teacher at Woodbury Middle School in Salem since the beginning of the 1993 school year, has been chosen as the Salem High School interim athletics Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS A couple of days every week, a group of old friends gets together on the second floor of the Ingram Senior Center to swap stories, tell jokes and shoot pool. For Joe Swift, a retired police officer, the morning sessions are an opportunity Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Salem financial officials have put the town’s departments on notice to tighten their belts as fuel prices dip deeply into municipal budgets. After a budget shortfall from the increased cost of fuel of $150,000 already this year, Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Sitting on a beach on vacation in York, Maine, Kim Forzese received a phone call from health inspector Brian Lockard that left her stunned. “I was in disbelief,” Forzese said. “I called him, left the beach and did Read More...
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