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News and Information for the Town of Salem
February 2009 - Posts
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BY JERRY LIPTAK The Salem girls gymnastics team followed Pinkerton throughout the state gymnastics championship meet at Salem High on Saturday, Feb. 21. Yet ultimately, each New Hampshire team found itself in a familiar place – following the Blue Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The faces of Salem High School’s wrestlers at the 2010 Division I state tournament will be familiar ones. Salem graduates one senior after placing seventh at the twoday competition that concluded on Saturday, Feb. 21, with the Blue Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS A 19-cent jump in the Massachusetts gas tax has local gas station owners hoping to see a rise in customers from across the border, though the talk of taxes has left motorists steaming at the pumps. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS With funding for Salem’s public kindergarten program now restored to the school district’s operating budget, officials look forward to tying up the administrative details in time for the start of school in the fall. About Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN Selectmen told a group of local legislators that proposed cuts in state aid and retirement contributions would lead to an increase in the local property tax rate. During a Wednesday, Feb. 18, meeting at Town Hall, selectmen said a loss Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Both Salem High School swim teams earned top-10 finishes during the Division I state championship meet, and 11 individual swimmers earned spots in the Meet of Champions in the school’s last year featuring Windham competitors. The Read More...
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A warrant has been issued by Salem police for the suspect in the theft of credit cards from a local gym. Wanted on a felony arrest warrant is Richard Woods, 48, of Charlestown, Mass., in connection with the theft and subsequent use of credit cards on Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN A Salem man faces several charges after a 4-year-old girl – who was not wearing a helmet – was injured in a snowmobile accident. Salem police said Robert Frost, 28, was giving the child a ride on a snowmobile during the afternoon Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Mike Marshall led Salem High School to a third-place finish at the Class L state meet, while Pelham took part in the Class I-M-S competition as well. On Sunday, Feb. 8, at Hanover’s Dartmouth College, the Blue Devils boys team scored Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Salem High School girls gymnastics team is hoping the third time is as charmed as the first two. After wrapping up an undefeated regular season, the Blue Devils look for a third consecutive state championship and 15th overall on Saturday, Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Residents voted overwhelming to restore $1.6 million in funding to the Salem School District’s operating budget for a state-mandated kindergarten program at the district’s Feb. 5 deliberative session of School District Meeting. Read More...
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BY CHRISTINE HEISER Alex Dolman has given his wife, Esther, flowers for Valentine’s Day every year throughout their 55-year marriage. Well, almost every year. “One year he forgot,” said Esther, 88. And, of course, he heard about it. Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Shoppers reacted with a mix of anger and disbelief to a court dispute between Massachusetts and a Connecticut-based retailer that might result in a 5 percent sales tax for Bay State residents making purchases in New Hampshire. On a Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Salem and Bishop Guertin hit hard all afternoon, but the Cardinals saved their biggest blows for the back of the net, skating past the Blue Devils, 5-2. BG scored twice in each of the first two periods and added an empty-netter in the Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Residents will have their first chance to debate a $2.4 million bond for the replacement of the bridges on Lawrence and Cluff Crossing roads at the town’s first deliberative session at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7, in the high school. Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS You can find him adorning the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine and in every episode of MTV’s “Real World: Brooklyn,” but Scott Herman still calls the Gateway to the White Mountains his home. The personal trainer turned Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Superintendent Michael Delahanty worries that the penalty for not starting a kindergarten program could come at the cost of financial aid, though state officials have not made a clear decision on what actions may be taken. Any of the Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Reflecting a national slump in the construction of houses, Salem issued a record low number of permits for new single-family homes in 2008. According to Planning Director Ross Moldoff, a total of 13 permits were issued by the town for Read More...
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