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News and Information for the Town of Salem
April 2009 - Posts
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Momentum has yet to join the Salem girls lacrosse roster. Aside from a 10-6 victory over Nashua North, the Blue Devil offense has been stymied in the early going, including a 19-2 loss to Central on Monday, April 27. The contest with Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY For roughly three minutes of game play, Salem boys lacrosse coach Chris Keleher was happy with the effort his team gave. The rest of the contest was a different story. The Blue Devils lost a 6-2 halftime lead and fell in overtime to Memorial Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS A local father and son were taken into custody on Thursday, April 23, after a domestic dispute escalated into a chainsaw standoff on Woodland Avenue, according to authorities. Police said Jake Wells, 32, told officers over the phone Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Republican Marilinda Garcia handily defeated rival Democrat Sheila Murray in the April 28 District 4 special election for the vacant seat in the state House of Representatives. Garcia secured 2,050 votes in District 4 – comprising Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Twenty-five candidates, including elected officials, town employees and private citizens, are vying for nine open positions on the new Charter Commission and a chance to overhaul local government. Narrowly approved by voters at Town Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The third time wasn’t a charm, it was a relief. After apparently tying the game twice, only to have the runs wiped off the board, Salem completed a 6-4 comeback victory against West to open the baseball season on April 15, at Gill Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Though he does not come to the Rockingham Park racetrack regularly, Dennis Hansbury doesn’t think the prospect of casinos across the border will lure him away in the future. A Massachusetts resident, Hansbury – who spent Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Fifty-four seventh-grade students, including five who went to area hospitals, have fallen ill from salmonella since returning from an environmental camp. State health officials began investigating the illness after students began showing Read More...
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The largest team in the nine years of the Rockingham Area Youth Swim (RAYS) club competed at the New Hampshire State Swim Association state meet, March 20 to 22, at Phillips Exeter Academy. Facing 14 other teams, the RAYS not only fared well in many individual Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Mike Jolicoeur doesn’t have to look far to find a senior among his starting rotation. Every member of the Salem High School boys tennis coach’s lineup is in his final year with the school, and the mentor hopes the depth he Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Following a 1-0 loss to Timberlane in the 2008 Class L softball championship, Salem head coach Harold Sachs reminded everyone his squad is not a oneyear wonder but a program, one that won eight of the last 10 titles. And the approach Read More...
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Although police say there has been a lull in the reported “smash and grab” thefts at the local fitness centers, including the Salem Athletic Club and Planet Fitness as reported on Tuesday, March 31, it doesn’t mean it won’t happen Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN Ten people are gathered in a house on an island. One of them begins to murder off the others, one by one. But which one of them is the killer? It’s the classic Agatha Christie mystery, “And Then There Were None,” which Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Officials fear a sudden surge in kindergarten enrollments in late summer could make the start of the school year a little more hectic than usual. According to Superintendent Michael Delahanty, the district projected that around 300 Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Following an 8-7 record and first-round exit from last year’s Class L tournament, Salem girls tennis coach Curt Killion said he believes his team could be a top four team this season – or out of the playoff hunt entirely. Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Matt Regan didn’t need much time to get to know his players this preseason. The Pelham High School boys lacrosse coach returned all but one athlete from last year’s 2- 12 squad, and Regan enters 2009 optimistic that this team Read More...
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Salem Family Resources-Success By 6 will host its annual toy sale and family fun fair on Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Woodbury Middle School, 206 Main St. Salem. This year’s theme is “The Magic of Spring.” Activities Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS An unattended stove sparked the April 2 fire inside of a Westgate Arms apartment building that left one man hospitalized and roughly 30 people without a home, fire officials said. The three-alarm blaze began inside Apt. 12 of the three-story Read More...
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An investigation into a series of “smash and grab” thefts led to the arrest of two people for possession of marijuana on March 31. Police charged Laurie Murphy, 35, of Methuen, Mass., and her stepfather Arthur Croteau, 55, of Pelham with possession Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Even before the recession was in full swing, Lt. Brian McCarthy had seen a change in the attitudes of civilians and certified police officers alike looking for open positions within the Pelham Police Department. With one officer overseas Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS An investigation into a phoned-in bomb threat at the Mall at Rockingham Park led coincidentally to the arrest of an Apple Store employee who allegedly stole a set of speakers valued at $100. On April 5, police said they found the speakers Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Police said an alleged drug deal has been broken up by police in the parking lot of a local Red Roof Inn, the second in that location in a single week. Luis Rodriguez, 34, of Derry has been charged with three counts of possession of Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS A few hundred miles south of Rockingham Park, Barry Endy, 75, has spent much of his life in the Pennsylvanian township of North Strabane where he has watched the community grow up around a racetrack reinvigorated by a new casino. “The Read More...
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