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News and Information for the Town of Salem
May 2009 - Posts
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BRENTWOOD – The Phantom Gymnastics prep optional division recently won two team championships at the state meet at Gymnastics at Brentwood Commons in Brentwood, taking the advanced division with a score of 109.575 and the intermediate division with Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY It was no coincidence where the Salem High School boys tennis team held its first preseason meeting. The Blue Devils sat as a group beneath the 2008 state championship banner hanging at the school, and head coach Mike Jolicoeur hoped Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN With just a few clicks of a computer mouse and taps on a keyboard, you can access some of the rich history of Salem. A new Web site – Salem, NH History on Demand – was officially launched on Memorial Day. It can be accessed Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN The Trustee Scholarship at Boston University is the school’s most prestigious merit-based award. The scholarship, given to students who demonstrate outstanding academic and leadership abilities, is hard to win but very rewarding: Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Police officials are waiting for the autopsy and toxicology results on the body of a 23- year-old woman found dead at the Rockingham Park Racetrack on May 21, but are not considering her death as suspicious. The body of the woman was Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Salem Blue Devils are right where their head coach expected them to be, but Dan Keleher said his team should be able to exceed expectations. Salem finds itself in the middle of the Class L postseason picture with an 8-7 record, but Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Voters backed candidates with a background in local government for the Charter Commission, giving town employees and elected officials seats on the nine-member board on May 19. The three members of the Board of Selectmen on the ballot, Read More...
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BY DARRELL HALEN Richard Noyes, a former state legislator and publisher of The Salem Observer who died recently, is being fondly remembered for his intelligence, pleasant demeanor and service to the Salem community by several people who used to work with Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Sean Corrigan joked that he’s a first-year teacher, first-year coach and first-year adult. The Pelham girls tennis coach hopes to continue his own maturation process alongside his players this season and in years to come. On Monday, Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Harold Sachs doesn’t flash many signs from the third base coach’s box, but there is one he frequently sends to his batters. Swing. Salem High is averaging close to 10 runs per game, a stat helped by a 32-0 season-opening victory Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Employees at the Sea World Pet Center are asking for the safe return of Charlie, a pet lovebird, after the bird was stolen from the store during the evening hours of May 7. Joanne Leone, manager of the bird section, said the lovebird Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS A local woman is using her sewing machine to try and mend the wounds of war. Diana O’Connor, a 44- year-old mother of four, spends her spare time scrounging up fabric and piecing together quilts to send to the families of soldiers, Read More...
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Extending the celebration of April’s National Poetry Month into May, Kelley Library will present Pontine Theatre’s original play, “Silver Lake Summers: an e. e. cummings revue,” through a grant by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Planning board agendas may be lighter this spring than during past years, but town officials say the economy has not kept businesses from coming to the border community. “There are signs of life in the economy here locally. There Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Legal questions raised by at least one resident won’t sidetrack plans to use possible federal stimulus funds for the Canobie Lake Phase II project if voters approve the warrant article on May 19, according to town officials. A Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS When the parents of Republican state Rep. Marilinda Garcia looked north from Massachusetts for a new home in the Granite State, they moved for the very things she wants to preserve with her return to Concord. “They wanted a larger Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Health officials are coordinating efforts across the region and reaching out to the public with information regarding the arrival of the H1N1 “swine flu” in New Hampshire. “A lot of it is education,” said Brian Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS The cause of a car crash in nearby Atkinson that left one local teen dead and another hospitalized on May 5 remains under investigation, though state police believe excessive speed contributed to the accident. Robert C. Stuart, 18, Read More...
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