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News and Information for the Town of Salem
October 2009 - Posts
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BY JERRY LIPTAK Salem High’s field hockey team took its fans on a wild roller coaster ride in Class L’s quarterfinal playoff round. But the hosts from Exeter High abruptly stopped the locals’ fun. Two teams that entered the postseason Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS After two decades of flooding, Norbert Pestana was awash with relief when he learned town officials want to buy and demolish his Haigh Avenue home. Since 1983, Pestana has watched as the home where he and his wife Helen raised their Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS A local Halloween haunt is headed to the other side 13 years after its first screams, but fear monger Larry Belair isn’t nailing the lid on the coffin just yet. Larry Belair, owner of Victorian Park, said the decision to shutter Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS To keep a promise made to voters last March, Salem selectmen will dip deeper into the town’s unreserved balance rather than raise taxes in December. But higher town taxes will be unavoidable in 2010. The decision came Oct. 19 Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS The Walter F. Haigh Elementary School is here to stay. The School Board voted 4-1 on Oct. 20 to keep the 55-year-old building open and pursue a master facilities plan incorporating all six elementary schools in Salem. The move came Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY For the Salem girls volleyball team, chemistry wasn’t an elective, it was a requirement. Head coach Dan Young said his squad has faced a variety of hurdles, including position changes due to inconsistent play, that have brought Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Nashua North’s defense had their hands on Max Jacques and Jerickson Fedrick all game. The Titans just couldn’t hold on. The electrifying pair of Salem running backs dashed for a combined 496 yards and seven touchdowns. Much Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS What’s the connection between the Old Town Hall and the Washington National Cathedral? A 19thcentury English architect by the name of Henry Vaughan, according to preservation consultant Lisa Mausolf. Mausolf was hired by Salem’s Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS When John Rufo learned his baby daughter had a cancerous tumor on her kidney, he stepped out of the hospital emergency room and vomited in the parking lot. “How can anything go wrong with a 10-month-old baby, especially my child? Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Town officials say the $25,000 penalty Michael Pantaleo owes the state for ignoring environmental laws to protect shorelines should serve as a cautionary tale for other waterfront homeowners. Bill Carter, chairman of the Conservation Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Right on schedule, the traffic cones have been hauled away, police details have vanished and workers have disappeared: Exit 1 off of Interstate 93 is all but officially a finished job. After spending two years on the project, the bulk Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS Digging in for a tough fight, parents are mobilizing to save the Walter F. Haigh School as the School Board considers a master plan that could close the elementary school. No final decision has been made. Estimates predict the district Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY As Salem boys soccer approaches the finish of the regular season, the Blue Devils need to work on just that – finishing. After producing a 6-1-0 start in Class L play, the Blue Devils suffered a three-game losing skid that included Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY While head coach Ben Adams said his golf team was underestimated by many entering the season, the Blue Devils ultimately overwhelmed the Class L competition for their second consecutive state title on Thursday, Oct. 1, at Stonebridge Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS As gravel roads fade into the past, public works employees spend less time behind the wheel of a road grader, but a training program run by the University of New Hampshire is keeping them up to speed. Six of the department’s heavy Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS When it comes to adopting an overarching set of guidelines on whether town property could play host to political events, local political parties are reaching across the aisle. According to Laurel Redden, chairman of the Salem Democratic Read More...
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BY DERRICK PERKINS After four residents stepped forward to fill several vacant seats on the panel late last month, the municipal solid waste committee is gearing up to get down and dirty on the town’s waste and recycling programs. Although Public Read More...
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