Windham News

Windham's Golden Brook principal retires

BY DARRELL HALEN The summers she spent as a playground supervisor in Methuen, Mass., taught Beth McGuire that she loved working with kids. She would spend three decades working as an educator to children, including 18 years in Windham. On June 30, McGuire Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:45 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, schools

Windham marine hurt in crash five days after return from Iraq

BY JENN McDOWELL Windham Windham police are still searching for the driver of a large red SUV who rearended a 22- year-old Windham Marine who just returned from two years of active duty in Iraq. He’d just returned home for good five days prior to Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:13 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windham, crime, accident

Special Windham election for high school road bond

BY JENN McDOWELL Windham’s Board of Selectmen is planning a special election in September to obtain funding for a secondary access road for the new high school currently under construction. The new road would overlap the current London Bridge Road, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:49 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windham, voting, high school, windham high school

Windham man gets 15 to 30 years for abusing infant son

BY JENN McDOWELL A Windham man convicted of breaking six ribs and the tailbone of his infant son has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. “There are no winners in a case like this. It’s just a matter of attempting to provide justice Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:45 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, crime

Windham's school and town may join to buy defibrillators

BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham School Board and the Fire Department are looking to pool their resources to purchase 11 new automated external defibrillators for town buildings and the new Windham High School. The Windham Board of Selectmen gave their conditional Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:30 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, fire department, school board

Windham Fire Department hires four

BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham Fire Department will have four new firefighters by early July and hopefully a new deputy chief by the end of that month, according to Fire Chief Tom McPherson. Currently, the department has 12 firefighters, including one lieutenant Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:20 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, fire department

Windham ponders leaving SAU 28

BY JENN McDOWELL The Windham School District moderator will select several residents to join two School Board members to study withdrawing from School Administrative Unit 28. Currently Windham shares SAU 28 with Pelham, but the addition of the new Windham Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:39 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, Pelham, windham high school

Strawberry Festival and book fair is June 7

The Friends of the Library of Windham will host their annual Strawberry Festival and book fair on Saturday, June 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the grounds of the Nesmith Library on Fellows Road in Windham. The book fair will run from 10:30 a.m. to Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:22 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windham, Kids & Family, event Reviews

Green gone for good at Windham High School

BY JIM DEVINE The School Board once again closed the book on protests and discussion of the future high school’s colors and mascot last week. Reading a six-sentence statement adopted by the School Board on May 6, Chairman Barbara Coish said there Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:59 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windham, windham high school

Windham School Board creates windmill group

BY JIM DEVINE Taking advantage of a whirlwind of community support for a teen’s idea to build a windmill at Windham’s new high school, School Board members have established a committee to tackle research and construction in the coming months. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:56 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, windham high school

Man killed in Windham crash

BY JIM DEVINE Police shut down a rural stretch of Route 28 for six hours Friday, May 2, after a Derry man was killed in a single-car accident. Police found the driver, Esau Stanley Jr., 32, of Derry, dead at the scene near the Libbey Road intersection Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:03 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, Police

Windham neighbors want dust and stone grinding to stop

BY JIM DEVINE More than 20 Windham residents, citing unbearable noise and a wall of stone dust enveloping their homes, directed state officials to deny a crushing permit for a development site on Ledge Road on Monday night, May 5. The state Department Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:56 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windham, Political

Windham man rides to raise money for cancer

BY DARRELL HALEN When thousands of bicyclists ride through Massachusetts to raise money for cancer victims, Windham’s Steve Horaj will be among them. Horaj will put his endurance to the test when he rides 163 miles over just two days. He will be Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:49 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windham, cancer, fundraiser

Windham woman takes title for fitness and figure contest

BY JIM DEVINE With less than a year of experience competing in national fitness and figure contests, Chrissy Burton took a national title for an overall competition on the West Coast. The 38-year-old Windham personal trainer is now considering a run to Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:50 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments

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Pelham and Windham for kindergarten, but against state mandate

BY JENN McDOWELL An amendment to a bill going through the state Legislature that mandates public kindergarten for districts without it poses several options for communities looking to establish a program by the September 2009 deadline. Rep. Lynne Ober, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:37 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windham, Pelham, Kids & Family, school board, kindergarten