The Goffstown Screamin’ Eagles middle school football team plays for its third championship in four years following a convincing 28-8 win against the Manchester Bears on Sunday, Nov. 15. The locals face Lowell, Mass., at Bedford High School on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 11 a.m. Goffstown once again started quickly, with Alex Duval capping the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYWhen the next fall sports season arrives, expect a change in the landscape of New Hampshire athletics. Beginning with the 2010- 11 fall schedule, all sports will use the divisional format, including the possibility of petitioning up or down. The change, according to athletics directors, provides more choice for schools. Some ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYGood things do indeed come in small packages. Especially when it’s a blitz package. The Goffstown sixth-grade football team was severely outsized in its Northeast regional semifinal contest against Massachusetts foe Milford, but the Screamin’ Eagles proved they weren’t going to be outworked. On Saturday, Nov. ...

Victoria Voydatch, 29, was arrested Nov. 8 and charged with an Oct. 5 burglary on Jewett Road in Dunbarton, in which numerous firearms, cash and collectibles were stolen. Voydatch was arraigned in Concord District Court on Nov. 9 and is being held at the Merrimack County House of Corrections on $5,000 cash bail. Voydatch is also being held on ...

Weare police arrested Stephen Corey, 36, of 17 Woodland Drive, Weare, on Monday, Nov. 16. Corey was charged with two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, reckless conduct, criminal threatening and simple assault. Weare police conducted an investigation over the weeend involving alleged domestic abuse by Corey over a four-month period ...

Donald Thomson, the man who served as the town’s police chief from 1974 to 1988, has died of prostate cancer. He was 79. Thomson served the department during a time when there were no full-time officers, said his son, Wayne Thomson, 55, of Weare. Donald Thomson also served as the town treasurer for 35 years and worked as an electrical ...

BY SARAH LEBRUNThanks to numerous donations, three new pieces have been added to the Goffstown skateboard park. According to Goffstown Recreation director Dave French, nearly $4,000 in donations was received for some new stairs, a rail and a bench. And on Saturday, Nov. 14, despite heavy rain, members of the Goffstown High School baseball team ...

BY SUZANNE D’AMATOTo those of us who live in the Granite State, it’s no surprise that small-town folks have big hearts. With the holiday season almost here, the familiar requests for monetary donations and drives for items of all kinds are being made. The following are just a few examples of how generous donations of money, time and ...

BY SARAH LEBRUNA New Boston man was found after he went missing for 10 hours on Nov. 12. Leonard “Butch” Cullinane of 114 Beard Road, a 73-year-old man with dementia, was found on the side of the road near Dodge’s Farm Stand shortly before 11 p.m. According to New Boston Police Chief Chris Krajenka, Cullinane was found by ...

BY SARAH LEBRUNResidents of the Medvil Cooperative in Goffstown can expect their rent to increase 12 to 82 percent next year. At the cooperative’s annual meeting at Maple Avenue Elementary School on Nov. 14, residents approved a budget that would increase the rent of association members to $455 per month as of April 11. Nonmembers will be ...