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 SCHOOLEYGoffstown’s 11- and 12-year-old all-stars worked deep into the losers’ bracket of the District 1 baseball tournament, but fell just short of a chance at redemption. On July 6, Windham came away with a 2-1 victory to send Goffstown into the loser’s bracket, where the locals earned victories over Manchester East ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKAt the girls gymnastics state championships, the hosts won the title, but the guests – teams and individuals – still enjoyed the show. Salem High beat second-place Pinkerton and third-place Central on Saturday, Feb. 21, for its third straight New Hampshire championship, but Little Green athletes, as well as individuals ...

BY STEPHEN BEALESaint Anselm College seeks to double the enrollment of Hispanics, African-Americans, and other minorities, and to create a campus environment that welcomes students of other Christian denominations, religions, and different sexual orientations. Administrators say they want their school to be a more attractive place for racial and ...

"Change Has Come to America".  We will now have an open government. Follow the transition. President-Elect Obama wants to hear your vision for America. Its time for us all to unite as one America. We can not stay divided as a red America or a blue America. After all we are the United States of ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEPolice are still investigating the shooting of a Manchester teen outside of a College Road home where his girlfriend was visiting her former boyfriend. Sean Scadding, 19, of Manchester, was shot in the leg on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Scadding was treated for a gunshot wound at Catholic Medical Center and released, according to Goffstown ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYDespite a loss to Goffstown, the Manchester West girls volleyball team looks to take momentum into a matchup with Central and grab its first victory of the season. Although the Blue Knights dropped the match to the Grizzlies on Friday, Sept. 26, West’s head coach, Connie Kyriakopoulos, said she thought her team played as ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORWhen last seen, the Goffstown boys soccer team was walking off the Manchester West field after surrendering a two-goal lead and falling in overtime. Roughly 10 months after that playoff heartbreaker, the Grizzlies were back at it, winning their season opener, 4-1, against Timberlane on Tuesday, June 2. Coach Randy Lovering ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORFor years, coaches of the Manchester Jutras senior American Legion baseball team have tossed Bedford, Goffstown and Manchester players into a diamond- shaped mixing bowl and consistently concocted a winning recipe. Perhaps Tim Conway, who never played Legion ball, stole a page from the Jutras cookbook. On Thursday, Aug. 7, ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORIn 2005, when Pete Kiro established Goffstown’s first American Legion baseball team in 20 years, he promised his squad would reach the playoffs by its fourth season. Perhaps Kiro has a crystal ball. More likely, after serving as an assistant coach at perennial power Jutras Post No. 43 of Manchester, he just knows what ...