Imagine 12 high school students giving up a week of their summer vacation to study politics at a college level. You don’t really need to imagine, all you have to do is stop by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. From July 12 to 19, 12 students from eight different high schools around New Hampshire attended the Civic Leadership Academy, ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThey were supposed to be the last graduating class of the Villa Augustina. Instead, the 19 eighth-graders who received their diplomas on Sunday, June 15, seemed destined for a less historic yet far happier honor – they are graduates of a school founded by the Religious of Jesus and Mary 90 years ago, an institution that has ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEOverwhelmed from the moment he stepped off the airplane, Ben Prieur was reduced to monosyllables. “Wow,” he wrote in his journal, summarizing his initial reaction to being in Uganda. “Despite of all of the preparations I have made, books I have read and advice I have received (gratefully) I never thought that ...

BY STEPHEN BEALESaint Anselm College is launching a $14 million expansion and renovation of its campus this spring that will include a new residence hall, fitness center and educational space. It is the most significant construction project Saint Anselm has undertaken since 2003, when it built the Sullivan Arena, home to college hockey games and ...

BY STEPHEN BEALE GOFFSTOWN – Saint Anselm College has offered its expertise and resources to parents of the Villa Augustina, who have voted in favor of raising $400,000 to buy the elementary/ middle school. The informal partnership between the two Catholic schools was announced at a meeting Sunday, Feb. 10, attended by roughly ...

By Michelle Kim   GOFFSTOWN – Residents can expect a school operating budget of $34.8 million and only a few other articles to be on the table for this year’s upcoming Feb. 4 deliberative session of the school district meeting. The 2008-09 proposed operating budget of $34,822,651 represents a 1.2 percent increase over the ...

By Chris Quartarone GOFFSTOWN – The Saint Anselm men’s basketball team has neither won nor lost more than two games in a row this season. Even within a single game, consistency has eluded the Hawks. St. A, down 17 points in the second half, battled to within three before losing to rival Southern New Hampshire University, ...

By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – For one night on the weekend before the New Hampshire primary, the normally tranquil campus of Saint Anselm College was transformed into the nerve center of the great American pageant known as a candidates’ debate. On Saturday, Jan. 5, some 8.36 million sets of eyes turned to Goffstown, as the Dana ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORAfter the team finished last season with a 7-20 record, far removed from the school’s last conference title in 1992, athletics director Ed Cannon decided to shake up the Saint Anselm College women’s basketball program. He certainly didn’t settle. Cannon hired Chris Leazier, who spent the previous seven ...

Saint Anselm students study with inmatesBY ROD HANSENA group of young women gather to discuss a classic philosophy text, books open and pens at the ready. They ponder the words of an ancient thinker, their professor challenging them toward deeper understanding. It could be a scene from an all-female college anywhere in the country, with one ...