BY STEPHEN BEALEEvery year, about 50 Catholic schools close. The Villa Augustina School will not be one of them. In December it seemed like it would be, when the religious order that founded it almost a century ago said it did not have the personnel or finances to continue to support the school and parents had no money and little time to go it ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEParents at the Villa Augustina have taken one giant leap forward in their capital fundraising campaign, considered a critical part of their bid to buy the school this year. The Villa Augustina Leadership Transition Team announced that the group has raised $500,000 for capital improvements. “We’ve completed in time for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) presented the Friends of the Goffstown Rail Trail with $2,400 recently for construction of the new Goffstown Rail Trail. Tom Sexton, director of RTC’s Northeast Regional Office, presented the check at the monthly Friends meeting at the Goffstown Recreation ...

BY MICHELLE KIM Jennifer Oliver was at the end of her chemotherapy treatments when she first heard about the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk. “I saw this ad and I said to myself, ‘I have to do this’,” said Oliver, a 51-year-old mother of two. At that point she was exhausted and sick from chemotherapy, with no hair or eyebrows. ...

BY DAVE CHOATE On this cool summer night, they traded in their notepads and pens for gloves, their cameras for bats and their questions for shouted encouragements. At the Crispin’s House softball tournament on Friday. Aug. 10, members of The Goffstown News team gathered at the Villa Augustina baseball fields to show why they chose ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Among Crispin’s House fundraisers, the annual softball tournament isn’t so much about dollars as it is about sense. “We do it to raise some money, but more than anything it brings a lot of good groups of people into the area to have a good time,” said Al Baines, president of Crispin’s board of ...

BY ROD HANSEN It’s only rock ’n’ roll, but sometimes loud and boisterous music can serve a higher purpose. Such was the case at the Sexual Assault Awareness Benefit Concert on April 27, when a trio of local bands cranked up their amps to benefit the YWCA of Manchester. “April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and we ...