By Dan O’BrienNot even a strong gust of wind could topple the high spirits of Old Home Day participants on Donati Field on Saturday, Oct. 10. At about 1 p.m., the wind blew a large, inflatable bounce house completely upside down as about 20 small children played inside. Parents and volunteers with horrified expressions rushed to it ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY With Halloween arriving, not all students will be getting tricks or treats in the classroom, as many schools have shifted away from traditional festivities. One school that has done away with Halloween festivities is Hooksett’s Fred C. Underhill School, as Assistant Principal Ralene St. Pierre said the school has been ...

Hooksett 18 – Dunbarton 7 Shannon Argo and Shannon Martin went 4-for-4, and Kim Wallace, Bry Pearson, Elaina Lavigne, Amber Young, Ashley Pilotte, Sam Desaulniers and Lindsay Read were a combined 17-for-25 with seven walks, as Hooksett rolled in junior-league action. Winning pitcher Argo turned in five strong innings, striking out ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORA 15-5 playoff loss to Pinkerton in the Division I quarterfinals aside, Bill Lawson is ecstatic about the progress his Central boys lacrosse team made this season. “We ended up 10-9, including the playoffs, but we had five losses in tight games that could have gone either way,” said Lawson, who added that ...

BY SUSANNA HARGREAVESAshley Poland, 18, says she is extremely thankful to be graduating from Central High School this June. She even knows what she wants to do with her life, which is unique from most typical high school graduates. A survivor of a traumatic brain injury from a serious snowmobile accident in March 2007, Poland said her recovery ...

BY SUSANNA HARGREAVESHope is a word, Kim Ryan of Hooksett understands all too well. As a mother of a 4-year-old autistic child named Christopher, she has learned to hold on to hope very tightly. “There is so much hope. Not to say that it isn’t easy. It has its challenges and has been very stressful, but we’re very grateful. We ...

BY JENN McDOWELL“Birthday cake!” Mikail Ozols, 3, of Epping, scurried around a preschool classroom at HEAR in New Hampshire, a school in Hooksett for hearing-impaired children, bearing a Play-Doh blob with candles stuck in the top. The exercise teaches Ozols, who is one of several children at the school with cochlear implants, to ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNKindergartners, don’t fret. You may still get into Harvard even if your report card shows that you need to improve your ability to name geometric shapes, plan and control your body movements or recite the alphabet. But your report card will be changing, and becoming more stringent, at almost every level of your ...