BY RYAN O’CONNORSitting at a youth hockey conference, watching what was likely to be another boring prerecorded training video, Kermit Brunelle sighed. On the screen, Don Lucia, coach of the national champion University of Minnesota ice hockey team, was giving a speech. “A lot of people think I have the best job in hockey, and I tell ...

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BY RYAN O’CONNOR In his 25-plus years as athletics trainer at Salem High School, Sean Cox has witnessed his share of hard hits to the head. And he’s seen the ramifications. Football player Matt Starr, for instance, experienced an early-season concussion – a jarring injury of the brain resulting in disturbance of cerebral ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORHome ice is nice, but Goffstown head coach Peter Bedford is more focused on the hot product skating on the cold surface. “I don’t care where it is, it could be in the pond out back … To me it’s an opportunity,” he said. Going into the final game of the season, the Grizzlies knew their ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORAmong city schools competing at the Meet of Champions, it was Manchester Memorial finishing highest with 20 points to Central’s 13 and West’s 10. That’s due, in large part, to Jacob Gagnon’s second-place finish in the 215-pound weight class at the meet on Saturday, Feb. 23, at Londonderry High ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAfter the Bow Dispatch Center increased its fees for the four other towns it covers, Allenstown, Epsom and Pembroke are faced with payments that more than double the prior year’s payments for Bow’s services. Despite having to bite the bullet on the fee spike, law enforcement officials from all three towns say the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYBow High School head swimming coach Joann Jackson had a goal for each of her teams heading into the 2007- ’08 Division II season. “Before the season started, I said that I wanted my boys to get a top-five finish, and my girls to get in the top 10,” said Jackson. Jackson’s swimmers did not disappoint, as the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYWith the Poetry Out Loud competition taking place throughout the state, two Bow High School students had a chance to get some tips from someone who knows the routine pretty well. Teal Van ***, Bow High School graduate and 2006 national runner-up for the competition, was at the school on Friday, Feb. 8, to offer insight to a pair ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYBow residents will soon have the opportunity to travel the world without leaving the comforts of 509 S. Street. The Baker Free Library will soon begin its Armchair Traveler program, run by residents who will give presentations on trips they’ve taken in cooperation with the library’s “The World Visits Bow” ...