BY JENN McDOWELLPembroke will not suffer any staff cuts or eliminate any sports programs after voters at the School District Meeting decided in a 95-71 vote to pass the School Board’s proposed operating budget. “The meeting went exactly the way it should have gone,” said School Board Chairman Clint Hanson, adding there is no ...

BY DARRELL HALEN Plans were recently unveiled to upgrade athletic facilities at Windham High School at an estimated cost of more than $5.4 million. The plans call for the addition of two ball fields, a second gymnasium and a stadium featuring an artificial turf field and a track. Al Letizio Jr., chairman of the Windham School Board, and Glenn ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR In the midst of facing felony and misdemeanor charges for allegedly possessing and selling marijuana to an undercover officer with the Attorney General’s drug task force, Paul Chergey again finds himself in trouble with the law. The former Bow High School basketball star and current Southern New Hampshire University ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Memorial High School had little margin for error against Salem High School. The team quickly trimmed that margin to zero with a bevy of mistakes and penalties. The Crusaders were blown out by the visiting Blue Devils on Friday, Sept. 7, 42-7. Memorial head coach Dante Laurendi said his team was doomed by turnovers. The most ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK Peter Bisson knows what makes a strong team. Now he has to convince his young players of it. In his first season as head coach of Pembroke Academy’s boys soccer team, Bisson brings a new outlook to the Spartans program. On Wednesday, Sept. 5, the Pembroke mentor watched as his squad dropped a 2-1 decision to visiting ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY When the house Paul Hogan grew up in became part of the Plymouth State campus, he seemed destined to be a part of the school. On Sept. 30, he becomes a part of the school’s history. Hogan, now the men’s basketball coach and athletics director at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, awaits induction into the ...

BY IRENE LABOMBARDE The School Board has awarded a $695,000 contract to build three sports fields between McKelvie Intermediate School and the SAU building on County Road. The board granted the bid to JGE Enterprises of Bedford, including building a Babe Ruth baseball field, a soccer field and a practice field and creating additional parking ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK He thought winning every game he started as a freshman at Pelham High School was a fluke. But after repeating the feat three more times, former Pythons pitcher Derek Miller couldn’t help but recognize his baseball abilities. “After my first two seasons at Pelham (High School), I had no losses, but I still ...

BY MATT HERSH A proposed plan to build a new athletics facility at Salem High School has been cut back, reducing the size and cost of the project. At a recent meeting, the school district’s Facilities Committee decided to reduce the size of the facility from 75,000 square feet to 64,000 square feet.   The facility is part of a ...

Pembroke Academy football is looking for middle-school junior varsity football coaches for this year’s team. Also, the Pembroke Academy high school football team seeks assistant coaches for the fall. Interested candidates should contact Dave Tremblay at 493-7385.