BY LAUREN SAUSSERThe Hooksett School Board does not know if the town needs a high school. But they are ready to find out. A newly formed committee – which has not yet held its first meeting – includes elected officials and community members. The Hooksett High School Committee is charged with considering whether a new high school is a ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORShe played under one coach and with another. Now their peer, Kris Komisarek rolled out the welcome mat for the second straight year for her former mentors. You see, Komisarek played under local legend Peter Lally, who has spent the last 36 years maintaining a perennial girls soccer powerhouse at Manchester Central. Last ...

BY JENN McDOWELL With the Manchester Board of School Committee having announced several times they would not authorize the dissemination of 80 pink slips to teachers in Manchester schools this year, communities holding tuition contracts with Manchester’s school district are breathing a wary sigh of relief as they wonder how the ...

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 McDOWELLResults from the first year of 11th grade New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) testing show local high school students are performing below statewide averages in math, reading and writing. Acting Superintendent of the Manchester School District, which educates students from Hooksett, Candia and Auburn, Henry Aliberti, ...

BY JERRY LIPTAKThe coaches from Manchester Memorial, West and Central, realizing their respective wrestling squads had little chance to pin down a Division I team title, focused on sending as many wrestlers as possible to the Meet of Champions. And from that perspective, the state meet was a success. Manchester’s public high schools ...

BY RYAN O’CONNORIt may have been the consolation game of an exhibition tournament, but the West and Central offenses hardly looked frozen on ice. After losing in the first round of the second annual Queen City Hockey Jamboree the week prior – a 3-2 setback to Trinity for West and a 4-1 loss to Memorial by Central – the two ...

BY SAPNA PATHAKShe tried her best to smile after it was over. She forced a laugh here and there, attempting to disguise her somber tone. But Central’s Trish Ellis couldn’t mask her frustration. Never was that frustration more obvious this year than after a 7-2 softball loss to city rival Manchester West on Monday, April ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNSeveral Manchester parents told a committee considering the future of West High School – which will see an exodus of Bedford students over the next two years – that a simple solution would be to send all students from Hooksett, Auburn and Candia to the West Side school. “I think the most practical solution is to ...

BY MATT STOUTDURHAM – In most sports, it’d be considered a strange scene, as if some mistake had been made. There was Steve Van Der Beken, the coach of the Manchester West and Central swim teams, waving his arms frantically, hopping around with his right knee wrapped in an ace bandage and screaming words of encouragement across the ...